Andrew Putnam Hill photographs, 1853-1922

Summary

Creators:

Hill & Yard

Extent:

2 Linear Feet

Language:

Undetermined .

Preferred citation:

[identification of item] Andrew Putnam Hill Photographs (PC0004). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of mounted albumen prints commercially produced by A. P. Hill and his two studios, Hill and Yard and Hill and Watkins. Subjects include views of the Stanford University campus, interior and exterior shots of major buildings, events such as the university's opening day and the funeral of Leland Stanford, student groups, and the Palo Alto Stock Farm and horses. Photographs were taken primarily between 1890 and 1895.

Biographical / historical:

Andrew Putnam Hill (1853-1922) was born in Porter County, Indiana. In 1867 at the age of 14, he moved to California with an uncle, coming to Santa Clara County in 1868. He attended high school at Santa Clara College, and then studied art in San Francisco.

Hill became professionally involved in photography in 1889, opening a studio in San Jose with Sidney J. Yard. Several photographs from this studio were part of the Santa Clara County display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

Hill came to the new campus of Stanford University in 1891 to photograph the campus buildings, student life, particularly group portraits and settings, as well as activity on the Palo Alto Stock Farm. His interest in Stanford continued throughout the 1890s.

By 1900, Hill had become extensively involved in the effort to save the Felton Big Trees Grove of redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Working with other members of the newly founded Sempervirens Club (which included many Stanford and Berkeley faculty), Hill lobbied in Sacramento against commercial use of the area and for its designation as a State Park.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Photography.
Photoprints.

Restrictions:

Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred citation:

[identification of item] Andrew Putnam Hill Photographs (PC0004). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:

Stanford University, University Archives

Stanford University Archives, Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US

Contact:

(650) 725-1022

specialcollections@stanford.edu

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