Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 9 Linear Feet (6 boxes, 3 oversize folders)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Elmer E. Robinson Americana, M0002, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence, documents, photographs, early American newspapers, and printed matter. Includes documents signed by George Washington and 27 other U.S. presidents, government officials, and seven early California Governors. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Hamilton Fish, eight U.S. presidents, and other American government, civilian and military figures. Lithograph portraits with facsimile signatures of all the presidents from George Washington through Buchanan. Photographs with autographs of all the presidents from Abraham Lincoln through Eisenhower with the exception of President Arthur.
Accession 1987-035 consists of photographs, lithographs, and broadsides which were transferred from the book collection in the Robinson Room. It is one print box and one map folder. The items are unlisted.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Elmer E. Robinson, 1959 1969.
- Arrangement:
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Original core Robinson collection in folders numbered 1-122 in boxes 1 and 2. Additional material described later resumes standard folder number sequence.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
- Terms of access:
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These materials are believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item] Elmer E. Robinson Americana, M0002, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022