Leland Stanford Jr. Museum, viewed from a distance, Palo Alto, 1898

Item Overview

Title

Leland Stanford Jr. Museum, viewed from a distance, Palo Alto, 1898

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

September 25, 1898

Date

1898-09-25

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

A distant view of the Leland Stanford Jr. Museum on the campus of Stanford University. It stands in the distance, partially obscured by small trees and shrubbery that dot the landscape in front of it. The building appears to stand slightly lopsided. A tall porch supported by 4 columns stands at the center of the building. Four sculptures stand atop the roof at center. A dirt path runs horizontally across the foreground.

Caption

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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Leland Stanford Jr. Museum
Stanford University

Location

California--Palo Alto

Longitude

37.432312

Latitude

-122.168735

Resource type

still image