Guide to the Vance Bryant Erickson Photographs

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Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford, California

1997

Overview

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

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Gift of Vance P. Erickson.

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

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.

Cite As

Vance Bryant Erickson Photographs (PC0059). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

BIOGRAPHY

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.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

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.

Arrangement note

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.

Access Terms

College students--Photograph collections.

College students--United States--Conduct of life.

Photography.

Student Life--Frosh-Soph Tie Up

NEGATIVES

Box 1, Folder 1

Aircraft on campus field, seen from Encina room 527 (neg. 70)

Box 1, Folder 2

Angel of Grief, (neg. 31) 1921

Box 1, Folder 3

Bailey, Everett, (neg. 97) 1924

Box 1, Folder 4

Basketball Pavilion (neg. 68)

Box 1, Folder 5

Bonfire being built, (neg. 13) 1920

Box 1, Folder 6

Bonfire being built, (neg. 15) 1920

Box 1, Folder 7

Bonfire being built, (neg. 47) 1921

Box 1, Folder 8

Bonfire structure, (neg. 65) 1921

Box 1, Folder 9

Bonfire structure, (neg. 86) 1923

Box 1, Folder 10

Cactus Garden, (neg. 27) 1921

Box 1, Folder 11

Cactus Garden, (neg. 29) 1921

Box 1, Folder 12

Cactus Garden, (neg. 19) 1921

Box 1, Folder 13

Cactus Garden, (neg. 20) 1921

Box 1, Folder 14

Campus view from Encina Hall looking east, (neg. 75) 1923

Box 1, Folder 15

Campus view from Toyon Hall (neg. 102)

Box 1, Folder 16

Campus viewed from the west (neg. 101)

Box 1, Folder 17

Car trouble, (neg. 42) 1921

Box 1, Folder 18

Chemistry building, (neg. 30) 1921

Box 1, Folder 19

Cyclists, (neg. 12) 1920

Box 1, Folder 20

Eating Clubs, with Toyon construction in background, (neg. 74) 1922

Box 1, Folder 21

327 Emerson Street rooming house, (neg. 9) 1920

Box 1, Folder 22

Encina Gym exterior, (neg. 18) 1921

Box 1, Folder 23

Encina Hall room 249, (neg. 62) (students: Creed, Procter, Ellis) 1921

Box 1, Folder 24

Encina Hall room 351, (neg. 48) 1921

Box 1, Folder 25

Encina Hall room 351, view from, (neg. 57) 1921

Box 1, Folder 26

Encina Hall room 527 (neg. 71)

Box 1, Folder 27

Erickson, Vance, (neg. 95) 1924

Box 1, Folder 28

Harger, Donald, (neg. 96) 1924

Box 1, Folder 29

Harmon, George, (neg. 85) 1923

Box 1, Folder 30

Inner Quad (neg. 25)

Box 1, Folder 31

Lagunita, (neg. 17) 1920

Box 1, Folder 32

Lagunita, (neg. 99) 1925

Box 1, Folder 33

Main Library, (neg. 24) 1921

Box 1, Folder 34

Mausoleum, (neg. 28) 1921

Box 1, Folder 35

Museum, (neg. 21) 1921

Box 1, Folder 36

Palm Drive, (neg. 2) 1920

Box 1, Folder 37

Palo Alto, (neg. 32) 1921

Box 1, Folder 38

Palo Alto, (neg. 33) 1921

Box 1, Folder 39

Palo Alto, (neg. 34) 1921

Box 1, Folder 40

Palo Alto, University Circle, (neg. 7) 1920

Box 1, Folder 41

Pearson, Russell, (neg. 76) 1923

Box 1, Folder 42

Pescadero Beach, (neg. 69) 1923

Box 1, Folder 43

Proctor, Burt, (neg. 41) 1921

Box 1, Folder 44

Quad, front view, (neg. 3) 1920

Box 1, Folder 45

ROTC building (neg. 73)

