Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Ann Sumner papers
- Dates:
- 1920-1960
- Creators:
- Sumner, Ann, 1904-
- Abstract:
- Anna Emily Sumner (b.1904) was a charter member of the Delta Gamma sorority, woman's page editor for the Los Angeles Evening Express, a romance novelist, director of public information for University Extension (1932-66), vice president of the UCLA Alumni Association (1938-39), a founding member of Gold Shield, the UCLA Affiliates, the Friends of the UCLA Library, and the UCLA Art Council, and the first woman to receive Alumni Distinguished Service Award (1962). The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to Sumner's association with various UCLA organizations.
- Extent:
- 9.4 Linear Feet (19 boxes, 1 shoe box, and 4 oversize boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ann Sumner papers (Collection 1097). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to Sumner's association with various UCLA organizations. Organizations include: UCLA Art Council, University Affiliates, University Extension, Gold Shield, and the UCLA Alumni Association. Also includes a scrapbook of Los Angeles Express articles.
Collection contains Miss Sumner's files on her UCLA related activities from 1932 to about 1967. During that period she was in charge of Public Information-Press for University Extension at UCLA. She was also a charter member of the UCLA chapter of Delta Gamma; a founding member of Gold Shield (a UCLA Service group) and served as its president, 1938-1940. She has been vice-president of the UCLA Alumni Association, president of the Los Angeles city Panhellenic Council, president of UCLA Affiliates, a board member of the Friends of the UCLA Library, a founding board member of the UCLA Art council, and a founding member of the Board of directors of the UCLA Faculty Center.
Prior to working at UCLA, Miss Sumner worked for the Los Angeles Express as a page editor. This period of her life is reflected in the scrapbook of Express clippings which contains the articles she wrote for the newspaper.
- Biographical / historical:
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Anna Emily Sumner was born in 1904; AB, History, UCLA, 1926; charter member, Delta Gamma sorority; woman's page editor, Los Angeles Evening Express; wrote eight romance novels under pseudonym Marya Moore in the 1930s; director of public information for University Extension, 1932-66; founding member, Gold Shield; vice president, UCLA Alumni Association, 1938-39; founding member of the UCLA Affiliates, the Friends of the UCLA Library, and the UCLA Art Council; first woman to receive Alumni Distinguished Service Award, 1962.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Ann Sumner.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Saundra Taylor, June 1971.
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- Arrangement:
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The files are arranged alphabetically under the same headings Miss Sumner used. There is, thus, some duplication of materials and some scattering of closely related materials.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-01-20 15:30:21 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ann Sumner papers (Collection 1097). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988