Register of the Harold Kniest Faber Papers
1884-1979
MSS 5

Lane Medical Archives
Stanford University Medical Center

Contact Information
Lane Medical Archives
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94305
Phone: (650) 725-8045

Processed by: Claire Still
Date completed: 10/8/80


 

Table of contents for Faber (Harold K.) Papers

 

 

  Descriptive Summary

  

  Biographical Note

 

  Series Description

  

  Container List 

 


 

Descriptive Summary

Title: Harold Kniest Faber
Accession Number: MSS 5
Linear feet occupied: 2 archival boxes
Extent: 3 boxes of correspondence, papers, scrapbooks, photo albums, diary, &etc.
Provenance: Estate of Dr. Faber via Gift Developments

Materials withdrawn from the collection: All photos file in Lane Photo File
1) Photo of Dr. Faber in front of N.Y. Hospital Ambulance, early 1912, first intern year (filed with other HKF photos in Lane Photo File)
2) Photo of HKF about 1885
2a) Framed photo of HKF - undated (2 and2a also filed in Lane Photo file).
3) Copy of Dedication Program "The Clinical Sciences Research Building, Stanford University School of Medicine" dedicated May, 26, 1966. (Filed in Archives file, 5318)
4) Framed photo of Ray Lyman Wilbur
5) photo of Mrs. Faber and British Navy nurses
6) Framed photo of William Frederic Faber, father, Detroit, Oct., 1914
7) Photo of Harold Kniest Faber
8) Kimber Award to Mrs. Mary Kehoe Faber for her extreme devotion and ceaseless efforts in behalf of the San Francisco Orchestra, March 14, 1959 (1 large and 1 small medal)
9) John Howland Medal - awarded to Harold Kniest Faber, l956 "for distinguished service to pedaitrics"
l0) Framed photo of Mary K. Faber
11) Stanford M.D. Fall 1969, vol. 8 no. 4 (includes article re: Harold K. Faber pp.22-26)
12) Photo of interns N.Y. Hospital 1912 13) Framed certificate of appointment to American Academy of Pediatrics (given to Pediatrics Department)


 

Biographical Note

AMA Directory, 27th ed., 1979: (see copy of entry filed here)

Dir. of Medical Specialists, 19th ed., 1979-80: (see copy of entry filed here)

See Obituary from Peninsula Times Tribune, 5/4/79 and SUMC News release dated May 3, 1979, regarding Memorial Service filed in Box No. 1.

Also see Obituary from JAMA, 11/9/79, filed here. Also see Xerox copies of catalog cards of monographs filed here. For other publications from 1933-71, see Faculty file.

Also see copies of catalog cards of Portraits in Photo file.


Series Description

Box no.           

Contents

1.

CORRESPONDENCE, 1911-79. Arranged by subseries.

2.

PAPERS of family of HKF including papers of his father, school papers of HKF,
scrapbook and other materials of Mrs. HKF in her association with Stanford Convalescent Home.

3.

                        DIARY, PHOTOS AND MISCELLANY. Diary and postcards of European trip,
1979, photos of various members of family of HKF, personal medical reports of HKF and his wife, plans for the HKF Library, and other miscellaneous materials.


           
 


 

Container List

Note: numbers after the decimal point refer to folder numbers,
for example: 1.2 refers to box 1, folder 2.

Box no.

Contents

1.

Correspondence 1911-79

 

1.1

Army Service Papers 1919-1924

 

1.2

Bibliography-Papers by Harold Kniest Faber, 1914- includes pamphlet “The Bibliographic Style of the AMA Press"

 

1.3

Military Discharge Papers

 

1.4

Pediatrics Department-History

 

1.5

Personal Material-Miscellaneous, 1911-

 

1.6

Portrait Letters- 1949

 

1.7

Residents in Pediatrics 1920-49

 

1.8

Stanford University-Faber Fund for Faber Library

 

1.9

            Dr. H.K. Faber-Correspondence re: Will

 

1.10

Obituary and News release-Harold K. Faber and Mary Kehoe Faber

 

1.11

Biographical material including photographs and envelope of newspaper clippings

 

1.12

Miscellaneous material re: Stanford Children's Convalescent Hospital, HKF Pediatric Award, copies of “Spirit”, Presbyterian Medical Center publication,      Nu Sigma Nu Bulletin, Summer, 1966

 

1.13

Miscellaneous correspondence 1965-79

 

 

Item 1

Notebook--Messages from Friends and Students of Dr. and Mrs. Harold K. Faber

 

 

 

Box no.

Contents

2.

Papers of family of Harold Kniest Faber

 

2.1

Churches-Photos

 

 

a.

Grace Church, Rockport, N.Y. Windows in memory of parents

 

 

b.

St. John's Church,Detroit-Father rector 1905-14

 

2.2

Family Photos

 

 

a.

Grandparents-Theobald Faber, and Caroline Schoenthal Faber

 

 

b.

Aunt Louise Faber

 

 

c.

Wife, Mary K. Faber

 

 

d.

3 tintypes unidentified, and 2 small snapshots, strip of photos ? Mary K. Faber

 

2.3

Father's papers- “Democracy”, early family letters and photos

 

2.4

School papers of HKF: High School and Harvard, including Rank Lists, 1904-05 and 1905-06

 

2.5

Scrapbook of Mrs. Faber's re: Stanford Home for Convalescent  Children and Menlo Circus Club Mardi Gras

 

2.6

Stanford Convalescent Home- Recording Secretary's Notes

 

2.7

Wm. F. Faber-Papers relating to death and estate

 

2.8

Pamphlets

 

 

a.

"Ten Years in Grace Church, Lockport" by Wm. F. Faber

 

 

b.

"Henry VIII and the Reformation in Relation to the Church of England".by Wm. F. Faber

 

 

c.

"An Historical Sketch on the Imperial Foundling Home in Moscow", 1893

 

2.9

Correspondence re: Free Bed Fund for Children including letters from Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur and Mr. Ira Lillock

 

 

Box no.

Contents

3.

Diary, photos and miscellany

 

3.1

Personal Medical reports of Harold K. Faber and Mary K. Faber and Edith Kehoe

 

3.2

Harold's Library-Plans, letters from Lyle Cook, Robert Alway, Norman Kretchmer, Wallace Sterling, and Maurice Sand's sketches

 

 

Item 1

Diary of European Trip beginning 6/3/29 ? kept by Dr. Faber

 

3.2

Photo Album-parents of Dr. Faber

 

3.3

framed photo of two young children, unidentified

 

3.4

Framed Confirmation of HRF, 4/28/27

 

3.5

Framed photo of W.F. Faber, father 3/20/16

 

3.6

Framed unidentified photo-probably Mary Faber

 

3.7

Envelope of photos of Dr. and Mrs. Faber, 1977 (includes birthday celebration pictures)

 

3.8

Miscellaneous postcards and artifacts

 

3.9

Case history. Leslie Kocher. Transferred from Lane Library (MSS P476HD5C3 1917)

 


 

Last updated:

August 31, 2000