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Call Number: SCM0030
Creator:
Griffith, Gladys Wells, 1883-
Title: Gladys Wells Griffith papers
Dates: circa 1950-1963
Physical Description:
0.02 Linear feet (4 items)
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
Custodial History
Gift of Frank Griffith.
Gladys Wells Griffith was the daughter of Nora Stanford Wells and granddaughter of Charles Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford.
Papers consist of Griffith's reminiscences of her relief work after a tornado in Omaha in 1912 and the story of a widow there
who remembered Griffith's grandfather Charles Stanford in Schenectady, NY; a photograph of Griffith and Henry Hornbostel,
c. 1950; and a note to her son Frank Griffith from George A. Neal, 1963, regarding the reminiscences.
Griffith, Frank.
Griffith, Frank.
Hornbostel, Henry, 1867-1961
Stanford family.
Stanford, Charles, 1819-1885.
Omaha (Neb.)--Tornadoes.
Stanford family.
Tornadoes--Nebraska--Omaha.
Tornadoes--Omaha (Neb.).