Guide to the Arline Gardiner Stevens Collection
MS.P.011
Carole McEwan; inventory added by Zoe MacLeod, 2020
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
(cc) 2020
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
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Note
nonstandard finding aid on file
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Arline Gardiner Stevens collection
Creator:
Stevens, Arline Gardiner
Identifier/Call Number: MS.P.011
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
(1 document box, 1 XOS folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1890s-1920s
Abstract: This collection contains theater
scrapbooks, photographs, and unsorted material relating to the career of dancer Arline
Gardiner and the Gardiner Trio (Arline, Helen and Edgar Gardiner) from the 1890's to the
1920's. It includes three scrapbooks of Arline Gardiner, three folders of unsorted papers
and documents relating to Arline and Edgar Gardiner, and seven individual and group
photographs of Gardiner Trio members.
Language of Material:
English .
Access
The collection has not been processed. It may contain restricted materials. Please contact
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creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please
contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Arline Gardiner Stevens collections. MS-P011. Special Collections and Archives, The UC
Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Arline Gardiner Stevens, February 1975.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection contains theater scrapbooks, photographs, and unsorted material relating to
the career of dancer Arline Gardiner and the Gardiner Trio (Arline, Helen and Edgar
Gardiner) from the 1890's to the 1920's. It includes three scrapbooks of Arline Gardiner,
three folders of unsorted papers and documents relating to Arline and Edgar Gardiner, and
seven individual and group photographs of Gardiner Trio members.
Box 1
Biographical material, "Labor sketch--Actress of Arline G. Stevens about 1935,"
written by Ernest Sherburn of the Christian Science Monitor. (5 leaves typescript with
ms. revisions)
1890s-1920s
Box 1
Edgar Gardiner ephemera
1890s-1920s
Box 1
Notebook (74 p. ms.)
1890s-1920s
Box 1
Score: "I don't know whether to do it or not." Lyrics clipped to score. (1 p.
typescript with ms. revision)
1890s-1920s
Box 1
Script: "Nolan Leary's skitlits of 1927." Original comedy "black-out" scenes by
Helen and Nolan Leary.
1890s-1920s
Box FB-002, Folder 1
Oversized photographs and publications
1890s-1920s
