Guide to the Guido H. Marx Papers SC0129
Daniel Hartwig
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2000
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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Title: Guido H. Marx papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0129
Physical Description:
7.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1893-1949
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Arrangement
The first ten boxes of the collection consist of the original papers that were received and
arranged in 1966. Only the letters in Box 1 were given full treatment, with incoming and
outgoing letters arranged together chronologically. Other sections were arranged or left as
received, depending upon the accessibility of the original arrangement. In some cases,
letters pertinent to the subject were left in the appropriate folders rather than being
integrated into the chronological arrangement.
Biographical Summary
Guido H. Marx was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1871. He attended Cornell University, earning
the degree of mechanical engineer in 1893. He worked in industry for two years before
joining the Stanford faculty in 1895, at the instigation of Albert W. Smith, his former
professor at Cornell who, in collaboration with Guido's brother Charles D. Marx, was
developing Stanford's new School of Engineering. He became professor of machine design in
1908; he retired in 1936 with the rank of Professor Emeritus.
In addition to authoring a treatise on
Machine Design with
Prof. Smith, his professional activities included research in the fields of gearing and
bearing lubrication, advocating vocational guidance for Stanford students, co-founding the
American Association of University Professors, and holding office in the American Federation
of Teachers.
Prof. Marx was also actively involved in many political and social issues. In Palo Alto, he
served on the planning commission and the School Board and played an instrumental role in
the construction of its first municipal power plant. In 1911 he and Professor R.L. Green
organized the local branch of the Progressive Party; Marx was the official delegate to its
1912 national convention. He was active in the American Civil Liberties Union, especially
around issues of labor organization and repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law.
In 1895 Guido H. Marx married Gertrude Van Dusen, a member of the Cornell library staff;
they had four children. He died in 1949.
Provenance
Gift of Barbara Marx Givan, 1966, 1986, and 1990.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Guido H. Marx Papers, SC 129, Stanford University Archives,
Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents
Additional papers were received in 1986 and 1990; they have been added to the collection as
two addenda rather than interfiled with the previously processed papers. Each addition has
been identified by its accession number (86-179 and 90-188) and is listed separately. When
requesting materials from these additions, please indicate the accession number on the
paging slip.
An index to selected correspondents in the entire collection is included in this guide,
along with a listing of Guido Marx's articles and reprints in Box 3.
Scope and Contents
The papers of Guido H. Marx include correspondence, speeches, a typed autobiography,
reprints, press releases, clippings, minutes, reports, and pamphlets, 1898-1949, and Marx's
thesis from Cornell, A Study of Special Tools and Methods Used in the Manufacture of Small
Engines, 1893.
The papers document both his academic career at Stanford and his political interests. His
academic life is represented by correspondence with faculty, 1898-1905; reprints of his
engineering and educational articles; and minutes, reports, and other records from his
departmental duties in the School of Engineering. His political life is represented by
correspondence, speeches, articles, and pamphlets pertaining to efforts to repeal criminal
syndicalism laws, labor and unionization efforts, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, cooperatives, and
control of public utilities. Organizations appearing in his papers include the American
Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American
Federation of Teachers, the Pacific Co-operative League, Inc., the National Popular
Government League, the California State Water and Power League, and the People's Legislative
Service.
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 and University Archives.
Box 3 - Bibliography
Folder 1: The process of invention.
Stanford Univ. Engineering
Journal,
May, 1897, pp. 69-71.
What should college professors be paid?
Atlantic Monthly,
v. 95, May, 1905, pp. 647-50.
Condition and needs of the Univ. of Calif. Discussion.
Trans.
Commonwealth Club,
1907.
Value of drawing in practical life.
Calif. Teachers' Quarterly,
June, 1907, pp. 77-84.
Notes on machine drawing. Stanford University. 15p. 1905, 1907,
The making of the Stanford Engineer.
Stanford Alumnus,
Dec. 1907, p. 127-32.
Isometric plotting of graphical charts.
Am. Mach., v. 31,
Nov. 12, 1903, pp. 7-13
Report of committee of Cornell Club of Northern Calif. on improvement of salaries
(with J.M. Chase and R.B. Daggett).
Cornell Alumni News, May 6,
1908.
Folder 2: Some trends in higher education.
Science, May
14, 1909, p. 759-97.
Reform in San Francisco.
