Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Branner, George Casper
- Extent:
- 0.5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item] George Casper Branner photograph album (A0076). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Photographs from his student days at Stanford. Subjects include sports (crew, track, baseball, and rugby); student amusements such as parades, Big Game Bonfires, Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, and Rough's Day; commencement; individual and group portraits; campus scenes; women's fencing team; and Theodore Roosevelt's visit to campus. Faculty portraits include L.M. Hoskins, John M. Stillman, John C. Branner, David Starr Jordan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, D.C. Gardner, and W.F. Durand. There are also photographs of Sam McDonald and Frank Angell. Non-Stanford subjects include camping trips to Desolation Valley and Fallen Leaf Lake, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
- Biographical / historical:
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Branner, son of Stanford University President John Casper Branner, earned his a.b. in engineering at Stanford in 1915.
- Physical location:
- Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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:
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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:
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[identification of item] George Casper Branner photograph album (A0076). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022