Guide to the Audrey Tompkins Summers Scrapbook
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0543
Creator:
Summers, Audrey Tompkins.
Title: Audrey Tompkins Summers scrapbook
Dates: 1942-1947
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Summary: This scrapbook was kept by Audrey Tompkins during her high
school and college years. It contains programs, dance cards, menus, tickets, notices,
and other memorabilia, largely documenting her social life, with a few items pertinent
to her academic life at Stanford. There are also a few objects such as a spoon, a spent
flash bulb, and hair clippings.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Purchased, 1998.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
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Cite As
Audrey Tompkins Summers Scrapbook (SC0543). Department of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Audrey Tompkins earned her A.B. in psychology at Stanford University in 1947. She
married James Leonard Summers, a member of the Stanford Class of 1946.
Description of the Collection
This scrapbook was kept by Audrey Tompkins during her high school and college years. It
contains programs, dance cards, menus, tickets, notices, and other memorabilia, largely
documenting her social life, with a few items pertinent to her academic life at
Stanford. There are also a few objects such as a spoon, a spent flash bulb, and hair
clippings.
Access Terms
Stanford University--Students.
Summers, Audrey Tompkins.
Scrapbooks
Women --California --Social life and customs.
Young women --California.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Page 1 and 2
1943 September 16-23
Scope and Content Note
Mountain View High School memorabilia; photo of high school students at Earl
Carroll Theatre Restaurant in Hollywood; RR schedule to Los Angeles; Key
Magazine (events in southern California)
Box 1, Folder 2
Page 3 and 4
1944
Scope and Content Note
Booklet "Memories of My Senior Year," including photos; her high school
commencement programl S.U. commencement program
Box 1, Folder 3
Page 5
1944 Summer and September
Scope and Content Note
Memorabilia from dates with Arne; program from "Goodnight Ladies," S.F.
theater
Box 1, Folder 4
Page 6
Circa 1944
Scope and Content Note
Spoon from Palo Alto Hospital; instructions for card tricks at California-USC
game
Box 1, Folder 5
Page 7 and 8
1944 November 18-23
Scope and Content Note
Football program USC v. California; A.S.T.P. Thanksgiving Dinner menu; brochure
"Stanford Songs and Yells" published through courtesy of Hotel St. Francis;
drinking straws from Wilsons and the Stanford Union; program and ticket stubs
from Gaieties
Box 1, Folder 6
Page 9 and 10
1944 Fall and Winter
Scope and Content Note
S.U. registration certificate; dance memorabilia; Christmas and New Year's
memorabilia; spent flash bulb from photo taken at dance club
Box 1, Folder 7
Page 11 and 12
1945 January-March
Scope and Content Note
Memorabilia from various social events; social events with Jimmy Summers; her
birthday; winter quarter registration card
Box 1, Folder 8
Page 13
1945 March-April
Scope and Content Note
Point Lobos brochure; various social events
Box 1, Folder 9
Page 14
1944 November-1945 Spring
Scope and Content Note
Dance card; pressed flowers from bouquet from Jimmy; tickets from Stanford
dances
Box 1, Folder 10
Page 15 and 16
1945 February-April
Scope and Content Note
Notices to appear before Committee of Five for being out after hours
("technical lockout"); card for dance at Roble Gym; matches and napkins from
various dinners and dances
Box 1, Folder 11
Page 17 and 18
1945 Summer
Scope and Content Note
Matches and napkins from various dinners and dances
Box 1, Folder 12
Page 19
1945 December-1946 January
Scope and Content Note
Pressed flowers; memorabilia from dinners and dances
Box 1, Folder 13
Page 20 and 21
1945 December-1946 November
Scope and Content Note
Sketch of Jimmy; cards re Red and White Ball and Lagunita Formal Dance; Hotel
Claremont memorabilia; drink menu from Trader Sam's
Box 1, Folder 14
Page 22
1946 February-March
Scope and Content Note
Social events
Box 1, Folder 15
Clippings and newspapers
Circa 1943-1946
Box 1, Folder 16
Scrapbook covers
circa 1942-1947
Box 2, Folder 1
Page 23
1945 November-1946 April
Scope and Content Note
Dance and theater memorabilia
Box 2, Folder 2
Page 24
1942-1947
Scope and Content Note
Gaieties program; Mission Ranch brochure; Restaurant reservation card; dance
memorabilia
Box 2, Folder 3
Page 25
circa 1942-1947
Scope and Content Note
Libretto from Il Trovatore
Box 2, Folder 4
Page 26
1946
Scope and Content Note
Coasters and napkins from restaurants; clipping of a cartoon
Box 2, Folder 5
Page 27
1946
Scope and Content Note
Ram's Head program; basketball program; Orchesis program
Box 2, Folder 6
Page 28
1946-1947
Scope and Content Note
Stanford dance cards
Box 2, Folder 7
Page 28
circa 1942-1947
Scope and Content Note
Instructions for selling ads in Chaparral
Box 2, Folder 8
Page 29
circa 1942-1947
Scope and Content Note
Cartoon; Ram's Head program
Box 2, Folder 9
Dance cards and miscellany
circa 1942-1947
Box 2, Folder 10
Pressed flowers from page 23
circa 1942-1947
Box 2, Folder 11
Hair clippings
circa 1942-1947
Box 2, Folder 12
Sugar cube
circa 1942-1947
