Color slides from Stanford University Centennial events in October, 1991, including Governor Pete Wilson's speech and the gay rights demonstration during it, Centennial Parade, and preparation of the Centennial time capsule.

Contains photographic materials, including prints, contact sheets, negatives and slides, relating to Menuez's documentation of major Silicon Valley companies, as well as to fine art book projects, photo essays and photo shoots for advertising campaigns, annual reports and other commissioned work.

Photographs by William Moran, 1942, and clippings, 1942-54, regarding Sherwood Hall, the Menlo Park residence of Timothy Hopkins; estate sale catalog, 1942; letters to Hitchcock from Mary Hopkins, 1939, and William Moran, 1943; two postcards; and miscellaneous clippings.

The collection comprises over 3,000 real photo postcards and photographic negatives from the studio of Alexander "Zan" Stark. Postcards and photographs focus on Northern California, circa 1935-1955, and depict scenes of nature, travel destinations including vacation & historical attractions, architecture, bridges, and various street & cityscapes. All images are in black and white, and most are captioned. Many of the postcards appear to have been removed from Zan's scrapbooks, and for the most part his ordering has been retained.

Materials consist of 19 panoramic photos, 4 11x14 hand colored photos, 1 hand colored photo on canvas, 6 enlarged photos, 1 real photo postcard; and 2 photographs (Accession 2018-578). Primarily portraits and group photographs of Chinese Americans in San Francisco.

The major part of this collection is two albums of photographs from Harrington's work and travels in Bolivia and Argentina, 1921-1926 and undated. Images include villages, local people, trekking on mountain trails and by river boat, geologic formations, other geologists, oil rigs, and various camps established by the oil company. There is one photo of the Harrington family, ca. 1930. Other papers include a copy of a letter from Harrington written in La Paz, Bolivia, about difficulties with instruments and weather, 1925; a Christmas card with a sketch of the camp at Senillosa; a copy of Harrington's typescript memoirs; and a booklet on the George L. Harrington Faculty Scholar Fund at Stanford University which includes a short biography of Harrington, ca. 1993.

35mm slides of architectural models of the Medical Center and the construction of the Center in 1956-1959, along with copies of black and white photographs of the Stanford Medical School at its previous location in San Francisco, ca. 1920-1957, and of a Bakewell and Brown drawing for expansion of the San Francisco site, ca. 1920.

Photographs, prints, scrapbooks, negatives, posters, printed material, artwork and ephemera relating to May's Photography Studio and Chinese and Asian-American art, culture, and theater in San Francisco's Chinatown, circa early-mid 20th century.

Photographs from his student days at Stanford. Subjects include sports (crew, track, baseball, and rugby); student amusements such as parades, Big Game Bonfires, Frosh-Soph Tie-Up, and Rough's Day; commencement; individual and group portraits; campus scenes; women's fencing team; and Theodore Roosevelt's visit to campus. Faculty portraits include L.M. Hoskins, John M. Stillman, John C. Branner, David Starr Jordan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, D.C. Gardner, and W.F. Durand. There are also photographs of Sam McDonald and Frank Angell. Non-Stanford subjects include camping trips to Desolation Valley and Fallen Leaf Lake, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Research files, including audio recordings and transcripts of interviews; notes; correspondence; clippings; photographs; photocopies; and other materials accumulated by Middlebrook in preparation for writing Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton. Also includes draft versions, page proofs, and a signed first edition of the book; correspondence with publisher Houghton-Mifflin; clippings of reviews and other publicity for the book; and correspondence received by Middlebrook in response to the book.

Photographs of Ray Lyman Wilbur as a child, from his student days at Stanford University and Cooper Medical College, as President of Stanford, and as Secretary of the Interior. Student photos include images of his room in Encina Hall, Hopkins Marine lab, and a medical school anatomy lab. Other persons pictured include David Starr Jordan, Lucie Stern, Herbert Hoover, and Calvin Coolidge. There are also photos of his wife Marguerite Blake Wilbur and Wilbur family photographs, including family homes in North Dakota and Riverside, Calif., and students at Riverside High School, 1891.

Collection of photographs and research material concerning railroads, street cars and other public transportation in and around Oakland and Berkeley, California from historian, collector and local railway employee William Everard Gardiner (1869-1949). Gardiner worked for the San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways and later the Key System (which took over the SF-O Terminal Railways in 1924). He was Instructor and Superintendent of Schedules through at least 1928. Gardiner was an early member of the Pacific Railway Club and Railway and Locomotive Historical Society. He was also a photographer, and the collection contains negatives and prints made by him, along with reproductions of older images. Some of the photographs by Gardiner document the 1906 earthquake’s effects in Berkeley. There is also information on the general history of Alameda County. The collection contains photographs, manuscripts & typescripts on history (some transcribed), correspondence, newspaper & magazine clippings (primarily 1920s Oakland Tribune articles), ephemera including many examples of train tickets, scrapbooks, and other material.

The collection contains correspondence, diaries, photographs, artwork, audiovisual material, and ephemera documenting the Stuart and Hummel families' life and work in China as Methodist missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also contains materials relating to R. Stuart Hummel's work as a cryptographer for the Navy and his work for the U.S. government in the Office of Chinese Affairs and the Office of Civil Defense.

This collection consists of manuscripts and printed materials created by the Nobel Prize winning author John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., by members of the Steinbeck family, and related colleagues and friends. About half of the items in the collection consist of John Steinbeck’s correspondence, including both original signed letters as well as carbon copies. The collection is rich in Steinbeck family history as well, including the original diary of his grandfather, John A. Steinbeck, written while in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and journals of Almira Steinbeck, his grandmother, during her trip to Jaffa.