Guide to the Sears Family Photographs PC0050
Daniel Hartwig
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Sears family photographs
Creator:
Sears family.
Identifier/Call Number: PC0050
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): circa
1850-1970
Abstract: Photographs, and a few daguerreotypes
and tintypes, of Jesse B. Sears, his parents and other relatives, his wife Stella Richardson
Sears, and their children Robert R. Sears and William Norman Sears. A portion of the
photographs were identified by Jesse B. Sears.
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[identification of item] Sears Family Photographs (PC0050). Department of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Jesse B. Sears, a pioneer in the field of school administration, graduated from Stanford
University in 1909 and joined the education faculty there in 1911, retiring in 1942. His son
Robert R. Sears, Stanford class of 1929, joined the Department of Psychology at Stanford in
1953.
Photographs, and a few daguerreotypes and tintypes, of Jesse B. Sears, his parents and
other relatives, his wife Stella Richardson Sears, and their children Robert R. Sears and
William Norman Sears. A portion of the photographs were identified by Jesse B. Sears.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tintypes.
Daguerreotypes.
Photoprints.
Sears, Robert R. (Robert Richardson)
Sears, Stella Richardson.
Sears, Jesse Brundage
Sears family.
Box 1-5
Photographs