Guide to the George Casper Branner Photograph Album
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: A0076
Creator:
Branner, George Casper, 1890-1967.
Title: George Casper Branner photograph album
Dates: 1909-1915
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Summary: Photographs from his student days at Stanford. Subjects include sports (crew, track, baseball, and rugby); student amusements
such as parades, Big Game Bonfires, Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, and Rough's Day; commencement; individual and group portraits; campus
scenes; women's fencing team; and Theodore Roosevelt's visit to campus. Faculty portraits include L.M. Hoskins, John M. Stillman,
John C. Branner, David Starr Jordan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, D.C. Gardner, and W.F. Durand. There are also photographs of Sam McDonald
and Frank Angell. Non-Stanford subjects include camping trips to Desolation Valley and Fallen Leaf Lake, and the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.
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
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 Casper Branner photograph album (A0076). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Branner, son of Stanford University President John Casper Branner, earned his a.b. in engineering at Stanford in 1915.
Photographs from his student days at Stanford. Subjects include sports (crew, track, baseball, and rugby); student amusements
such as parades, Big Game Bonfires, Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, and Rough's Day; commencement; individual and group portraits; campus
scenes; women's fencing team; and Theodore Roosevelt's visit to campus. Faculty portraits include L.M. Hoskins, John M. Stillman,
John C. Branner, David Starr Jordan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, D.C. Gardner, and W.F. Durand. There are also photographs of Sam McDonald
and Frank Angell. Non-Stanford subjects include camping trips to Desolation Valley and Fallen Leaf Lake, and the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition.
Branner, George Casper, 1890-1967.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Stanford University. Department of Athletics.
Camping --California --Photographs.
Photoprints.
Box 1
Photograph Album