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Call Number: SC0109
Creator:
Barnes, Earl, 1861-1935.
Title: Earl Barnes papers
Dates: 1882-1912
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
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
Custodial History
Gift of Joseph Barnes, 1957; transferred to University Archives in 1973.
None.
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.
[Identification of item], Earl Barnes Papers, SC 109, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Earl Barnes was born in Martville, New York, on July 15, 1861. He married Mary Sheldon (b. 1850) in either 1884 or 1885 while
he was still in school. Barnes received an A.B. from Indiana University in 1889 and an M.S. from Cornell in 1891. He held
a position as Professor of History at Indiana University in 1889. When David Starr Jordan was appointed President of Stanford
University in 1891, he took Earl Barnes with him as Professor of Education. Barnes and his wife Mary Sheldon Barnes taught
at Stanford until 1897, when Barnes was asked by Jordan to resign. Jordan had discovered that Barnes had been involved in
an extramarital love affair, conduct which the President of Stanford University could not tolerate in one of his faculty members.
Barnes and wife went to Europe, where Mary Sheldon Barnes died in 1898. In 1900 Barnes remarried; his second wife was Anna
Kohler, by whom he had four children --Joseph, Howard, Bernard, and Mary. After leaving Stanford Barnes never again held a
position in an American university. He was appointed staff lecturer, London Society for Extension of University Teaching for
the year 1900-01, but after that supported himself as a free-lance lecturer and writer. During his later years he resided
in New Hartford, Connecticut, where he died on May 29, 1935.
His major publications are:
Studies in Education, 2v. 1897
Where Knowledge Fails, 1907
Women in Modern Society, 1912
Psychology of Childhood and Youth, 1914.
The material in this collection was part of a gift made to the Library in 1957 of books formerly belonging to Earl Barnes.
Earl Barnes' son Joseph was the donor. These books and other materials, since they all dealt with education, were stored in
the Education Library from 1957-1973, at which latter date 9 scrapbooks and approximately 1/2 linear feet of unbound material
were transferred to the Archives.
Seven of the nine scrapbooks deal generally with the subject of child psychology and development. They illustrate Prof. Barnes'
areas of research interest (1882-1897) and contain numerous research notes and case histories, as well as some correspondence
and reprints of scholarly articles. [BOXES 1-3]
The eighth scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, programs, etc. (1894-1896) about Earl Barnes and the California Teachers
Association. The ninth scrapbook contains articles clipped from the London Daily News(1907-1908) dealing with famous British
personalities. [BOX 3]
The last group of material deals with race relations, 1892-1912. These items are not bound into a scrapbook. They consist
of clippings (pasted onto sheets of paper); articles, either reprints or clipped from journals; some reviews; and some short
bibliographies compiled by Prof. Barnes. Although the subject of most clippings is the status of the Black man in America,
there are also clippings about Haiti and South Africa. [BOX 4]
Barnes, Earl, 1861-1935.
California State Teachers Association..
Stanford University. Graduate School of Education. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Child development--Research.
Child psychology.
Race relations.