Guide to the Stanford University, President's Office, Records

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Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford, California

1998

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Overview

Call Number: SC0041

Creator: Stanford University. Office of the President

Title: Stanford University, President's Office, records

Dates: 1893-1960

Physical Description: 12 Linear feet

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

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Administrative transfer, 1968-1975.

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Cite As

[Identification of item], Stanford University President's Office Miscellaneous Records, SC 041, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

These records include letters from the President to the Board of Trustees, 1902-1948; budget records, 1906-1960; departmental appointment records, 1901-1909; salary rolls and letters of appointment, 1901-1924; contracts and agreements largely between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan, 1893-1902, regarding faculty salaries and university fees, budget matters, and the ground lease for University land; and reports of committee actions, 1898-1910. Presidents represented in these records are: David Starr Jordan (1891-1913), John Casper Branner (1913-1915), Ray Lyman Wilbur (1915-1943), and Donald B. Tresidder (1943-1948).

Access Terms

Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

Stanford University. Board of Trustees.

Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.

Tresidder, Donald Bertrand, 1894-1948

Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949

Series 1 Letters to the Board of Trustees from the President

Box 1

Dec 28, 1908-Feb 15, 1910

Box 1

Feb 14, 1910-Mar 31, 1911

Box 1

Mar 2, 1911-Aug 1, 1912

Box 1

Aug 7, 1912-Jul 27, 1913

Box 1

Aug 14, 1913-Jul 28, 1914

Box 1

Aug 1, 1914-Jul 31, 1915

Box 1

Aug 1, 1915-Jul 31, 1916

Box 1

Aug 1, 1916-Jul 31, 1917

Box 1

Aug 1, 1917-Aug 31, 1918

Box 2

Sep 5, 1918-Aug 29, 1919

Box 2

Sep 4, 1919-Jul 31, 1920

Box 2

Aug 2, 1920-Aug 24, 1921

Box 2

Aug 25, 1921-Aug 1, 1922

Box 2

July 28, 1922 -July 31, 1923

Box 2

Aug 1, 1923-Jul 31, 1924

Box 2

Aug 1, 1924-Jul 30, 1925

Box 2

Aug 1, 1925-Aug 11, 1926

Box 3

Aug 17, 1926-Aug 11, 1927

Box 3

Aug 11, 1927-Aug 13, 1928

Box 3

Aug 17, 1928-Aug 14, 1929

Box 3

Aug 16, 1929-Aug 13, 1930

Box 3

Aug 15, 1930-Aug 12, 1931

Box 3

Aug 13, 1931-Sep 8, 1932

Box 4

Sep 10, 1932-Sep 14, 1933

Box 4

Sep 16, 1933-Aug 9, 1934

Box 4

Aug 10, 1934-Jul 17, 1935

Box 4

July 18, 1935 -May 30, 1936

Box 4

Jun 1, 1936-Mar 24, 1937

Box 4

Mar 24, 1937-Jan 18, 1938

Box 5

Jan 20, 1938-Oct 20, 1938

Box 5

Oct 20, 1938-Jul 19, 1939

Box 5

Jul 19, 1939-Mar 29, 1940

Box 5

Apr 1, 1940-Oct 16, 1940

Box 5

Oct 16, 1940-Apr 17, 1941

Box 5

Apr 18, 1941-Nov 26, 1941

Box 6

Nov 17, 1941-Jun 18, 1942

Box 6

Jun 19, 1942-Feb 26, 1943

Box 6

Feb 20, 1943-Jul 15, 1943

Box 6

Jul 13, 1943-Jan 19, 1944

Box 6

Jan 21, 1944-Jul 17, 1944

Note

Beginning with this volume, the remaining volumes in Series 1 are indexed by subject.

