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Stanford University Quadrangle, Stanford University Campus, Stanford, Santa Clara County, CA

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Stanford University Quadrangle, Stanford University Campus, Stanford, Santa Clara County, CA

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Survey number: HABS CA-2172

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, former Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15. Tuition was free until 1920. The university struggled financially after Leland Stanford's 1893 death and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. The main campus is in northern Santa Clara Valley adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco.

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1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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