Notable Additions to the Collections

Area Studies

The newly-formed Area Studies Resource Group consists of curators whose expertise and responsibility span five disparate collecting areas: Africa and the Middle East, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Russia, Judaica and Hebraica, and Latin America and Chicano Studies. These areas confront such issues as non-standard book trades and the problems inherent in dealing with non-Roman scripts.
      With the exception of Judaica/Hebraica, these curatorships also have the responsibility of carrying on the rich collecting tradition of the Hoover Library in addition to supporting the teaching and research needs of Stanford University.

African and the Middle
Eastern Collections

African Maps.
Acquired through the William R. and
Yvonne E. Jacobson Africana Collections Program.
The Dr. Oscar I. Norwich Collection of African Maps was one of the world's premier private collections before its arrival at Stanford. Featuring 316 antiquarian maps, it documents the development of the cartography of Africa from the late fifteenth into the early twentieth century. Chronologically, the collection's greatest strength lies in eighteenth-century imprints, while geographically it is remarkable for its specialty maps of South Africa. With acquisition of the Norwich Collection, the Libraries' holdings of rare African maps now number over five hundred. The process of cataloging and digitizing the maps is currently underway with the goal of making the entire collection accessible to the research community via the Web, through Luna Imaging's Insight software.

Photograph Album of the West African Frontier Force in the Cameroons and of East Africa.
This album consists of ninety-nine small-format photographs of the West African Frontier Force's campaign in the Cameroons during World War I, and thirty-four snapshots of British colonial East Africa. The West African Frontier Force was composed of African soldiers and European officers. The photographs of their Cameroon campaign include depictions of the arrival of the British military forces near Duala, the Northern Railway, military forts, the town of Buea after its capture by the British, and joint British-French operations with
Senegalese troops. The images of East Africa show various aspects of the region under British control.

Topographic Line Maps of Iraq and Kuwait.
Washington: Defense Mapping Agency;
London: Ministry of Defense, 1990-.
These sixty-seven maps of Kuwait and southern Iraq were created for the U.S. and British governments during the Gulf War in 1990. While originally compiled in the 1980s, they were updated and revised for Desert Storm. Highly detailed at 1:50,000 scale, the maps show road types, settlements, mosques and shrines, oil and gas pipelines, oil wells and tanks, power lines, airports, boundaries, and neutral zones. The maps are extremely rare and held by only a handful of libraries.

East Asian Collections

Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan.
Gu gong cang hua da xi
(A panorama of paintings in the collection
of the National Palace Museum).
15 vols.
Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan,
Min guo 82-85 [1993-1996].
Another in a series of splendid large-format, multi-volume publications by the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, of parts of its unparalleled collection of Chinese paintings spanning the tenth through the fifteenth
centuries.

Gu Tinglong zhu bian.
Qing dai zhu juan ji cheng
(Imperial biographies).
420 vols.
Reprint. Taipei: Cheng Wen Publisher, 1992.
All important civil service assignments in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) had to be approved by the Neige (Interior Bureau) and Junji (Military Bureau), but final approval had to be given by the emperor himself (with his red pen) after he met with the candidate in person. This system helped to protect the privileged status of the Manchu tribe. The documents contained in this collection (a reprint of the original archive in the Shanghai Library) provide an important source of biographical information on civil servants and civil service examinations. It is a valuable resource for anyone studying the history of this period.

Shin Seinen (New young men).
1920-1950. Reprint, Tokyo:
Yumani Shobo, 1990-.
The journal Shin Seinen made a great contribution to modern Japanese literature by publishing numerous works of the first and leading modern mystery writer, Edogawa Ranpo.
Edogawa Ranpo (a pseudonym derived from the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allen Poe) succeeded in introducing and establishing in Japan a new literary genre, the mystery novel. Shin Seinen also dealt with various other topics, from current international and domestic politics to popular culture subjects such as music, cinema, and sports.

U.S. Military Intelligence Division Regional
File Relating to China, 1922-1944.
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources,
1990. Microfilm.
A compilation of reports written by U.S. military attachés and other officials throughout China during a critical period of that nation's turbulent twentieth-century history. This resource presents tens of thousands of pages of detailed information on a wide range of military, political, and socioeconomic conditions.

Eastern European / Russian Collections

Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties (International Department of the Central Committee), 1953-1957 / Otdel TSK KPSS po sviaziam s inostrannymi kompartiiami (Mezhdunarodnyi otdel TSK KPSS), 1953-1957 gody.
Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications,
2000. Microfilm.
This resource reproduces documents from
the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History in Moscow. The documents, primarily in Russian, are valuable primary source materials for studying Soviet foreign policy in the years immediately following Stalin's death. During this important period, Khrushchev denounced Stalin, Hungary revolted, Poland rioted, Khrushchev consolidated his power by ousting potential rivals, the United States was reeling from the effects of McCarthyism, and the Cold War was getting underway. Access to the archive where the originals are stored is difficult; Stanford's acquisition of this collection contributes to world scholarship on the period.

Radolaw Nowakowski
Niepisanie swiata, czesc trzecia
(Not Writing the World, Part Three).
Bodzentyn: Wydawn, Ogon Slonia, 2002.
This work was created by a prominent member of a thriving group of contemporary Polish book artists. Enclosed in a wooden slipcase, the volume opens from both the front and back toward the middle, with a square hole in the center. Its text and illustrations, one page for each day of the year, describe natural features in the forested environment where the artist lives. Nowakowski exhibited at the 2002
Warsaw International Book Fair and in 1997
at Stanford.

