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Call Number: PC0059
Creator:
Erickson, Vance Bryant, 1901-
Title: Vance Bryant Erickson photographs
Dates: 1920-1925
Physical Description:
0.25 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 Vance P. Erickson.
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.
Vance Bryant Erickson Photographs (PC0059). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Vance B. Erickson was a member of the Stanford University class of 1924, earning his a.b. in June. He married Alberta Curtner,
a member of the class of 1925, in September 1926. Erickson returned to Stanford for graduate work, earning his MA degree in
Chemistry in 1940.
This collection documents Erickson's undergraduate days at Stanford, 1920 through 1924, with a few items dating from 1925.
Most of the collection consists of negatives, presumably from photographs taken by Erickson. There are also photoprints and
postcards, many of which are Berton Crandall images. Subjects include the Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, Roughs' Day, Big Game bonfires,
El Capitan Club, dormitory rooms in Encina Hall, the stadium, the cactus garden, Sand Hill road, and campus views. There are
also several images of Palo Alto, including a student rooming house. Students pictured include Everett Bailey, Vance Erickson,
Donald Harger, George Harman, Russell Pearson, Burt Procter, William Hyde Irwin, Daniel Gage, William R. Gage, Burton A. Noble,
Harold H. Strain, Alberta Curtner, and Paul Wilbur.
The prints and negatives were kept separate and arranged alphabetically by subject. The negative number with each negative
is from Erickson's inventory, now in folder 103.
College students--Photograph collections.
College students--United States--Conduct of life.
Photography.
Student Life--Frosh-Soph Tie Up