Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Crandall (Berton W.) photographs
60022  
No online items No online items       Request items ↗
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Access
  • Use
  • Preferred Citation
  • Provenance
  • Introduction

  • Title: Berton W. Crandall photographs
    Date (inclusive): 1888-1953
    Collection Number: 60022
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 26 manuscript boxes, 3 card file boxes (12.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Depicts Stanford University campus and buildings, Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, the Hoover family, Leland Stanford, and Jane Lathrop Stanford.
    Creator: Crandall, Berton W.
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    Boxes 7 and 13-20 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Berton W. Crandall photographs, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Provenance

    This collection of photographs was given to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1960 by the photographer himself, Berton W. Crandall, from Palo Alto, California.

    Introduction

    The collection consists of two parts. Part 1 mainly documents the life and career of Herbert Hoover and his family, but also includes a few other interesting photographs. Part 2 contains photographs depicting the Stanford campus before the 1906 earthquake and damage resulting from the earthquake, as well as other general photographs. Materials in Part 2 are distinguished from those in part 1 by the "S" preceding each item number. Both parts consist of a variety of photographic formats, prints as well as nitrate, acetate, and glass plate negatives.
    In each of the two parts, prints are housed first, with their corresponding negatives following. The negatives have been divided into four main categories:
    1. "Safety" negatives (usually acetate). These were left in the archival boxes
    2. Glass plate negatives. These were also left in the archival boxes but were placed in special folders and containers, with more rigid support
    3. Nitrate negatives. These were placed in double sealed vapor proof envelopes in the freezer
    4. Very badly deteriorating negatives. These were set aside for conservation evaluation

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Pictorial works
    Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
    Stanford University
    Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944
    Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905
    Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893