Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Stanford family. and Stanford family.
- Extent:
- 16 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Stanford Family papers (SC0033D). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Stanford family papers include letters, telegrams, newsclippings, photographs and photograph albums, genealogical notes, legal and financial papers, pamphlets, and printed materials of Josiah Stanford (1817-1890) and his wife Helen Allyne Barker Stanford (1831-1909), Josiah Winslow Stanford (1864-1937) and his wife Alice Herrick Stanford (1858-1940), Charles Stanford (1819-1885), Asa Philips Stanford (1821-1903), DeWitt Clinton Stanford (1826-1864), Thomas Welton Stanford (1832-1918), Welton Stanford (1849-1922), and Welton Stanford, Jr (1878-1947). The Thomas Welton Stanford series includes correspondence, photographs, transcripts of his Psychic Investigation Circle of Melbourne, Australia (10 volumes) and the "HARBINGER OF LIGHT" magazine (1906-1917). The collection also includes records of Warm Springs Ranch and the Warm Springs Hotel near San Jose, California. The addenda 2024-598 includes the 1833 Stanford Family Bible containing family records of births, marriages, and deaths.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Stanford brothers were born in the township of Watervliet in upstate New York, the sons of Josiah and Elizabeth Stanford. Each of the brothers eventually went west to make his fortune. Josiah and Leland Stanford remained in California and became successful businessmen, and Thomas Welton Stanford continued on to a successful career in Australia.
- Custodial history:
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Gift of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford Canfield, David H. Canfield, and others; also includes purchases.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Spiritualism.
- Names:
- Warm Springs Ranch (Calif.)
Stanford University. Department of Psychology
Warm Springs Hotel (Calif.)
Stanford Art Gallery.
Stanford University. Libraries
Stanford family.
Coover, Thomas Edgar.
Stanford, Welton
Stanford, Thomas Welton
Stanford, Welton
Stanford, DeWitt Clinton
Stanford, Charles
Stanford, Asa Philips,
Stanford, Josiah Winslow
Stanford, Alice Herrick,
Stanford, Helen Allyne,
Stanford, Josiah
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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Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Stanford Family papers (SC0033D). Dept. 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