Box 1, Folder 46

Roughs Day, (neg. 45) 1921

Box 1, Folder 47

Roughs Day, (neg. 46) 1921

Box 1, Folder 48

Roughs Day, (neg. 49) 1921

Box 1, Folder 49

Roughs Day, (neg. 50) 1921

Box 1, Folder 50

Roughs Day, (neg. 56) 1921

Box 1, Folder 51

Roughs Day, (neg. 55) 1921

Box 1, Folder 52

Roughs Day, (neg. 53) 1921

Box 1, Folder 53

Roughs Day, (neg. 51) 1921

Box 1, Folder 54

Roughs Day, (neg. 64) 1921

Box 1, Folder 55

Roughs Day, man in woman's attire, (neg. 52) 1921,

Box 1, Folder 56

Roughs Day, in Greek costume, (neg. 54) 1921,

Box 1, Folder 57

Roughs Day, Bill Irwin, (neg. 60) 1921,

Box 1, Folder 58

Roughs Day, water wagon (neg. 67) 1921,

Box 1, Folder 59

Roughs Day, (neg. 92) (Silvius, D. Gage, Meyer, Smith, Clark) 1923

Box 1, Folder 60

Roughs Day, (neg. 91) (Clark, Silvius, W. Gage, D. Gage) 1923

Box 1, Folder 61

Roughs Day, horseshoe game (neg. 90) 1923,

Box 1, Folder 62

Roughs Day, Daniel Gage (neg. 89) 1923,

Box 1, Folder 63

Rubble from library destroyed in '06 quake, (neg. 22) 1921

Box 1, Folder 64

Sand Hill Road, (neg. 14) 1920

Box 1, Folder 65

Santa Cruz beach and boardwalk (neg. 81)

Box 1, Folder 66

Santa Cruz boardwalk (neg. 79)

Box 1, Folder 67

Santa Cruz pier (neg. 80)

Box 1, Folder 68

S.P. station in Palo Alto, (neg. 6) 1920

Box 1, Folder 69

Stadium, incomplete, (neg. 40) 1921

Box 1, Folder 70

Stadium, (neg. 44) 1921

Box 1, Folder 71

Stadium, stage for opera, (neg. 66) 1921

Box 1, Folder 72

Street on campus ?, (neg. 26) 1921

Box 1, Folder 73

Student (Clark) after Tie-Up, (neg. 39) 1921

Box 1, Folder 74

Student, frosh (neg. 10)

Box 1, Folder 75

Student, frosh, in checkered Ford, (neg. 11) 1920

Box 1, Folder 76

Student, frosh, wearing dink, (neg. 8) 1920

Box 1, Folder 77

Student in room, Thanksgiving Day feast, (neg. 16) 1920

Box 1, Folder 78

Student with handgun and target, (neg. 37) 1921

Box 1, Folder 79

Students: Hitchcock, Harger, Noble (neg. 78)

Box 1, Folder 80

Students: Moore, Pearson, Kylberg (neg. 77)

Box 1, Folder 81

Students, Horner, Somers, Berk (neg. 43) 1921:

Box 1, Folder 82

Students, (neg. 87) Sloan's chemistry class en route to Spreckels Plant in Salinas 1923

Box 1, Folder 83

Students, H. Strain and C. Benedict (neg. 88) part of Sloan's class trip 1923:

Box 1, Folder 84

Students, Alberta Curtner, Vance Erickson, M. Curtner in Santa Cruz (neg. 93) 1924:

Box 1, Folder 85

Students in cap and gown, D. Harger, J. Wright, B. Noble (neg. 98) 1925:

Box 1, Folder 86

Students, Wilbur Bailey, Bernice Chase, Alberta Curtner in Half Moon Bay (neg. 100) 1925:

Box 1, Folder 87

Students after baseball fight (neg. 63)

Box 1, Folder 88

Students after Tie-Up, (neg. 38) 1921

Box 1, Folder 89

Students on Emerson Street, (neg. 35) 1921

Box 1, Folder 90

Study table, (neg. 36) 1921

Box 1, Folder 91

Toyon Hall from Encina (neg. 72)

Box 1, Folder 92

Wilbur, Paul, 1924 (neg. 94)

PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS

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Box 1, Folder 93

Big Game at Berkeley 1920

Box 1, Folder 94

Baseball fight 1922

Box 1, Folder 95

Bonfires

Box 1, Folder 96

El Capitan Club 1922, 1923

Box 1, Folder 97

Encina Club 1922

Box 1, Folder 98

Frosh-Soph Tie-Up 1920, 1921

Box 1, Folder 99

Pajamareno, group shot 1921

Box 1, Folder 100

Water fight 1920, 1921

Box 1, Folder 101

Posters (from Tie-Ups and baseball fight)

Box 1, Folder 102

Roughs Day 1920

Box 1, Folder 103

Erickson's inventory for these photographs and negatives 1979