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Call Number: PC0005
Creator:
Treat, Archibald J. (Archibald Jennings), 1864-1949.
Title: Archibald J. Treat photograph collection
Dates: 1887-1891
Physical Description:
6 Linear feet (300 photoprints, mounted: albumen; 25.5 x 30.5 cm. 8 photoprints mounted as 1 panorama: albumen; 20 x 126.5
cm.)
Summary: Photographs documenting construction of Leland Stanford Junior University, used as progress reports and sent to university
founder Senator Leland Stanford for his approval. Views include the Stanford quadrangle, museum, mausoleum and Encina Hall,
and some group shots of the construction workers. Collection also includes a panaramic view of the campus foothills, 1886,
before construction.
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.
Archibald J. Treat Photograph collection (PC0005). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Working his way up from office boy for the Central Pacific Railroad office to secretary to Stephen T. Gage, assistant to Railroad
president Leland Stanford, Treat was admitted to the California bar in 1897.
Photographs documenting construction of Leland Stanford Junior University, used as progress reports and sent to university
founder Senator Leland Stanford for his approval. Views include the Stanford quadrangle, museum, mausoleum and Encina Hall,
and some group shots of the construction workers. Collection also includes a panaramic view of the campus foothills, 1886,
before construction.
Treat, Archibald J. (Archibald Jennings), 1864-1949.
Albumen prints.
Photoprints.