Guide to the Stanford Family Scrapbooks

Daniel Hartwig

Stanford University Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.

Stanford, California

October 2010

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Overview

Call Number: SC0033F

Creator: Stanford family.

Title: Stanford family scrapbooks

Dates: 1865-1894

Physical Description: 18.5 Linear feet (37 boxes)

Summary: Family scrapbooks, compiled for the Stanford family. Subjects cover a wide range of family activities including railroad affairs, the Palo Alto Stock Farm, the Vina Ranch, the University, the United States Senate, politics, personal affairs of the Stanford's, and horses.

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository: Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.

Stanford University Libraries.

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305

Email: speccollref@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of Stanford family and heirs.

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

Ownership & Copyright

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Cite As

Stanford Family Scrapbooks (SC0033F). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Alternative Formats

Also available on microfilm in Stanford University Archives: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Libraries, 197-? 4 microfilm reels; 4 in ., 35 mm.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Watervliet Township, New York. He married Jane Lathrop in 1850 and on May 14, 1868, Jane and Leland's only child was born in Sacramento, California. Leland, Jr. died March 13, 1884 at the age of 15 years, 10 months. His early death inspired the founding of Leland Stanford, Jr. University by his parents. Leland, Sr. died June 21, 1893 and Jane died February 28, 1905.

Description of the Collection

Family scrapbooks, compiled for the Stanford family. Subjects cover a wide range of family activities including railroad affairs, the Palo Alto Stock Farm, the Vina Ranch, the University, the United States Senate, politics, personal affairs of the Stanford's, and horses.

Access Terms

Palo Alto Stock Farm (Calif.)

Southern Pacific Company.

Stanford family.

Stanford University--Buildings--1887-1894.

Stanford University--History.

Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.

Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.

Stanford, Leland, 1868-1884.

Vina Ranch (Calif.)

Clippings.

Horse breeders.

