Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: PC0077
Creator:
Hill, Andrew Putnam, 1853-1922.
Title: Palo Alto Stock Farm photographs
Dates: 1880-1885
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Information about Access
Open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Palo Alto Stock Farm Photographs (PC0077). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Charles Conklin Wooster, born in Albany, NY, in 1845, was a horse trainer and coachman for Leland Stanford from about 1870
until Stanford's death in 1893. He continued to work for Jane Stanford, and after her death in 1905, for the University. He
died in 1935
Scope and Contents
Images in this collection include Stock Farm horses Electioneer and Lady Russel; Leland Stanford, Jr., with the horse Cheatano,
1882; trainers and grooms at the Stock Farm, 1881 and 1884; two trotters racing; and the Wooster home on campus. Other images
include a logging wagon and a portrait of Fire Chief Dolen (city not given). Many of the Stock Farm photographs were taken
by A. P. Hill. The collection also includes obituaries on Wooster, 1935.
Access Terms
Meredith, Leah
Meredith, Roy
Wooster, Charles Conklin
Horses --Pictorial works.
Palo Alto (Calif.) Stock Farm