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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of two women entering the threshold of the Stanford Mausoleum on the campus of Stanford University. The mausoleum stands in the distance at center and is viewed from the front at a slight angle. A few steps, flanked by sphinxes on pedestals, lead up to the entryway. Two women stand in the entryway with their backs to the camera. Part of a wheel juts into frame in the right foreground. Trees line the background. Text from negative sleeve: Palo Alto, Calif. September [handwritten:] ^ 25 [end handwritten] 1898. On the way to and from San Francisco to visit the Iowa soldiers going to Manila in the Spanish American War. I stopped off at Palo Alto to spend a day with Frances Nichols, a girl of my acquaintance, the attending Stanford University. 1. The Campus. Stanford University. 2. Some portion of the University. 3. Interior of the museum. 4. Stanford tomb. Visitors examining. 5. Aunt Kate Mertz, who was raising Fannie. Think Fannie's father was married a second time, and was living in Kansas City, and Aunt Kate had taken Fannie to raise. 5 negatives
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_0717_001 ark:/21198/zz002hrgj6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Tombs & sepulchral monuments--California--Palo Alto Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905 Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893 Stanford, Leland, Jr., 1868-1884 Stanford University
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