Description
This collection contains lithographs, drawings, watercolor paintings, art prints, diplomas,
certificates, printed illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, bird's eye maps, and other
printed formats. The main focus is Stanford University and its founders; subjects include
the career of Leland Stanford, his racing horses, Stanford University's history, student
life, campus buildings, views of campus, faculty achievements, and others. Some items of
note include The Leland Stanford Junior University, Plan of Central Premises, 1888, by
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects, and Frederick Law and J. C. Olmsted, landscape
architects; original water color designs of mosaics for Memorial Church by A. E. Paoletti;
nine demands posted by Students for a Democratic Society on the door of the President's
office, concerning the Stanford Research Institute, 1968; original sketches by Leland
Stanford, Jr.; Currier and Ives prints of Stanford's race horses; design for the president's
house by Louis Christian Mullgardt, architect; woodblock prints by Della Taylor Hoss from
Mary Curry Tressider's "Trees of Yosemite," 1932; print by Enrique Chagoya "Illegal Spirit
in Black and White", 1994; caricature sketches of members of Beta Theta Pi, including
Winstead "Doodles" Weaver, circa 1935; and Santa Fe Wing No. 9 by Nathan Oliveira, 1990.