Finding Aid for the Ann Sumner Papers, 1920-1960

Processed by Saundra Taylor; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé

Finding Aid for the Ann Sumner Papers, 1920-1960

Collection number: 1097

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

Los Angeles, CA

Processed by:: Saundra Taylor, June 1971
Encoded by:: Caroline Cubé
Online finding aid edited by:: Josh Fiala, June 2004

Descriptive Summary

Title: Ann Sumner Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1920-1960

Collection number: 1097

Creator: Sumner, Ann, 1904-

Extent: 19 boxes (9.5 linear ft.) 4 oversize boxes

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Anna Emily Sumner (b.1904) was a charter member of the Delta Gamma sorority, woman's page editor for the Los Angeles Evening Express, a romance novelist, director of public information for University Extension (1932-66), vice president of the UCLA Alumni Association (1938-39), a founding member of Gold Shield, the UCLA Affiliates, the Friends of the UCLA Library, and the UCLA Art Council, and the first woman to receive Alumni Distinguished Service Award (1962). The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to Sumner's association with various UCLA organizations.

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Ann Sumner.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Ann Sumner Papers (Collection 1097). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography

Anna Emily Sumner was born in 1904; AB, History, UCLA, 1926; charter member, Delta Gamma sorority; woman's page editor, Los Angeles Evening Express; wrote eight romance novels under pseudonym Marya Moore in the 1930s; director of public information for University Extension, 1932-66; founding member, Gold Shield; vice president, UCLA Alumni Association, 1938-39; founding member of the UCLA Affiliates, the Friends of the UCLA Library, and the UCLA Art Council; first woman to receive Alumni Distinguished Service Award, 1962.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to Sumner's association with various UCLA organizations. Organizations include: UCLA Art Council, University Affiliates, University Extension, Gold Shield, and the UCLA Alumni Association. Also includes a scrapbook of Los Angeles Express articles.

Expanded Scope and Content

Collection contains Miss Sumner's files on her UCLA related activities from 1932 to about 1967. During that period she was in charge of Public Information-Press for University Extension at UCLA. She was also a charter member of the UCLA chapter of Delta Gamma; a founding member of Gold Shield (a UCLA Service group) and served as its president, 1938-1940. She has been vice-president of the UCLA Alumni Association, president of the Los Angeles city Panhellenic Council, president of UCLA Affiliates, a board member of the Friends of the UCLA Library, a founding board member of the UCLA Art council, and a founding member of the Board of directors of the UCLA Faculty Center.

Prior to working at UCLA, Miss Sumner worked for the Los Angeles Express as a page editor. This period of her life is reflected in the scrapbook of Express clippings which contains the articles she wrote for the newspaper.

The files are arranged alphabetically under the same headings Miss Sumner used. There is, thus, some duplication of materials and some scattering of closely related materials.

Several photographs have been removed from the collection, if they were of general interest rather than specific to Miss Sumner's career. These have been filed in the Department's Picture Collection (Collection 99) under their subjects.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:

Collection arranged alphabetically.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Sumner, Ann, 1904- --Archives.

University of California, Los Angeles--Alumni and alumnae--Archival resources.

University of California, Los Angeles. University Extension--Employees--Archival resources.

University of California, Los Angeles. Alumni Association.

University of California, Los Angeles. Gold Shield.

University of California, Los Angeles. Affiliates.

UCLA Art Council.

Friends of the UCLA Library.

Related Material

Distinguished alumna [oral history transcript] / Ann Sumner, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1970-71. Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.

Container List

Files, A - B

Box 1, Folder 1

Advertising (University extension).

Note

[c.f. Box 10, folder 9]

Box 1, Folder 2

American Friends of Africa (UCLA Chapter).

Box 1, Folder 3

Armed forces classes (UC extension).

Box 1

Art Council of UCLA

Box 1, Folder 4

The beginning of.

Box 1, Folder 5

[n.d.].

Box 1, Folder 6

1953-1954.

Box 1, Folder 7

1954-1955.

Box 1, Folder 8

Correspondence. 1955-1957.

Box 1, Folder 9

1956.

Box 1, Folders 10-11

1956-1957.

Box 1, Folder 12

1958.

Box 1, Folder 13

1959.

Box 1, Folder 14

Art Council scholarships correspondence.

