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Holbrook family photograph albums
MSS.PHOTO.0403
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Holbrook family photograph albums
Creator:
Holbrook family
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.PHOTO.0403
Identifier/Call Number: 3303
Physical Description:
7 volume(s)
Date (inclusive): 1889
Charles C. Holbrook (1830–1926) was a wholesale hardware and mining supply store owner in San Francisco whose Elmwood estate
in Atherton is now known as Holbrook-Palmer park. In 1889 the Holbrook family made a grand tour across Europe and the Middle
East, and these albums document the trip with hand-captioned albumen prints of various scenes. Most photographs are published
and many have printed captions; presumably one could request various images to be assembled as a souvenir. In 1957, a fire
at the estate destroyed some volumes; the surviving albums were given to Stanford by Charles' granddaughter Harriet Holbrook
Hamilton.
See also Mary Holbrook letter to Mrs. Stanford April 26, 1895:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/cy572ts9856
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
These materials are believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Harriet Holbrook Hamilton, 1979.
[identification of item], Holbrook family photograph albums (MSS PHOTO 0403). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
travel
Tourism
Photograph albums