Guide to the Stanford University, Food Research Institute,
Records
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0570
Creator:
Stanford University. Food Research
Institute
Title: Stanford University, Food Research Institute, records
Dates: 1916-1990
Physical Description:
40 Linear feet
Summary: Records include correspondence of William O. Jones and others,
1960s-80s; grant files; departmental files, 1920s-70s; funding records; photographs; and
other materials, including two passports of Alonzo E. Taylor, 1916-17.
Language(s): The materials are 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
Access: personnel files are not available to researchers.
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Cite As
Stanford University, Food Research Institute, Records (SC0570). Department of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The Food Research Institute at Stanford was founded in 1921 for the study of worldwide
problems of food supply, distribution, and consumption. William O. Jones was its
executive secretary from 1955 to 1962 and became the Director in 1964. The Institute was
closed in June 1998.
Description of the Collection
Records include correspondence of William O. Jones and others, 1960s-80s; grant files;
departmental files, 1920s-70s; funding records; photographs; and other materials,
including two passports of Alonzo E. Taylor, 1916-17.
Access Terms
Jones, William O.
Stanford University. Food Research Institute
Taylor, Alonzo Englebert, 1871-1949.
Food--Research.
Collection Contents
Box 1
Correspondence 1960s - 1970s
Box 6
Correspondence files of William O. Jones: A - FRI Inst.
Committee
Box 7
Correspondence files of William O. Jones: FRI Inst. Committee -
Mai
Box 8
Correspondence files of William O. Jones: Mar - Smith
Box 11
General alpha files A - H
Box 12
General alpha files J - Z
Box 13
Grant files 1945-46 (incl. Rockefeller funding)
Box 13
Cassel manuscript: "Food and Recovery After World War II"
Box 14
Memorial resolution on Wm. O. Jones
Box 14
Photographs for 1970 FRI brochure
Box 14
Correspondence files of Wm. O. Jones and Bruce F. Johnston re 50th
Anniversary conference (1971) and other conference files
Box 14
Departmental files, assorted
Box 14
Visiting Scholar files: chronological
Box 15
Visiting Scholar files: A - Z
Box 16
Departmental files, 1920s - 1970s: A - C
Box 17
Departmental files, 1920s - 1970s: D - Po
Box 18
Selected personnel files [RESTRICTED]
Box 19
Wm O. Jones: Amer. Agricultural Policy
Box 20
Departmental files, 1920s - 1970s: Pu - W
Box 21
Wm O. Jones: Amer. Agricultural Policy
Box 21
Funding files - gifts, grants
Box 22
Funding files - gifts, grants
Box 23
Funding files - gifts, grants
Box 23
Personnel files for Holbrook Working [RESTRICTED]
Box 24
Publications and silver urn
Box 25
Carl Alsberg, Merrill K. Bennett, Karl Brandt, Joseph S. Davis,
Helen C. Farnsworth, Roger W. Gray, Herbert Hoover, Bruce F. Johnston,
William O. Jones, Dudley Kirk, S. Daniel Neumark, E. Louise Peffer, Alonzo
E. Taylor, Vladimir P. Timoshenko, Vernon D. Wickizer, Ray Lyman Wilbur,
Holbrook Working, and Andrew Carnegie [actually photo of a
painting]
The following are individual oversized items marked as
boxes:
Box 26
Framed photograph and text re Arthur C. Oppenheimer
Box 27
Framed diplomatic passport of Alonzo E. Taylor, 1917
Box 28
Framed special passport of Alonzo E. Taylor, 1916
