Guide to the Stanford University, Press, Photographs PC0093

University Archives staff

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

October 2010, October 2023

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

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Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Stanford University, Press, photographs

Identifier/Call Number: PC0093

Physical Description: 4.25 Linear Feet

Date (inclusive): 1924-1976

Date (bulk): 1924-1945

Abstract: Collection includes photographs, 1936-1945, and one scrapbook, 1924-1976. Subjects of the photographs are the Stanford University Press and staff; Stanford University buildings, students, and faculty/staff; and San Francisco's skyline and bay bridge. Of note among the Stanford photographs are scenes of army training during World War II, the 1942 commencement, the Flying Indians (student flying club), class and laboratory scenes, and a radio workshop ca. 1940. Individuals include John Borsdamm, Will Friend, Herbert Hoover, Marchmont Schwartz, Clark Shaughnessy, Graham Stuart, and Ray Lyman Wilbur. The album pertains largely to staff in the press bindery and includes photographs, clippings, letters, notes, humorous pencil sketches, and poems, mostly by Carlton L. Whitten.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Administrative transfer from the Stanford University Press, 2000.

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

Ownership & Copyright

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.

Cite As

Stanford University, Press, Photographs (PC0093). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Description of the Collection

Collection includes photographs, 1936-1945, and one scrapbook, 1924-1976. Subjects of the photographs are the Stanford University Press and staff; Stanford University buildings, students, and faculty/staff; and San Francisco's skyline and bay bridge. Of note among the Stanford photographs are scenes of army training during World War II, the 1942 commencement, the Flying Indians (student flying club), class and laboratory scenes, and a radio workshop ca. 1940. Individuals include John Borsdamm, Will Friend, Herbert Hoover, Marchmont Schwartz, Clark Shaughnessy, Graham Stuart, and Ray Lyman Wilbur. The album pertains largely to staff in the press bindery and includes photographs, clippings, letters, notes, humorous pencil sketches, and poems, mostly by Carlton L. Whitten.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Photoprints.

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)

San Francisco (Calif.)

Albums.

World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Stanford.

Photonegatives

Shaughnessy, Clark.

Stanford University. Press

Stuart, Graham Henry

Hoover, Herbert

Borsdamm, John.

Friend, Will A.

Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)

Whitten, Carlton L.

Schwartz, Marchmont.

