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Guide to the John Casper Branner, President of Stanford University, Papers
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Call Number: SC0065
Creator:
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Title: John Casper Branner, president of Stanford University, papers
Dates: 1913-1917
Physical Description:
5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Custodial History
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.