François Rabelais.
Fransua Rable: Nadpis' na glavnykh vratakh Telemskoi obiteli/François Rabelais: Inscription mise sur la grande porte de Thélème.
With illustrations by Iurii Shestakov.
Moscow: Aleksandr Sevast'ianov, 1997.
The text of this book is taken from a Russian translation of Rabelais' classic Renaissance fiction Gargantua et Pantagruel, but its exceptional feature is Iurii Shestakov's elaborate seven-color lithograph illustrations. Stanford's copy is number eight of twenty signed by the illustrator, and part of a total print run of only sixty-five. This is Stanford's second acquisition of a work by Shestakov, a Moscow-based artist.

Judaica / Hebraica Collections

Lynne Avadenka.
Root Words: An Alphabetic Exploration.
In collaboration with Mohamed Zakariya
[Huntington Woods, MI]: Land Marks
Press, 2001.
Published in a limited edition of thirty, this book is a collaboration between two graphic artists, one Jewish, one Muslim. By emphasizing the linguistic affinities between Hebrew and Arabic, the work suggests the potential for common ground between different religious and cultural traditions.

Ira Nowinski photograph of Holocaust
Memorial installation by George Segal,
taken in Segal's studio, New Jersey, 1983

Ira Nowinski.
The Ira Nowinski Collection, c1965-2000.
Acquired through the Kenyon Law Starling, Jeannette Meisel and Salo Wittmayer Baron,
and Thomas A. Bailey Funds.
This collection from the renowned, San Francisco-based photographer is divided into two major parts: over seven thousand prints and negatives of Nowinski's images of Holocaust memorials worldwide and approximately nine thousand Judaica photographs. The first component includes images that Nowinski made for In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials, a book he produced in collaboration with the historian Sybil Milton. Also present in this part are Nowinski's photographs of the George Segal Holocaust Memorial, the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The second component is composed of images of Karaite Jewish sites in the Bay Area, Egypt, and Israel, of the Soviet Jews of San Francisco, and of places and people in Israel. Also included in this collection are 140 signed archival prints from Germany and Austria that were a gift from Nowinski in memory of Sybil Milton.

S. Sharnopolsky.
Guide to Palestine; Palestine­Land of
Health Resorts / Moreh-derekh le-'Erets Yisrael.
In English and Hebrew.
Tel-Aviv: Print "Hashachar," [1936].
This bi-lingual guidebook was written to introduce European Jewish tourists and émigrés
to the rapidly emerging world of "Jewish Palestine" in the 1930s. Featuring numerous contemporary illustrations and also containing a glossary in seven languages, the volume is a rare period piece and provides invaluable insight into Zionist public culture during the period.

Latin American and Chicano Collections

Felipe Ehrenberg.
Papers, c1968-2000.
Mexico City and London.
Acquired through the Charles and Nancy Munger, Irene Burnside Sheldon, Morrison C. Wood, and
the Kenyon Law Starling Funds.
This collection documents the life of one of Mexico's most important visual and performance artists. A strong proponent of the conceptual art movement in Latin America, Ehrenberg is also one of the most versatile intellectuals of his generation. In addition to his artistic work, he is a distinguished writer and editor and has been instrumental in launching interdisciplinary projects that innovatively combine verbal and visual media in order to communicate with audiences beyond the art world. The collection's fifty-two linear feet of materials trace Ehrenberg's emergence as a major figure of the contemporary transnational avant-garde arts scene. The Ehrenberg Papers complement the Beau Geste Press Archives, also owned by the Stanford University Libraries.

Ester M. Hernández.
The Ester M. Hernández Collection,
c1960-2000.
Acquired as both a purchase and gift from the artist, and through the Kenyon Law Starling Fund.
Hernández is a member of the first generation of artists who participated in the Chicano art movement that began in the late 1960s as part of the Chicano Civil Rights movement. The Hernández collection contains sixty-seven linear feet of manuscript material and reflects more than twenty-five years of the artist's involvement in the important political movements of this period, including the United Farm Workers, various feminist groups, and international environmental organizations.
      A California Bay Area artist, Hernández is best known as a printmaker and for her work in pastels. The collection consists of professional correspondence, contracts, exhibition brochures and catalogues, newspaper and journal articles and reviews, books, original manuscript stories, interviews (both of the artist and of other artists, writers, and performers conducted by Hernández), slides, photographs and negatives, works of art (prints, posters, drawings, pastels) by the artist and other artists, videos, audio tapes, compact discs, albums, costumes, and accessories. The collection also includes important materials on popular musicians Lydia Mendoza and Astrid Hadad.

José Guadalupe Posada.
Prints, c1875-1913.
Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.
Acquired through the Kenyon Law Starling
and J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library Funds.
Along with the muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) remains one of Mexico's most important visual artists, best known for his satirical calaveras (skeletal caricatures) seen in Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations. Posada was an extremely prolific engraver and illustrator of thousands of popular broadsheets chronicling the daily life and struggles of Mexico's turn-of-the-century urban working classes. The Posada collection consists of over a thousand items and includes broadsides, chapbooks, and prints. It is organized into four series: I, cuadernillos (chapbooks), 388 items; II, hojas chicas (small printed sheets), 528 items; III, hojas (printed sheets), 270 items; IV, oversized broadsheets, six items. An exhibit of approximately 105 items from the Posada and Taller de Gráfica Popular (see next entry) collections opened at the Peterson Gallery, Green Library Bing Wing, on November 1, 2002, and will be on view until March 15, 2003. An exhibit catalogue was also published.