Press Images

Box 1

Borsdamm, John (print and negative) 93.001

Box 1

Croonquist, Stanley (negative) 93.002

Box 1

Cutter (negative) 93.003

Box 1

Elwood (?) (print and negative) 93.004

Box 1

Folder (negative) 93.005

Box 1

Friend, Will #1 (print and negative) 93.006

Box 1

Friend, Will #2 (negative) 93.007

Box 1

Friend, Will #3 (negative) 93.008

Box 1

Goodspeed, Dewey #1 (negative) 93.009

Box 1

Goodspeed, Dewey #2 (negative) 93.01

Box 1

Harris offset press #1 (print and negative) 93.011

Box 1

Harris offset press #2 (negative) 93.012

Box 1

Lino machine #1 (print and negative) 93.013

Box 1

Lino machine #2 (negative) 93.014

Box 1

Lino machine #3 (negative) 93.015

Box 1

Ludlow, possibly setting type (print and negative) 93.016

Box 1

Offset press (print) 93.017

Box 1

Plate room (print and negative) 93.018

Box 1

Press employees (2 color snapshots) 93.019

Box 1

Press party #1 (print and negative) 93.02

Box 1

Press party #2 (print and negative) 93.021

Box 1

Press party #3 (2 prints and negative) 93.022

Box 1

Press party #4 (2 prints and negative) 93.023

Box 1

Press room employees #1 (3 prints and negative) 93.024

Box 1

Press room employees #2 (2 prints and negative) 93.025

Box 1

Press room employees, individual portrait #1 (negative) 93.026

Box 1

Press room employees, individual portrait #2 (negative) 93.027

Box 1

Press room employees, individual portrait #3 (print and negative) 93.028

Box 1

Proof room (print and negative) 93.029

Box 1

Setting type #1 (negative) 93.03

Box 1

Setting type #2 (negative) 93.031

Box 1

Setting type #3 (negative) 93.032

Box 1

Setting type #4 (negative) 93.033

Box 1

Setting type #5 (negative) 93.034

Box 1

Setting type #6 (negative) 93.035

Box 1

Setting type #7 (negative) 93.036

Box 1

Setting type #8 (negative) 93.037

Box 1

Sewing machine #1 (negative) 93.038

Box 1

Sewing machine #2 (negative) 93.039

Box 1

Staff group with Christmas tree (print and negative) 93.04

Box 1

Stitcher (negative) 93.041

Box 1

Two staff at machine (print and negative) 93.042

Stanford Images

Box 1

Administration building #1, 1945 (print and negative) 93.043

Box 1

Administration building #2 (negative) 93.044

Box 1

Army training 1940s #1 [men marching in field] (negative) 93.045

Box 1

Army training 1940s #2 [Army band] (negative) 93.046

Box 1

Army training 1940s #3 [men with artillery] (negative - damaged) 93.047

Box 1

Army training 1940s #4 [parade formation] (negative) 93.048

Box 1

Army training 1940s #5 [civilians in gas masks] (negative) 93.049

Box 1

Army training 1940s #6 [start of a foot race] (negative) 93.05

Box 1

Army training 1940s #7 [parade formation] (negative) 93.051

Box 1

Army training 1940s #8 [start of a foot race] (negative) 93.052

Box 1

Art class at Red Barn #1 (print) 93.053

Box 1

Art class at Red Barn #2 (print) 93.054

Box 1

Art class at Red Barn #3 (print) 93.055

Box 1

Art class at Red Barn #4 (print) 93.056

Box 1

Art class behind Memorial Church (2 prints and negative) 93.057

Box 1

Art Gallery (print and negative) 93.058

Box 1

Athletics, women's diving #1 (negative) 93.059

Box 1

Athletics, women's diving #2 (negative) 93.06

Box 1

Athletics, women's track and field (negative) 93.061

Box 1

Athletics, women's golf (negative - damaged) 93.062

Box 1

Athletics, women's tennis (negative) 93.063

Box 1

Bakewell building, on Galvez (print and negative) 93.064

Box 1

Bar-b-que pit construction #1 93.065

Box 1

Bar-b-que pit construction #1=2 93.066

Box 1

Boat house #1 (print and negative) 93.067

Box 1

Boat house #2, from Lathrop Place, 1937 (negative) 93.068

Box 1

Boat house #3, from Lathrop Place, 1937 (negative) 93.069

Box 1

Boat house #4 (print) 93.07

Box 1

Bonfire rally (print and negative) 93.071

Box 1

Bookstore #1 (print and negative) 93.072

Box 1

Bookstore #2 (negative) 93.073

Box 1

Bookstore #3 (print and negative) 93.074

Box 1

Business, School of, class 1944 (print and negative) 93.075

Box 1

Business, School of, library (print and negative) 93.076

Box 1

Campus, aerial view #1 [by Philip B. Welsh, S. Daily], ca. 1940 (print and negative) 93.077

