Lavender, Great Persuader, 342-43.
In 1880 some 1,640 acres of the Stanford Ranch and its improvements were assessed at $76,475. The cost of the tomb, exclusive of three steel caskets and the transportation of the marble across the country, was $96,700
Real Estate and Improvements, San Francisquito Ranch, box 3, f. 12, and Westmore Morse Granite Company to Caterson and Clark, Nov. 12, 1887, box 3, f. 13, both in Stanford Papers.
The ranch in 1880 was smaller than the eventual Stanford campus of over 8,000 acres.
Photographs of the Memorial Arch are available at http://collections.stanford.edu/shpc/bin/page?forward=home.
For an account and Saint Gaudenss explanation of the iconography, see The Progress of Civilization in America, Sandstone and Tile 8 (Winter 1984): 10-11.
Mahl Memoir, Harriman--General, O-6, Mahl Papers.
Quoted in Kim Voss, The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1993), 82.
for the loss of this perspective, Charles Perrow, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, 3d ed. (New York: Random House, 1986), 130-31.