Taller de Gráfica Popular.
Prints and Posters, 1948-1964.
Mexico City: Taller de Gráfica Popular.
Acquired through the Kenyon Law Starling Fund.
Founded in Mexico City in 1937 by artists Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O'Higgins, and Luis Arenal, the Taller de Gráfica Popular soon grew to encompass twelve to fifteen regular members. The basic premise of the group was to be a center for collective work and to provide both pragmatic and philosophical support to its members. The Taller produced prints, pamphlets, illustrated books, and films. Members
of the Taller were clearly influenced by the philosophy and ideas of José Guadalupe Posada; in this manner, the Taller can be seen as a continuation of the school of Mexican printmaking begun by the Mexican graphic arts giant. The collection consists of 172 items, including linoleum block prints portraying images of current events, political figures, and social causes. Other recurring themes in the Taller's work include poverty and oppression of the Indian population, oil expropriation, the workers' movement, imperialism, literacy, and the high cost of living.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Developing the Libraries' resources for research in the basic humanities and social sciences is a responsibility shared by the Humanities Resource Group, the Social Sciences Resource Group, and the Department of Special Collections. Like the scholars served by the Area Studies Resource Group, students in the traditional human sciences depend heavily on rare printed documents and unique manuscript materials. The importance of such resources is emphasized in the acquisitions described in this section.
     Not reflected here is the growing importance of specialized digital collections for advanced research in the humanities and social sciences. The full texts of large portions of the literary output of Great Britain and the United States from the dawn of printing until the early twentieth century can now be searched electronically in the Libraries, as can their counterparts in political and cultural history. And for statistically oriented studies in anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology, computer resources have become indispensable tools.

Art and Architecture

Biblioteca Cicognara.
Urbana, Ill.: Leopoldo Cicognara Program,
University of Illinois Library; [Vatican City]:
Vatican Library, 1989-. Microform.
Acquired through the Irene Burnside Sheldon Fund.
This microform set contains full-text reproductions of approximately five thousand rare published works on western art and architecture, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in the library of Leopoldo Cicognara. Cicognara (1767-1834) was a poet, amateur artist, patron of the arts, and a founding father of the discipline of art history. One of the most comprehensive collections of its day, the Cicognara library includes biographies of artists and poets, iconographical studies, treatises on sculpture, manuals on how to draw, paint, and build architectural structures, books about museum collections, travel guides, works on funerary rites and hieroglyphics, and architectural dictionaries. The Vatican Library now owns Cicognara's collection, and in partnership with the University of Illinois Library, produced microform versions of its holdings, expanding the accessibility of this premiere art historical resource.

J. de Marlès.
Paris ancien et moderne; ou, histoire de France divisée en douze périodes appliquées aux douze arrondissements de Paris, et justifiée par les monuments de cette ville, ecélèbreÖ d'apres Dubreul, Sauval, Félibien, Piganiol, Delamare, Jaillot; etc., et les historiens modernes de Paris les plus estimésÖ
3 vols. and an atlas.
Paris: Parent-Desbarres, 1837-38.
This set provides a major source of information on the city and architecture of Paris before it underwent an enormous modernization campaign orchestrated by urban planner Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann. Each volume features copious notes, and the atlas includes hundreds of finely executed engraved and aquatint plates with drawings of theaters, schools, hospitals, churches, and museums. Miniature drawings of Parisians in nineteenth-century garb are integrated into the urban surroundings, adding a humanizing perspective to the architectural renderings.

José Gil Dorregaray, ed.
Museo Español de antigüedades bajo la dirección del Doctor Don Juan de Dios de la Rada y Delgado, con la colaboración de los primeros escritores y artistas de España.
11 vols.
Madrid: Imprenta de Fortanet, 1872-1880.
These extremely rare volumes constitute a monumental survey of Spanish art in museums and private collections throughout Spain. The set includes essays by leading Spanish writers and artists of the day, along with hundreds of very fine lithographs and chromolithographs showing works of decorative and fine art and architecture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This acquisition is interesting from historiographic and book arts perspectives, since it reveals the canonical aesthetic sensibilities of the 1870s, while also embodying Spanish ideas about the presentation of art works in the form of a deluxe catalogue.

Vitruvius Pollio.
Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve, corrigez et tradvits nouvellement en françois, avec des notes & des figures.
2d ed. rev., cor., and augm.
Paris: J. B. Coignard, 1684.
The De architectura libri decem of Vitruvius
(c90-20 B.C.) is the only architectural treatise to survive from the Greco-Roman period and is perhaps Western civilization's most important single architectural text. Monastic copyists preserved it during the Middle Ages; it was rediscovered in about 1414 in the library of the monastery of St. Gall by Poggio Bracciolini, a humanist. The first printed version appeared in the 1480s, and the work gradually became enormously influential among Renaissance architects and antiquarians, with as many as 166 editions published thereafter, according to a survey done in 1978 by Luigi Vagnetti. In this edition, Claude Perrault (1613-1688), who was both an architect and a classical scholar, provided a French translation and an encyclopedic commentary. To illustrate the text, Perrault also collected many excellent engravings, after such leading artists as Antoine Le Pautre and Sebastien Le Clerc.

Jeanne Walter and Philippe Lamour, eds.
Plans.
With contributions by Hubert Lagardelle,
Le Corbusier, Francois de Pierrefeu, and
Pierre Winter.
13 vols.
Paris: [Plans], 1931-1932.
A very rare, lavishly illustrated avant-garde journal that analyzes developments in European architecture, politics, literature, and the arts of the 1930s. Plans evokes a strong international flavor, and the volumes refer frequently to trends in the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany in the last years before Nazism, and Italy under fascism. Le Corbusier, a provocative and monumental figure in the history of modern architecture, played a seminal role in the formation of this journal and contributed many of his drawings for its illustrations. Le Corbusier scholars in recent years have become increasingly interested in his political involvements in the 1930s. Plans is probably the principal documentation of this aspect of Le Corbusier's life.

