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Call Number: PC0004
Creator:
Hill & Yard
Title: Andrew Putnam Hill photographs
Dates: 1853-1922
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Andrew Putnam Hill Photographs (PC0004). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Andrew Putnam Hill (1853-1922) was born in Porter County, Indiana. In 1867 at the age of 14, he moved to California with an
uncle, coming to Santa Clara County in 1868. He attended high school at Santa Clara College, and then studied art in San Francisco.
Hill became professionally involved in photography in 1889, opening a studio in San Jose with Sidney J. Yard. Several photographs
from this studio were part of the Santa Clara County display at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Hill came to the new campus of Stanford University in 1891 to photograph the campus buildings, student life, particularly
group portraits and settings, as well as activity on the Palo Alto Stock Farm. His interest in Stanford continued throughout
the 1890s.
By 1900, Hill had become extensively involved in the effort to save the Felton Big Trees Grove of redwoods in the Santa Cruz
Mountains. Working with other members of the newly founded Sempervirens Club (which included many Stanford and Berkeley faculty),
Hill lobbied in Sacramento against commercial use of the area and for its designation as a State Park.
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 such as the university’s opening day and the funeral of Leland Stanford, student groups, and the Palo Alto Stock Farm
and horses. Photographs were taken primarily between 1890 and 1895.
Photography.
Photoprints.