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Call Number: SC0297
Creator:
Children's Hospital at Stanford.
Title: Children's Hospital at Stanford records
Dates: 1917-1977
Physical Description:
6.5 Linear feet
Summary: These records were collected by Ruth Spande Atwood, first
superintentdent and administrator of the Stanford Convalescent Home (1923-1961), and
include correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings and photographs. Subjects include
the history of the Home, individuals who served on Boards and assisted with fund
raising, and patients. Of note are the photographs and letters of Sam McDonald. Other
correspondents include Dr. Esther Clark, Dr. William F. Durand, Dr. Harold Faber,
Timothy Hopkins, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and the artist Wolo (Wolo Trutzschler von
Falkenstein). Collection also includes a Memory Book (1917-1977) and Scrapbook
(1928-1961) largely containing photographs, with some articles and programs, on the
Home, its staff and patients, special events, the artist Wolo and his murals, Ruth
Spande Atwood, Sam McDonald, and Dr. David Charles Gardner.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Atwood, 1983.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Children's Hospital at Stanford Records (SC0297). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Originally the Stanford Convalescent Home, established on the Stanford campus in 1919
for needy children with long term illness, this privately supported organization changed
its name to the Children's Hospital at Stanford in 1970.
These records were collected by Ruth Spande Atwood, first superintentdent and
administrator of the Stanford Convalescent Home (1923-1961), and include correspondence,
memoranda, reports, clippings and photographs. Subjects include the history of the Home,
individuals who served on Boards and assisted with fund raising, and patients. Of note
are the photographs and letters of Sam McDonald. Other correspondents include Dr. Esther
Clark, Dr. William F. Durand, Dr. Harold Faber, Timothy Hopkins, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and
the artist Wolo (Wolo Trutzschler von Falkenstein). Collection also includes a Memory
Book (1917-1977) and Scrapbook (1928-1961) largely containing photographs, with some
articles and programs, on the Home, its staff and patients, special events, the artist
Wolo and his murals, Ruth Spande Atwood, Sam McDonald, and Dr. David Charles
Gardner.
Atwood, Ruth Spande.
Children's Hospital at Stanford.
Clark, Esther Bridgman.
Durand, William Frederick, 1859-1958
Faber, Harold Kniest, 1884-1979.
Gardner, David Charles.
Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937.
MacDonald, Emanuel B.
Stanford Home for Convalescent Children.
Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
Wolo, d. 1989.
Children --Health and hygiene.
Children --Hospitals --California.