Box 1

Campus, aerial view #2 ca. 1940 (print and negative) 93.078

Box 1

Campus view from golf course ca. 1940 #1 (print and negative) 93.079

Box 1

Campus view from golf course ca. 1940 #2 (print and negative) 93.08

Box 1

Campus view from Lathrop home 1945 (print and negative) 93.081

Box 1

Chappie # 1 [Chappie puppet with camera] (negative) 93.082

Box 1

Chappie # 2 [large man standing, with coffee cup] (negative) 93.083

Box 1

Chappie # 3 [large man sitting, with coffee cup] (negative) 93.084

Box 1

Chappie # 4 [photo shoot at Lake Lag] (negative) 93.085

Box 1

Chappie # 5 [man with Chappie hat in row boat in Lake Lag] (negative) 93.086

Box 1

Chemistry lab 1944 #1 (print and negative) 93.087

Box 1

Chemistry lab 1944 #2 (negative) 93.088

Box 1

Chemistry lab 1944 #3 (negative) 93.089

Box 1

Class on internal combustion engines #1, 1944 (print and negative) 93.09

Box 1

Class on internal combustion engines #2, 1944 (negative) 93.091

Box 1

Class on internal combustion engines #3, 1944 (negative) 93.092

Box 1

Class with globe #1, 1944 (print and negative) 93.093

Box 1

Class with globe #2, 1944 (print and negative) 93.094

Box 1

Class with globe #3, 1944 (negative) 93.095

Box 1

Clock tower (print) 93.096

Box 1

Commencement 1942 (in Frost) #1 (print) 93.097

Box 1

Commencement 1942 (in Frost) #2 (print) 93.098

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – grads and parents at Bookstore (negative) 93.099

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – students filing into Frost (negative) 93.1

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – procession leaving Memorial Church (negative) 93.101

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – procession in Inner Quad (negative) 93.102

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – procession in front of Museum #1 (negative) 93.103

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – procession in front of Museum #2 (negative) 93.104

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – business students waiting in basketball pavilion (negative) 93.105

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – placing wreath at mausoleum (negative) 93.106

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – laying class plate (negative) 93.107

Box 1

Commencement 1942 – social science grads waiting in basketball pavilion (negative) 93.108

Box 1

Commencement, Frost, n.d. (negative) 93.109

Box 1

Commencement, students outside Memorial Church, n.d. (print) 93.11

Box 1

Daily staff in back shop #1, 1945 (print and negative) 93.111

Box 1

Daily staff in back shop #2, 1945 (negative) 93.112

Box 1

Dance, 1945 (print and negative) 93.113

Box 1

Earthquake 1906, copy negative of Davey image showing rubble in front of Quad with library in background (negative) 93.114

Box 1

Education building through Quad arch #1, 1943 (print and negative) 93.115

Box 1

Education building through Quad arch #2 (negative) 93.116

Box 1

Education building through Quad arch #3 (negative) 93.117

Box 1

Education building, oblique view of façade #1, 1939 (negative) 93.118

Box 1

Education building, oblique view of façade #2, 1942 (negative) 93.119

Box 1

Education building, oblique view of façade #3 (print and negative) 93.12

Box 1

Education building, oblique view of façade #4 (negative) 93.121

Box 1

Education building, oblique view of façade #5 (negative) 93.122

Box 1

Education building, oblique view of façade #6 (negative) 93.123

Box 1

Education building, view from front arcade #1, 1939 (print and negative) 93.124

Box 1

Education building, view from front arcade #2 (negative) 93.125

Box 1

Education building and library, 1940, from Quad roof (negative) 93.126

Box 1

Education library (2 prints and negative) 93.127

Box 1

Electrical Engineering labs (print and negative) 93.128

Box 1

Electrical Engineering faculty and students in labs #1 (print and negative) 93.129

Box 1

Electrical Engineering faculty and students in labs #2 (print and negative) 93.13

Box 1

Electrical Engineering faculty and students in labs #3 (negative) 93.131

Box 1

Electrical Engineering faculty and students in labs #4 (negative) 93.132

Box 1

Encina Commons (print and negative) 93.133

Box 1

Encina Hall, residents in lounge (negative) 93.134

Box 1

Engineering Corner, 1939 (print and negative) 93.135

Box 1

Engineering Corner, showing labs and clock tower, ca. 1940 (print and negative) 93.136

Box 1

Flying Indians ? [six men looking at chart beside plane] (print) 93.137

Box 1

Flying Indians 1942 [group of male students at graduation] (negative) 93.138

Box 1

Foundry [male students pouring metal into molds] (print) 93.139

Box 1

Fraternities – Phi Gamma Delta house #1 (print) 93.14

Box 1

Fraternities – Phi Gamma Delta house #2 (print) 93.141

Box 1

Fraternities – Sigma Alpha Epsilon house: students changing sign from "Hayes Hall" to "SAE" (print) 93.142

