Finding Aid for the Ann Sumner Papers LSC.1097
Finding aid prepared by Saundra Taylor, June 1971; machine-readable finding aid
created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated on 2023 January 20.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Business Number: 310-825-4988
Fax Number: 310-206-1864
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ann Sumner papers
Creator:
Sumner, Ann, 1904-
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1097
Physical Description:
9.4 Linear Feet
(19 boxes, 1 shoe box, and 4 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1920-1960
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.
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.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Use
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
[Identification of item], Ann Sumner papers (Collection 1097). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ann Sumner.
Processing Information
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.
We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the
materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains
language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our
collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out
the form located on our website:
Report Potentially Offensive Description
in Library Special Collections.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Expanded Scope and Content
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.
Organization and Arrangement
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.
Separated Materials
Several photographs have been removed from the collection, if they were of general interest
rather than specific to Miss Sumner's career. These have been filed in the Department's
Picture Collection (Collection 99) under their subjects.
Related Materials
Distinguished alumna [oral history transcript] / Ann Sumner, interviewee.
UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1970-71. Available at Department of Special
Collections, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California, Los Angeles.
Affiliates
University of California, Los Angeles. Gold
Shield
University Extension -- Archives
Friends of the UCLA Library
Sumner, Ann, 1904- --Archives.
UCLA Art Council
box 1, folder 1
Advertising (University extension).
General note
[c.f. Box 10, folder 9]
box 1, folder 2
American Friends of Africa (UCLA Chapter).
box 1, folder 3
Armed forces classes (UC extension).
box 1, folder 8
Correspondence.
1955-1957.
box 1, folder 14
Art Council scholarships correspondence.
box 2, folder 2A
Correspondence (general - to be filed).
ca. 1927-1957.
box 2, folder 6
Dentistry (UC extension).
box 2, folder 8-9
Engineering defense training.
box 2, folder 10
Extension building (photos).
box 2, folder 11
Extension division curricula
(1930s).
box 2, folder 12
Extension division - Far East.
box 3, folder 1
Extension division - reports.
box 3, folder 7
(Lifelong learning series).
1940-1941
box 4, folder 2
(Lifelong learning series).
1941-1942
box 4, folder 5
Extension division - photos.
box 6
Extension Travel Course no.855.
1938-1939
box 6, folder 2
Menus, ship schedules, etc.
box 6, folder 3
Notes, lists of tours, etc.
box 7, folder 1
Faculty center (UCLA).
1958-1967.
box 7, folder 8
By-laws & historical sketch.
box 8
Friends of the UCLA Library
box 8, folder 3
Hershey Hall - historical.
box 8, folder 7
Hole Gallery Art Exhibits.
1953.
Files, I
General note
[All Are Institutes]
box 9, folder 3
Institutes - Adult delinquency.
1949.
box 9, folder 5
Coastal engineering.
1950.
box 9, folder 6
Environmental sanitation.
1950.
box 9, folder 7
Family life, health, social relations.
1949.
box 9, folder 8
Furniture industry 2nd annual conference.
1950.
box 9, folder 10
Marketing institute.
1950.
box 9, folder 11
Medico-legal problems.
1950.
box 9, folder 12
Military procurement.
1950.
box 10, folder 4
Library [Powell Library building].
box 10, folder 5
Law - Extension, statewide.
box 10, folder 10
Personnel management & industrial relations.
box 10, folder 13
Public relations (UC Extension).
box 10, folder 14
Publicity survey (UC Extension).
box 11, folder 1
Sheats, Paul H.
(1958-1959).
box 12, box 13, box 14, box 15
box 13, folder 7
Press releases.
1959-1960.
box 15, folder 9
University associates.
1936-1937.
box 16, folder 1
University extension in action.
box 16, folder 2
University extension office procedures.
box 16, folder 3
UCLA Alumni association.
1958-1961.
box 16, folder 9
UCLA History Newspaper articles.
box 16, folder 10
UCLA History Typed Manuscripts.
box 17, folder 1
UCLA Progress fund.
1957-1961.
box 17, folder 2
UCLA
Southern Alumnus.
1932-1938.
box 17, folder 4
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Clippings and Photographs
box 18, folder 1
Clippings - University extension and miscellaneous.
box 19
Cards filed alphabetically by country, city, or region.
General Physical Description note: In a 4 × 6 in. box.
box 21, box 22
Los Angeles Evening Express (apparently
articles by Ann Sumner).
box 20
Pioneer families of Los Angeles. Los
Angeles.
November 1935.
General Physical Description note: Typescript in loose leaf binder.
box 20
Pioneer families of Los Angeles.
General Physical Description note: Typescript - carbon.
box 20
Clippings and research notes for
Pioneer families of
Los Angeles
.
box 24
Glass plate negatives of Los Angeles pioneers (from files of the
Los Angeles Express).
circa 1925
General note
Scans of the boxes in which the negatives were originally housed can be found in Box
20, Folder 1. Two negatives removed for conservation purposes.
