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Call Number: SC0285
Creator:
Richardson, George Mann, 1863-
Title: George Mann Richardson papers
Dates: 1860-1971
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence, photographs, legal papers, albums and biographical material of George Mann Richardson, his wife Margaret Watson,
their sons Alan and Remond, and Watson family relatives. Correspondence includes a family letter describing a trip to Colorado
and New Mexico, 1887; letters by George, 1894, and Margaret, 1896, describing hiking trips in the Sierras (what is now Kings
Canyon and Sequoia National Parks), and correspondence of Alan Richardson, 1918-1957, including one letter from Lou Henry
Hoover. Photographs, 1898-1924, include early views of the Stanford campus, damage from the 1906 earthquake, the Richardson
house on campus, family members, beach and mountain scenes, and Remond W. Richardson in his military unit in Texas, 1916-1917.
There is a scrapbook kept by Remond W. Richardson, 1910-1923, containing programs, newsletters, clippings, and other items
pertaining to his school and military activities; and a scrapbook kept by George Mann Richardson, 1881-1890, containing programs,
clippings, tickets, ribbons, newsletters, and other items largely pertaining to Lehigh University athletic events and Psi
Upsilon fraternity matters. The collection also includes a diary kept by George C. Richardson, 1860; letters by Robert Watson,
1885-1926; letters of Esther E. Watson, primarily on the death of her father William T. Watson, 1926; and other materials
pertaining to the Watson family.
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 Jeanne Richardson Musto, 1982.
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.
George Mann Richardson Papers (SC0285). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of Organic Chemistry at Stanford (1891-1902). Richardson, born in Springfield, Ohio 3 October 1863, obtained his
A.B. in Chemistry from Lehigh University (1886) and his Ph. D. in Chemistry from John Hopkins University (1891). He died in
1902.
Correspondence, photographs, legal papers, albums and biographical material of George Mann Richardson, his wife Margaret Watson,
their sons Alan and Remond, and Watson family relatives. Correspondence includes a family letter describing a trip to Colorado
and New Mexico, 1887; letters by George, 1894, and Margaret, 1896, describing hiking trips in the Sierras (what is now Kings
Canyon and Sequoia National Parks), and correspondence of Alan Richardson, 1918-1957, including one letter from Lou Henry
Hoover. Photographs, 1898-1924, include early views of the Stanford campus, damage from the 1906 earthquake, the Richardson
house on campus, family members, beach and mountain scenes, and Remond W. Richardson in his military unit in Texas, 1916-1917.
There is a scrapbook kept by Remond W. Richardson, 1910-1923, containing programs, newsletters, clippings, and other items
pertaining to his school and military activities; and a scrapbook kept by George Mann Richardson, 1881-1890, containing programs,
clippings, tickets, ribbons, newsletters, and other items largely pertaining to Lehigh University athletic events and Psi
Upsilon fraternity matters. The collection also includes a diary kept by George C. Richardson, 1860; letters by Robert Watson,
1885-1926; letters of Esther E. Watson, primarily on the death of her father William T. Watson, 1926; and other materials
pertaining to the Watson family.
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944.
Richardson, Alan.
Richardson, George C.
Richardson, George Mann, 1863-
Richardson, Margaret.
Richardson, Remond W.
Watson family.
Watson, Esther E.
Watson, Robert.
Albums.
Hiking --Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nev.).
Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.).
Photoprints.
Sequoia National Park (Calif.).