This collection consists primarily of original correspondence concerning the early stages of planning, construction and landscaping of Stanford University, 1886-1906. The construction of Memorial Church, the Library (1906), the Gymnasium (1906), the Museum, and parts of the Quadrangle are featured....
Audio tapes of talks sponsored by the ASSU Speakers Bureau; presenters include Bernard Malamud, Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal, Alexander Zinoviev, Raymond Carver, Tillie Olson, Hunter S. Thompson, Shirley Chisholm, Alex Haley, Linus Pauling, Adrienne Rich, Alonda King, Betty Friedan, Jello...
These photographs of Stanford University buildings were done by Baer for the architects or for the University. Buildings designed by Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons include the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1954, and Stanford Medical Plaza, 1959....
Eight lectures of a full-length course on generalized phase structure grammar presented at the 1987 Linguistic Institute held at Stanford University....
Photographs of Beard, Stanford scenes (pre-1906 earthquake), Beta Chapter of Kappa Upsilon fraternity, and the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California.
Photographs of the Beta Theta Pi house at Stanford University, fraternity members, social events, and campus buildings, including other fraternity houses. The photographer is unknown.
Photographs of students and campus life at Stanford including the Boat House on Lake Lagunita, a women's conference, the Stanford Band in the stadium, yell leaders, campus buildings, and Professors Harold C. Brown and Paul R. Farnsworth. Some of the...
Digital copy of three notebooks primarily pertaining to Stanford University compiled by Breer; original notebooks include photographs, maps, clippings, postcards, receipts and bills, tickets, letters, and Breer's text. Subjects in volume 1 include Stanford history, college life, his fraternity (Sigma...
Photographs of Stanford campus scenes, student outings, Carpenter's dormitory room, and damaged campus buildings after the 1906 earthquake.
Collection includes views of individual Central Pacific locomotives, and scenes along the Central Pacific route up the west side of the Sierra Nevada.
This collection contains transcripts of oral history interviews selected for their relevance to the history of computer science at Stanford, including the development of the computer science department and Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Persons interviewed are Saul Amarel, Bruce G....
Raul Salinas talks about his life and his transition from criminal to human rights activist....
Twenty-two lectures of a full-length course on computational linguistics presented at the 1987 Linguistic Institute held at Stanford University ....
Six black and white photographs of the 1906 earthquake aftermath at Stanford University.
Photographs of student life at Stanford University, 1891-1905; subjects include faculty, women's dormitory, class of 1895 and individual students, fraternities, baseball team, and a trip to Lake Tahoe in 1898. Also includes an obituary for Shirley Baker, ca. 1945, a...
Talk delivered to the Stanford Historical Society, October 5, 1995.
Audio tapes and transcripts of interviews with people who knew or worked with Donald B. Tresidder, 1987-1991; research notes, clippings, and photocopies of source materials, 1912-1991; photographs; and some correspondence of Harry Press, Frederic Glover, and Kiester, 1990-1991. Persons interviewed...
This collection documents Erickson's undergraduate days at Stanford, 1920 through 1924, with a few items dating from 1925. Most of the collection consists of negatives, presumably from photographs taken by Erickson. There are also photoprints and postcards, many of which...
Collection primarily concerns his work in artificial intelligence at Stanford University and includes administrative files, correspondence, project files, trip files, proposals, reports, reprints, Artificial Intelligence Lab memos, audio tapes, video tapes, and files on computer programs, mainly DENDRAL, MOLGEN, ARPA,...
This collection includes newspapers clippings, Stanford news releases, leaflets and pamphlets relating to Franklin's tenure and dismissal hearings, the full text of the Advisory Board's recommendations, and transcripts of hearing proceedings. Also included are a copy of a senior research...
History and high lights of the annual football game between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Players featured include Frankie Albert, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett, John Elway, and Mike Lansford.
Videotapes and audiorecordings of events during the seminar, including a talk by William Chace on "Images of Contemporary America in Literature," and a panel on "The State of the Arts and Humanities in the United States" with Richard W. Lyman,...
Collection includes correspondence; Gunther's writings; biographical materials; files from his work on the Constitutional Law casebook; research files on Learned Hand, including photocopies of original documents; and microfilmed records of Supreme Court cases dating back to 1807.
Correspondence, blueprints, drawings, photographs, and other records relating to the planning, design and construction of the campus home of Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna.
