Guide to the Jesse Brundage Sears Papers
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2000
Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC0005
Creator:
Sears, Jesse Brundage, 1876-1973
Title: Jesse Brundage Sears papers
Dates: 1860-1973
Physical Description:
13.5 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
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Gift of Jesse Brundage Sears and Robert Sears, 1965, 1974, 1978, and 1979.
Information about Access
Professor Sears' papers were originally received in two lots prior to January of 1965. These groups were combined to form
SC 5 when the old Stanford Collection became the holdings base of the University Archives in that year. The portion of the
following register which covers the first six boxes was done at that time.
Subsequently, following Professor Sears' death in December of 1973, his son, Professor Emeritus Robert Sears, donated another
group of the senior Dr. Sears' professional and biographical material. This group expanded the chronological range of the
collection and furnished a good deal more manuscriptal material than had been included in the orginal gift. This later donation
is described in the following register as boxes 7-11.
In June of 1979, Robert Sears donated yet another group of his father's records to the Archives. For the most part this material
consists of correspondence between family members and friends, and covers the years 1860-1973. There is a small amount of
material relating to Sears' professional life, mostly correspondence with Ellwood Cubberley. Several account books, pocket
diaries or memo books, information on Sears' family history and genealogy, and copies of pages (not bound) from his wife,
Stella's autobiography, make up the remainder of this addition to the collection. A preliminary guide to these later boxes
(12-14) is contained in the register following box 11.
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 Univeristy
Archives.
Cite As
Jesse Brundage Sears Papers (SC0005). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical Note
Dr. Sears was a Professor of Education at Stanford University from 1912-1942. He was born in 1876 and died in 1973.
Scope and Contents note
DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION
The Sears Collection represents the combination of two groups of papers obtained prior to January 1965 with another large
assemblage of papers added in March of 1974. A third addition was added to this collection in July of 1979. Both the pre-1965
and 1974 papers include four categories of data. A relatively small collection of Sears' correspondence in his professional
capacities is present in both sets. Some personal history appears in Box 2 (part of the pre-1965 material), and a larger amount
in Box 7 (part of the 1974 material). Except for the last three boxes which were added in 1979 and contain mostly family and
personal correspondence, the bulk of the collection consists of Sears' writings, which are divided into a manuscript category
and a reprint category. It should be noted that these four categories are intermixed in the pre-1965 material (first six boxes),
and separated in the 1974 material. The material added in 1979 also includes account books, memo or pocket diaries, information
on the Sears family history and some professional correspondence with Ellwood Cubberley.
MAJOR CORRESPONDENTS
Most of the correspondence in this collection is in the most recent (1979) addition of material. As yet these boxes have received
only preliminary attention, and the list of major correspondents is not complete. Among them are Ellwood Cubberley, J.B. Sears'
wife Stella Richardson Sears, his children: Jean, Robert and Norman Sears, his brothers and sisters, C.B. Sears, C.N. Sears,
G.W. Sears, B.L. Sears H.J. Sears C.G. Sears, and D.L. Sears, as well as numerous other relatives and friends.
Material Removed from the Collection
Multiple copies of the Sears genealogy and duplicates of forms. Three glass negatives of Sears' grandparents have been put
in the photograph collection.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
SCHOOL SURVEY CORRESPONDENCE
1925-1932
Box 1, Folder 2
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS CORRESPONDENCE
1927-8
Box 1, Folder 3
SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURES, CORRESPONDENCE
1930
Box 1, Folder 4
ST. LOUIS MEETING OF A. E. R. A.
1935-6
Box 1, Folder 5
CORRESPONDENCE WITH McGRAW-HILL
1937, 1949-1950
Scope and Content Note
(SEE ALSO MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE)
Box 1, Folder 6
CUBBERLEY BOOKS, REVIEWS AND CORRESPONDENCE
1955-60
Box 1, Folder 7
CUBBERLEY H. S. CORRESPONDENCE
1958
Box 1, Folder 8
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE
1922-1964
Box 1, Folder 12
FELLOWSHIP FORUM OF PALO ALTO
Box 1, Folder 13-16
MSS. OF PUBLISHED ARTICLES (SAMPLES OF WORKS)
Box 2, Folder 1
MISCELLANEOUS MSS. OF WRITINGS (POSSIBLY DRAFT OF TAMALPAIS SURVEY)
Box 2, Folder 4
UNFINISHED MANUSCRIPT OF BOOKS ON ADMINISTRATION
Box 2, Folder 2-3
MISC. MSS. OF WRITINGS-SOME DRAFTS
Box 2, Folder 5
UNFINISHED MSS. OF BOOKS PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE
Box 2, Folder 6
1930 WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILD HEALTH AND PROTECT
Box 2, Folder 7
1932 CALIFORNIA WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILD HEALTH AND PROTECTION
Box 3
SCHOOL SURVEYS. PRINTED REPORTS, IF ISSUED ARE FILED WITH THE RELATED PAPERS IN THE FOLLOWING CARTONS.
