Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Description of the Collection
Access Terms
General note
Overview
Call Number: SC1083
Creator:
Breer, Carl, 1883-1970
Title: Carl Breer notebooks
Dates: 1905-1968
Physical Description:
228 megabyte(s)
Summary: Digital copy of three notebooks primarily pertaining to Stanford University compiled by Breer; original notebooks include
photographs, maps, clippings, postcards, receipts and bills, tickets, letters, and Breer's text. Subjects in volume 1 include
Stanford history, college life, his fraternity (Sigma Alpha Epsilon), campus machine shop and his fellow engineering students.
Volume 2 covers his son Fred's graduation at Stanford in 1943; the career of Dr. William Durand, including correspondence
between Durand and Breer, 1949-54; and the Herbert Hoover home in Iowa. Subjects in volume 3 include Stanford's president
J. E. Wallace Sterling, reunions of the Class of 1909, and the Carl Breer Library in the fraternity housing on campus.
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
Access: any reproduction requires permission from the Breer family.
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
Carl Breer Notebooks (SC1083). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Carl Breer earned his a.b. in mechanical engineering at Stanford University in 1909.
Description of the Collection
Digital copy of three notebooks primarily pertaining to Stanford University compiled by Breer; original notebooks include
photographs, maps, clippings, postcards, receipts and bills, tickets, letters, and Breer's text. Subjects in volume 1 include
Stanford history, college life, his fraternity (Sigma Alpha Epsilon), campus machine shop and his fellow engineering students.
Volume 2 covers his son Fred's graduation at Stanford in 1943; the career of Dr. William Durand, including correspondence
between Durand and Breer, 1949-54; and the Herbert Hoover home in Iowa. Subjects in volume 3 include Stanford's president
J. E. Wallace Sterling, reunions of the Class of 1909, and the Carl Breer Library in the fraternity housing on campus.
Access Terms
Breer, Carl, 1883-1970
Durand, William Frederick, 1859-1958
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. California Alpha Chapter (Stanford University).
Stanford University -- General subdivision--Students.;
Stanford University. Class of 1909.
Sterling, J. E. Wallace, (John Ewart Wallace), 1906-1985
General note
Original notebooks owned by the Breer family.