{"id":4284,"date":"2013-02-26T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/?page_id=4284"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:29:41","slug":"stanton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/stanton\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert B. Stanton Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3932\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stanton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3932\" class=\" wp-image-3932 \" alt=\"Robert B. Stanton\" src=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/stanton.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Stanton (1846-1922), American civil engineer and explorer, Miami alumni 1871.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXTENT<\/strong><br \/>\n3 archival boxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><br \/>\nThis collection includes photographs, diaries\/journals, and correspondence of Robert Stanton (1846-1922), civil engineer and Miami alumnus. It provides an account of his participation in a surveying expedition to determine the feasibility of constructing a railroad through the Grand Canyon, 1889-1890. The survey is one of the fullest primary records ever made of the Colorado River from Grand Junction, Colorado, to the Gulf of California. Meticulously, Stanton recorded with pen and camera the day-by-day progress of the exploration survey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINDING AID<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"The Robert Brewster Stanton Collection Finding Aid\" href=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Stanton-finding-aid.pdf\">The Robert Brewster Stanton Collection Finding Aid (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Robert Brewster Stanton and the Colorado River Survey, the 1889-1890 Expeditions\" href=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Stanton-bibliography-for-web.pdf\">Robert Brewster Stanton and the Colorado River Survey, the 1889-1890 Expeditions (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Surveyors of the American West\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.nypl.org\/surveyors\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Public Library Stanton Exhibit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS<\/strong><br \/>\nOther materials on this expedition are available at the New York Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXTENT 3 archival boxes. ABSTRACT This collection includes photographs, diaries\/journals, and correspondence of Robert Stanton (1846-1922), civil engineer and Miami alumnus. It provides an account of his participation in a surveying expedition to determine the feasibility of constructing a railroad<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/stanton\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9908,"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4284\/revisions\/9908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}