General Rare Books

James Anderson.
Selectus Diplomatum & Numismatum
Scotiae Thesaurus.
Edinburgi: Apud Tho. & Walt. Ruddimannos [etc.], 1739.
Acquired through the Kenyon Law Starling Fund.
This sumptuously produced volume features Scottish seals, charters, muniments, antiquarian scripts, and alphabets, all engraved by John Sturt. Anderson (1662-1728), an antiquary, genealogist, and historian, was asked by the Scottish Parliament just before the 1707 union with England to research and publish a collection of national documents. Anderson died before completing this ambitious project, and Thomas Ruddiman (1674-1757) finished it. This was the last work of the famed engraver John Sturt (1658-1730), renowned for his ability to create engravings legible only under magnification.

Thomas Astle.
The Origin and Progress of Writing, As Well Hieroglyphic As Elementary.
2d ed., with additions.
London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, 1803.
Acquired through the Albert Bender Fund.
This volume was deemed by William Lowndes, author of the now classic Bibliographer's Manual (1890), to be the "completest work on the subject of writing extant in this or any other language."

Saint Beatus, Presbyter of Li´ebana.
[In Apocalipsin] Beato de Li´ebana,
codice de San Pedro de Cardena.
2 vols.
Barcelona: Moleiro, 2000.
This set is a facsimile of an illuminated manuscript of the eighth-century commentaries on the Apocalypse by a Spanish monk, Beatus of Liébana (d. 798). The copy on which this facsimile is based was made between 1175 and 1185 at the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in Spain. Its leaves­some of which have been separated from the codex over the years and have ended up in various collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York­were reunited by the publisher for this edition.

The Venerable Bede.
Historiae Ecclesiasticae Gentis Anglorum
Libri Quinque Auctore Sancto & Venerabili
Baeda Presbytero Anglo-SaxoneÖ
(in Latin and Anglo-Saxon).
Cantabrigiae: Typis Academicis, 1722.
Acquired through the Stanford University Bookstore Book Fund.
This edition was the work of John Smith, canon of Durham (1659-1715), who rigorously rejected later manuscripts tainted by error and went back to the earlier, more correct texts. By good fortune, John Moore, bishop of Ely (1646-1714), acquired what is still known today as the Moore manuscript in time for Smith to use it. Employing the Moore manuscript and two early Robert Cotton manuscripts, Smith produced this monumental work of scholarship, beautifully printed, and published by Smith's son George in Cambridge.

Herodotus.
Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiographi Libri Novem, Musarum Nominibus Inscripti, Interprete Lavren. Val. ...
Coloniae: Apud Eucharium Ceruicornum, aere
& impensa M. Godefridi Hittorpij, 1526.
Acquired through the Fitger-Williams Book Fund.
This edition of Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation of Herodotus was the only Latin translation of the text to be printed during the Renaissance. Valla (1406-1457) completed this translation just before his death in 1457 but did not have the opportunity to revise it. This edition was edited by Konrad Heresbach (1496-1576), the German humanist, who is also responsible for the translation of the life of Homer, a spurious Herodotus text that appears here for the first time. The two woodcut compartments are of very high quality, the work of Anton Woensam von Worms (c1500-1541). The Hercules woodblocks have been used previously by Eucharius Cervicornus (fl. 1516-1547) in an edition of Pliny's Natural History in 1524.

Pierre Le Moyne.
The Gallery of Heroick Women Written in French by Peter Le Moyne, of the Society of Jesus. Translated into English by the Marquesse of Winchester.
London: Printed by R. Norton for Henry Seile, over against S. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1652.
Acquired through the Antoinette and Warren R. Howell Book Fund.
Translation of Le Moyne's Le galerie des femmes fortes by John Paulet, fifth Marquesse of Winchester (1595-1675). This folio edition boasts nineteen lovely full-page engravings. The Jewish women featured include Deborah, Judith, and Miriam; the section on Christian women ends with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Liber testamentorum ecclesiae ovetensis. Libro de los testamentos. Libro notarial de Don Pelayo, obispo de Oviedo.
2 vols.
Barcelona: Moleiro, 1994.
Facsimile of an illuminated codex created between 1109 and 1112 at the Cathedral of Oviedo, Spain, under the patronage of Bishop Don Pelayo. The codex, which collected the texts of documents from Asturian kings that granted certain privileges to the See of Oviedo, was illustrated with miniatures that are considered to be among the finest examples of Spanish Romanesque manuscript illumination.

A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland and LancashireÖ Illustrated with Forty-Eight Coloured Views Drawn by T. H. Fielding and J. WaltonÖ
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1821.
Acquired through the Robert L. Goldman Library Fund.
This lovely first edition folio was originally published in twelve monthly issues. Theodore Henry Fielding (1781-1851) and J. Walton undertook a two-year sojourn through the Lake District, composed these views, and added written descriptions of the district's scenery, history, and antiquities. This ranks among the most elegant of British nineteenth-century plate books.

William Shakespeare.
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes, Adorn'd with Cutt, revis'd and corrected, with an Account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe.
2d ed.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at
Shakespear's-Head, 1714.
Acquired through the Stanford University Bookstore Book Fund.
Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) introduced act and scene division as well as stage directions into his editions of Shakespeare. The illustrations in this second edition display some significant changes from those in the first Rowe edition, published in 1709.

W. Hawkes Smith.
Kenilworth in the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries: Displayed in Thirteen Lithographic Prints.
Birmingham: Printed by W. Hawkes Smith, sold by the booksellers in Birmingham, Warwick, Leamington, & Coventry and by Messrs. Longman Hurst and Co. London, 1821.
Acquired through the Robert L. Goldman Library Fund.
This scarce and idiosyncratic work was inspired by the remarkable success of Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth, which appeared earlier in 1821. The success of the works of Scott (1771-1832) created a demand for views of the castle and other localities in the novel. This was the first substantial work by this provincial lithographic press.

