Guide to the Henry Varnum Poor Scrapbook
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0747
Creator:
Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970.
Title: Henry Varnum Poor scrapbook
Dates: 1905-1911
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Summary: Pages from a photograph album documenting his student years at Stanford University. Subjects include the Stanford campus;
Encina dorm rooms; gym, track and crew teams; student amusements and initiations; excursions to surrounding parks and the
Pacific coast; the Frosh-Soph tie-up of 1909; summer school class at Hopkins Marine Station 1906; and portraits of other students,
including Hermann Rosse, Harry Horton, Kenny Dole, Ted Vandervoort, and Dave Martin. There are also several images of Poor,
one image of Prof. H. D. Gray, and two postcard notes to Poor from Samuel Stillman Berry, 1910.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
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Henry Varnum Poor Scrapbook (SC0747). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Henry Varnum Poor, painter and ceramic artist, earned his A.B. in graphic arts at Stanford University in May 1910. As a student
he was a member of the Art Club and the Gym Club, on the varsity track team, and on the executive committee of the associated
students in his senior year. After graduation, he taught at Stanford in 1911-12 and 1913-16. He was one of the founders of
the Art Institute in San Francisco.
Pages from a photograph album documenting his student years at Stanford University. Subjects include the Stanford campus;
Encina dorm rooms; gym, track and crew teams; student amusements and initiations; excursions to surrounding parks and the
Pacific coast; the Frosh-Soph tie-up of 1909; summer school class at Hopkins Marine Station 1906; and portraits of other students,
including Hermann Rosse, Harry Horton, Kenny Dole, Ted Vandervoort, and Dave Martin. There are also several images of Poor,
one image of Prof. H. D. Gray, and two postcard notes to Poor from Samuel Stillman Berry, 1910.
Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984.
Dole, Kenneth Llewellyn.
Gray, Henry David, 1873-
Hopkins Marine Station
Horton, Harry Leonard.
Martin, David Greenleaf.
Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970.
Rosse, Hermann.
Stanford University. Department of Athletics.
Vandervoort, Theodore.
Photoprints.
Box 1
Scrapbook