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Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University: Photos

After using this guide, Stanford Libraries users will be able to identify and access primary and secondary sources about the history of the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University.

Stanford Photos and other online exhibits

The Archives maintains several online exhibits that enable users to search across hundreds of our photograph collections. The most extensive of these is the Stanford Photos Spotlight exhibit.

Additional exhibits with content related to the history of the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford include:

Asian American Activities Center staff, Stanford University, Asian American Activities Center, records (SC0487)

Asian American Activities Center, records, circa 1970-2009

Asian American Activities Center, records, circa 1970-2009

The Asian American Activities Center provides organizational advising, community service opportunities, and cultural and educational programs to the Stanford community. It began as a student-run organization in the early 1970s and was given institutional status by the Dean of Student Affairs in 1987. The collection contains many photographs, as well as correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proposals, course materials, financial records, clippings, subject files, publications and other records pertaining to administrative matters of the Center, student groups sponsored by the Center, including the Asian American Students' Association, and courses in Asian American studies.

Content related to the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University includes:
 

Stanford students painting a mural at the Asian American Activities Center, undated.


Participants of the annual Listen to the Silence conference, an Asian American issues conference organized by the Asian American Students Association, undated.

Members of the Stanford Asian American Theater Project, founded in 1978 by playwright David Henry Hwang and original cast member Nancy Takahashi Hatamiya.

Group photo of Asian American Stanford graduates, 1993.

Members of the Asian American Interactive Mentoring (AIM) Program at an event for mentors and mentees, undated.

Attendees of an Asian American Activities Center event, undated.

Asian American Student Association booth at a Stanford student event, undated.

Students on the runway at an AASA fashion show event, undated.

Members of the Korean American Student Association, undated.

Stanford Khmer Association booth at a Stanford student event, undated.

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection, 1887-circa 1996

The Stanford Historical Photograph Collection, containing over 16,000 images. Series 1, General Photographs, documents the campus and campus life; subjects include athletics, original construction of the campus, individual buildings, students and student life activities, commencement activities, academic departments, and damage from the 1906 earthquake. The majority of photographs are black and white gelatin prints but nineteenth-century albumen prints mounted on boards are also represented. The collection spans the late 1880s through the 1990s. Photographs can be searched through the Online Archive of California.

The collection can also be searched via the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection Spotlight exhibit.

Content related to Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University includes:

Dr. Shau Wing Chan instructs a language student in the Army Specialized Training Program, 1944. 

Japanese Students Association with Stanford President Ray Lyman Wilbur, May 6, 1942.

Chinese gardener with dog on the grounds of Palo Alto Stock Farm, on Old Governor's Avenue, undated. 

 

Stanford News Service records

Stanford News Service records, circa 1891-2013

Records include subject files compiled by the News Service in the course of its work, news releases prepared by the News Service, proof sheets of photographs produced by the News Service photographers, taped interviews, office files of the Director of News and Publications Service and of the directors of the individual units, news clippings, and miscellaneous photographic and printed material. Collection materials can be searched in the Online Archive of California.

Content related to the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University includes:

Stanford students learning Asian languages, undated. 

Minority students at Stanford, 1985. 

Performers at the Asian Festival at Stanford, 1987. 

Asian students at Stanford, 1987. 

Rally the Resistance

Rally the Resistance, records, 2017

Includes photographs, video recording, and fliers documenting the Rally the Resistance rally at Stanford, January 20, 2017.

Content related to the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University includes:

Stanford students attend the rally the resistance event, January 20, 2017.

Poster publicizing the rally event on January 20, 2017

Photo of the rally, taken from a distance at Stanford's Meyer Courtyard on January 20, 2017.

Photo of rally attendees taken on January 20, 2017.