Hansen's professional and research papers include correspondence, manuscripts, research notebooks, lecture notes, unpublished studies and notes on various experiments and scientific developments such as radar, the rhumbatron, the klystron, radiation and microwave mechanics. Also included are Hansen's account of the...
From 1864 to 1869, Alfred A. Hart took 364 pictures along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad in order to help solicit investment in the railroad. Between 2008-2011, Jesse White repeated Hart's journey taking photographs from exactly (or approximately)...
The Alfred A. Hart Collection includes one photograph album of 365 images, and 106 stereographs. The majority of the stereographs are duplicate images from the album. However, there are also ten stereographs of the home of Leland and Jane Stanford...
Papers document his professional career as researcher (focusing on hypnosis) and professor at Stanford University; included are correspondence, research files, articles and papers, lectures, reprints, course materials, records from Professor Hilgard's extensive Stanford committee activities, and his memoirs (1991). Collection...
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...
This collection consists of views taken by Holden and published by Underwood and Underwood as a boxed set. Subjects include Stanford University buildings and a student race on Lake Lagunita; homes in Palo Alto; Greek Theatre and the Faculty Club...
Four Stanford Chicana and one Chicano students discuss the reasons behind their hunger strike and the emotions involved....
Eight lectures on eight U-Matic tapes comprise a full-length courses presented at the 1987 Linguistic Institute held at Stanford University ....
The Jordan Papers span 1861-1951, although the bulk of the collection dates between 1891 and 1929. Very few items pre-date Jordan's connection with Stanford University and there is very little material after the severe stroke he suffered in the summer...
Collection documents Kornberg's work concerning the synthesis of DNA in the laboratory, as well as the synthetic pathways of nucleotides, and includes correspondence, 1947 to 1982; research lab notebooks, 1947 to 1969 (which include those studies for which he received...
Videorecording of the roundtable discussion held on September 27, 2005, moderated by Leslie Berlin, featuring Gordon Moore, Jay Last, Julius Blank, all co-founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, and James F. Gibbons, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. Included are the introductory...
Collection contains 51 audiocassettes from interviews with Stanford faculty in physics, electrical engineering, aeronautics and material science, along with scientists and engineers at Bay Area companies, for his book: THE COLD WAR AND AMERICAN SCIENCE: THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-ACADEMIC COMPLEX AT MIT...
Sixteen lectures on 8 cassettes comprise a full-length course presented at the 1987 Linguistic Institute held at Stanford University ....
Videotaped lectures from Knuth's computer science course Mathematical Writing, given in the fall of 1987; guest lecturers were Herb Wilf, Jeff Ullman, Leslie Lamport, Nils Nilsson, Mary-Claire van Leunen, Rosalie Stemer, and Paul Halmos.
Correspondence, articles, lab notebooks, musical scores, audio recordings, computer files, and other materials related to the professional work of computer music pioneer Max V. Mathews.
The Michael M. May collection is divided into five series, although there is significant overlap between many. The primary topics include May's work for CISAC (Committee on International Security and Arms Control) - which includes research on nuclear proliferation, management...
Correspondence, memos, reports, course materials, newsletters, articles, reprints, computer manuals, and other materials pertaining to McCarthy's research and his teaching at Stanford and MIT. Correspondents include Forest Baskett, Donald Knuth, Serge Lang, Joshua Lederberg, Douglas Lenat, Donald Michie, Hans Moravec,...
The materials consist of an oral history, background material, news clippings, a short biography, and an article on baseball on the radio.
This collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs. Original materials, 1872-1880, include images of the Stanfords' residences in Sacramento and San Francisco, other unidentified estates, and two printed...
This collection consists of the Niles Dam Historic American Engineering Report in three sections – the report, the figures, and the measured drawings. The HAER was prepared by Rand Herbert of JRP Historical Consulting Services; original documents included in the...
Collection pertains to Nilsson's research and teaching and includes correspondence, notes and text for talks, papers, published articles, conference and meeting materials, and AV materials on artificial intelligence.
These images, scanned from Nisbet's original album, document his student years at Stanford. Images include fellow students, his fraternity house, campus scenes, the 1914 Stanford-UC Berkeley game, and other athletes.
Digitial images and select prints of the Stanford Powwow taken by Ira Nowinski.
Websites, fliers, meeting minutes, and posters documenting the Occupy Stanford movement.
