Stanford University Print Collection
Pure Grape Brandy Senator Leland Stanford's Vina Distillery P253, circa 1890
Stanford Vintage: A Look at the Stanford Wineries
Leland Stanford: American industrialist, politician, university founder, and vintner. The Stanford's owned wineries in Tehama County, Alameda County, and produced wines on their stock farm in Palo Alto.
Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce a new up to date guide to the LGBT Community Resources Center and its predecessors, the Gay People's Union (GPU), and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford (GLAS).
Included are correspondence, memoranda, office files, reference files on service organizations in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, notebooks, audiovisual materials, photographs, posters, and ephemera pertaining to the gay, lesbian, and transgender community at Stanford and the surrounding communities.
Call number: SC0252
Finding Aid: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8t1nf7c8/
This year's Winter Closure dates are Monday, December 24, 2012 through Friday, January 4, 2013. Special Collections will reopen for business as usual on Monday, January 7, 2013.
Happy Holidays from Special Collections!
Researchers interested in Lewis M. Terman and the history of IQ testing can view the following recent addition the Stanford University Objects Collection: a 1960 Revision Houghton Mifflin Stanford-Binet Intellegence Scale test kit, L-M form. This mobile test is housed in a portable suitcase and contains test manuals written by Lewis M. Terman and Maud A. Merrill, various puzzles and tests for children, instructions for administering the test, and scoring procedures.
Richard W. Lyman, who served as Stanford's seventh president from 1970-1980, died this past May at the age of 88. Educated at Swarthmore and Harvard, he came to Stanford in 1958 as an associate professor of history. He went on to become Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and Provost before assuming the presidency in 1970.
Do you have Olympic Fever? Did you know that thirty-nine Stanford athletes will compete in the 2012 London Olympic Games?
On view now at the Arrillaga Alumni center are two exhibits to help satisfy your hunger for all things Olympics.
"Stanford Olympians" contains profiles of all thirty-nine Stanford athletes competing at the current London games.
"Making Olympic History" features materials from the Stanford University Archives and includes: scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia from several previous Stanford Olympians; original materials from Olympic track and field final trials held at the Stanford Stadium in 1932 and 1960; and materials from the 1984 Olympic soccer matches, which were held at Stanford Stadium.
This year's Winter Closure dates are Monday, December 19, 2011 through Monday, January 2, 2012. Special Collections will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
Happy Holidays from Special Collections!
The Manuscripts Division is pleased to announce the completion of the physical processing of the Stephen Jay Gould papers. The first and largest accession of Gould's papers arrived at Stanford University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections in 2004, with 8 smaller accessions following through early 2011. The first phase of the processing project, which began in Fall of 2009, included a detailed processing of Gould's correspondence, manuscripts, and juvenilia. Upon completion of these three series, the processing team switched gears to complete basic arrangement and description of the remainder of Gould's papers. The Gould papers consist of 564.5 linear feet of material, which includes over 850 boxes of textual material, approximately 450 audiovisual items, and 1,180 computer media files (52 megabytes). A comprehensive finding aid is forthcoming, and will be published online in Fall 2011.
This year's Winter Closure dates are Monday, December 20 through Friday, December 31. Special Collections will reopen for business as usual on Monday, January 3, 2011.