Nation, July 1, 1909.
Some trends in higher education.
Science, July 16, 1909,
p. 87-89.
The college forum.
The American College, v. 1, no. 1,
October 1909, pp. 56-68.
Folder 3: The problem of the assistant professor.
Journal Assoc.
of American Universities,
1910, pp. 17-47; and
Science,
1910: pp. 401-406, 441-450, and 488-497.
Some trends in higher education.
Calif. Weekly, June 10,
1910, p. 459-60.
Attendance of students at foreign universities.
Science,
v. 31, April 29, 1910.
University fellowships.
Science, v. 33, March 31, 1911,
pp. 491-92.
Folder 4: Should the same salary be paid to men bearing the same titles?
Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly, v. 5, p. 1-4, April, 1911.
Committee of Ten. Minority Report to the Academic Council. 18p. 1911. [Stanford
University].
Strength of gear teeth.
Trans. A.S.M.E., v. 34, p.
1323-98, 1912.
Strength of gear teeth. 2nd. paper.
Trans. A.S.M.E., v.
37, p.503-30, 1915.
An engineer's acid test of patriotism.
The Standard, v.
6, May, 1920.
Some comparative wear experiments on cast iron gear teeth (with L.E. Cutter and B.M
Green).
Mech. Engineering, v. 48, p. 33-36, Jan.,
1926.
How to control public utilities.
Nation, v. 132, no.
3430, April 1, pp. 348-50.
Selected List of Correspondents
Addis, Thomas
Bailey, Forrest
90-188: Box 1, Folder 7-8, 10
Baldwin, Roger N.
90-188: Box 1, Folder 1, 3-5, 11
Benne, Adron A.
Box 4, Folder 1-2
Bjornson, Anga M.
Black, Marshall
86-179: Box 1, Folder 2, 12
Bliven, Bruce
90-188: Box 3, Folder 1
Browne, Andrew A.
Box 1, Folder 4
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn
Coolidge, Mary Roberts
90-188: Box 1, Folder 4-5
Copeland, Clement A.
Box 1, Folder 4
Dart, Anna C.
Dorfman, Joseph
Box 1, Folder 6
Durand, William F.
Farrand, Max
Box 1, Folder 4
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
90-188: Box 1, Folder 3
Frankfurter, Felix
90-188: Box 3, Folder 1
Garrison, J. C.
Box 3, Folder 9
Hayes, Everis A.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 3
Hichborn, Franklin
Hill, Albert Ross
86-179: Box 1, Folder 9, 11
Hoover, Herbert
Box 1, Folder 3
Hoover, Theodore J.
90-188: Box 3, Folder 10
Johnson, Hiram
Box 1, Folder 3
Johnston, Mercer G.
90-188: Box 3, Folder 2
Jones, Hubert C.
90-188: Box 1, Folder 7
Jordan, David Starr
Jourdin, Willis W.
Leidy, Emma Brown
Box 1, Folder 8
Lewinsohn, Joseph L.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 15-16
Lewis, Austin
90-188: Box 1, Folder 9
Monroe, Paul
National Popular Govt. League
Box 1, Folder 3
Norris, George W.
Box 1, Folder 2
Porter, Anna
Box 5, Folder 5
Roberts, Holland D.
Box 3, Folder 8-9
Robinson, Elmo A.
90-188: Box 1, Folder 4-5, 7
Robinson, James Harvey
86-179: Box 1, Folder 7
Rolfe, Henry W.
Box 1, Folder 4
Rowell, Chester H.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 11, 15
Saunders, Frederick A.
90-188: Box 3, Folder 10
Silliman, John C.
Box 6, Folder 3
Slosson, Edwin E.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 9-10
Smith, Albert. W.
Solow, Herbert
90-188: Box 2, Folder 3
Stanley, Edward J.
Box 1, Folder 4
Steinmetz, Harry C.
Veblen, Thorstein
Box 5, Folder 4
Willoughby, Ray R.
Box 6, Folder 3
Wilson, Woodrow W.
86-179: Box 1, Folder 9
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cooperative societies.
Criminal syndicalism.
Engineering -- Study and teaching.
Public utilities.
Public utilities -- Law and legislation.
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
Coolidge, Mary Roberts,
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley.
