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Jane Lathrop Stanford

1828–1905 · United States

Donor of nearly all the archaeological collections in the Stanford University museum, among them the Cesnola material from Cyprus.

Biography

Jane Lathrop Stanford gave the Cesnola material from Cyprus that Stanford University's museum holds. F. J. H. Merrill's survey of American museums, published in 1903, lists a "Series of Di Cesnola's material from Cyprus" there and calls the archaeological collections "nearly all the gift of Mrs Stanford"3. She was born in Albany on 25 August 1828 and died in Honolulu on 28 February 19051.

David Starr Jordan, recalling the installation of the museum in 1891, wrote that the collections "Mrs. Stanford herself had long been making" were installed there, and that one room of the lower floor held half of the Cesnola Collection2.

Life and work

  1. 1891–1894
    When the Leland Stanford Junior Museum was fitted out, Jordan remembered that the collections 'Mrs. Stanford herself had long been making' were installed, and that on the lower floor 'one room contained half of the well-known Cesnola Collection excavated in Cyprus', beside Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Egyptian, Roman and Indian objects.

    StanfordDavid Starr Jordan (1922). The Days of a Man, Volume 1, 1851-1899. pp. 385-386, p. 385-386

  2. 1903
    Merrill's survey of natural-history museums lists at the Leland Stanford Junior Museum 'Series of Di Cesnola's material from Cyprus' under ethnology and, for archaeology, 'large collections of fine arts, nearly all the gift of Mrs Stanford'.

    StanfordF. J. H. Merrill (1903). Natural history museums of the United States and Canada. p. 7, p. 7

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Institutions · 1

  • Stanford University

    Co founder, designer and donor of the Leland Stanford Junior Museum · 1891

    Merrill 1903, p. 7

Sources

  1. 1.Jane Lathrop Stanford (Wikidata Q2891993 / GND 1274883113). Online
  2. 2.David Starr Jordan (1922). The Days of a Man, Volume 1, 1851-1899. pp. 385-386.
  3. 3.F. J. H. Merrill (1903). Natural history museums of the United States and Canada. p. 7.
  4. 4.Los Angeles Sunday Times 1903-08-16 (1903).

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