Guide to the Stanford University Arboretum Records SC0195
Daniel Hartwig
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
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Stanford 94305-6064
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford University arboretum records
Identifier/Call Number: SC0195
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1886-1994
Date (bulk): 1886-1923
Summary: Daily journals kept by
Thomas H. Douglas, 1889-1891, regarding weather, planting activities, and other work
associated with campus landscaping; entry for April 29, 1891, mentions trees planted during
visit of President Benjamin Harrison; list of trees and shrubs advised to be propagated at
Palo Alto, signed by Frederick Law Olmsted, 1886; planting key for the Arboretum, 1923; and
a report by Jones and Stokes Associates, "Biological assessment of the arboretum region of
Stanford University for the Palm Drive reconstruction project," 1994. Also includes several
pressed leaves found in the 1889 journal.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
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Stanford University Arboretum Records (SC0195). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Related materials: Arboretum plant guide by G.A. Dailey, SUA Architectural Drawings, Dept.
of Special Collections, Stanford Univ. Libraries.
Daily journals kept by Thomas H. Douglas, 1889-1891, regarding weather, planting
activities, and other work associated with campus landscaping; entry for April 29, 1891,
mentions trees planted during visit of President Benjamin Harrison; list of trees and shrubs
advised to be propagated at Palo Alto, signed by Frederick Law Olmsted, 1886; planting key
for the Arboretum, 1923; and a report by Jones and Stokes Associates, "Biological assessment
of the arboretum region of Stanford University for the Palm Drive reconstruction project,"
1994. Also includes several pressed leaves found in the 1889 journal.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Landscape gardening -- California.
Box 1
Journals 1886-1994