Guide to the Marjorie Greene Foster Papers,
1913-1930 (bulk 1913-1919
Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
© 1999
The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Marjorie Greene Foster Papers,
1913-1930 (bulk 1913-1919
Collection number: M0516
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Patricia White
- Date Completed:
- 1989 Dec.
© 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Marjorie Greene Foster Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1930 (bulk 1913-1919
Collection number: Special Collections M0516
Creator:
Foster, Marjorie Greene, 1892-1919.
Extent:
.25 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of Gary F. Whiteley, 1989.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Marjorie Greene Foster Papers, M0516, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical Note
Marjorie Greene Foster earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Chemistry at Stanford, 1914 and 1915 respectively. While
at Stanford she helped found Alchemia, the women's Chemistry honor society, and was elected to the Cap and Gown Society and
Sigma Xi. She began her doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1916, holding the George Williams Hooper
Fellowship at the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research. She died in 1919 from influenza; her doctorate was awarded posthumously.
Scope and Content
These papers, dating largely from 1913 to 1919, concern Foster's academic career at Stanford and the University of California
and include her master's thesis, reprint of an article, commencement programs, clippings, and photographs. Also included are
letters of condolence to her father George H. Foster after her death, 1919, and notice of fellowship award in her honor, 1930.
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence, postcard from Albrecht, T.S. to M. Foster,
April 1913
Box 1, Folder 3
Diploma case (LSJU), program from dinner of the Chemistry Honor Society,
1913
Box 1, Folder 4
Castilleja School teaching contract,
1914
Box 1, Folder 5
Master's thesis, Studies on the Metallic Sulphides,
1915
Box 1, Folder 6
LSJU commencement programs,
1914, 1915
Box 1, Folder 7
Newspaper clippings,
c. 1914
Box 1, Folder 8
Reprint, The Effect of Adrenalin and Pituitrin on the Action of the Kidney under Strain,
1918
Box 1, Folder 9
University of California, graduate school registration papers,
1918
Box 1, Folder 10
University of California, Doctoral examination program,
1918-1919;University of California Fellowship Awards program,
1930
Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence,
1919,condolences upon her death
Box 1, Folder 12
Photographs of the Chemistry departments at Stanford and University of California