Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Violette Costabel Theatre Programs Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1926-1945
Collection number: Mss44
Creator:
Violette Costabel
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Violette Costabel Theatre Programs Collection,
Mss44, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the
Pacific Library
Biography
This collection consists of two scrapbooks of programs and clippings
pertaining to musical and theatrical performances in northern California, New
York, England and France between 1916 and 1945. The bulk of these materials
concern performances in Stockton, San Jose and San Francisco, California.
The scrapbooks were created by Violette Costabel, M.A., a 1922 graduate
of the College of the Pacific. In 1928 Costabel received a Certificat d'Etudes
Francaises from the Universite de Lyons and in 1930 she was awarded an M.A. in
French from Stan-ford University. From 1924 through 1932 Violette Costabel was
an assistant professor of French at the College of the Pacific. At the height
of the Great Depression she was terminated by the college and ultimately took a
position in the library at Stanford University, where she remained until her
retirement in 1965.
Scope and Content
The content of the scrapbooks reflects Miss Costabel's life
circumstances. The bulk of the earliest programs and clippings pertain to
events in San Jose where the College of the Pacific was located when Miss
Costabel was a student there. The lion's share of those programs dating between
1924 and 1932 pertain to events in Stockton, where the College of the Pacific
was located when Costabel was a faculty member there. She collected a small
group of programs during the academic year 1927-1928, when she was a student in
France. Most programs and clippings dating from 1933 onward pertain to events
at San Jose, Stanford or San Francisco.