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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A distant view of Stanford University's campus as viewed from a raised, built porch or platform. The camera appears to rest upon a flat concrete surface, beyond which distant parts of the campus are visible. The concrete sits in the foreground and occupies the lower third of the image. In the distance, the 100-foot power plant smokestack rises near the center of the image. It collapsed in the 1906 earthquake. Additional buildings and trees stand in the distance. In the far distance hills can be seen. 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_005 ark:/21198/zz002hrgp8
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Landscapes (Representations) Smokestacks--California--Palo Alto Stanford University
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