Guide to the Katherine Scott Cameron Papers
SC1029
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, California, 94305-6064
Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu
March 2011
Title: Katherine Scott Cameron papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC1029
Contributing Institution:
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 linear foot
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1965-1969
Date (inclusive): 1965-1999
creator:
Cameron, Katherine Scott
Biographical/Historical note
Katherine (Kit) Cameron earned her AB in English at Stanford in 1969; as a student she was active in campus theatricals, served
on the Ram’s Head board in 1966/67, and participated in the overseas program at Harlaxton Manor in England, June-December
1967.
Scope and Contents note
Collection includes a scrapbook containing university forms, clippings, programs, brochures, photographs, and other memorabilia
from Cameron’s student days at Stanford, 1965-1969; and outgoing letters to family, 1965-1967, discussing her social life,
fashions, dorms, athletic events, excursions off-campus, and her time in the overseas program in Britain. Some of the letters
were typed in the form of a newsletter she called the “Stanford Scandal Sheet.” Items of note in the scrapbook include Operation
Match questionnaire (computerized dating service), memo re pre-football game activities on campus involving a cable car and
photographs of the cable car, a white armband from a Vietnam War protest, 1967, and the undergraduate women’s bill of rights
(re living off-campus), 1967.
Immediate Source of Acquisiton
Materials were the gift of Katherine Scott Cameron, 2011.
Preferred Citation note
Katherine Scott Cameron Papers (SC1029). Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Restrictions on Access
Access: Materials are open to research use.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Stanford University. -- General subdivision--Students.;
Stanford University.. Overseas Studies Program..
Women college students--California.
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence
1966 Jan.-June
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence
1966 Sept.-Dec.
Box 1, Folder 4
Correspondence
1967 Jan.-Feb.
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence
1967 March-June
Box 1, Folder 6
Correspondence
1967 July-Dec.
Box 1, Folder 7
Letters as "Stanford Slander Sheet" or "Stanford Scandal Sheet"
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 9
Loose items from scrapbook [invitation, programs] p. 2-3
Box 1, Folder 10
Loose items from scrapbook [Branner Manor booklet] p. 4-5
Box 1, Folder 11
Loose items from scrapbook [Operation Match questionnaire] p. 6-7
Box 1, Folder 12
Loose items from scrapbook [dance booklet] p. 12-13
Box 1, Folder 13
Loose items from scrapbook [memo re pre-football game activities involving a cable car] p. 36-37
Box 1, Folder 14
Loose items from scrapbook p. 46-47
Box 1, Folder 15
Loose items from scrapbook [ink sketch of Cameron by W. R. Davidson] p. 56-57
Box 1, Folder 16
Loose items from scrapbook [ticket to Pitzer's inauguration and 2 unlabelled photographs] p. 58-59
Box 1, Folder 17
Loose items from scrapbook [Ram's Head program "Lock Up Your Daughters"] p. 64-65
Box 1, Folder 18
Loose photographs from scrapbook: campus theatrical scenes, student life, Cable Car on campus, and others
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 19
Loose notes and cards from scrapbook
Box 1, Folder 20
Loose programs from scrapbook
Box 1, Folder 21
Loose clippings from scrapbook
Box 1, Folder 22
Loose miscellaneous items from scrapbook
Box 2, Folder 1
Oversize loose item from scrapbook [menu from L'Omelette restaurant] p. 34-35