Box 1

Frost Amphitheater, 1937 (print and negative) 93.143

Box 1

Geology corner (print and negative) 93.144

Box 1

Golf course clubhouse 1942 (print and negative) 93.145

Box 1

Golf course clubhouse 1944 (print and negative) 93.146

Box 1

Golf course clubhouse n.d. #1 (print and negative) 93.147

Box 1

Golf course clubhouse n.d. #2 (print and negative) 93.148

Box 1

Health, School of (print and negative) 93.149

Box 1

History corner #1 (print and negative) 93.15

Box 1

History corner #2 (print) 93.151

Box 1

History corner #3 (print) 93.152

Box 1

History corner #4 (print) 93.153

Box 1

History corner with students, ca. 1945 (print and negative) 93.154

Box 1

Hoover Carillon Bells 1945 #1 (print and negative) 93.155

Box 1

Hoover Carillon Bells 1945 #2 (negative) 93.156

Box 1

Hoover Carillon Bells 1945 #3 (negative) 93.157

Box 1

Hoover House, front view (negative) 93.158

Box 1

Hoover Tower 1943 (negative) 93.159

Box 1

Hoover Tower 1944 (negative) 93.16

Box 1

Hoover Tower 1945 (negative) 93.161

Box 1

Hoover Tower n.d. #1 (negative) 93.162

Box 1

Hoover Tower n.d. #2 (negative) 93.163

Box 1

Hoover Tower n.d. #3 (print and negative) 93.164

Box 1

Hoover Tower n.d. #4 (print and negative) 93.165

Box 1

Hoover Tower n.d. #5 (print) 93.166

Box 1

Hoover Tower n.d. #6 (print) 93.167

Box 1

Hoover Tower (black and white transparency) 93.168

Box 1

Hoover Tower 1943 (infrared negative) 93.169

Box 1

Hoover Tower and Library 1943 #1 (infrared negative) 93.17

Box 1

Hoover Tower and Library 1943 #2 (infrared negative) 93.171

Box 1

Knoll, the, 1945 (print and negative) 93.172

Box 1

Laboratory, working at microscopes #1 (print and negative) 93.173

Box 1

Laboratory, working at microscopes #2 (print and negative) 93.174

Box 1

Laboratory, working at microscopes #2 (negative) 93.175

Box 1

Lagunita Court 1944 (negative) 93.176

Box 1

Lagunita Court n.d. #1 (print and negative) 93.177

Box 1

Lagunita Court n.d. #2 (print) 93.178

Box 1

Lagunita Court entrance 1945 (print and negative) 93.179

Box 1

Lake Lagunita, with boat house (negative) 93.18

Box 1

Lasuen Row #1 (print and negative) 93.181

Box 1

Lasuen Row #2 (print and negative) 93.182

Box 1

Lasuen Row #3 (print and negative) 93.183

Box 1

Lasuen Row #4 (print and negative) 93.184

Box 1

Lasuen Row #5 (print and negative) 93.185

Box 1

Lasuen Row #6 (negative) 93.186

Box 1

Library (1919) – n.d. (print) 93.187

Box 1

Library (1919) – 1938 (negative) 93.188

Box 1

Library, old medical book #1, 1942 (negative) 93.189

Box 1

Library, old medical book #2, 1942 (negative) 93.19

Box 1

Library with Hoover Tower (infrared negative) 93.191

Box 1

Mausoleum #1 (print and negative) 93.192

Box 1

Mausoleum #2, detail of sphinx 1940, (negative) 93.193

Box 1

Medical School class 1944 #1 (print and negative) 93.194

Box 1

Medical School class 1944 #2 (negative) 93.195

Box 1

Medical School class 1944 #3 (negative) 93.196

Box 1

Memorial Auditorium from Quad roof (print and negative) 93.197

Box 1

Memorial Auditorium (infrared negative) 93.198

Box 1

Memorial Church chancel (print and negative) 93.199

Box 1

Memorial Church exterior #1 (print and negative) 93.2

Box 1

Memorial Church exterior #2 (print and negative) 93.201

Box 1

Memorial Church exterior #3 (print and negative) 93.202

Box 1

