Heading: -1882
Author: Taber, Isaiah West
Title: "Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, Cal." - mammoth plate photograph
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1882 or later
Description:

Original albumen photograph. 45.5x50.5 cm (17¾x19¾"), matted.

Title and Taber's imprint, with 8 Montgomery studio address, in lower margin of mount. Large, uncommon view of the newly-built premises of the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, at the time one of the premier medical facilities on the West Coast. Originally founded in 1859 by Elias Samuel Cooper as the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, it went through several iterations and associations before moving into the impressive brick building pictured, at Sacramento and Webster Streets. In 1906 David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, proposed that the university acquire Cooper Medical College on condition that the latter take a medical research focus. In 1908 Cooper Medical College was deeded to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University as a gift, and was renamed as the Stanford University Department of Medicine.

Some minor toning and fading with slight speckles; very good.