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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph peeking into a gallery at the Leland Stanford Jr. Museum at Stanford University. A blurred, rounded object runs along the bottom edge of the image in the foreground. A cabinet that holds a sculpture stands in the foreground along the left edge of the image. In the gallery space, 5 small sculptures stand in the middle of the floor upon pedestals. Paintings hang from the walls. A large doorway in the wall at right leads to another gallery in 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_002 ark:/21198/zz002hrgkq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Galleries (Display spaces)--California--Palo Alto Leland Stanford Jr. Museum Stanford University
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