Subject Index

Subject	Volume	Page(s)
Lathrop, Daniel - death	B	87-88
Harrison law lectures	D	76
Mausoleum	D	77
Memorial Church, plans for	D	71
Newton, Dr.	6	76
Religion at Stanford	3	4
Stanford, Asa Phillips	31	10, 45, 47
Stanford, Charles	31	2 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Biography (1892)	3	14, 129
Stanford, Jane L. - Charities	2	100, 108
Stanford, Jane L. - Charities	6	85, 87
Stanford, Jane L. - Charities	8	18-20
Stanford, Jane L. - Charities	B	76-77, 80
Stanford, Jane L. - Charities	C	11, 14
Stanford, Jane L. - Charities	D	44
Stanford, Jane L. - Deed of Grant	20	2
Stanford, Jane L. - Deed of Grant	C	1
Stanford, Jane L. - Death	31	10 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Estate	31	10 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Father Serra Monument	1	47
Stanford, Jane L. - Father Serra Monument	2	32 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Father Serra Monument	3	5
Stanford, Jane L. - Father Serra Monument	21	57
Stanford, Jane L. - Inheritance - tax law suit	24	1 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	3	91
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	2	24
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	14	35
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	18	43
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	23	31
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	31	10, 40, 48
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	B	56
Stanford, Jane L. - Jewels	D	16
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	1	21 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	2	11 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	3	33 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	8	15-17
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	14	30-33
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	17	32, 61, 99
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	18	40549
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	20	25
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	25	8
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	B	77, 80, 84
Stanford, Jane L. - Kindergartens	C	6 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Portraits	B	55-56
Stanford, Jane L. - Religion	2	111
Stanford, Jane L. - Religion	21	22
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	1	13 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	2	2 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	3	2 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	11	49-50
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	14	39, 47
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	17	53 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	18	6-10, 40
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	20	38
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	B	60 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Social Life	D	41
Stanford, Jane L. - Travels	3	46 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - Travels	31	35-36
Stanford, Jane L. - Travels	32	1 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - and the University	3	91, 123
Stanford, Jane L. - and the University	13	33
Stanford, Jane L. - and the University	23	22-30
Stanford, Jane L. - and the University	31	36, 44
Stanford, Jane L. - and the University	C	1 ff
Stanford, Jane L. - and the University	25	59
Stanford, Jane L. - and the Museum	3	39, 59, 131
Stanford, Jane L. - and the Museum	14	38-39
Stanford, Jane L. - and the Museum	23	26
Stanford, Jane L. - Washington, D.C.	3	4, 7, 47
Stanford, Jane L. - Washington, D.C.	D	52, 65
Stanford, Jane L. - Will	31	39, 48
Stanford, Josiah [1817-1890]	1	81, 115
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	1	24, 56, 104
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	2	6 ff
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	3	152-155
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	6	39 ff
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	7	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	12	40546
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	17	6 ff
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	19	14-17
Stanford, Leland - Addresses	26	40734
Stanford, Leland - Appointed Regent State University	B	59
Stanford, Leland - Biography	1	3 ff
Stanford, Leland - Biography	2	17
Stanford, Leland - Biography	3	11 ff
Stanford, Leland - Biography	6	74, 78
Stanford, Leland - Biography	9	175, 189
Stanford, Leland - Biography	12	40680
Stanford, Leland - Biography	14	14
Stanford, Leland - Biography	19	6
Stanford, Leland - Biography	20	3
Stanford, Leland - Biography	31	20 ff
Stanford, Leland - Biography	B	11-12, 85
Stanford, Leland - Biography	D	40555
Stanford, Leland - Brothers	14	37
Stanford, Leland - Brothers	20	30
Stanford, Leland - Brothers	31	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	1	116, 162
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	2	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	3	159, 163
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	16	3 ff
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	19	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	B	9
Stanford, Leland - Cartoons about	D	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1861-1872	B	3 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1865	A	33604
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1871-78	28	3-135
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1872	26	5 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1872	29	1-198
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1872-73	30	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1873	27	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1872-1875	7	7 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1881	6	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1885-1889	11	32
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1885-1889	18	25-32, 71
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1887-1891	17	6 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1888	19	3 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1890	21	1
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1892	3	67 ff
Stanford, Leland - Central Pacific 1894	24	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Chinese	6	71
Stanford, Leland - Charities	3	93, 128
Stanford, Leland - Charities	6	42, 86
Stanford, Leland - Death	3	138 ff
Stanford, Leland - Death	4	3-115
Stanford, Leland - Death	5	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Death	9	132 ff
Stanford, Leland - Death	10	60 ff
Stanford, Leland - Death	13	52 ff
Stanford, Leland - Death	D	1-12, 14 ff
Stanford, Leland - Death of mother	B	53
Stanford, Leland - Death of Grant	9	40649
Stanford, Leland - Death of Grant	20	40546
Stanford, Leland - Educational philosophy	25	28 ff
Stanford, Leland - Educational philosophy	D	17
Stanford, Leland - Estate	3	82, 140
Stanford, Leland - Estate	4	39 ff
Stanford, Leland - Estate	5	27
Stanford, Leland - Estate	6	76
Stanford, Leland - Estate	9	128 ff
Stanford, Leland - Estate	23	13 ff
Stanford, Leland - Estate	24	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Estate	31	35, 36, 42
Stanford, Leland - Estate	D	60, 66
Stanford, Leland - Family	10	28, 39, 60
Stanford, Leland - Family	31	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Family, Brothers	B	52
Stanford, Leland - Funeral	3	141, 142
Stanford, Leland - Funeral	4	23 ff
Stanford, Leland - Funeral	5	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - Funeral	D	14 ff
Stanford, Leland - Genealogy	11	41
Stanford, Leland - Gold Spike	3	140
Stanford, Leland - Gold Spike	B	19 ff
Stanford, Leland - Governor	20	19
Stanford, Leland - Governor	26	1, 7, 42
Stanford, Leland - Governor	B	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Governor	C	3, 10
Stanford, Leland - Governor Stanford Locomotive	B	86
Stanford, Leland - Health	3	85 ff
Stanford, Leland - Health	6	75 ff
Stanford, Leland - Health	17	34
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	1	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	2	23 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	3	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	6	87
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	10	24 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	11	51 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	13	56
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	14	13 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	17	14 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	18	11 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	21	51, 59
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	22	36161
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	25	3 ff
Stanford, Leland - Horse raising	28	97-99, 105
Stanford, Leland - Huntington episode	1	74 ff
Stanford, Leland - Huntington episode	2	123-125
Stanford, Leland - Muybridge experiments	B	57
Stanford, Leland - Organizations, member of	20	18
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm	2	45
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm	3	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm	6	87-89
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm	17	61-62
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm	31	37, 49
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm	B	66 ff
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm Horses	6	43, 86-87
Stanford, Leland - Palo Alto Stock Farm Horses	D	45 ff
Stanford, Leland - Politics, California	B	16, 20
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1886	13	36
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1886	20	31, 33, 39
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1887	6	63 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1887	14	10 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1888	10	11 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1888	11	43, 47
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1888	16	6 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1888	18	18 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1888	19	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1892	1	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1892	2	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1892	3	10 ff
Stanford, Leland - Presidential possibility 1892	17	76 ff
Stanford, Leland - Private railroad car	B	86
Stanford, Leland - Reminiscences about	D	56, 57
Stanford, Leland - Residences, Palo Alto	2	160
Stanford, Leland - Residences, Palo Alto	14	36
Stanford, Leland - Residences, Sacramento	B	51, 53
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	3	14, 69
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	13	38
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	14	73
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	17	3
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	31	54
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	B	83, 56-57
Stanford, Leland - Residences, San Francisco	D	43, 50
Stanford, Leland - Residences, Washington, DC	3	36
Stanford, Leland - Residences, Washington, DC	17	98, 107
Stanford, Leland - Senator	1	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	2	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	3	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	6	35 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	10	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	11	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	12	19 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	13	36-37
Stanford, Leland - Senator	14	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	16	2, 11,12
Stanford, Leland - Senator	17	21 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	18	10 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	19	4, 5
Stanford, Leland - Senator	20	31, 33, 34, 4?
Stanford, Leland - Senator	21	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	25	3 ff
Stanford, Leland - Senator	31	34, 35
Stanford, Leland - Senator	C	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - Social life	1	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - Social life	2	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Social life	3	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - Social life	10	1, 4, 51
Stanford, Leland - Social life	18	6, 7
Stanford, Leland - Social life	20	36, 37
Stanford, Leland - Social life	B	60-65
Stanford, Leland - Social philosophy	B	54
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1871-1878	28	3-135
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1873	27	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1873-1875	7	10 ff
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1886-1893	10	5, 6, 18
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1887-1889	14	8, 51, 90
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1887-1891	1	30, 65-74
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1887-1891	17	8, 63-64, 69
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1890	21	3, 9
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1890-1891	2	110-115, 118
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1891	3	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - Southern Pacific 1893	D	19
Stanford, Leland - Statuary	D	62
Stanford, Leland - Tribute	4	3, 8
Stanford, Leland - Tribute	5	2 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	1	5 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	2	46 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	3	4 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	6	42-44, 60-68, 77, 82, 86
Stanford, Leland - and the University	8	7, 18, 19
Stanford, Leland - and the University	9	21 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	10	14 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	11	45,48, 55
Stanford, Leland - and the University	13	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	14	25 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	17	35 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	18	36 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	21	8 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	23	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	25	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - and the University	31	17, 49
Stanford, Leland - and the University	0	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - address to University Bd of Trustees	9	16-20
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	2	21 ff
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	3	1 ff
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	9	86 ff
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	11	56
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	17	34, 52, 97
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	18	33, 60
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	21	75
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	25	8, 59
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	B	70-72
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	C	17, 18, 27
Stanford, Leland - Vina Ranch	D	17, 72
Stanford, Leland - Will	3	142
Stanford, Leland - Will	4	90, 107-109
Stanford, Leland - Will	5	8, 10, 25, 27
Stanford, Leland - Will	9	138 ff
Stanford, Leland - Will	10	62, 63, 67
Stanford, Leland - Will	13	62
Stanford, Leland - Will	31	43
Stanford, Leland - Will	D	16 ff
Stanford, Leland - Woman Suffrage	3	14
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Birth	D	63
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Death	6	76, 82
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Death	8	2 ff
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Death	25	13
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Portrait	B	55
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Tomb	D	13
Stanford, Leland Jr. - Tribute	8	2, 8-10
Stanford, Philip Welton	31	16
Stanford, Thomas Welton	23	13
Stanford, Thomas Welton - Spiritualism	31	47
Stanford, Thomas Welton - Spiritualism	18	90-93
Stanford University - Plans for	6	60-62
Stanford University - Engineering, School of, History	3	3
Stanford University - women at	3	103
Stanford University - women at	25	59

