Guide to the Stanford University Libraries Photographs
Processed by Patricia White; machine-readable finding aid created by Patricia White
Stanford University Libraries
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
1998
Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: PC0058
Creator:
Stanford University. Libraries.
Title: Stanford University Libraries photographs
Dates: 1967-1993
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Administrative transfers, 1994-2000
Information about Access
None.
Ownership & Copyright
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.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Stanford University Libraries Photographs, PC 058, Stanford University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Content
Prints, negatives, and slides documenting the libraries at Stanford University, including the Hopkins Marine Station; subjects
include buildings, interiors, staff, collections, patrons, events, the Library Associates, the damage from the October 1989
earthquake, construction of the East Wing (1977-80), and the move of the Special Collections Department in 1989. Some images
were prepared for the Libraries' annual reports. Individuals pictured include Ellen Poyet, David C. Weber, Cecil H. Green,
Witold S. Sworakowski, and Warren Howell. There are also two photogaphs by Leo Holub of Janet Lewis, 1989.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Assorted Directors' Office, West Wing, Exterior shots of Green
1993:
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 2
Earthquake damage at Meyer,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 3
Earthquake,
1989
Physical Description:
(color negatives)
Box 1, Folder 4
Earthquake damage Green West, including Hopkins Room,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 5
Earthquake damage Green Library,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints)
Box 1, Folder 6
Earthquake damage Green Library and staff meetings,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 6b
Earthquake damage Green Library and post-quake use of certain areas
1989
Box 1, Folder 7
Earthquake damage various libraries,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 8
Earthquake damage in Green West,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 9
Earthquake damage in Bender Room,
1989
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 10
Green, Cecil and directors,
1991
Physical Description:
(B/W prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 11
Library Associates
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives; 2 B/W prints)
Box 1, Folder 12
Library Associates events,
ca. 1990
Physical Description:
(B/W prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 13
Negatives, mostly exterior of Green Library
Box 1, Folder 15
Presentation of awards
Physical Description:
(B/W prints and negatives)
Box 1, Folder 16
Seminar in Ida Green Room, possibly staff training
Physical Description:
(B/W prints)
Box 1, Folder 17
Statue in Meyer Library
Physical Description:
(B/W prints)
Box 1, Folder 18
Taube/Baron collection, reception at Humanities Center
1990
Box 2, Folder 1
Staff picnic
Sept. 1988
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 2, Folder 2
Staff picnic
1988
Physical Description:
(B/W prints)
Box 2, Folder 3
Staff picnic and staff portraits, Roll C,
1988,
Physical Description:
(B/W prints)
Box 2, Folder 4
Staff picnic, Roll D,
1988
Physical Description:
(B/W prints)
Box 2, Folder 5
Staff picnic, Roll G,
June 1988
Physical Description:
(B/W prints)
Box 2, Folder 6
Weber, David C., reception for,
June 5, 1991
Physical Description:
(color prints and negatives)
Box 2, Folder 7
Annual Report, photos used for,
1990/91
Box 2, Folder 8
Annual Report, photos used for,
1991/92
Box 2, Folder 9
Assorted contact sheets: Green, Engineering, Music, Chemistry, Biology, Math, Physics, Art, and Branner Libraries
Box 2, Folder 11
Distinguished Service Awards (91/92 year)
Box 2, Folder 12
General library images used for library insert in
Stanford Daily
(pre 1989)
Box 2, Folder 13
Green Library, assorted shots
Physical Description:
(contact sheet)
Box 2, Folder 14
Green Library dedication (with 2 other events)
Box 2, Folder 15
Green Library exterior shots,
pre October 1989
Box 2, Folder 17
Green Library miscellaneous: Directors' Office staff, researchers
Physical Description:
(negatives and contact sheet)
Box 2, Folder 19
Hopkins Marine Station Library
Box 2, Folder 20
Howell Award to William R. Moran,
1991
Box 2, Folder 23
Miscellaneous 4x5 negatives (identified)
Box 2, Folder 26
Production items
Physical Description:
(half-tones, screens)
Box 2, Folder 27
Selmy, Michael (student patron?)
Box 2, Folder 28
Special Collections circulation desk
Physical Description:
(color print and slide)
Box 2, Folder 29
Special Collections, Field Reading Room,
pre October 1989
Physical Description:
(B/W print and negative)
Box 2, Folder 31
Staff - Directors and others?; occasion unknown
Box 3
Binder of B/W negatives and contact sheets (prints from some of these negatives appear in Boxes 1 and 2),
1988-1990
Box 4
Negatives, prints, and slides of books and manuscripts from the Department of Special Collections, some used in the Libraries
Annual Reports for 1984 and 1985; includes maps, fore-edge paintings, and illustrations from books. There are also a few images
of volunteers working in the Department
Box 5, Folder 1
Annual Report 1988 images: staff, David Weber and curators, page from Russell Varian's notebook
Box 5, Folder 2
ASUL picnics at Jasper Ridge (Leo Holub photographs; includes two of Janet Lewis),
1988-1989
Box 5, Folder 5
Special Collections items, to illustrate Annual Reports (mostly proof sheets, no date)
Box 5, Folder 7
Meyer flood restoration crew,
ca. 1978
Box 5, Folder 8
3 millionth book publicity photos (Witold Sworakowski, Rutherford Rogers, Julius Barclay, Elmer Grieder, Warren Howell),
1967
Box 5, Folder 9
Technical services open house (in Meyer Library),
1993
Box 5, Folder 10
Special Collections party for Linda Long's departure,
1996
Physical Description:
(negatives and contact sheets)
Box 6, Folder 1
Slides of the construction of the east wing of S. U. Libraries, including images of the site prior to ground-breaking,
1977-1980
Box 6, Folder 2
Slides from the move of Special Collections books into the tiered stacks,
January 1989
Box 7
Framed photographs of early S. U. Librarians: Dr. Woodruff, Herbert Nash, George T. Clark, C. H. Faust, Melvin Gilbert Dodge,
and Nathan Van Patten
Box 8 os
Photographs from exhibits at Meyer Library on: Sculptures on campus ; Underground Press (photos by Joe Riley, includes negatives),
; and Libraries of Stanford, Orientation week,
1970 ca. 1980
