Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Branner (John Casper), President of Stanford University,
Papers
SC0065
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Language of Material:
Undetermined
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John Casper Branner, President of Stanford University, papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0065
Physical Description:
5.75 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1913-1917
Administrative transfer, 1969.
The materials are open for research use.
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.
John Casper Branner, President of Stanford University, Papers (SC0065). Department of
Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
John Casper Branner, the first professor to be named at the new Stanford University in
1891, served as professor of geology at Stanford as well as executive head of the Geology
Department. He later served as vice president of Stanford (1898-1913) and president of
Stanford (1913-1915) and professor emeritus (1915-1922). He died on March 1, 1922.
This collection consists of the correspondence of John Casper Branner while he was the
President of Stanford University, 1913-1915. The correspondence is concerned with Stanford
as a whole and the various departments of the University.
The collection has been arranged according to subject or department, and chronologically
within each department.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Universities and colleges -- Administration.
Stanford University -- General subdivision--Presidents.;
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922