Collection Contents

Scrapbooks

Box 1

Subjects covered include railroad affairs, the Stock Farm, Stanford for President, opening of the university, trip to California, and political activity.

Box 2

Contents the same as Volume 1

Box 3

Subjects covered include Leland Stanford, his horses, the Vina Ranch, U. S. Senate, the university, and Stanford's views on a variety of subjects.

Box 4

Main subject of the death of Leland Stanford.

Box 5

Main subject of the death of Leland Stanford.

Box 6

Subjects covered include the railroad, the university, and the personal affairs of the Stanfords.

Box 7

Main subject is the railroad.

Box 8

Main subject is the death of Leland Dewitt Stanford (Leland Stanford Jr.).

Box 9

Primary subject is the university, with some clippings on the Vina Ranch included.

Box 10

Subjects covered include Leland Stanford's politics, horses, death, and will.

Box 11

Subjects covered include Leland Stanford's politics and his horses.

Box 12

Subjects covered include the railroad, Stanford's politics (pp. 19-26), biographical material (pp. 27-46), and nomination to the Senate.

Box 13

Subjects covered include construction of the university (pp. 1-33), politics, the railroad, and the death of Leland Stanford.

Box 14

Subjects covered include the railroad, Leland Stanford's politics, and horses.

Box 15

Original scrapbook missing from the collection.

Box 16

Subjects covered include Stanford's politics and the railroad.

Box 17

Subjects covered include politics, horses, and miscellany.

Box 18

Subjects covered include politics and the railroad.

Box 19

Subjects covered include politics and the railroad.

Box 20

Subjects covered include the university and politics.

Box 21

Primary subject is politics, with some clippings on the university included

Box 22

Horses are the main subject.

Box 23

The main subject is Stanford University.

Box 24