A Inventory of the American Pictorial Collection
A Inventory of the American Pictorial Collection
Hoover Institution ArchivesStanford University
Stanford, California
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Container List
2 prints OF John Paul Jones' home in Scotland taken by Ben Berman, 1950.
1 print of American and Spanish delegates signing the treaty ending the Spanish-American War, 1898.
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4 negatives of Stanford University before the 1906 earthquake.
1 print of David S. Jordan.
1 print depicting Ray L. Wilbur presiding over the first telephone conversation between Stanford University and New York City, 1916.
1 print of Professor Edwin Francis Gay, autographed and presented to Ray L. Wilbur.
1 print of E.D. Adams' student assistants for the winter of 1921-1922.
1 autographed portrait of Putnam W. Eale, 1916.
1 print of Edna M. Hilton, member of the U.S. Food Administration and American Relief Administration, 1918.
1 print of Private George H. Martin, Company A. 347th Machine Gun Battalion, killed in action on October 9, 1918.
1 print of General John J. Pershing, with Bishop Charles H. Brent, Chaplain General of the U.S. Army.
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7 prints depicting Red Cross offices during World War I.
4 prints (and 18 duplicates) depicting Woodrow Wilson on his trip to Europe, January 1919.
2 prints of Cordell Hull.
1 print of Calvin Coolidge with an unidentified woman.
2 prints of the Blacksmith shop of Jesse Hoover, father of President Herbert C. Hoover, taken at a ceremony on June 24, 1957.
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3 prints of Lou Henry Hoover and other taken at a girl scout camp, Camp Procter, Ohio, July 1922.
1 print of L.H. Hoover as National President of the Girl Scouts, 1923.
1 print depicting the White House Reception of the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Library Assoc., 1929.
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2 prints of the U.S.S. Arizona in Boston, 1931, and of President Herbert Hoover on the Arizona during a cruise to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, March 1931.
1 print of American clergyman Jenkin Lloyd Jones, director of the Abraham Lincoln Center, Chicago.
1 print taken at a testimonial dinner to George Akerson given by the White House correspondents, New Willard, January 10, 1931, depicting George Akerson and participants.
344 prints and 60 negatives of alleged U.S. communists, 1930-1960.
1 print of the square-rigged sailing ship "Star of Alaska," 1929.
1 print depicting the launching of the "North Star" (U.S. Motor ship) at the Berg Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Washington, January 8 , 1932.
1 print depicting the U.S. Naval War College Staff and Class of 1923.
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2 prints and 4 negatives depicting Robert L Eichelberger's service in the U.S. Army during the two world wars.
1 print of admiral and diplomat Alan G. Kirk, 1888-1963.
1 autographed print of Clarence Graff.
1 print of F. Warner Karling.
1 print of General Henry H. Arnold.
1 print of General Omar Bradley.
1 print of General James H. Doolittle.
1 print of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1 print of Lt. General John R. Hodge.
1 print of General Douglas A. MacArthur.
1 print of General Harold M. McClelland
1 print of General David M. Shoup
1 print of Rear Admiral William S. Sims.
1 print of General W. Bedell Smith.
1 print of General Carl A. Spaatz.
1 oversize postcard depicting the U.S.S. San Francisco Memorial in San Francisco, erected in 1950 in honor of the officers and men on board the cruiser San Francisco who were killed during the battle of Guadalcanal, November 1942.
3 prints distributed by the U.S. Navy, First Naval District, depicting the site of the Bethlehem Hingham Shipyards, Hingham, Mass., before and after construction of the shipyards, 1942-1943.
1 print of the Pentagon Building, Washington, D.C., taken with the flag flying at half mast in honor of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1945.
2 prints of Russian interpreter Elanor Benetzka (one with General Lewis), taken in occupied Germany, 1946.
5 prints distributed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps: 1 of general Douglas MacArthur and General Dwight Eisenhower; 1 of Donald Carpenter, Major General Thomas Green, and James Forrestal; 1 of General Hoyt Vandenberg, Admiral Louis Denfeld, and General Omar Bradley; 1 of Dr. Irene Kuehnel and others; 1 of two American soldiers and two Korean civilians.
3 prints of U.S. Army Air Forces Airways and Air Communications Service.
10 prints of tests of a V-2 rocket, taken at the U.S. Army Ordnance Proving Grounds, White Sands, New Mexico, 1946.
6 prints of guided missiles and space vehicles, General Dynamics.
5 prints of views of the moon taken by the United States Space Mission Apollo 8, 1968, and Apollo 10, 1969 (NASA).
3 prints showing contrast between television pictures taken with identical equipment except for the camera pick-up tubes. In one, the standard broadcast tube is used and, in the other, the new General Electric tube; in both, the subject is illuminated by moonlight only, 1960, General Electric Co.
1 print of a magnetron, 1 print of a radarscope, Amperex Electronic Corporation.
1 print of a cathode ray tube for use in high speed electronic printing process, Corning Glass Works.
1 print of a weather balloon launching, U.S. Weather Bureau.
1 print of weather detecting equipment, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
3 oversize prints (apr. 10" x 30", rolled up) depicting the Atlantic Fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1919, and the officers and crew of the U.S.S. Delaware at Guantanamo Bay, 1920.
1 print depicting a labor rally, presumably held in Detroit, April 1947.
1 print depicting a painting of Herbert Hoover in a motor boat (hung in the Angler's Club on Key Largo, Florida)
61 negatives, 1918, depicting U.S. Army YMCA camp Beauregard in Louisiana.
2 prints of Herbert C. Hoover, including one at Park Ridge, 1928; and 1 print of the bust of John C. Branner, on display in the Hoover Tower Lobby.
Two copies and one negative of a print depicting the members of Company "E" 162nd U.S. Infantry, acting as guard of honor for President Wilson in London, 28 December 1918.
2 prints depicting Hoover Dam.
2 prints depicting the former home of Theodore Hoover, brother of Herbert Hoover, in Bodie, California, now a ghost twon, Bodie State Park, 1990.
1 print depicting Emma Goldman writing at her desk, ca. 1910.
1 print n.d., depicting Cyrus R. Vance when Secretary of the Army.
1 print depicting a 10-yeard old Herbert Hoover standing in front of the Friends Pacific Academy in Newberg, Oregon, 1884.
1 oversize print of Herbert Hoover with the Washington State College Football team at the White House, 1930.
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1 oversize print of Joseph Swain.
1 print of Herbert Hoover, General Mark Clark, John Erhardt and Chancellor Leopold Figl in Vienna, 1946.
1 folder of slides of a demonstration by Women Strike for peach in Washington D.C., 1964.
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