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Guide to the Frances Bowker O'Connor Scrapbook
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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Sketch
  • Description of the Collection
  • Access Terms

  • Overview

    Call Number: SC0499
    Creator: O'Connor, Frances Bowker.
    Title: Frances Bowker O'Connor scrapbook
    Dates: 1925-1928
    Physical Description: 2 Linear feet
    Summary: Scrapbook documents her social activities at Stanford and Berkeley and includes photographs, dance cards, programs, clippings, party favors, notes from students, ticket stubs, and Christmas cards. Of note are items pertaining to the Big Game, the annual football game between Stanford and Berkeley, and a clipping about slang phrases in use by Stanford students (page 21).
    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

    Frances Bowker O'Connor Scrapbook (SC0499). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical Sketch

    Frances Bowker attended Stanford University from 1925 through the spring of 1927; she transferred to UC Berkeley in the Fall of 1927 and finished her a.b. there. In the summer of 1928 she married James P. O'Connor.

    Description of the Collection

    Scrapbook documents her social activities at Stanford and Berkeley and includes photographs, dance cards, programs, clippings, party favors, notes from students, ticket stubs, and Christmas cards. Of note are items pertaining to the Big Game, the annual football game between Stanford and Berkeley, and a clipping about slang phrases in use by Stanford students (page 21).

    Access Terms

    O'Connor, Frances Bowker.
    University of California, Berkeley --Students.
    Memorabilia.
    Photoprints.
    Scrapbooks