Transcript of an interview conducted by Arthur L. Norberg covering Oliver's early life, his education, and work experiences at Bell Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard. Subjects include television research, radar, information theory, organizational climate and objectives at both companies, Hewlett-Packard's associations with...
Audio cassettes, with brief typed summaries, of interviews with Vartan Gregorian, E. Fay Jones, Emily Hanna Johnson, and John Paul Hanna, 1993. Gregorian discusses his childhood and Armenian roots, student days at Stanford, his teaching career, and his administrative career...
This DVD documentary chronicles the history of the Stanford lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and its accomplishments over the past thirty years; it features interviews with faculty, staff, students, and prominent alumni.
Collection includes audiocassettes, some typescript drafts and partial transcripts of tapes, press releases, and copies of the finished article published in the .
Collection consists of photocopies of invoices, receipts and memorandum relating to subprojects 2, 56, 70, 71, 72, 85, and 86 of Project MKULTRA; these documents were sent to Stanford University by the C.I.A. in 1977. Also included are the cover...
Sixteen lectures on 16 cassettes comprise a full-length course presented at the 1987 Linguistic Institute held at Stanford University ....
Records of the student drama group Ram's Head include financial reports (1924-1957), Dramatic Council minutes (1925-1948), board minutes, (1935-1957), general correspondence (1934-1952), production books (1937-1959), and several LP records and audio tapes for such Ram's Head productions as the Big...
Travels with Rico traces the exploits of Stanford University undergraduates on and off their overseas campus near Stuttgart, West Germany, in the early 1970s. Includes first draft, final version (2000), and 4th printing (2001)....
Photocopies of photographs, illustrations, and articles with additional text by Snyder, concerning the Peninsular Railway, the electric trolley that ran between San Jose and Palo Alto, California, passing through Stanford University.
Twenty-two lectures on 22 cassettes comprise a full-length course presented at the 1987 Linguistic Institute held at Stanford University ....
From 1966 through 1972, the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) conducted research on a mobile robot system nicknamed “Shakey.” Endowed with a limited ability to perceive and model its environment, Shakey could perform tasks that...
Collection consists of four audio cassettes and transcribed notes from an oral history interview conducted by George M. Goodwin. Subjects include his childhood and family life in New York; student and intellectual life at Stanford including his experiences with antisemitism;...
Interview covers Shuchat's teaching career and the Stanford bands from 1948 to 1962....
Collection consists of two scrapbook pages of photographs and one illustration of football players, Coach Thornhill, and the construction of the Big Game bonfire, with one image of Herbert Hoover and family in front of the Hoover home on campus;...
This film concerns the student experience at Stanford University in the mid 1960s and includes interviews with faculty and students. Subjects discussed include intellectual life at Stanford, relationships between male and female students, fraternity life, student activism and protests, the...
The collection contains transcripts of interviews done by John Rawlings with David Boore and Judy (Lovelace) Boore, Herbert C. DeStaebler, Nicholas B. Clinch, Henry Kendall, Alfred W. Baxter, Bea Vogel, Betsy (Swann) Crowder, Gilbert Roberts, Irene Beardsley, Mary (Sherril) Baxter,...
The materials consist of SAIL Dump And Restore Technique (DART) backup files, 1972-1990; digital copies of 16 mm films created from 1963-1980; handbooks; log books; manuals; and photographs and videos from the 35th SAIL reunion held in 2009.
The materials consist of digital photographs and videos documenting art performances developed or sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa). Also included are annual reports, press materials and a copy of the SiCa website.
The materials consist of one bound volume listing officers, members, and budgets, and a PDF copy of a bound volume of meeting minutes.
Collection pertains to talks sponsored by the Council and includes DVDs, digital videocassettes, and miscellaneous printed materials. Speakers represented in the collection include Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, Herant Katchadourian, Herbert Lindenberger, Albert Macovski, and Eleanor Maccoby.
Primarily studio portraits (mounted albumen prints) of Senator Leland Stanford, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Leland Stanford Jr., Gertrude Stanford, and Elizabeth Stanford. Also included are photographs of President William Harrison with Stanford during Harrison's visit to Stanford University. Studios represented include...
The Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program explores the institutional history of the University, with an emphasis on the tranformative post-WWII period, through interviews with leading faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, and others. The project furthers the Society's mission "to foster...
Audio and video tapes of annual meetings and public presentations on various topics in Stanford's history, including the museum, the Western CIV program, the human biology program, Herbert Hoover and Stanford, history of heart transplantation, overseas studies, KZSU (the student...
