The collection includes minutes, reports, correspondence, leases, proposals, and other records pertaining to financial and business aspects of the administration of Stanford University. Among the subjects covered by the records are property matters, land development, building projects on campus, academic departments and professional schools, faculty and student housing, the hospital and medical center, SLAC, shopping center, industrial park, Jasper Ridge, relations with Palo Alto, roads, and water. Of particular historical interest are the files on Jane and Leland Stanford's carriages, the Japanese Students Association, the isolation hospital, and Vina Ranch (which include maps).

The Business Affairs organization at Stanford provides integrated financial, technological, business and human resource services for the benefit of the university community.

175.5 Linear Feet 117 boxes

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.

The materials are partially restricted. Gift records in boxes 5, 15, 72, and 73 are restricted for 75 years.