Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Albert Brooks Cox photographs
- Dates:
- 1906, 1974
- Creators:
- Cox, Albert Brooks
- Abstract:
- Six black and white photographs of the 1906 earthquake aftermath at Stanford University.
- Extent:
- 0.25 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Undetermined .
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Albert Brooks Cox Photographs (PC0147). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The materials consist of six black and white photographs documenting the aftermath of the April 18,1906 earthquake on the Stanford University campus. Also included is a student relief pass card for volunteers helping during the earthquake aftermath and a biography from the memorial service held at Hastings in 1974.
- Biographical / historical:
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Albert Brooks Cox was born in 1886 in Missouri. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering in 1909. Early in his career Cox worked for an electrical utility in Sacramento and the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. During that time he began taking correspondence classes in law at night, graduating from the Hamilton College of Law in 1915. Cox married Mary Griffin in 1916. In 1917, he passed the Arizona Bar. That same year Cox joined the U.S. war effort, enrolling in the Second Officer's Training Camp at the Presidio in San Francisco. He went on to serve in France until the end of the war. Cox returned to Stanford following the war, earning his JD in1921. He practiced law in San Francisco prior to teaching at Tulane University from 1922-1928. Cox returned to San Francisco to practice law and terach nights at the San Francisco Law School. He was called back into service during World War II, serving as Regimental Commander and later Post Commander at the Signal Corps School at Camp Murphy, Florida. Cox was later transferred to the Legal Department of the Air Corps and sent to Dayton, Ohio to help in clearing up contracts for war materials. Following the war, he resumed his law practice and joined the faculty of Hastings, where he taught from 1946 until 1972. Cox's main subject was Contracts, although he also taught classes in Procedure, Constitutional Law, Negotiable Instruments, Criminal Law, Legislation, Muicipal Corporations, and Property. He retired from teaching in 1972. Cox died in 1974.
- Acquisition information:
- GIft of Carroll Cox, 2012.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-02-26 15:42:05 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Terms of access:
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While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Albert Brooks Cox Photographs (PC0147). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022