Virgil.
Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera cum Seruii Mauri Honorati Grammatici, Aelii Donati, Christophori Landini, Atq[ue] Domitii Calderini Co[m]mentariis.
Nurnberge: Imp[re]ssa impe[n]sis Anthonii Koberger, Anno Chr[ist]i M.ccccxcii [1492].
Acquired through the Fitger-Williams Book Fund.
This volume also includes Servius' In Vergilii Carmina Commentarii and Donatus' Interpretationes Vergiliana, with commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504), the great
Italian humanist scholar.

Historical and Literary Archives

Papers of Douglas Brutlag, 1968-1999.
Gift of Douglas Brutlag.
Douglas L. Brutlag is professor of biochemistry and medicine in the Stanford University School of Medicine, having joined the Stanford faculty in 1974. He is also co-founder of IntelliCorp and IntelliGenetics Inc., has served as chairman on the Scientific Advisory Board of Time Logic Inc., and is director of the Bioinformatics Resource at Stanford University. The Brutlag Papers (eighteen linear feet) document his work in biochemistry, biological and medical informatics, and computational biology, including research notebooks, class syllabi, exams, problem sets, notes, memoranda, proposals, reports, computer software documents, and lecture outlines.

Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (FBPC).
In 1933, at the request of the Department
of State, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, by executive order, created the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (FBPC) in order to assist U.S. citizens and creditors in collecting on defaulted foreign government bonds. Prior to the formation of the private, non-profit FBPC, no permanent organization existed to negotiate settlements with defaulting debtors. The
Council was particularly active prior to World War II and again in the 1970s and 1980s. As recently as 2002, both the Department of State and the Securities and Exchange Commission recommended to creditors who held more than eighteen thousand Chinese government bonds issued between 1913 and 1942, that they seek the FBPC's assistance in negotiating fair settlements.
       In addition to annual reports, the archive is replete with analyses of economic and political conditions in defaulting countries as well as correspondence among the FBPC, American government officials, and foreign officials and financial elites regarding not only specific cases, but also the endemic international debt crisis of the 1930s and how to settle defaults after World War II. The archive will be of interest to researchers and students in both international and comparative political economy as well as institutional history. Its creation and earlier activities coincided with the rise to financial and economic dominance of the United States.
       Complementing the Archive of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council is the acquisition in microform of the newspaper clippings of the British predecessor entity, the Council of Foreign Bondholders (CFB), formed in London in 1868 at the time of rising ascendance of Great Britain as a financial and economic center and continuing through the 1980s. Taken together, the FBPC archive and the CFB clippings files comprise an essential corpus of materials for understanding the evolution of the international economic system and the roles played by the United States and Great Britain.

Herant Katchadourian.
Papers, 1950-2002.
Gift of Herant Katchadourian.
Herant Katchadourian joined the Stanford faculty in 1966 and in 1970 was named the university's first ombudsman. Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, human biology, and education (by courtesy), Katchadourian served as dean of undergraduate studies and vice-provost for undergraduate education. He also introduced the highly popular "Human Sexuality" course in 1972 and the thirty-year history of the course is fully documented in paper, audio, and video formats. Correspondence, lectures, field notes, manuscripts, and publications document Katchadourian's career as teacher, administrator, and researcher.

Emory M. Lee Papers, 1960-2001.
Gift of Emory M. Lee, Stanford Class of 1959.
The Emory Lee Papers constitute a major (sixty linear feet) resource for scholars of the Asian-American experience in the twentieth century. Included in the collection are newsletters from local and regional Asian-American societies, journals devoted to Asian-American cultural and political life, and numerous other scarce periodicals and ephemeral publications that document Asian-American life in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the United States. During his undergraduate years, Emory Lee founded the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni / ae Club (SAPAAC). The Lee Papers also include documents related to SAPAAC's formation as well as memoranda and internal reports from other Asian-American organizations.

Diane Middlebrook.
Research Files for Suits Me:
The Double Life of Billy Tipton.
Gift of Diane Middlebrook.
Emerita professor of English, Diane Middlebrook published a biography of jazz musician Billy Tipton in 1998. Tipton, who was born a woman, lived life as a man. Middlebrook did extensive research, collected documentation and recordings, and interviewed Tipton's family and friends to prepare the story of Tipton's life. The collection includes correspondence, recordings of interviews and documentation of Tipton's performances, artifacts, photographs, and manuscript drafts of Professor Middlebrook's biography.

Stanford University.
Memorabilia: Lithograph; Tobacco Silks; Hats.
Acquired through the Portwood Endowed and David H. Canfield Funds for the Stanford University Archives and the Nuggets Fund in Memory of Julia Matts Lawrence.

Lithograph
A lithograph created to advertise the brandy produced by Leland Stanford's Vina Ranch in Tehama County. Different photographic images of the Vina property were used as the centerpiece in other lithographs in this series of advertisements.

Tobacco Silks
In the late 1800s and early 1900s cigarettes were sold in paper packets and included cardboard protectors to keep the cigarettes from being damaged. Offset lithographs on silk were included with the stiffeners. In order to appeal to supporters of Stanford University, images of athletes with the Block S on their uniforms were printed on the silks.

Hats
The tradition of plug hats for members of the junior class was borrowed from the University of California at Berkeley. Battered top hats were hardened by applications of layers of thick lead paint. Often elaborately painted scenes identified the owner's major area of study and year of graduation.