Hayes, E. A. (Everis Anson)
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash)
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn,
Norris, George W. (George William)
Stanford University. School of Engineering -- General
subdivision--Faculty.;
Monroe, Paul,
Lewis, Austin,
Jourdin, Willis W.
Veblen, Thorstein,
Jordan, David Starr
Sinclair, Upton,
Rowell, Chester H.
Rolfe, Henry W.
American Civil Liberties Union
American Federation of Teachers.
Whitney, Anita,
American Association of University
Professors.
Frankfurter, Felix
People's Legislative Service.
Hoover, Herbert
Pacific Co-operative League, Inc.
National Popular Government League.
Bliven, Bruce
Hill, Albert Ross.
Hichborn, Franklin,
Box 1, folder 4
Correspondence from other Stanford faculty
1898-1905
Box 1, folder 6
Letters between Joseph Dorfman and Marx
1931-1935
Box 1, folder 7
Criminal syndicalism correspondence
1936
Box 1, folder 8
Personal letters on retiring
1936
(1) Scientific management
(1913 or 1914),
(2) A study of intelligence testing, with historical comment by
Marx
1926
(3) The rational of public utility ownership
(1930),
(4) War and the Conscientious Objector
(1936),
(5) Education at times of crisis
(1936),
(6) Engineering and social function (at New School),
(7) The Engineer and the Social Sciences
undated
(8) Economic aspects of the ownership of public utilities
(1938),
(9) The Scientific spirit in University Organization
(1914),
(10) Production-- what ails it?
(1920),
(12) Some phases of motor automation
(1916),
(13) What do you propose to do about it?
(1906),
(14) The aim of engineering education
(1911),
(15) Untitled. Concerned with definition of an engineer and his values.
Possibly Stanford Alumni Conference of 1935 (q.v.) Power--From the Engineer's
Viewpoint,
(17) A critical examination of certain objections to the affiliation of
teachers with the American Federation of Teachers
(18) Lecture to P.T.A. concerning California Federation of
Teachers.
Box 1, folder 13
1931 trip to Russia, includes short autobiography of experience.
Box 1, folder 14
Biographical material
1901-1905
Box 1, folder 15
Biographical material
1908-1920
Box 1, folder 16
Biographical material
1921
Box 1, folder 17
Biographical material
1924
Box 2, folder 1
Biographical material
1924-1927
Box 2, folder 2
Biographical material
1929-37
Box 2, folder 3
Autobiography: Why so Hot, Little Man? (my scrapbook).
Box 2, folder 5
Autobiography--Stanford University.
Box 2, folder 7
Autobiography: Talks--Part I.
Box 2, folder 8
Autobiography: Talks--Part II.
Box 2, folder 9
Autobiography: Salary Investigation.
Box 2, folder 10
Autobiography: Expulsion Case.
Box 2, folder 11
Autobiography: Appendix A.
Box 2, folder 12
Autobiography: Appendix B.
Box 2, folder 13
Autobiography: Appendix C.
Box 2, folder 14
Autobiography: Miscellaneous.
Box 3, folder 5
Report on depth-pressure records for oil wells.
Box 3, folder 6
Lecture: Man's Cooperation with Nature.
Box 3, folder 7
Lecture: Power--a political issue from an engineer's viewpoint.
Box 3, folder 8
American Federation of Teachers-- California Section.
Box 3, folder 9
American Federation of Teachers-- California Section.
Box 3, folder NF
Two books:
Machine Design.
Box 4, folder 1
American Federation of Teachers-- California Section.
Box 4, folder 2
American Federation of Teachers-- California Section.
Box 4, folder 3
American Federation of Teachers-- California Section.
Box 4, folder 4
American Federation of Teachers: articles, news releases.
Box 4, folder 5
American Federation of Teachers: articles, news releases.
Box 4, folder 6
American Federation of Teachers: articles, news releases.
Box 4, folder 7
Pacific Co-operative League, Inc.
Box 4, folder 8
Pacific Co-operative League, Inc.
Box 4, folder 9
Pacific Co-operative League, Inc.
Box 4, folder 10
Pacific Co-operative League, Inc.
Box 4, folder 11
Peninsular Economic Exchange.
Box 5, folder 1
New School for Social Research: notes, lectures.
Box 5, folder 2
New School for Social Research.
Box 5, folder 3
New School for Social Research.
Box 5, folder 4
New School for Social Research: Correspondence with Veblen.
