Manuscripts
David Starr Jordan poems
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David Starr Jordan letter to Arthur M. Ellis
Manuscripts
Typed, signed letter from David Starr Jordan at Stanford University to Los Angeles lawyer and writer, Arthur M. Ellis. In the letter, Jordan discusses biology, evolution, and literature by various evolutionists and naturalists including: Charles Darwin, J. Arthur Thomson, Stanford professor Dr. W. W. Thoburn, and Henry F. Osborn. The letter is accompanied by a pamphlet listing books by David Starr Jordan, and two printed poems by Jordan ("Unarmed and Unafraid" and "There Was A Man").
mssHM 83100
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David Starr Jordan letter to Max Farrand
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This letter discusses the losses due to the San Francisco Earthquake including the church, the arch, the new library, the gymnasium and the new part of the museum. However, Jordan stresses that the University is not as badly off as it could be. Written on Leland Standford Junior University, Office of the President letterhead with cancelled cover postmarked Stanford, CA May 5, 1906.
mssHM 16697
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David Starr Jordan letter to Rev. Charles Ferguson
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In this letter to Rev. Charles Ferguson of All Souls' Church of Kansas City Missouri, Jordan thanks the Reverend for his kind letter and agrees with him that the "University spirit" should shape modern democracy and furthermore, the future of our country and others relies on the training of a large body of men to see reality and have the courage to believe what they see. Jordan express interest in Ferguson's writings and invites him to Stanford. Written on Leland Stanford Junior University, Office of the President letterhead.
mssHM 29241
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David Starr Jordan letter to [William Henry] Irwin
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Letter to congratulate Will Irwin on his Saturday Evening Post article, "Europe Today and Tomorrow." Jordan mentions that he is on a lecture tour speaking similarly about "the dynastic basis of war." Letter is on illustrated letterhead from the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
mssHM 29242
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David S. Jordan letter to the Editor of the Independent
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In this letter to a newspaper editor, David S. Jordan notes that a manuscript "A continuing city" had not been published yet as that it was published in a larger work, "Imperial democracy" to be released by Appleton & Co. on June 18th of that year. He offers some other essays that may be of use as the publication of the larger volume might affect the arrangement they made.
mssHM 31258
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Jordan, David Starr
Visual Materials
The collection consists of 6202 black-and-white and color photographs, pen and ink drawings, and postcards, 1412 black-and-white and color negatives, 2606 black-and-white and color slides, and ephemeral materials, 1898-1982 (bulk 1920s-1930s) collected by the Automobile Club of Southern California. They form a general photographic reference collection as well as a broad visual survey of topics of interest to California motorists. Included are images of sites in North and Central America (with an emphasis on California), Europe, the Pacific Islands, and portraits, as well as images related to other subjects of interest to the Club's membership. Many of the images were published as illustrations for articles in the Club's first member magazine, Touring Topics. A large portion of the photographs were taken by authors of articles that appeared in Touring Topics; others were commissioned by the Club; and others appear to have been sent to the Club. Photographers (and authors) include, but are not limited to, Ansel Adams, Fred Archer, Viroque Baker, George Hugh Banning, Adelbert Bartlett, Virginia S. Bartlett, Andrew R. Boone, Julius Cindrich, Norman Clyde, Will Connell, Loyd Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Asahel Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Fred Dapprich, E.H. Davis, E.E. East, John Anson Ford, Frasher, Ewing Galloway, Forman G. Hanna, Phil Townsend Hanna, Hoag and Ford, John Edwin Hoag, Bert W. Huntoon, Philip Johnston, Dr. Frederick Monsen, Dave Packwood, C.C. Pierce, Ernest M. Pratt, Putnam Studios, E. Willard Spurr, and John L. Von Blon.
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