Memorial Church exterior #4, 1945 (print and negative) 93.203

Box 1

Memorial Church exterior #5, 1943 (print and negative) 93.204

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #1 (negative) 93.205

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #2 (negative) 93.206

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #3 (negative) 93.207

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #4 (print) 93.208

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #5 (print) 93.209

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #6 (print) 93.21

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #7 (print) 93.211

Box 1

Memorial Church front view #8 (print) 93.212

Box 1

Memorial Church rear view (negative) 93.213

Box 1

Memorial Church side view (print and negative) 93.214

Box 1

Memorial Church 1945 #1 (infrared negative) 93.215

Box 1

Memorial Church 1945 #2 (infrared negative) 93.216

Box 1

Military review in front of Quad, 1942 (negative) 93.217

Box 1

Museum – statue at night 1945 (negative) 93.218

Box 1

Oak tree with people sitting under it (print and negative) 93.219

Box 1

Palm Drive, entrance gates 1945 (negative) 93.22

Box 1

Palm Drive, entrance gates at night 1945 (print and negative) 93.221

Box 1

Palo Alto University Avenue underpass at night, 1945 (negative) 93.222

Box 1

Physics Corner #1 (print and negative) 93.223

Box 1

Physics Corner #2 (negative) 93.224

Box 1

Post Office (print) 93.225

Box 1

Quad arcades #1 (print and negative) 93.226

Box 1

Quad arcades #2 (negative) 93.227

Box 1

Quad arcades #3 (negative) 93.228

Box 1

Quad arcades #4 (print and negative) 93.229

Box 1

Quad arcades #5 (print) 93.23

Box 1

Quad arches (negative) 93.231

Box 1

Quad arches detail #1 (print and negative) 93.232

Box 1

Quad arches detail #2 (print) 93.233

Box 1

Quad, East Gate #1 (print and negative) 93.234

Box 1

Quad, East Gate #2 (negative) 93.235

Box 1

Quad, from Hoover Tower (negative) 93.236

Box 1

Quad, front view (print and negative) 93.237

Box 1

Quad, front view with Hoover Tower (print and negative) 93.238

Box 1

Quad, front view night shot 1945 (print and negative) 93.239

Box 1

Quad, front view with Palm Drive #1 (negative) 93.24

Box 1

Quad, front view with Palm Drive #2 1944 (print and damaged negative) 93.241

Box 1

Quad, Inner (negative) 93.242

Box 1

Quad, Inner, at night 1945 (damaged negative) 93.243

Box 1

Quad, side view with students #1 ca. 1943 (negative) 93.244

Box 1

Quad, side view with students #2 1945 (print and negative) 93.245

Box 1

Quad, view of roofs from History Corner (print and negative) 93.246

Box 1

Radio workshop ca. 1940 #1 (print and negative) 93.247

Box 1

Radio workshop ca. 1940 #2 (print and negative) 93.248

Box 1

Roble Gym #1 (print and negative) 93.249

Box 1

Roble Gym #2 (print and negative) 93.25

Box 1

Roble Gym #3 – interior courtyard (print) 93.251

Box 1

Roble Hall #1 (print and negative) 93.252

Box 1

Roble Hall #2 (negative) 93.253

Box 1

Roble Pool (print) 93.254

Box 1

Sequoia Hall [original Roble Hall] (print and negative) 93.255

Box 1

Stadium, aerial view (negative) 93.256

Box 1

Stanford seal with motto 1943 (multiple negatives) 93.257

Box 1

Students, ca. 1940 (print and negative) 93.258

Box 1

Students in Law Library 1944 #1 (negative) 93.259

Box 1