Collection contains recordings of lectures, panels, round tables, and other events sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. Videotapes include a John Cage concert and lecture, 1992, a teachers' conference, 1992, and the film "Of Mixed Minds: A Portrait of the...
Audio and video recordings of lectures.
Collection includes Bernard Knox's 1984 lectures on Psychology; Peter L. Galison's lectures, November 2002, "Poincare's Maps" and "Empires of Time: Einstein's Clocks"; and Lorraine Daston's lecture, March 2005, "Science as Work: Modern Obsessions."
This collection includes materials from several classes of students who participated in Stanford's overseas program in Beutelsbach, Germany; they were identified as Group I, II, etc. Materials from Group I (1958 program) consist of two CDs of audio recordings (The...
The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, newsclippings, and biographical materials....
Presentation volume containing four photographs from the ground breaking ceremonies and one photograph of the university, with excerpts from talks by Robert Minge Brown, Thomas Ehrlich, and Richard W. Lyman.
The collection contains primary and secondary sources pertaining to the life of Leland Stanford and the history of Stanford University's founding. Includes clippings, correspondence, articles, pamphlets, speeches, scripts, reports, memorabilia, and copies or facsimiles of historical documents.
Correspondence, telegrams; business, legal, financial, and official papers; speeches, journals, and newsclippings; and other materials relating to the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford's political career, business and financial interests, and the founding and construction of Stanford University....
The Stanford Oral History Project (SOHP), a joint effort of the Stanford University Archives and the Stanford Historical Society, began in 1978 as an extension of their efforts to collect, preserve and make available to researchers the historical record of...
Lecturers represented in this collection include Svetlana Alpers (art history), Elaine Scarry (human rights and the humanities), Lynn Hunt (the novel and human rights), Hazel V. Carby (racializing subjects in post-World War II Britain), Wendy Doniger (self-imitation in ancient India,...
Photographs, lists, memoranda, affidavits, and miscellaneous notes pertaining to participants in campus demonstrations during the spring of 1970; these records were possibly assembled to provide evidence for legal action against the participants by the University.
These records were generated by the Academic Council, the Academic Senate, the Academic Secretary, and various committees and task forces. They include minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, election records, agendas and supporting documents, rosters, memorial resolutions on deceased members, and audiotapes...
Audio recordings of Stanford events and activities.
Videorecordings of Baccalaureate proceedings.
Biographical files on faculty, staff, and other individuals affiliated with Stanford University.
Photographs of the Presidents of the Board of Trustees, from Jane Stanford's tenure (1902-1905) through the 1960s, including Samuel F. Leib, Horace Davis, Timothy Hopkins, William Mayo Newhall, Leland W. Cutler, Donald B. Tresidder, Paul C. Edwards, Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel,...
Records include correspondence, minutes, proposals, publications, publicity, photographs, research materials on centennial celebrations at other universities, videotapes, and other materials.
Portfolio prepared by Wurster, Bernardi, and Emmons containing twelve photographs by Morley Baer of the finished building (exterior and interior), ca. 1954; and one photo of the architects' rendering dated 1954.
Audiorecording of panel discussion of Stanford alumni concerning their experiences during the Vietnam years.
Digital images of the 2006 Senior Class presidents assembling the class time capsule and a list of its contents.
Addresses, programs, audio-visual recordings, and other materials documenting Stanford University commencement ceremonies
Lectures by computer professionals and professors from Stanford and other universities presented to the Computer Systems Laboratory Seminar, the Department of Computer Science Colloquium, and other special events.
The materials consist of lecture typescripts, notes, audiocassettes, and video recordings.
Video footage taken on October 19, 1989, of damage to Green Library, Geology Corner, the Museum, the anatomy building, and Encina Hall at Stanford University. Includes a 30 minute source tape and 5 minute edited version; the latter also includes...
Consists of original documents (in part, generated by Rodney Adams, Director of Finance 1976-1985), copies of documents (in part, from Stanford University Archives collections), and Augsburger's notes and completed research, including spreadsheets on endowment figures for 1903-2002. Other topics of...
The motion picture films, primarily 16mm reels, date from 1937-1982 with most of them falling between 1963-1982; they include games, highlights, and clips of Darrin Nelson and John Elway. Videorecordings and DVDs date from 1941 to 1993 and include games...