John Steinbeck Papers Related to The Forgotten Village, 1941.
The Forgotten Village, a feature-length film shot in a small Mexican village in 1940, was a collaboration of John Steinbeck and Herbert Kline, a Chicago-born, New York-trained documentary director. The film was Steinbeck's first creative endeavor after the publication of his highly controversial, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. The film celebrates a young Mexican boy who heroically defies his elders' superstitions and brings urban medicine to their epidemic-ridden village. The papers include Steinbeck's original thirty-two-page holograph manuscript of the screenplay, twenty-five letters from Steinbeck to Kline, all dating from 1940-1942 and discussing the production and distribution of The Forgotten Village, a thirty-page, hand-made album of on-location production photographs, and numerous vintage stills from the finished film. Also included is a packet of reviews of The Forgotten Village, clipped from contemporary newspapers and periodicals.

Student Papers: STS145, History of Computer Game Design: Business, Technology Culture.
This collection comprises case studies by
Stanford students for a course on the history
of computer game design taught by Henry Lowood, the Stanford Libraries' Curator for the History of Science and Technology. The collection presents an interesting picture of the engagement of Stanford students with the new medium of interactive entertainment c2000. It has been built on the set of projects stimulated by the libraries' acquisition of the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing and the "How They Got Game Project," funded by the new Stanford Humanities Laboratory.

John Switzer.
Correspondence, 1891-1937.
Acquired through the Portwood Endowed Fund
for the Stanford University Archives.
John Switzer was a member of Stanford's class of 1898 but did not earn his degree until 1926. He served in the military during the Spanish-American War and was later a delegate to the Republican National Convention from the Philippine Islands. The letters are primarily written to Switzer's brother Albert and provide an account of the early years of the university and the town of Palo Alto. Subjects discussed include his social life, financial difficulties, career plans, the 1894 railroad strike, and his military enlistment in 1898.

History of Science and Technology

The Stanford University Libraries house history of science and technology collections of international importance, including extensive book, rare book, manuscript, and media collections. The focus of collecting efforts since 1983 has been the Stanford and the Silicon Valley Archives Project.

Papers of Kurt Akeley, 1982-2000.
Gift of Kurt Akeley and Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Papers of a member of the founding team of Silicon Graphics, Incorporated (SGI), which was headed by former Stanford Professor Jim Clark. Akeley had primary design responsibility for most of the high-end graphics architectures in this important Silicon Valley company's product history, such as the Power Series and Onyx systems, and the RealityEngine. The papers (twenty-three linear feet) include documentation and computer files from his work at SGI and with organizations such as SIGGraph.

Papers of Stan Augarten, c1975-2001.
Gift of Stan Augarten.
Stan Augarten is the author of several books on the history of computing and the semiconductor industry. The collection includes videotaped interviews as well as hundreds of photographs, slides, and posters documenting people and events of the history of computing.

Papers of David Hays, 1952-1995.
Gift of Janet Hays.
The papers of David Hays span the lifetime of Hays' career as one of the founders of computational linguistics. The collection (thirty-three linear feet) includes his personal and professional papers, with early computing and professional newsletters relevant to the establishment of the new field, all meticulously documenting his research and work. The collection also gathers together an extensive collection of publications and research notes in computation and computational linguistics, including the work of many other linguists and computer scientists.

Historical Collection of Ampex Corporation, 1944-1999.
Gift of Ampex Corporation.
Ampex Corporation was one of Silicon Valley's pioneering technology companies and, for over five decades, an industrial leader in magnetic recording and data storage. The collection, 577 linear feet in size, includes the artifacts of the former Ampex Museum of Magnetic Recording, an extensive photographic archive of more than two hundred thousand images, documentation and product files, and Ampex publications. These materials will provide scholars with a major resource in the history of audio and video recording technology and the early development of Silicon Valley.

Jack Mullin / Bill Palmer Tape Restoration
Project Recordings, c1943-1950.
Gift of Richard Hess.
Richard Hess, noted audio preservation expert and member of the Audio Engineering Society, donated this set of digital recordings. The original audio recordings, made on German magnetophon equipment, were in the possession of William A. (Bill) Palmer and John T. (Jack) Mullin after World War II. They played a role in convincing Alexander Poniatoff, the founder of Ampex Corporation, of the importance of this technology. The digital restoration project recordings document the early days of audio recording in the United States and include performances, outtakes, and advertising from a number of performers, including Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Dinah Shore, and Peggy Lee.

Showstopper, Papers of G. Pascal Zachary, 1989-1993.
Gift of G. Pascal Zachary.
Showstopper, by former Wall Street Journal writer, G. Pascal Zachary, is a history of the development of the NT operating system at Microsoft Corporation. This collection, totaling twelve linear feet, includes the author's notes, taped interviews and transcripts with many Microsoft programmers and managers, along with other documentation gathered by the author.

Robert Y. Wing Electric Vehicles Collection, 1970-1997.
Gift of Robert Y. Wing.
Robert Wing was an early member of the first chapter of the Electric Auto Association of the Americas, in Santa Clara Valley. As West Coast editor of EV News and an avid consultant on electric vehicle conversion, he has had unique personal access to the history of the electric vehicle movement in California since the early 1970s. In 2001, the libraries completed the acquisition of Mr. Wing's personal collection of publications, documents, periodicals, newsletters, and ephemeral printed material on the history of electric vehicles.

Modern Book Arts

Will H. Bradley Collection.
Books (Including Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Reference Works About Bradley), Serials and Commercial Art, Modern Reference Works, and Ephemera, c1895-1995.
Gift of David and Ellen Elliott.
Bradley (1868-1962) was regarded in his day as a giant in the design field and is still known as one of the masters of book, magazine, and graphic design during the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts periods. He began his career as a printer's devil on a local newspaper in Michigan and was influenced greatly by William Morris and the associated Arts and Crafts movement in England. Bradley organized his own publishing firm, the Wayside Press, designed typefaces, and wrote and illustrated stories. The collection is a remarkable sampling of Bradley's work and includes not only items designed by Bradley but also ones written about him. The collection also includes three large notebooks containing some 120 pieces of ephemera printed by Bradley (e.g., advertising rates flyer), pamphlets (e.g., Westvaco Inspirations for Printers, no. 63), Bradley's graphic designs (e.g., from the German graphic arts periodical Das Plakat), advertisements (e.g., Columbia Hartford bicycles), and individual leaves from various journals (e.g., The Symposium).