Files, C - E

Box 2, Folder 1

Classics of the screen.

Box 2, Folder 2

Correspondence classes.

Box 2, Folder 2A

Correspondence (general - to be filed). ca. 1927-1957.

Box 2, Folders 3-5

Delta Gamma Sorority.

Box 2, Folder 6

Dentistry (UC extension).

Box 2, Folder 7

Disaster preparedness.

Box 2, Folders 8-9

Engineering defense training.

Box 2, Folder 10

Extension building (photos).

Box 2, Folder 11

Extension division curricula (1930s).

Box 2, Folder 12

Extension division - Far East.

Box 3, Folder 1

Extension division - reports.

Box 3

Extension Division News

Box 3, Folder 2

1934-1935.

Box 3, Folder 3

1935-1936.

Box 3, Folder 4

1937-1938.

Box 3, Folder 5

1938-1939.

Box 3, Folder 6

1939-1940.

Box 3, Folder 7

1940-1941 (Lifelong learning series).

Box 4, Folder 1

1941 (San Diego Issue).

Box 4, Folder 2

1941-1942 (Lifelong learning series).

Box 4, Folder 3

1943.

Box 4, Folder 4

Selected articles, etc.

Box 4, Folder 5

Extension division - photos.

Box 4

Extension Division Radio

Box 4, Folder 6

1932-1935.

Box 4, Folder 7

1935-1938.

Box 5, Folder 1

Spring, 1939.

Box 5, Folder 2

Summer session, 1939.

Box 5, Folder 3

Fall, 1939.

Box 5, Folder 4

Spring, 1940.

Box 5, Folder 5

Summer session, 1940.

Box 5, Folder 6

Fall, 1940.

Box 5, Folders 7-8

Spring, 1941.

Box 6

Extension Travel Course no.855. 1938-1939

Box 6, Folder 1

Maps, notes, etc.

Box 6, Folder 2

Menus, ship schedules, etc.

Box 6, Folder 3

Notes, lists of tours, etc.

Box 6, Folder 4

Photos, postcards, etc.

Box 6, Folder 5

Travel booklets, etc.

Files, F

Box 7, Folder 1

Faculty center (UCLA). 1958-1967.

Box 7

Faculty Women's Club

Box 7, Folder 2

1940s.

Box 7, Folder 3

1958-1959.

Box 7, Folder 4

1959-1960.

Box 7, Folder 5

1960-1961.

Box 7, Folder 6

Midwinter dance. 1961.

Box 7, Folder 7

Publicity. 1956-1957.

Box 7

Friends of Music

Box 7, Folder 8

By-laws & historical sketch.

Box 7, Folder 9

Brochures.

Files, F - H

Box 8

Friends of the UCLA Library

Box 8, Folder 1

1957-1958.

Box 8, Folder 2

1962-1963.

Box 8, Folder 3

Gold shield. 1937-1960s.

Box 8, Folder 3

Hershey Hall - historical.

Box 8, Folders 5-6

Hole Art Collection.

Box 8, Folder 7

Hole Gallery Art Exhibits. 1953.

Files, I

Note

[All Are Institutes]

Box 9, Folders 1-2

Institutes - general.

Box 9, Folder 3

Institutes - Adult delinquency. 1949.

Box 9, Folder 4

Cancer. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 5

Coastal engineering. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 6

Environmental sanitation. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 7

Family life, health, social relations. 1949.

Box 9, Folder 8

Furniture industry 2nd annual conference. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 9

Labor press. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 10

Marketing institute. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 11

Medico-legal problems. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 12

Military procurement. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 13

Nuclear waste. 1950.

Box 9, Folder 14

Real estate. 1949.

Files, K - S

Box 10, Folder 1

Kellog's ranch.

Box 10, Folder 2

Kennedy collection.

Box 10, Folder 3

Kerckhoff Hall.

Box 10, Folder 4

Library [Powell Library building].

Box 10, Folder 5

Law - Extension, statewide.

Box 10, Folder 6

Medical extension.

Box 10, Folder 7

Miscellaneous.

Box 10, Folder 8

Paid advertising.

Box 10, Folder 9

Perigold, Paul.

Box 10, Folder 10

Personnel management & industrial relations.

Box 10, Folder 11

Philosophy department.

Box 10, Folder 12

Public health.

Box 10, Folder 13

Public relations (UC Extension).