Students in Law Library 1944 #2 (negative) 93.26

Box 1

Students in Law Library 1944 #3 (negative) 93.261

Box 1

Students on Library steps #1 (print and negative) 93.262

Box 1

Students on Library steps #2 (negative) 93.263

Box 1

Tile roofs #1 (negative) 93.264

Box 1

Tile roofs #2 (negative) 93.265

Box 1

Toyon Hall, exterior detail, 1945 (negative) 93.266

Box 1

Union, exterior front (print and negative) 93.267

Box 1

Union, exterior with ivy (print and negative) 93.268

Box 1

Ventura Hall, 1943 (print and negative) 93.269

Box 1

Workmen with machinery (negative) 93.27

Stanford people

Box 1

Col. Frank R. Allen #1 (negative) 93.271

Box 1

Col. Frank R. Allen #2 (negative) 93.272

Box 1

Dean, Everett S. (negative) 93.273

Box 1

Hoover, Herbert, Fall 1936 – at Hoover House with LHH behind him (negative) 93.274

Box 1

Schwartz, Marchie 1942 #1 (negative) 93.275

Box 1

Schwartz, Marchie 1942 #2 (negative) 93.276

Box 1

Schwartz, Marchie 1942 #3 (negative) 93.277

Box 1

Sharp, Dr. Stan (negative) 93.278

Box 1

Shaughnessy, Clark (negative) 93.279

Box 1

Stewart, Virginia (negative) 93.28

Box 1

Stuart, Graham #1 (negative) 93.281

Box 1

Stuart, Graham #2 (negative) 93.282

Box 1

Stuart, Graham #3 (negative) 93.283

Box 1

Stuart, Graham #4 (negative) 93.284

Box 1

Thomas, Lawrence G. (print and negative) 93.285

Box 1

Wilbur, R. L. and Cowden, 1942 #1 (negative) 93.286

Box 1

Wilbur, R. L. and Cowden, 1942 #2 (negative) 93.287

Box 1

Wilbur, R. L. in his office #1 (negative) 93.288

Box 1

Wilbur, R. L. in his office #2 (negative) 93.289

Box 1

Woman with a camera 93.29

San Francisco images

Box 1

Bay Bridge and San Francisco skyline 1945 (negative) 93.291

Box 1

Bay Bridge from ferry 1945 #1 (print and negative) 93.292

Box 1

Bay Bridge from ferry 1945 #2 (negative) 93.293

Box 1

Ferry boat and Bay Bridge 1945 (negative) 93.294

Box 1

San Francisco 1945 (print and infrared negative) 93.295

Box 1

San Francisco skyline from ferry 1945 #1 (print and negative) 93.296

Box 1

San Francisco skyline from ferry 1945 #2 (print and negative) 93.297

Miscellaneous images

Box 1

Clouds, for double printing special effects (negative) 93.298

Box 1

Leaves (damaged negative) 93.299

Box 1

Leaves, close-up (negative) 93.3

Box 1

Monkscloth background (multiple negatives) 93.301

Box 1

Oak tree bark, close-up (negative) 93.302

Box 1

Smoke (negative) 93.303

Color transparencies (4x5")

Box 2, folder 1

E – H: Education building, Encina Hall, Golf Course, History Corner, Hoover Tower

Box 2, folder 2

Inner Quad

Box 2, folder 3

L – O: Library, Museum, Old Union

Box 2, folder 4

Memorial Auditorium

Box 2, folder 5

Memorial Church – exterior

Box 2, folder 6

Memorial Church – interior

Box 2, folder 7

Memorial Church – windows and mosaics

Box 2, folder 8

Memorial Court and Memorial Court arches

Box 2, folder 9

P & R: Palm Drive, Physics Corner, Press (photo lithography work), Roble Hall

Box 2, folder 10

Quad – front views and East and West Gates

Box 3

Days of Yesterday "Bindery": Album of photographs, clippings, letters, notes, programs, humorous pencil sketches, and poems (mostly by Carlton L. Whitten), 1924-1976.

Addenda, 2024-542 ARCH-2024-542

Box 1

4 Color separations: Stanford Memorial Church - SRI - Mr. Bean's Christmas Card - Query V. Thomson