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Notable collections

  • Houses in Hayarkon Street, Tel-Aviv

    Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection

    A virtual exhibit and digital collection celebrating the centennial of the founding of "The First Hebrew City."

  • Nemo, King of the Tramps

    Dime Novels Full Text

    Complete texts of 100 books from the series, Secret Service, illuminate perceptions of race in turn-of-the-century America.

  • Dupuis, Charles-François. Planches de l'origine de tous les cultes, ou Religion universelle: par Dupuis. Paris: H. Agasse, 1794. Image: Dessiné par Ducondray, gravé à l’eau-forte par Pauquet, terminé au burin par P. H. Triere.

    Super-Enlightenment

    Thirty-six digitized texts, written in French between 1716 and 1835, investigate the mysterious perimeters of knowledge beyond Locke.

  • !Women Art Revolution

    First-person histories of the pioneering individuals who challenged the ways women were seen by the reigning art establishment.

  • Steve Jobs, 1986

    Douglas Menuez Photography Collection

    Photojournalism, fine art documentary work, and commercial photography capture the people and places of an emerging Silicon Valley.

  • "Lunar Vehicle Remote Control" (n.d.): still from the earliest film in Stanford Collections showing a prototype lunar rover

    History of Artificial Intelligence

    Streaming audio and video of a variety of events and activities from Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the larger artificial intelligence community.

  • R. Buckminster Fuller

    R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

    Fuller's versatile career as an architect, lecturer, mathematician, writer, and social critic is documented extensively.

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    Preventing Genocide

    This collection from Dr. David A. Hamburg includes the documentary, Preventing Genocide, and videotaped interviews with world leaders in the prevention of mass violence.

  • California State Capitol, Sacramento

    California Legislative Journal Appendixes

    Reports and documents from 1855 to 1893 on topics such as land use, natural resource management, health and welfare, transportation, and finance.

  • Stanford songs

    Stanford University Publications

    Online access to selected catalogs and administrative publications of Stanford University published between 1891 and 2001.

  • Seal of the United States Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (FBPC) on their annual reports.

    Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (UK) & Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (US)

    The collection contains CFB Annual Reports (1868-1988) and FBPC Annual Reports (1934-1967). Archival materials detail the economies of various countries.

  • Official logo of "DttP: Documents to the People," the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA).

    Documents to the People (DttP)

    The collection includes 138 digitized journal issues (1972-2002) documenting the emergence of the government documents specialization within the field of librarianship.

  • GATT image of the partial globe

    GATT Digital Library

    Over 59,000 public documents and 300 publications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on topics related to post-WWII international trade.

  • Plot of the effects of a 83 kiloton nuclear attack on Washington, DC (centered on the White House). From a briefing to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy by the US Atomic Energy Commission, February 18, 1953, following the successful detonation of the first hydrogen bomb in late 1952. Source: Legislative Archives, National Archives, Washington, DC.

    Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Digital Library

    This digital library contains 144,000 pages of source materials from the hearings of the committee from 1946 to 1977.

  • Stanford family

    Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

    More than 16,000 images documenting Stanford University and its founders.

  • The David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University Libraries

    David Rumsey Map Collection

    Collection focusing on the Mapping of North America, also contains maps from around the world. The majority of the collection is from the 16th - 21st century.

  • Iconic image for the Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries.

    Maps of Africa

    Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries.

  • Light drawing, 1943

    Herbert Matter Photograph Collection

    This is the collection of former Yale professor Herbert Matter, known for his films, photography, and experimental art printing.

  • Queen Anne at Kensington Palace

    Leon Kolb Collection of Portraits

    Engravings, etchings, mezzotints, lithographs, and acquatints, circa 1600-1850.

  • Chronicle Building, San Francisco

    Reid W. Dennis Collection of California Lithographs

    San Francisco city views, public buildings, and landscapes, as well as San Jose, Stanford University, the U.S. Navy Yard at Mare Island, San Diego, and San Luis Rey.

  • Geology of the Pine Mountain area, Ventura County, California

    Stanford Geological Survey Collection

    450 maps and 50 field notebooks survey and map parts of California, Nevada, and Utah.

  • Philosophy Talk logo

    Philosophy Talk

    Philosophy Talk is a talk radio program founded by Stanford professors John Perry and Ken Taylor.

  • Eadweard Muybridge Photographs

    Collection includes original Muybridge glass plate negatives and prints, as well as modern day copy prints of his photographs. Original materials include images of the Stanfords' residences in Sacramento and San Francisco, and two printed cards from his horse in motion series.

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    Hanna House Collection

    Correspondence, blueprints, drawings, photographs, and other records relating to the planning, design and construction of the campus home of Professor and Mrs. Paul R. Hanna designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

  • Edward A. Feigenbaum, circa 1970s

    Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers

    Primarily concerns his work in artificial intelligence at Stanford University.

  • Law School

    Morley Baer Photographs

    Photographs of Stanford University buildings done by Baer for the architects for the University.

  • Catgut Acoustical Society logo

    Musical Acoustics Research Library

    The MARL collection consisting of nearly 60 linear feet of materials is dedicated to the study of all aspects of musical acoustics.

  • Cesar Chavez, 1973

    Bob Fitch photography archive

    The Bob Fitch photography archive is the complete archive of activist photographer Bob Fitch of Watsonville, California.

  • A circular logo with a blue wave inside and the words Hopkins Marine Station around the perimeter.

    Hopkins Marine Station Student Papers

    From 1963 - 2011, Hopkins Marine Station offered Biology courses 175H or 176H. Students in these courses developed and conducted research projects in the area around the station, and the culmination of each of their efforts was a final paper. Copies of these papers were deposited in the station’s library, and we now have over 750 undergraduate research papers in our collection.

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