Collection of Artists' Books.
Acquired through the Morgan A. and Aline D. Gunst Memorial, Robert L. Goldman, Kenyon Law Starling, and the Charlotte Ashley Felton Memorial Funds, and as a gift from the Kirkeby Family Trust.
This collection consists of a total of forty-six works. Among the most notable are:

Bruce Conner.
Dennis Hopper: One Man Show.
3 vols.
Berkeley: Crowne Point Press, 1971-73.
Edition: 4/10.

Cid Corman.
YEA.
[Emeryville, CA]: Lapis Press, 1989.
Poems by Cid Corman. Bound in paper
decorated by the publisher, Sam Francis.

Four Poets: García Lorca, Ugaretti, Montale, Pavese.
Translated from Spanish and Italian by Thomas E. Peterson.
Oakland: T. Peterson, 1976.

Kinder-und Hausmärche. English. Selections.
Six Fairy Tales from The Brothers Grimm with Original Etchings by David Hockney.
[London]: Petersburg Press in association with the Kasmin Gallery, [1970].
Edition: 99/100.

Poker Players' Portfolio: Eight Players.
Palo Alto: Smith Anderson Editions, 1998.
The players include Betty Bailey, Leta Ramos, Clayton Bailey, Gail Nanao,
Mel Ramos, Diane Damé, Kenjilo Nanao, and Alan Shepp.
Edition: 20/24.

Torrents of Spring: Twenty-One
Original Etchings.
Illustrated by Valentin Popov.
[San Anselmo, CA]: The Gordian Press, 1994.
Based on Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.

East German Book Artists Collection.
The libraries added numerous volumes to its collection of book arts of the 1980s and 1990s in East Germany. New acquisitions included materials from the book artists and publishers Uwe Warnke, Thomas Günther (Künstlergruppe Herzattacke, Edition Galerie auf Zeit), and Gerhild Ebel.

Music

The Thomas A. Edison Collection of American Sheet Music.
Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm,
[2000]. Microform.
Acquired through the Thomas A. Bailey, Hattie Clark Rosenbaum, and Susan and Ruth Sharp Funds.
Edison amassed a huge collection of over fifteen thousand music scores that were used for producing recordings. Considered the largest single collection of antebellum sheet music in the United States, the collection now resides at the University of Michigan. The wide variety
of songs provides insight into many aspects of American life and history.

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music and Books.
Gift of Professor Emeritus Leonard G. Ratner.
Leonard Ratner, Professor Emeritus of Music, has donated part of his personal library, including twenty-three rare editions of string chamber music and piano music by Baillot, Cambini, Dupierge, Dussek, Duranowsky, Kreutzer, Martinn, Rose, and Viotti, and twenty-six books on music theory and history by Czerny, Fétis, Lobe, Logier, Marx, Witthauer, and others. Because of Dr. Ratner's efforts to identify and locate rare works, the Music Library has built a fine collection of first and early editions of twentieth-century music theoretical writings over the years.

Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Orfeo ed Euritide.
N.p., [c1769].
Acquired through the Lucie King Harris
Books for Music Fund.
"Parigi" (Paris) is written at the foot of the title page in a contemporary hand in this manuscript copy of the full score of Gluck's opera. Although it may have been destined for Paris, it is not the Italian version published in Paris in 1764. It is most likely based on the unpublished 1769 version, conducted by Gluck in Parma, for the wedding of the Archduchess Maria Amelia and Duke Ferdinand.

Igor Stravinsky.
Correspondence to Arnold Weissberger, [1954-1962].
The twelve typed letters and eight autograph notes in this collection were written by Stravinsky to his attorney and business manager Arnold Weissberger. Several of the letters discuss his ballet Agon. Others discuss the publication of works, contracts with record companies, and various other topics.

Cornelis Visscher.
Magnificat.
Antwerp: C. Vischer, [c1590].
Acquired through the Susan and Ruth Sharp Fund.
Cornelis Visscher was one of the most important and productive Dutch portrait draftsmen and engravers of the seventeenth century.
This copper engraving of the Magnificat, fashioned after the drawing by Maarten de Vos, contains one of the earliest examples of engraved music, the complete five-voice setting of Cornelis Verdonck's Magnificat, which is presented on the two carrelle or erasable slate tablets on which composers of the era wrote their music. Verdonck (1563-1625), a Flemish singer and composer, worked in Antwerp and Madrid. Maarten de Vos (1532-1603), a Flemish painter and draftsman is considered one of the best figure painters of his time. His five hundred known drawings were mostly used as designs for prints.

Iannis Xenakis.
Sketch.
N.p., n.d.
Acquired through the Susan and Ruth Sharp Fund.
Xenakis helped create a radically new concept of sound composition. This is possibly a sketch for one of his ST compositions. ST, or Free Stochastic Music, is based on the use of probability to determine durations, speeds and intervals of intensity, pitch and other musical parameters. In the 1960s Xenakis was able to program an IBM 7090 with a complex of stochastic laws he had developed, to help realize his compositions.

Sciences and Engineering

The Science and Engineering Libraries seek both to maintain excellent print collections and to develop rich digital resources. Currently, digital information complements printed texts. But as digital services mature, they are replacing traditional means of publication and promise to become the dominant form in which new information is collected, accessed, managed, and used. Since researchers increasingly expect information to be delivered to their desktop computers, the Science and Engineering Libraries' most notable acquisitions have been digital resources.