Box 10, Folder 14

Publicity survey (UC Extension).

Box 10, Folder 15

Rakestraw, Boyd B.

Box 10, Folder 16

Royce Hall.

Box 10, Folder 17

Schenz, Robert F.

Box 10, Folder 18

Sellery, C. Morley.

Files, S - T

Box 11, Folder 1

Sheats, Paul H. (1958-1959).

Box 11, Folder 2

Sibley, Catherine.

Box 11

Travel Booklets

Box 11, Folder 3

Bavaria.

Box 11, Folder 4

Czechoslovakia.

Box 11, Folder 5

Hungary.

Box 11, Folder 6

Venice, Italy.

Files, U

Boxes 12-15

University Affiliates

Box 12, Folder 1

General.

Box 12, Folder 2

1941-1945.

Box 12, Folder 3

1949-1950.

Box 12, Folder 4

1951-1953.

Box 12, Folder 5

1954.

Box 12, Folder 6

1955.

Box 12, Folder 7

1956.

Box 12, Folder 8

1956-1957.

Box 13, Folder 1

1957.

Box 13, Folder 2

1957-1958.

Box 13, Folder 3

1958.

Box 13, Folder 4

1959.

Box 13, Folder 5

1959-1960.

Box 13, Folder 6

Dinner. 1960.

Box 13, Folder 7

Press releases. 1959-1960.

Box 14, Folders 1-2

1960-1961.

Box 14, Folder 3

1961.

Box 14, Folder 4

Dinner. 1961.

Box 14, Folder 5

1961-1962.

Box 14, Folder 6

Dinner. 1962.

Box 14, Folder 7

Press releases. 1962.

Box 15, Folder 1

1962-1963.

Box 15, Folder 2

Dinner. Spring 1963.

Box 15, Folder 3

1963-1964.

Box 15, Folder 4

Dinner. 1964.

Box 15, Folder 5

1964-1965.

Box 15, Folder 6

Dinner. 1965.

Box 15, Folder 7

1965-1966.

Box 15, Folder 8

Dinner. 1966.

Box 15, Folder 9

University associates. 1936-1937.

Box 16, Folder 1

University extension in action.

Box 16, Folder 2

University extension office procedures.

Box 16, Folder 3

UCLA Alumni association. 1958-1961.

Box 16, Folder 4

UCLA Architecture.

Box 16, Folder 5

UCLA Art galleries.

Box 16, Folder 6

UCLA buildings.

Box 16, Folder 7

UCLA campus views.

Box 16

UCLA History

Box 16, Folder 8

General.

Box 16, Folder 9

Newspaper & magazine articles.

Box 17, Folder 1

Typescripts of articles.

Box 17, Folder 2

UCLA Progress fund. 1957-1961.

Box 17, Folder 3

UCLA Southern Alumnus. 1932-1938.

Box 17, Folder 4

Weschler, Irving.

Box 17, Folder 5

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Box 17, Folder 6

Writer's Congress. 1943.

Box 17, Folder 7

Zarem, A.B.

Box 17, Folder 8

Zerbell, Mary.

Box 17, Folder 9

Zobell, Claude.

Clippings and Photographs

Box 18, Folder 1

Clippings - University extension and miscellaneous.

Box 18

Photographs

Box 18, Folder 2

University affiliates.

Box 18, Folder 3

University extension.

Box 18, Folder 4

UCLA campus.

Box 18, Folder 5

Ann Sumner.

Box 18, Folder 6

Miscellaneous.

Postcard Collection

Box 19

Cards filed alphabetically by country, city, or region.

Physical Description: In a 4 × 6 in. box.

Scrapbooks

Boxes 21, 22

University Extension.

Boxes 21, 22

Los Angeles Evening Express (apparently articles by Ann Sumner).

Box 23

Southern Campus. 1926.

[Los Angeles Pioneers]

Box 20

Pioneer families of Los Angeles. Los Angeles. November 1935.

Physical Description: Typescript in loose leaf binder.

Box 20

Pioneer families of Los Angeles.

Physical Description: Typescript - carbon.

Box 20

Clippings and research notes for Pioneer families of Los Angeles.

Box 20

Glass negatives of Los Angeles pioneers (from files of the Los Angeles Express). (ca. 1925).

Physical Description: 2 boxes in envelopes.

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