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Guide to the Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook
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Description
The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes programs, clippings, invitations, notes and letters, photographs, ticket stubs, postcards, pen and ink drawings, music manuscripts, and other memorabilia. The photographs are of dorm rooms, campus buildings, Mrs. Dunn's cat, other students, the student production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," staff for the women's DAILY PALO ALTO, fraternity and sorority houses, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade Concert during the 1904 commencement week. Collection also includes the typescript text of Kimball's "Everyfreshman," a play performed at the Delta Gamma house in ca. 1903.
Background
Alice W. Kimball earned her A.B. in English at Stanford in 1904; as a student she was active in the English Club, wrote for the women's editions of THE CHAPARRAL and the DAILY PALO ALTO, was associate editor of the student yearbook during her junior year, and wrote the prize football song during her senior year. She died on April 10, 1928.
Extent
1.5 Linear feet
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Availability
This collection is open for research.