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Guide to the Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand
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  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical note
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  • Overview

    Call Number: SC1097
    Creator: Durand, William Frederick, 1859-1958
    Creator: Simkins, H. W.
    Title: Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand
    Dates: 1899-1944
    Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet
    Summary: Three bound volumes. The 1904 & 1905 Stanford University viewbooks published by H. W. Simkins with additional photographs and handwritten notes added by Frank Oakes Ellenwood. Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Pasadena, a bibliography of the published works of Professor W.F. Durand, signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.
    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

    The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

    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], Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand (SC1097). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical note

    Frank Oakes Ellenwood was born November 10, 1878 in Little Hocking, Ohio. In 1904 he received the degree of A.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and in 1922 the degree of Mechanical Engineer, also from Stanford University. In 1911 he went to Cornell University as an assistant professor of heat-power engineering after serving as an instructor of mechanical engineering at Stanford from 1908 to 1911. In 1915 he was made Professor of Heat-Power Engineering; in 1940 he was made head of that department, and in 1941 he was appointed John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering. He died in Rochester, New York, on September 7, 1947.

    Scope and Contents

    Three bound volumes. The 1904 & 1905 Stanford University viewbooks published by H. W. Simkins with additional photographs and handwritten notes added by Frank Oakes Ellenwood. Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Pasadena, a bibliography of the published works of Professor W.F. Durand, signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.

    Access Terms

    Ellenwood, Frank Oakes
    Stanford University--Campus scenes
    Stanford University--History.