ACS Journal Archives.
Stanford users now have desktop access to the complete online archive of the journals of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Covering almost 120 years, the ACS Journal Archives consists of more than eleven thousand journal issues, five hundred thousand articles, and 2.5 million pages of the most cited chemistry research. It is possible to search the full-text for all years and to display articles of interest as PDF images. Within this past year, ACS journals were accessed forty-one thousand times on campus.

BioOne.
BioOne provides Web access to more than fifty important journals in natural history, ecology, evolution, environmental studies, and taxonomy. The aggregation of these journals is a result of an innovative collaboration among scientific societies, libraries, and the academic and commercial sectors. The journals included in the collection have rigorous editorial standards and a record of publishing high-impact research in their disciplines. BioOne delivers the content of these closely related journals via the Web with added inter-journal links that enhance the value of each publication.

Bio-Rad's KnowItAll Spectral Information System.
Bio-Rad Laboratories is the world leader in providing the most complete collection of software tools along with the largest collection of high quality and fully verified spectral databases (NMR, MS, IR, Near IR data, Raman, and UV/Visible). The KnowItAll search interface has the ability to draw, store, and search complex mixtures, and view chemical structures in 3-D. The integrated software environment allows users to search and access reference spectra, build databases with spectra and property information, cross-reference data sets, perform functional group analyses, and generate high-quality reports to share with colleagues. The KnowItAll system is loaded on the reference workstation at the Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library.

Books24x7.
The IT Pro collection of Books24x7 is comprised of popular computer technical books from a variety of well-known commercial and academic publishers. This growing collection currently contains over eighteen hundred titles, focusing on practical books covering such computer-related topics as computer applications, programming, computers and society, and e-commerce. An independent editorial board of professionals from these fields advises Books24x7 on content selection and topic coverage. Books24x7, in conjunction with Safari Tech Books Online (see below), help satisfy the research and continuing education needs of a broad range of users by providing increased access to computer books and manuals that have a relatively short shelf life.

The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD).
The structure of chemical substances determines not only the appearance of materials but also their properties. One of the most important tools for understanding chemical structures is the computer, for calculating structures as well as visualizing them. The two indispensable databases for research on crystal structure are the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), both of which are now available to Stanford students, faculty, and staff. The CSD contains information for over 257,000 organic and metal organic compounds. The ICSD is the world's largest inorganic crystal structure database, treating more than sixty-four thousand compounds. Each includes bibliographic information as well as structural and experimental information for each crystal. Chemical and crystal structures can also be displayed in 3-D.

Current Protocols Series.
The Wiley Current Protocols Series is a growing collection of loose-leaf publications that provide detailed descriptions of standard laboratory methods for life scientists. Protocols are provided for in bioinformatics, nucleic acid chemistry, molecular biology, immunology, neuroscience, and other areas of biological research. Traditionally, library copies of these heavily used publications were maintained in the reference collection, and individual protocols were photocopied from bulky binders for use in the laboratory. The acquisition of the Web version of the Current Protocols has greatly increased the utility of this series by bringing a fully searchable electronic version of the publication to the researcher's desk.

knovel: Sci-Tech Handbooks.
knovel is a rapidly growing Web service that contains a full-text collection of the most important handbooks in science and engineering, such the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, the Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Marks' Standard Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, and Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain. Not only does knovel reproduce these classics, it also aggregates their data, enabling users to search across text, tables, numeric data, graphs, and equations. knovel currently includes sixteen million data records, growing at one million per month, and 450,000 pages, with fifteen thousand pages added monthly. knovel makes possible interactive and dynamic searching among tables, graphs, and equations. A user can sort and query tabular information, interact with graphs, and calculate and plot equations using the graph calculator.

Safari Tech Books Online.
Complementing Books24x7, the Libraries' subscription to Safari Tech Books Online provides access to over 230 titles produced by O'Reilly, a publisher not included in Books24x7. O'Reilly specializes in technical guidebooks, whose print copies are popularly known for their distinctive black-and-white illustrations of animals on the covers. The full-text search capability in both Books24x7 and Safari enables users to locate at their desktops, at any time of the day or night, only those sections of the books that they need.

Science of Synthesis: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations.
To be published between 2000 and 2009 in forty-eight volumes and available electronically, Science of Synthesis (SoS) covers the entire field of organic and organometallic synthetic chemistry, giving researchers access to more than 800,000 structures, 180,000 reactions, and 18,000 thousand experimental procedures. SoS is the entirely new edition of Houben-Weyl, the standard synthetic chemistry resource since 1909. Selected by 250 leading chemists in the field, SoS provides a comprehensive and critical selection of reliable organic and organometallic synthetic methods from journals, books, and patent literature from the early 1800s to the present. Methods include relevant background information and provide detailed experimental procedures. It is the only source detailed enough to enable users to synthesize a compound without reading an original literature reference. The information is organized in a highly intuitive, hierarchical system based on the compound or functional group to be synthesized, thereby enabling chemists to readily find the information they need.

SciSearch, 1945-1973.
SciSearch is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of science. No other research tool in the sciences offers the cross-disciplinary coverage of SciSearch. But beyond its carefully chosen set of indexed journals, the most important feature of SciSearch is its unique ability to support cited reference searching, which enables the user to find works that cite an earlier publication. For several years, the libraries have offered Web access to SciSearch covering scientific literature from 1974 to the present. This new retrospective segment of the database greatly increases the ability of researchers to track the development of scientific ideas.

Stanford Chemistry Department History, 1891-1976.
To make the early history of the Stanford Department of Chemistry more readily available, the Swain Library scanned and mounted on the Web images from the book The Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, 1891-1976: A Brief Account of the First Eighty-Five Years, by Eric Hutchinson.