Guide to the Charles Fifer Collection of Stanford Photographs
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: PC0124
Creator:
Fifer, Charles
Title: Charles N. Fifer collection of Stanford photographs
Dates: circa 1940-1995
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Summary: Collection contains photographs of Charles and Norma Fifer, 1958-92; faculty in the Stanford Department of English, 1970s-1995;
Stanford overseas campuses and students in England 1972 (Cliveden campus) and France (Tours campus) 1966; and Charles Fifer
during his own student days, 1940s-50s. Stanford faculty (and their wives) represented include Maclin Guerard, Richard Scowcroft,
Claude Simpson, Albert Guerard, and George and Libbie Sensabaugh. Collection also includes a few sketches (watercolor and
other media) of Cliveden, 1971-72.
Language(s): In English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Information about Access
Open for research.
Cite As
Charles N. Fifer Collection of Stanford Photographs (PC0124). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Charles N. Fifer earned his BA and MA at Northwestern University and his Ph.D. (1954) at Yale. He taught at Lawrence College
and the University of Illinois before joining the faculty in the Department of English at Stanford University in 1956.
Scope and Contents note
Collection contains photographs of Charles and Norma Fifer, 1958-92; faculty in the Stanford Department of English, 1970s-1995;
Stanford overseas campuses and students in England 1972 (Cliveden campus) and France (Tours campus) 1966; and Charles Fifer
during his own student days, 1940s-50s. Stanford faculty (and their wives) represented include Maclin Guerard, Richard Scowcroft,
Claude Simpson, Albert Guerard, and George and Libbie Sensabaugh. Collection also includes a few sketches (watercolor and
other media) of Cliveden, 1971-72.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Charles Fifer in his student days
1940s-50s
Box 1, Folder 2
Charles and Norma Fifer and family photographs, 1958-59
Box 1, Folder 3
Charles and Norma Fifer and family photographs, 1960, 1964
Box 1, Folder 4
Charles and Norma Fifer and family photographs, 1970s
Box 1, Folder 5
Charles and Norma Fifer and family photographs, 1980s, 1992
Box 1, Folder 6
Charles and Norma Fifer and family photographs, undated and miscellaneous
Box 1, Folder 7
Charles and Norma Fifer and family photographs--gardens and outdoor shots (no people)
Box 1, Folder 8
Labeled: VCR celebration
1994
Box 1, Folder 9
Portrait of Charles Fifer by Raymond Thatcher ca. 1972
Box 1, Folder 10
Junipero House, Wilbur Hall--student RAs?, 1961-62
Box 1, Folder 11
English department faculty, b/w images, (includes Maclin Guerard, Richard Scowcroft, Claude Simpson, and Albert Guerard) [note:
some are dated 1980 but that may not be correct as one person so identified died in 1976 (Simpson)]
Box 1, Folder 12
English department faculty at social events, 1970s
Box 1, Folder 13
English department faculty at social events, 1980s
Box 1, Folder 14
English department faculty, miscellaneous, 1989 and n.d.
Box 1, Folder 15
George and Libbie Sensabaugh, 1995
Box 1, Folder 16
Cliveden (Stanford in England) 1972
Box 1, Folder 17
Overseas Studies, miscellaneous, 1966
Box 1, Folder 18
Overseas Studies student group, Tours, France, 1966
Box 1, Folder 19
Overseas Studies student group, Cliveden?, 1971
Box 1, Folder 20
Sketches (watercolor and other media) of Cliveden 1971-72
