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Guide to the Thomas Welton Stanford Library Time Capsule Collection
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Time Capsule items

Note

The original copper box that held these items is cataloged under the number AM-2002-27.
Box 1, Folder 1

Circulars 1-4 Circulars 1 and 2 (1891) : Act of the Legislature, Grant of Endowment, Address of Leland Stanford, First Meeting of the Trustees, Laying of the Comer-Stone 1891

Box 1, Folder 1

Circular 3 (1891) : Statement of entrance requirements and of other matters preliminary to the organization of the work of instruction for the first year of the university 1891

Box 1, Folder 1

Circular 4 (1891) : Announcement of the faculty of the university and an outline of the courses of instruction offered for the academic year 1891-92 1891

Box 1, Folder 2

Circular 5 (1891) : Exercises of the Opening Day Oct 1 1891

Box 1, Folder 2

Circular 6 (1891) : [directory of faculty and students, admission and graduation requirements, and list of courses] 1891

Box 1, Folder 3

Commencement programs 1892-1898

Box 1, Folder 4

Entrance exams 1892-1898

Box 1, Folder 5

Exercises of the Opening Day (program) Oct. 1, 1891

Box 1, Folder 6

Founding Grant publication

Box 1, Folder 7

Hymn sung at the cornerstone laying of the TWS Library [manuscript, probably in Bertha Berner's hand] Nov. 2, 1898

Box 1, Folder 8

Photograph of Thomas Welton Stanford 1898

Box 1, Folder 9

Schedule of lectures and recitations and directory 1898-99

Box 1, Folder 10

Stanford Sequoia Oct. 28, 1898

Box 1, Folder 11

Stanford, Jane Lathrop. Address to Trustees 1897

Box 1, Folder 12

Stanford, Jane Lathrop. Letter written to be included in the time capsule, [signed by JLS but letter is probably in Bertha Berner's hand] Nov. 1, 1898

Box 1

The Leland Stanford Junior University Registers, 1891-1897 1891-1897

Box 1

The Holy Bible. New York: American Bible Society. With inscription by Jane L. Stanford 1886-1898

Box 1

Kempis, Thomas A . The Following of Christ; in Four Books. Philadelphia: H. L. Kilner and Co. Crucifix

Physical Description: Crucifix
Box 2

San Francisco Chronicle Nov. 2, 1898

Box 2

San Francisco Call Nov. 2, 1898

Box 2

Palo Alto Times Nov. 1, 1898

Box 2

Palo Alto Live Oak Oct. 28, 1898

Box 3

Gold and silver coins

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