Guide to the Ralph Allen Hopkins Photograph Album and Memorabilia
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: PC0106
Creator:
Hopkins, Ralph Allen.
Title: Ralph Allen Hopkins photograph album and memorabilia
Dates: 1905-1958
Bulk Dates: 1905-1906
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Summary: Collection contains a photograph album with images of Stanford and San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; portrait of the
Electrical Engineering Society at Stanford, 1907, of which Hopkins was the secretary; Senior Week Program for the class of
1907; and a 1958 pamphlet by Laurence M. Klauber "Two Days in San Francisco Year - 1906" which contains his letters about
the 1906 earthquake. Images of note in the album include Hopkins sitting on rubble in San Francisco, interior of a damaged
Encina Hall room, group of women students walking past the Stanford Quad under repair, views of the fire in San Francisco,
cooking on the street in San Francisco, and a group of men in San Francisco, possibly Stanford student volunteer helpers.
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
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Ralph Allen Hopkins Photograph Album and Memorabilia (PC0106). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Ralph Allen Hopkins earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1907; he had a career with Westinghouse,
which awarded him the Order of Merit when he retired in 1949.
Collection contains a photograph album with images of Stanford and San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; portrait of the
Electrical Engineering Society at Stanford, 1907, of which Hopkins was the secretary; Senior Week Program for the class of
1907; and a 1958 pamphlet by Laurence M. Klauber "Two Days in San Francisco Year - 1906" which contains his letters about
the 1906 earthquake. Images of note in the album include Hopkins sitting on rubble in San Francisco, interior of a damaged
Encina Hall room, group of women students walking past the Stanford Quad under repair, views of the fire in San Francisco,
cooking on the street in San Francisco, and a group of men in San Francisco, possibly Stanford student volunteer helpers.
Hopkins, Ralph Allen.
Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1883-1968
Albums.
Photoprints.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906