Box 6

July 17, 1944 -July 19, 1945

Box 7

July 19, 1945 -June 15, 1946

Box 7

May 28, 1946-Feb 15, 1947

Box 7

Feb 28, 1947-Sep 24, 1947

Box 7

Aug 8, 1947-May 14, 1948

Series 2 Budget Data

Box 7

Submitted department budgets, Aug-Nov 1906

Box 7

Recommendations and appropriations, 1907-1908; 1908-1909

Box 7

Recommendations and appropriations, 1915-1916

Box 8

Recommendations and appropriations, 1916-1917

Box 8

Budget - President's copy 1916-1917

Box 8

Budget - President's copy 1918-1919

Box 8

Budget - President's copy 1919-1920

Box 8

Budget - President's copy 1920-1921

Box 8

Budget - President's copy 1921-1922

Box 8

Budget - President's copy 1922-1923

Box 9

Budget - President's copy 1923-1924

Box 9

Budget - President's copy 1924-1925

Box 9

Budget - President's copy 1925-1926

Box 9

Budget - President's copy 1926-1927

Box 9

Budget - President's copy 1927-1928

Box 9

Budget - President's copy 1928-1929

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1929-1930

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1930-1931

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1931-1932

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1932-1933

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1933-1934

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1934-1935

Box 10

Budget - President's copy 1935-1936

Box 11

Budget - President's copy 1936-1937

Box 11

Budget - President's copy 1937-1938

Box 11

Budget - President's copy 1938-1939

Box 11

Budget - President's copy 1939-1940

Box 11

Budget - President's copy 1940-1941

Box 11

Budget - President's copy 1941-1942

Box 12

Budget - President's copy 1942-1943

Box 12

Budget - President's copy (unbound) 1942-1943

Box 12

Budget - President's copy (unbound) 1942-1943

Box 12

Budget - President's copy 1943-1944

Box 12

Budget - President's copy (unbound), 1943-1944

Box 12

Budget - President's copy 1944-1945

Box 12

Budget - President's copy 1944-1945

Box 12

Budget - President's copy 1945-1946

Box 13

Budget - President's copy (unbound), 1945-1946

Box 13

Budget Book I, "bio" - "med" (unbound), 1946-1947

Box 13

Budget Book II, "min" - end (unbound), 1946-1947

Box 13

Budget Book I, "bio" - "med" (unbound), 1947-1948

Box 13

Budget Book II, "min" - end (unbound), 1947-1948

Box 13

Departmental Budget, 1948-1949

Box 13

Working Budget (unbound), 1948-1949

Box 13

Departmental Budget (unbound), 1949-1950

Box 13

Working Budget (unbound), 1949-1950

Box 14

Department Budget (unbound), 1950-1951

Box 14

Department Budget (unbound), 1951-1952

Box 14

Department Budget (unbound), 1951-1952

Box 14

Department Budget (unbound), 1952-1953

Box 14

Department Budget (unbound), 1952-1953

Box 14

Working budget (unbound), 1953-1954

Box 14

Working budget (unbound), 1954-1955

Box 15

Department Budget (unbound), 1955-1956

Box 15

Department Budget (unbound), 1956-1957

Box 15

Department Budget (unbound), 1957-1958

Box 15

Department Budget (unbound), 1958-1959

Box 15

Department Budget (unbound), 1959-1960

Series 3 Departmental Appointments

Box 15

Regarding department needs and appointments, 1901-1904

Box 15

Assistants, 1905

Box 15

[Appointment], 1906

Box 15

Department Recommendations, 1907

Box 15

Department Appointment Recommendations, 1908-1909

Series 4 Appointments and Salaries

Box 16

Salary rolls and letters of appointment, Apr 1901-May 1903

Box 16

Salary rolls and letters of appointment, May 1903-Nov 1905

Box 16

Salary rolls and letters of appointment, Mar 1906-Aug 1909

Box 16

Salary rolls and letters of appointment, Jan 1906-Dec 1908

Box 16

Salary rolls and letters of appointment, Aug 1909-Jun 1910

Box 16

Advisory Board Letters from Jordan concerning appointments, May 1904 -July 1906

Box 16

Salary Lists, Sep 1921-Aug 1924

Series 5 Official Letterbooks; Official Letters from the President

Box 17

Feb 1902-Dec 1903

Box 17

Feb 1905-Jan 1906

Box 17

Jan 1906-Aug 1906

Box 17

Aug 1906-Mar 1907

Box 17a

Jun 3, 1900-Nov 20, 1900

Box 17a

Nov 10, 1902-Dec 24, 1902

Box 17a

Dec 18, 1903-Mar 27, 1905

Note

[To the Board of Trustees and individual trustees, includes salary rolls and other business data]

Box 17a

Aug 1904-Sep 1904

Box 17b

Mar 3, 1904-Apr 12, 1904

Box 17b

Nov 1, 1904-Dec 14, 1904

Box 17b

Jul 24, 1906-Sep 17, 1906

Box 17b

Jan 13, 1906-Feb 10, 1908

Box 17c

Mar 14, 1907-Dec 12, 1907

Box 17c

Aug 5, 1907-Sep 25, 1907

Box 17c

Sep 25, 1907-Nov 14, 1907

Box 17c

Feb 10, 1908-Mar 11, 1908

Box 17d

Dec 11, 1908-Nov 18, 1909

Box 17d

May 25, 1909-Aug 24, 1909

Box 17d

June 1910

Box 18

Jan 1908-Dec 1908

Box 18

Nov 1909-Jun 1910

Series 6 Miscellaneous Documents

Box 18

Letters from the Academic Secretary concerning actions of the Board of Trustees, Apr 1902-Jul 1913

Box 18

Notarial record of George A. Clark, Notary Public, 1908-1911

Box 18

Study on why Eastern students come to Stanford, 1902

Series 7 Contracts and Agreements

Box 19, Folder 1

Agreements between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan, John Stillman, and Charles Marx re rental of Encina and Roble Halls, 1893-94, 1894-95

Physical Description: 2 TDs

Box 19, Folder 1

Contract between Jane Stanford and Jordan re University budget, 1894-95

Physical Description: TD

Box 19, Folder 2

Agreements between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan re payment of faculty salaries and student registration fees, 1894-1898

Physical Description: 4 TDs

Box 19, Folder 3

Agreements between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan re payment of faculty salaries and student registration fees, 1898-1902

Physical Description: 5 TDs

Box 19, Folder 4

Grounds lease of university [printed form with typed draft revisions], undated

Box 19, Folder 4

"Regarding Ground Lease" [explanantion of terms of leases], undated

Box 19, Folder 4

Professors salary roll, typed list, 1899-1900

Box 19, Folder 4

Agreement between Jane Stanford and David Starr Jordan re monthly allotment for university expenses, Oct 31, 1896

Report of Committee Actions (Standing Committees of the Faculty)

Box 20

Committees included: Student Affairs, Graduate Study, Ways and Means, Admission, Registration, Scholarship, Athletics, Public Exercises, Public Health, Hopkins Laboratory, Advisory Board, Medical Curriculum, 1898-1906

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