Collection Contents

Big Game programs 1906-1907

Civil Engineering Alumni Directory 1926

Daily Palo Alto, August, November, and December 1905

Dance cards

Earthquake reminiscences 1975

Lyrics to prize-winning football songs post 1912

Programs for various Stanford events 1903-1908

Registration and study cards

Membership Certificate, American Arbitration Association 1943

Metal nameplate tag, M. C. Burr

Ink well damaged in San Francisco fire 1906

Cyanotype prints of Stanford scenes on one piece of silk [linen?]: Encina Hall, view of Memorial Church through Arches, Palm Drive, oblique view of Memorial Church, Memorial Arch, view down inner quad arcade, Roble Hall

Earthquake relief items mounted on paper (previously framed): Red ribbon "Stanford Relief"; Cloth with a red cross sewn on it; Pass signed by E. E. Schmitz, mayor; Instructions to Deputies, Relief Committee "Stanford Corps"; Student Relief Pass-Card issued to M. C. Burr; Instructions for Water Patrol Messengers and pass issued to M. C. Burr, as part of the Water Committee

Stanford scenes, includes dorm room scenes, excursion to "The Wunder" in Woodside, CA, campus buildings prior to the 1906 earthquake, ceremony at the laying of the last keystone in the outer Quad, club members on the porch of the Entrez Nous eating club, and male members of the Class of 1907 sitting on Encina steps circa 1903-1906

Barbour, Le Roy W

Bateman, William George

Bell, Harry W.

Bradley, F.

Burr, Clyde R.

Butterfield, Hayden Gearhart

Campbell, Jesse Eugene

Fitting, Harold H.

Henley, Edward Vernon

Irwin, Arthur M.

Kip, Kathryn Romer (Mrs. Gerald A. Waring)

McNeil, Warren Truett

O'Neale, Josiah Philip

Porter, Arthur M.

Ross, Perley A.

Taft, Harris W.

Ward, Wendell W.

Waring, Gerald Ashley

Unidentified students

Unidentified people, F. C. Dando photographer (Los Angeles)

Photograph of Encina residents posed in front of Encina Hall [1911 Plug Ugly visible] circa 1909

Photograph of Encina residents posed in front of Encina Hall [1910 Plug Ugly visible] (labeled ca. 1906 on reverse) circa 1908

Photograph of Stanford Engineers, including Myron C. Burr (framed) 1907

Photograph album of Myron C. Burr (SU scenes, student groups, Encina rooms, interior of Stanford power house, track events, football game, placing the last keystone in outer quad arcade, camping scenes (or possibly summer engineering job?), earthquake damage at SU) 1903-1906

Photograph album of Walter C. Burr [no earthquake images] (SU images, other CA places, excursions with friends, several images of Stanford student Sekko Shimada, Pres. T. Roosevelt on train in PA station, loading brandy barrel onto railroad car at Vina Ranch, M. C. Burr in his Encina room, other views of Encina rooms, Stanford track images) [some images appear in both albums] circa 1903-1906

Biographical (career information)

Business memorabilia

Certificates 1919-1948

Clippings (photocopied) re M. C. Burr 1936-1961

Original newsprint

Correspondence re donation of Stanford student hats, 2000-01

Gladys Burr, notices re Stanford admission

Photos of M. C. Burr circa 1903-14

Photos, Burr Family

Postcard correspondence, Stanford images 1906-13, 1941

Postcards to Clyde Burr 1907-12

Postcards to Myron C. Burr 1906-07

Postcards to Mr. & Mrs. F. W. Burr

Postcards to Gladys Burr and Laura M. Burr 1908, 1932

Miscellaneous postcards

School memorabilia, MCB

Stanford diploma, MCB's B.A. 1907

Stanford Football Songs 1906

Turner, Maude E. – obituaries, photographs, and letter from Burr to his brother expressing his sorrow over her death 1907-1908

Record book kept while working for Shell Oil, Martinez refinery 1916

Calendar/Day book 1908-1913

Scrapbook: clippings, articles, letters, brochures, pamphlets, and illustrations pertaining to Burr's career, Republican politics, flood control and water issues in LA area (especially terracing hillsides as flood control), history of Monrovia, CA, and family events. Also includes a brief letter from Herbert Hoover acknowledging receipt of Burr's pamphlet, 1933; photographs of Dalton Canyon, Dec. 8, 1934; and a blueprint "Sketch Plan of ditch location for Quesnelle Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Burr & Fergusson, Engineers, Sept. 1909". 1918-1985 (1918-1942 bulk)

Typescripts of M. C. Burr's writings:

Adventurer's Club

Along the Way 1953

Arrowhead My First Engineering Job

Dance Hall Girl

Danger Spots

First Japanese Baseball Team [Stanford story]

First Night at a Nevada Gambling Resort 1931, 1933

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Greetings from One Columnist to Another 1967

"Little Wads" Sunday School Class 1974

Mixed Pleasures of Frontier Travel 1913

Murl Emory, Kingfish of the Colorado

Negro Porter, A

"O! Ho! A Collection of Poems" by Burr 1946

An Old Grad Goes to the Game [Stanford story]

Phil Harris (with cover letter) 1962

Phil Sullivan

Plan to Conserve Mountain Water by Terracing

Poems by M. C. Burr

Politics

The Professor

The Reverend

San Francisco Fire and Earthquake, essay 1906

San Quentin [Dr. Leo Stanley]