Guide to the Stanford University, Board of Trustees, Safe Deposit Box Documents
SC0766
Daniel Hartwig
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford University, Board of Trustees, safe deposit box documents
creator:
Stanford University. Board of Trustees
Identifier/Call Number: SC0766
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1860-1948
Abstract: Assorted documents once kept in a bank
safe deposit box including copy of the Founding Grant, 1885; Petition by Leland Stanford
Junior University and of individual trustees for the ascertainment of the existence and
terms of, and for the determination of the validity and legal effect of grants or other
instruments, creating, changing or affecting trusts and estates for the founding, endowment,
and maintenance of the Leland Stanford Junior University, 1906; certified copy of minutes of
the Board of Trustees contained in Volume One for November 14, 1885 and August 29, 1903 to
April 30, 1904; inventory and appraisal of the estate of Leland Stanford, 1893; Organization
of the Board of Trustees, Nov. 1, 1901; and U. S. Patent of Esquon Ranch to Samuel Neal
(Butte County, Calif.), with plat map, dated April 3, 1860.
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Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Description of the Collection
Assorted documents once kept in a bank safe deposit box including copy of the Founding
Grant, 1885; Petition by Leland Stanford Junior University and of individual trustees for
the ascertainment of the existence and terms of, and for the determination of the validity
and legal effect of grants or other instruments, creating, changing or affecting trusts and
estates for the founding, endowment, and maintenance of the Leland Stanford Junior
University, 1906; certified copy of minutes of the Board of Trustees contained in Volume One
for November 14, 1885 and August 29, 1903 to April 30, 1904; inventory and appraisal of the
estate of Leland Stanford, 1893; Organization of the Board of Trustees, Nov. 1, 1901; and U.
S. Patent of Esquon Ranch to Samuel Neal (Butte County, Calif.), with plat map, dated April
3, 1860.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Land grants.
Stanford, Leland
Stanford, Jane Lathrop
Stanford University. Board of Trustees
Stanford University. Board of Trustees
Neal, Samuel.
Safe Deposit Box Documents
box 1, folder 2
Compared Copy of the Founding Grant
1885
box 1, folder 1
Petition by Leland Stanford Junior University and of individual trustees for
the ascertainment of the existence and terms of, and for the determination of the
validity and legal effect of grants or other instruments, creating, changing or
affecting trusts and estates for the founding, endowment, and maintenance of the
Leland Stanford Junior University
1906
box 1, folder 3
Certified copy of minutes of the Board of Trustees contained in Volume One
for
Nov 14, 1885, Aug 29, 1903-Apr 30, 1904
box 2, folder 1
Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Leland Stanford
1893
box 2, Folder 2
Receipt to Jane Lathrop Stanford from Samuel F. Leib
1901
box 2, Folder 3
Petition...for determination of validity...
1906
box 2, folder 4
Organization of the Board of Trustees
1901-11-01
box 2, Folder 5
Receipt of the Wells Fargo...bonds...
1919-09-04
box 2, Folder 6
U. S. Patent of Esquon Ranch to Samuel Neal (Butte County, Calif.), with plat
map
April 3, 1860