Box 5, folder 7
California State Water and Power League.
Box 5, folder 9
Anon. Los Angeles fights the power trust.
Box 5, folder 10
Deposition of Francis J. Heney, Trial of Patrick. San Francisco graft
trials.
10 Mar, 1908
Box 5, folder 11
Murphy Name Plate Scandal.
Box 6, folder 1
Vocational guidence studies.
Box 6, folder 4
Stanford Committees. Original sources.
Box 6, folder 6
School of Engineering: Curriculum Committee.
Box 6, folder 7
School of Engineering: Curriculum Committee.
Box 6, folder 8
School of Engineering: Curriculum Committee.
Box 6, folder 9
Mechanical Engineering Department: Business.
Box 6, folder 10
Mechanical Engineering 219--Seminar. Reading lists.
Box 6, folder 11
Mechanics applied to engineering. Exam.
Box 6, folder 12
Problems in machine design.
Box 7, folder 1
Citizenship Course, syllabus. Lecture: Man's Cooperation with
Nature.
Box 7, folder 2
University staff and salary data.
Pamphlet Collection (listed by organization or subject):
Box 7, folder 3
American Association for Economics.
Box 7, folder 4
American Civil Liberties Union.
Box 7, folder 5
American Committee of Justice.
Box 7, folder 6
American Economic League.
Box 7, folder 7
American Federation of Labor.
Box 7, folder 8
American Peace Society, Advocate of Peace.
Box 7, folder 9
Associated Railway Employees Organization.
Box 7, folder 11
California Federation of Teachers.
Box 7, folder 12
California State Federation of Labor.
Box 7, folder 14
Co-operative Society of Weinstock, Lubin, and Company.
Box 7, folder 15
Education Protective Association of America.
Box 7, folder 16
Joseph Fels Fund of America.
Box 7, folder 18
Henry George, The Study of Political Economy.
Box 7, folder 19
Franklin Hichborn, public utilities.
Box 7, folder 20
Franklin Hichborn, articles and testimony of Eustace Cullinan before Senate
Judiciary Committee.
Box 8, folder 2
International Committee for Political Prisoners.
Box 8, folder 4
Japanese Association of America.
Box 8, folder 5
League for Industrial Democracy.
Box 8, folder 6
Methodist Federation for Social Service.
Box 8, folder 8
National Coal Association.
Box 8, folder 9
National Conservation Association.
Box 8, folder 11
National Popular Government League
1923-26
Box 8, folder 12
National Popular Government League
1927-28
Box 8, folder 13
National Popular Government League
1929-30
Box 9, folder 1
National Popular Government League
1931-33
Box 9, folder 2
National Popular Government League
1934-45
Box 9, folder 3
National Popular Government League
1946-49
Box 9, folder 4
National Popular Government League, Miscellaneous.
Box 9, folder 5
National Popular Government League, pamphlets and clippings.
Box 9, folder 6
National Progressive Campaign.
Box 9, folder 7
National Progressive Convention.
Box 9, folder 8
People's Legislative Service. (Ray Lyman Wilbur vs People's Legislative
Service.)
Box 10, folder 1
People's Legislative Service: The People's Business,
1923-27
Box 10, folder 2
People's Legislative Service: The People's Business,
1928-31
Box 10, folder 5
Progressive National Committee.
Box 10, folder 6
Public Ownership League of America.
Box 10, folder 8
Rand School of Social Service.
Box 10, folder 9
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Box 10, folder 13
Worker's Party of America.
Addenda, 1986-179 Accession ARCH-1986-179
Box 1, folder 1
Correspondence pertaining to and reviews of
Machine
Design
1905
Box 1, folder 2
Correspondence pertaining to earthquake relief
1906
Box 1, folder 3
Correspondence with Everis A. Hayes
1910
Box 1, folder 4
Correspondence with Franklin Hichborn
1910-1912
Box 1, folder 5
Correspondence relating to the
Daily Palo
Alto
1915
Box 1, folder 6
Correspondence, American Association of University Professors
1916-1917
Box 1, folder 7
Correspondence with James Harvey Robinson
1922-1923
Box 1, folder 8
General correspondence,
1905-1908
Box 1, folder 9
General correspondence
January-June, 1909
Box 1, folder 10
General correspondence
July-December 1909
Box 1, folder 11
General correspondence
1910
Box 1, folder 12
General correspondence
1911
Box 1, folder 13
General correspondence
1912
Box 1, folder 14
General correspondence
1913
Box 1, folder 15
General correspondence
1914
Box 1, folder 16
General correspondence
1915
Box 1, folder 17
General correspondence,
undated
Box 1, folder 18
American Society of Mechanical Engineers: reports, circulars,
etc.
