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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
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
This collection is open for research.
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.
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.
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.
Kimball, Alice Windsor.
Stanford University--Student housing.
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Class of 1904.
Albums
Photoprints
Women college students.