Guide to the Stanford University, Food Research Institute, Records
SC0570
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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Title: Stanford University, Food Research Institute, records
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Stanford University. Food Research Institute
Identifier/Call Number: SC0570
Identifier/Call Number: 15479
Physical Description:
40 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1916-1990
Abstract: 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.
Information about Access
Access: personnel files are not available to researchers.
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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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Food -- Research.
Stanford University. Food Research Institute
Taylor, Alonzo Englebert
Jones, William O.
box 1
Correspondence 1960s - 1970s 1600977
box 2
Correspondence 1970s 1600975
box 3
Correspondence 1980s 1600973
box 4
Correspondence 1980s 1600971
box 5
Contract and grant files 1600969
box 6
Contract and grant files 1600967
box 6
Correspondence files of William O. Jones: A - FRI Inst. Committee 1600965
box 7
Correspondence files of William O. Jones: FRI Inst. Committee -
Mai
1600963
box 8
Correspondence files of William O. Jones: Mar - Smith 1600961
box 9
Correspondence 1980s 1600959
box 10
Correspondence 1980s 1600957
box 11
General alpha files A - H 1600951
box 12
General alpha files J - Z 1600949
box 13
Grant files 1945-46 (incl. Rockefeller funding) 1600947
box 13
Cassel manuscript: "Food and Recovery After World War II" 1600945
box 14
Memorial resolution on Wm. O. Jones 1600943
box 14
Photographs for 1970 FRI brochure 1600941
box 14
Correspondence files of Wm. O. Jones and Bruce F. Johnston re 50th
Anniversary conference (1971) and other conference files
1600939
box 14
Departmental files, assorted 1600937
box 14
Visiting Scholar files: chronological 1600935
box 15
Visiting Scholar files: A - Z 1600933
box 16
Departmental files, 1920s - 1970s: A - C 1600929
box 17
Departmental files, 1920s - 1970s: D - Po 1600927
box 18
Selected personnel files [RESTRICTED] 1600925
box 19
Wm O. Jones: Amer. Agricultural Policy 1600919
box 20
Departmental files, 1920s - 1970s: Pu - W 1600917
box 21
Wm O. Jones: Amer. Agricultural Policy 1600915
box 21
Funding files - gifts, grants 1600913
box 22
Funding files - gifts, grants 1600911
box 23
Funding files - gifts, grants 1600909
box 23
Personnel files for Holbrook Working [RESTRICTED] 1600907
box 24
Publications and silver urn 1600905
Framed photographs: 1600901
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]
1600903
The following are individual oversized items marked as boxes: 1600893
box 26
Framed photograph and text re Arthur C. Oppenheimer 1600899
box 27
Framed diplomatic passport of Alonzo E. Taylor, 1917 1600897
