First-person histories of the pioneering individuals who challenged the ways women were seen by the reigning art establishment.
Our Subject Librarians collect, curate, and maintain unique and important collections in all formats and subjects, ranging from rare books, maps, and manuscripts to web archives and data sets. Selected notable collections are highlighted here; SearchWorks contains many others.
The collection contains 2500 individual paperback humor and joke books in a variety of subject areas.
Sheet music depicting African Americans, or written by African American composers.
The Alan Farley Collection consists primarily of recordings made for the radio program Book Talk on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco, California.
Books from the Aldine Press, founded in 1494 by Aldus Manutius and continued by his grandson, Aldo, until his death in 1597.
Files of the organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings.
Miss Elsie Anderson spent seventeen years in China as a Secretary for Young Women's Christian Association of China (YWCA) 中華基督教女青年會 between 1920s-1940s.
The Schmidt Collection contains primarily photocopies of original and transcribed music for lute gathered from a variety of libraries and archival repositories.
The Blanche Thebom Collection consists of scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from the mezzo-soprano's post-Met career as teacher and director.
The Bob Fitch photography archive is the complete archive of activist photographer Bob Fitch of Watsonville, California.
White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.
Chinese comic books (连环画) are a popular medium to entertain and to educate the public in China.
![Primavera [1928], manuscript detail](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20140911222256im_/http://library.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/collection/image/rudhyar_ms_detail.jpg?itok=haqCXlku "Primavera [1928], manuscript detail - Image by Ray Heigemeir/SUL")
Includes manuscripts of musical compositions, and correspondence (1924-1973)
Denis Condon (1933-2012) trained at the Sydney Conservatory and became a music teacher and educator.
Complete texts of 100 books from the series, Secret Service, illuminate perceptions of race in turn-of-the-century America.
The Donald Pippin Collection consists primarily of Pippin's English translations of opera librettos available as pdf files.
Photojournalism, fine art documentary work, and commercial photography capture the people and places of an emerging Silicon Valley.
This collection consists of over 1200 items, published roughly between 1800 and 1980. It contains 845 pamphlets, 110 journals and periodicals, and 325 books.
Includes popular sheet music, often either in manuscript or with annotations.
Florence Underwood studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in the 1940s.
Includes correspondence and research notes related to Hickling's discography of Lehmann's performances.
George Antheil was born on July 8, 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey. He studied briefly with Constantin von Sternberg and Ernest Bloch.
Papers and recordings from American conductor and composer Gerhard Samuel (1924-2008), particularly from his years conducting the Oakland Symphony, Minneapolis Symphony, and University of Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra.
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.
This collection contains Sydney Cowell's donations of published scores and recordings of her husband's music.
This is the collection of former Yale professor Herbert Matter, known for his films, photography, and experimental art printing.
Philip C. C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt are Professors of Chinese History at UCLA. Prof.
The Jack Lund Collection contains personal papers of Jack Lund, an avid classical music collector, as well as numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and music books.
The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher.
Starting in 2014, the Japanese collection at Stanford started acquiring noteworthy movies. Currently this collection boasts over twenty recent Japanese documentaries and award-winning films.
There have been many publications related to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, but among the most poignant are the efforts of authors to explain this incident to children. Stanfor
The Japanese collection boasts a large collection of prints from the 17th through the mid-20th century.
Stanford has over 400 Japanese textbooks from the early twentieth century (and some more recent ones also!). Perform a subject search for "Stanford kyokasho collection" to review the list!
The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.
The collection includes correspondence (1835-1897), financial papers, musical compositions, and other papers.
The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas.
The Judith Rosen Collection consists of unpublished recordings of performances, lectures, and radio programs concerning classical music, focusing on twentieth century composition, as well as women musicians and composers.
The collection includes over 100 music manuscripts by Spanish composer Julio de Osma.
The Ken Ackerman Collection consists of broadcast recordings of live jazz performances from the 1950s and 60s, captured at various clubs in San Francisco, particularly Club Hangover.
Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) was known as the premier Wagnerian soprano of her time.
Eighteenth and nineteenth century books of English literature, international politics, and illustrated works.
The Kronos Quartet has donated part of its collection of chamber music to the Music Library.
The KSFO collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983.
Leigh Ortenburger was an American mountaineer and photographer. He wrote the classic mountaineering guidebook, A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range.
Engravings, etchings, mezzotints, lithographs, and acquatints, circa 1600-1850.
Lucie King Harris, born in Sonoma in 1883, was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman.
The Lully Archive is a repository of primary sources on microfilm originally gathered in support of publication of the complete works of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687).
The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.
Mary L. Schofield Collection of Children's Literature in Special Collections
Scores of operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and choral works by major composers from the 17th to 20th centuries.
Photographs of Stanford University buildings done by Baer for the architects for the University.
The MARL collection consisting of nearly 60 linear feet of materials is dedicated to the study of all aspects of musical acoustics.
Letters, manuscripts and printed works by composers including Brahms, Debussy, Cimarosa, Piatti, and Franchomme.
A hidden jewel of the Japanese collection is
Philosophy Talk is a talk radio program co-hosted by Stanford professors John Perry and Ken Taylor.
When the government of the former Soviet Union liberalized the publishing laws in 1989, the concept of "samizdat" acquired a new meaning.
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.
The Bonelli Collection includes letters, programs, scores, scrapbooks, recordings, posters, and news clippings.
Open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian Richard Sterling Finnie.
Open reel tape recordings of the “Annals of Jazz” radio program produced and hosted by historian and educator Richard Hadlock, broadcast on KCSM, San Mateo between 1982 and 1991.
The Richard Maxfield Collection consists of electronic music written by Maxfield on open reel tape from 1959 to 1964. Some tape boxes appear annotated by the composer.
Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.
Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.
Samson collection of Judaica once belonging to the Jewish Community of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The East Asia Library has started to collect award-winning Japanese children’s books.
Stanford has a robust manga collection boasting more than 330 titles. To review the titles, search for "Stanford manga collection."
Stanford has a nearly 550 titles of Japanese books printed during the 18th and 19th century. To review the list of titles, perform a subject search for "Stanford hanpon collection."
Thirty-six digitized texts, written in French between 1716 and 1835, investigate the mysterious perimeters of knowledge beyond Locke.
Taube-Baron collection of Jewish studies and culture, from the library of Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron.
Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.
From 1981 to 2004, The Women's Philharmonic was a San Francisco-based professional orchestra dedicated to the promotion of women composers, conductors, and performers.
This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.
The Venezky Collection contains primers and readers published in the U.S. between the end of the eighteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth century.
The William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection principally consists of commercial and unpublished recordings of the world renowned British horn player, Dennis Brain (1921-1957).
2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Menuhin Collection contains many test pressings of Menuhin's performances as a violin soloist.
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