Box 1, folder 19
Stanford faculty matters: minutes, resolutions, and reports
1906-1910
Box 1, folder 20
Statement by G.H. Marx concerning case of Prof. H.W. Rolfe
Box 1, folder 21
Clippings about college faculty and promotions
Box 1, folder 22
Miscellaneous items: statement on woman suffrage poem to Jane Addams,
platform of the Santa Clara County Republican Convention, and others
1911, 1912, 1912,
Box 1, folder nf
Stanford publications with annotations by G.H. Marx: Trustees Manual,
Organization, General Legislation, and Standing Regulations of the Faculty, and Manual
of Faculty Organization...and General Resolutions of the Board of
Trustees,
1908; 1913; 1920
Box 1, folder nf
Bulletin of the American Association of University
Professors.
Report of the committee of inquiry concerning charges of
violation of academic freedom...at the University of Montana. Vol. III, No.
5
May 1917
Addenda, 1990-188 Accession ARCH-1990-188
American Civil Liberties Union
1920-1935
Box 1, folder 3
Correspondence
January-July, 1926
Box 1, folder 4
Correspondence
August-September, 1926
Box 1, folder 5
Correspondence
October-December, 1926
Box 1, folder 6
Correspondence, fragments,
circa 1926
Box 1, folder 7
Correspondence
January-May, 1927
Box 1, folder 8
Correspondence
June, 1927
Box 1, folder 9
Correspondence
July, 1927
Box 1, folder 10
Correspondence
August-November, 1927
Box 2, folder 1
Criminal syndicalism law, correspondence
1920-1923 and undated
Box 2, folder 2
Criminal syndicalism law, correspondence
1934
Box 2, folder 3
Criminal syndicalism law, correspondence
1935
Box 2, folder 4
Criminal syndicalism law, miscellaneous leaflets
1933
Box 2, folder 5
Kinkead, Beatrice: letters from Anita Whitney, and Anna Porter
undated, 1933
Box 2, folder 6
Organization of California ACLU: notes and outline by G.H. Marx
circa 1926-1927
Box 2, folder 7
Marx, G.H.: quotations and miscellaneous notes
Box 2, folder 8
Committee for Immediate Defense of Constitutional Rights,
checkbook
1934-1935
Box 2, folder 9
Charlotte Anita Whitney pardon: petitions, pamphlets, clippings
1927
Box 2, folder 10
Better America Federation: pamphlet on industrial reforms and response by
Franklin Hichborn
Box 2, folder 12
Pamphlets, California Branch of the General Defense Committee
Box 2, folder 14
Pamphlets, Sacco and Vanzetti
Public Utilities
1930-1935
Box 3, folder 3
Control of public utilities: papers, clippings, articles, and a letter from
the Stanford Alumni Conference
1935
Box 3, folder 4
Control of public utilities: speech drafts
Box 3, folder 5
Government ownership of power: clippings, articles, notes
Box 3, folder 6
Power - From an Engineer's Viewpoint: typescript speech
Box 3, folder 8
LSJU Founding Grant: excerpts re cooperation
Stanford University, School of Engineering
1901-1927
Box 3, folder 9
Reports, memoranda, correspondence concerning re-organization of the
School
1920-1926
Box 3, folder 11
Mechanical Engineering Lab plan: blueprint and letter/report to C.D.
Marx
1901
Box 3, folder 12
Marx, G.H., reprints of articles: The Problem of the Assistant Professor,
and Some Trends in Higher Education
1910, 1909
Box 3, folder 13
Stanford photographs and miscellany
1923-1924
Box 3, folder 14
Marx, Guido H., A Study of Special Tools and Methods Used in the
Manufacture of Small Engines, a thesis presented at Cornell University for the
degree of M.E.
1893
Box 4
oversize
Membership certificates for Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Sigma Xi,
and diplomas from Toledo Public High School, and Cornell University,
1901, 1893; 1887, 1893