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More than 16,000 images
documenting Stanford University and its founders. Photographs in the collection
come from a wide variety of sources, including university offices and organizations,
academic departments, and donations from alumni and others. The majority of the
photographs are black and white gelatin prints, but nineteenth-century albumen
prints are also represented as are cyanotypes and color prints.
The collection spans the late 1880s through the 1990s.
Please note that only a portion of the collection has been digitized so far.
The Douglas Menuez Photography Collection is a sample (currently nearly 3,000 images) of the complete archive of award-winning documentary photographer Douglas Menuez, including Menuez's editorial photojournalism and fine art documentary work as well his commercial projects. Included in the archive are more than 250,000 photographs documenting the rise of Silicon Valley. These photographs focus primarily on the computer and semiconductor industries, venture capital deals, startups, and Internet companies. Menuez had virtually unlimited behind-the-scenes access for these photographs. Some of the photographs have been published in national magazines, including Fortune, Time, and Life, but many are available only in this collection.
Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries,
dating from the late 15th to early 20th century. Maps
of Africa is a project benefitting from the generous
support of the William Jacobson Africana Program.
The Stanford Geological Survey (SGS) existed for 100 years,
from 1895 until 1995. During this time, students and faculty
went into the field to survey and map parts of California,
Nevada and Utah. This is a unique collection of their hand-drawn
and colored maps.
Chicana Art is a collection of works by leading Chicana artists,
and includes painting, photography, sculpture, and installation
art. The collection was assembled by Professor Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
of Stanford University's Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
and is intended primarily as a teaching tool for people interested
in the powerful and expressive, yet still underrepresented
world of Chicana/o culture.
During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher
(1602-1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment
of all the learning of his age. A refugee from war-torn Germany,
Kircher arrived in Rome just after Galileo's condemnation,
where he was heralded as possessing the secret of deciphering
hieroglyphics. Kircher had over 760 correspondents, including
scientists, physicians, Jesuit missionaries, two Holy Roman
Emperors, popes, and potentates throughout the globe. The
subjects discussed in his voluminous correspondence cover
the entire range of his interests. The correspondence constitutes
a hugely important resource for the study of early modern
Europe, and its interest goes far beyond the study of Kircher's
own career. The correspondence is of particular interest for
the history of early modern science and technique. As well
as engaging in correspondence with the most eminent scientists
of his time, including Leibniz, Torricelli and Gassendi, Kircher
harnessed the network of Jesuit missionaries to carry out
natural observations and experiments on a global scale. The
Kircher Correspondence project is largely the work of two
visiting scholars at Stanford, Michael John Gorman and Nick
Wilding.
For more information about this project, see the Project's
website at the Institute and Museum of the History of
Science, Florence, Italy, and a collection of Kircher-related
activities at Stanford.
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