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Guide to the Dane Manson Greer Photograph Albums
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Description
Three albums of photographs and postcards from his student days at Stanford University. Subjects include fraternity houses (exteriors and interiors), fraternity members, student amusements such as costumed skits and night shirt parades, athletic events (rugby, baseball, boxing, track, and crew), David Starr Jordan in the faculty-senior baseball game, campus buildings, stone carvers working on the Memorial Arch frieze, Salvatierra Street, San Francisquito Creek, and Lake Lagunita. Volume three includes many images of damage from the 1906 earthquake at Stanford and in San Francisco, including the path of the San Andreas faultline in the Stanford hills and the "Camp Stanford" relief station in San Francisco. Also included is a Red Cross relief application card for John O'Grady, May 16, 1906.
Background
Greer earned his a.b. in chemistry at Stanford University in January 1906 and his chemical engineer's degree in January 1907.
Extent
2 Linear feet
Restrictions
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.
Availability
This collection is open for research.