Visual Resources Center

Stanford Collections

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection The Stanford Historical Photograph Collection contains more than 16,000 images documenting Stanford University and its founders. You can browse and search the Stanford Historical Photograph Collection via the Luna Insight image collection software.[view in InsightBrowser]

Douglas Menuez Photography Collection The archive includes Menuez's editorial photojournalism and fine art documentary work as well his commercial projects. Included in the archive are more than 250,000 photographs documenting the rise of Silicon Valley. These photographs focus primarily on the computer and semiconductor industries, venture capital deals, startups, and Internet companies. [view in InsightBrowser]

Chicana Art (Stanford community only)[view in InsightBrowser]

Maps of Africa [view in InsightBrowser]

Stanford Geological Survey [view in InsightBrowser]

The Hoover Institution's Archives Poster Collection One of the largest such collections in the United States, the Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection includes more than 33,000 cataloged political posters from around the world, with more than double that number as yet uncataloged. Many thousands of posters date from World War I and World War II, though the posters cover the entire twentieth century.

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