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Guide to the Berton W. Crandall Proof Album collection
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Call Number: PC0003
Creator:
Crandall, Berton W., 1882-1979.
Title: Berton W Crandall proof album collection
Dates: 1904-1930
Physical Description:
12.42 Linear feet (18 albums)
Summary: Proof albums assembled by Crandall of photograph taken during the year to be browsed by patrons of his Palo Alto studio. Crandall
concentrated primarily on Stanford athletics and student activities. Sports most heavily documented are football, track, and
baseball; others include crew, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and polo. There are a few photographs of women's crew, track,
and basketball teams. Student activities include the Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, student parades, initiations of the honor society
Skull & Snakes and the Press Club, dances, plays, Plug Ugly events, junior day activities on Lake Lagunita, and commencement
processions. Special events documented include John C. Branner's inauguration as Stanford University President, 1913; and
the Student Army Training Corps, 1916-1917.
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
Gift of Berton W. Crandall.
This collection is open for research.
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.
Berton W. Crandall Proof Album Collection (PC0003). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Berton W. Crandall moved with his family to Palo Alto in 1898 from Pompey, New York, where he had been born in 1882. After
graduating from Palo Alto High School, he attended Stanford University, earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in January
1907. A professional photographer, he also owned and operated a photography store on University Avenue in Palo Alto. He died
in May of 1979.
Proof albums assembled by Crandall of photograph taken during the year to be browsed by patrons of his Palo Alto studio. Crandall
concentrated primarily on Stanford athletics and student activities. Sports most heavily documented are football, track, and
baseball; others include crew, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and polo. There are a few photographs of women's crew, track,
and basketball teams. Student activities include the Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, student parades, initiations of the honor society
Skull & Snakes and the Press Club, dances, plays, Plug Ugly events, junior day activities on Lake Lagunita, and commencement
processions. Special events documented include John C. Branner's inauguration as Stanford University President, 1913; and
the Student Army Training Corps, 1916-1917.
Albums organized by year;
photographs arranged by negative number within each album.
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Crandall, Berton W., 1882-1979.
Stanford University. Department of Athletics.
Stanford University. Student Army Training Corps.
Albums.
Photographers--California.
Photoprints.