Photography

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The data behind "Climate Cash", a Reuters special report. | June 1, 2023
Anna Cristina Lee appointed as Photography Curator for Special Collections with the Stanford Libraries | July 15, 2021
Peter P. Blank announces retirement as Photography Curator for Special Collections with the Stanford Libraries | February 2, 2021
Two new San Francisco Bay Area punk collections open for research | January 28, 2021
Out of the Dark: Works by Xiaoze Xie online exhibition and panel discussion | November 12, 2020

Notable collections

  • 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.

  • Stanford family

    Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

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

  • 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.

  • Leigh Ortenburger Collection

    Leigh Ortenburger was an American mountaineer and photographer. He wrote the classic mountaineering guidebook, A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, photographs, and negatives.

  • 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.

  • Law School

    Morley Baer Photographs

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

  • Cesar Chavez, 1973

    Bob Fitch photography archive

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

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