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Guide to the Ralph Allen Hopkins Photograph Album and Memorabilia
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  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: PC0106
    Creator: Hopkins, Ralph Allen.
    Title: Ralph Allen Hopkins photograph album and memorabilia
    Dates: 1905-1958
    Bulk Dates: 1905-1906
    Physical Description: 1 Linear feet
    Summary: Collection contains a photograph album with images of Stanford and San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; portrait of the Electrical Engineering Society at Stanford, 1907, of which Hopkins was the secretary; Senior Week Program for the class of 1907; and a 1958 pamphlet by Laurence M. Klauber "Two Days in San Francisco Year - 1906" which contains his letters about the 1906 earthquake. Images of note in the album include Hopkins sitting on rubble in San Francisco, interior of a damaged Encina Hall room, group of women students walking past the Stanford Quad under repair, views of the fire in San Francisco, cooking on the street in San Francisco, and a group of men in San Francisco, possibly Stanford student volunteer helpers.
    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

    Administrative Information

    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

    Ralph Allen Hopkins Photograph Album and Memorabilia (PC0106). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    Ralph Allen Hopkins earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford in 1907; he had a career with Westinghouse, which awarded him the Order of Merit when he retired in 1949.

    Description of the Collection

    Collection contains a photograph album with images of Stanford and San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake; portrait of the Electrical Engineering Society at Stanford, 1907, of which Hopkins was the secretary; Senior Week Program for the class of 1907; and a 1958 pamphlet by Laurence M. Klauber "Two Days in San Francisco Year - 1906" which contains his letters about the 1906 earthquake. Images of note in the album include Hopkins sitting on rubble in San Francisco, interior of a damaged Encina Hall room, group of women students walking past the Stanford Quad under repair, views of the fire in San Francisco, cooking on the street in San Francisco, and a group of men in San Francisco, possibly Stanford student volunteer helpers.

    Access Terms

    Hopkins, Ralph Allen.
    Klauber, Laurence Monroe, 1883-1968
    Albums.
    Photoprints.
    San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906