Speakers at the 2006 event, held in Memorial Church, were Reverend Scotty McLennan, President John Hennessy, and two student speakers, Clayton Brown and Dana Craig; music was provided by Talisman A Cappella.
This collection consists of black and white negatives and contact sheets of the original grant, done in calligraphy with some embellishments, along with mounted prints of eight pages from the grant; and color negatives and prints of selected pages from...
Interviews on the history of Stanford's business school conducted with professors Arjay Miller, Harold J. Leavitt, James T. S. Porterfield, Gerald M. Meier, Ezra Solomon, Robert K. Jaedicke, Charles T. Horngren, James E. Howell, Charles P.Bonini, and Thomas W. Harrell....
Audio and video recordings of committee proceedings, panel discussions, and research.
Collection consists of records regarding the administrative affairs of the Institute and its programs such as conferences, classes, lectures (especially the Jing Lyman Lecture Series), and publications. Correspondence files of the Directors of the Institute include those of Iris F....
These records are office files maintained by Siena's office during his term as Legal Advisor to the President. Primary concerns were faculty and student affairs, campus security and demonstrations, personnel, university and government relations. The files include correspondence, memoranda, notes...
Images include the student union, Memorial Church, the inner Quad, the Library, the Stadium, Hoover House, the Stanford Mausoleum, and Hoover Tower.
Lectures from classes in the human biology program at Stanford University, 1987-1989, and one tape on "The Human Biology Program at Stanford," 2001. Lecturers include Donald Kennedy, Herant Katchadourian, H. Craig Heller, Jeffrey Wine, Sanford Dornbusch, Sandra Archibald, James Lawry,...
Transcripts and audio tapes of interviews with Stanford faculty and former students.
Correspondence, memos, photographs, programs, clippings, articles, handbooks, album, films from football shows, and cassette tape pertaining to performances, personnel, and history of the Stanford Band.
Audio recordings of Stanford student demonstrations, sit-ins, and Academic Senate and Council meetings.
Photographs of students and professors on campus, the faculty-senior baseball game, and scenes at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove.
Includes the final report (December 2008), the Executive Summary, a Stanford News Service press release (Nov. 19, 2008) concerning its presentation to the Santa Clara County Planning Commission, and a PDF file of the final report.
Records include correspondence, reports, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, tables, articles, brochures, clippings, audio tapes, and other items pertaining to minority students, faculty, and staff at Stanford University, compiled from University documents, reports, and data files and from interviews and surveys with...
Materials documenting the 30th anniversary of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
The records include minutes, by-laws, financial records, annual reports, photographs, correspondence files, clippings, information booklets, and several publications sponsored by the Club.
Text of a novel set during the first four years of Stanford's history (1891-1895).
The materials consist of sound recordings, transcripts, and videorecordings of Tanner lectures delivered at Stanford.
History and highlights of the annual football game between Stanford University and UC Berkeley; persons interviewed include Frankie Albert, Kevin Moen, Richard Rodgers, Joe Kapp, John Hopkins, Tom Holmoe, and Tyrone Willingham.
Footage was shot in 1969 and concerns student demonstrations on campus, especially against the military research undertaken at Stanford, and administrative responses to student activism; also included is a campus meeting concerning the Study of Education at Stanford. Individuals featured...
The materials consist of approximately 1000 color transparencies taken by B. Noah Tilghman documenting various United States and New Zealand resaerch bases in Antarctica, including the construction of Siple Station, as well as general living conditions, individuals, and landscapes.
Photographs documenting construction of Leland Stanford Junior University, used as progress reports and sent to university founder Senator Leland Stanford for his approval. Views include the Stanford quadrangle, museum, mausoleum and Encina Hall, and some group shots of the construction...
Photographs from Tresidder's first trip west, 1913; World War I planes and Tresidder as a pilot, 1918; and many photographs of Yosemite National Park, c. 1915-1926. Also included are a pamphlet from the cornerstone laying of the Ahwahnee Hotel, 1926;...
Interviews with staff, students, and administrators about the programs and opportunities at Tresidder Memorial Union, the student union at Stanford University; produced and directed by Amy Bird.
The Wayne S. Vucinich papers include writings, research files, reports, photographs, and other documents related to Vucinich's work.
Collection includes transcripts/synopses of interviews with Helen Hildreth, Doris Jones, Elsie Renne, and Margaret Stein.
The materials consist of research and teaching files, professional files and correspondence, audiovisual materials, professional papers and articles, and materials documenting the Stanford Prison Experiment.