Guide to the Audrey Tompkins Summers Scrapbook SC0543
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Title: Audrey Tompkins Summers scrapbook
Identifier/Call Number: SC0543
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1942-1947
Material Specific Details: This scrapbook may contain
language, images, or content that is offensive or harmful. Stanford Libraries collects and
makes these materials available to facilitate scholarly research and education, and does not
endorse the viewpoints within.
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Purchased, 1998.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Audrey Tompkins earned her A.B. in psychology at Stanford University in 1947. She married
James Leonard Summers, a member of the Stanford Class of 1946.
Cite As
Audrey Tompkins Summers Scrapbook (SC0543). Department of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook was kept by Audrey Tompkins during her high school and college years. It
contains programs, dance cards, menus, tickets, notices, and other memorabilia, largely
documenting her social life, with a few items pertinent to her academic life at Stanford.
There are also a few objects such as a spoon and hair clippings.
Separated Materials
Box 1, Folder 6: A spent flash bulb was removed from page 10 of scrapbook (January
2024).
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Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
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owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
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Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Scrapbooks
Women -- California -- Social life and customs.
Young women -- California.
Box 1, folder 1
Page 1 and 2
1943 September 16-23
Scope and Contents note
Mountain View High School memorabilia; photo of high school students at Earl Carroll
Theatre Restaurant in Hollywood; RR schedule to Los Angeles; Key Magazine (events in
southern California)
Box 1, folder 2
Page 3 and 4
1944
Scope and Contents note
Booklet "Memories of My Senior Year," including photos; her high school commencement
programl S.U. commencement program
Box 1, folder 3
Page 5
1944 Summer and September
Scope and Contents note
Memorabilia from dates with Arne; program from "Goodnight Ladies," S.F. theater
Box 1, folder 4
Page 6
Circa 1944
Scope and Contents note
Spoon from Palo Alto Hospital; instructions for card tricks at California-USC
game
Box 1, folder 5
Page 7 and 8
1944 November 18-23
Scope and Contents note
Football program USC v. California; A.S.T.P. Thanksgiving Dinner menu; brochure
"Stanford Songs and Yells" published through courtesy of Hotel St. Francis; drinking
straws from Wilsons and the Stanford Union; program and ticket stubs from Gaieties
Box 1, folder 6
Page 9 and 10
1944 Fall and
Winter
Scope and Contents note
S.U. registration certificate; dance memorabilia; Christmas and New Year's
memorabilia
Box 1, folder 7
Page 11 and 12
1945 January-March
Scope and Contents note
Memorabilia from various social events; social events with Jimmy Summers; her
birthday; winter quarter registration card
Box 1, folder 8
Page 13
1945 March-April
Scope and Contents note
Point Lobos brochure; various social events
Box 1, folder 9
Page 14
1944 November-1945 Spring
Scope and Contents note
Dance card; pressed flowers from bouquet from Jimmy; tickets from Stanford dances
Box 1, folder 10
Page 15 and 16
1945 February-April
Scope and Contents note
Notices to appear before Committee of Five for being out after hours ("technical
lockout"); card for dance at Roble Gym; matches and napkins from various dinners and
dances
Box 1, folder 11
Page 17 and 18
1945 Summer
Scope and Contents note
Matches and napkins from various dinners and dances
Box 1, folder 12
Page 19
1945 December-1946 January
Scope and Contents note
Pressed flowers; memorabilia from dinners and dances
Box 2, folder 1
Page 20 and 21
1945 December-1946
November
Scope and Contents note
Sketch of Jimmy; cards re Red and White Ball and Lagunita Formal Dance; Hotel
Claremont memorabilia; drink menu from Trader Sam's
Box 2, folder 2
Page 22
1946
February-March
Scope and Contents note
Social events
Box 2, folder 3
Clippings and newspapers
Circa 1943-1946
Box 2, folder 4
Scrapbook covers
circa 1942-1947
Box 3, folder 1
Page 23
1945 November-1946
April
Scope and Contents note
Dance and theater memorabilia
Box 3, folder 2
Page 24
1942-1947
Scope and Contents note
Gaieties program; Mission Ranch brochure; Restaurant reservation card; dance
memorabilia
Box 3, folder 3
Page 25
circa 1942-1947
Scope and Contents note
Libretto from Il Trovatore
Box 3, folder 4
Page 26
1946
Scope and Contents note
Coasters and napkins from restaurants; clipping of a cartoon
Box 3, folder 5
Page 27
1946
Scope and Contents note
Ram's Head program; basketball program; Orchesis program
Box 3, folder 6
Page 28
1946-1947
Scope and Contents note
Stanford dance cards
Box 3, folder 7
Page 28
circa 1942-1947
Scope and Contents note
Instructions for selling ads in Chaparral
Box 3, folder 8
Page 29
circa 1942-1947
Scope and Contents note
Cartoon; Ram's Head program
Box 3, folder 9
Dance cards and miscellany
circa 1942-1947
Box 3, folder 10
Pressed flowers from page 23
circa 1942-1947
Box 3, folder 11
Hair clippings
circa 1942-1947
Box 3, folder 12
Sugar cube
circa 1942-1947
