Description
Pages from a photograph album documenting his student years at
Stanford University. Subjects include the Stanford campus; Encina dorm rooms; gym, track
and crew teams; student amusements and initiations; excursions to surrounding parks and
the Pacific coast; the Frosh-Soph tie-up of 1909; summer school class at Hopkins Marine
Station 1906; and portraits of other students, including Hermann Rosse, Harry Horton,
Kenny Dole, Ted Vandervoort, and Dave Martin. There are also several images of Poor, one
image of Prof. H. D. Gray, and two postcard notes to Poor from Samuel Stillman Berry,
1910.
Background
Henry Varnum Poor, painter and ceramic artist, earned his A.B. in graphic arts at
Stanford University in May 1910. As a student he was a member of the Art Club and the
Gym Club, on the varsity track team, and on the executive committee of the associated
students in his senior year. After graduation, he taught at Stanford in 1911-12 and
1913-16. He was one of the founders of the Art Institute in San Francisco.
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Availability
This collection is open for research.