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Guide to the Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook
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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: SC0681
    Creator: Kimball, Alice Windsor.
    Title: Alice Windsor Kimball scrapbook
    Dates: 1900-1909
    Physical Description: 1.5 Linear feet
    Summary: 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.
    Language(s): The materials are in English.
    Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Green Library
    557 Escondido Mall
    Stanford, CA 94305-6064
    Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
    Phone: (650) 725-1022
    URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

    Administrative Information

    Information about Access

    This collection is open for research.

    Ownership & Copyright

    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.
    Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

    Cite As

    Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook (SC0681). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    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.

    Description of the Collection

    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.

    Access Terms

    Kimball, Alice Windsor.
    Stanford University. Class of 1904.
    Albums.
    Photoprints.
    Women college students.