Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Ruth Laird Kimball scrapbook
- Dates:
- 1900-1907
- Creators:
- Kimball, Ruth Laird.
- Abstract:
- The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes photographs, student records and an entrance exam, letters and notes, receipts, invitations, postcards, clippings, programs, posters, and other memorabilia. Some items pertain to the Machrihanish Golf Club at Stanford. Also included is a manuscript poem by her sister Alice W. Kimball. The photographs are of her dorm room, campus buildings and scenes, fraternity houses, other students, the board of the Students' Guild, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade Concert during the 1904 commencement week.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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Ruth Laird Kimball Scrapbook (SC0682). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes photographs, student records and an entrance exam, letters and notes, receipts, invitations, postcards, clippings, programs, posters, and other memorabilia. Some items pertain to the Machrihanish Golf Club at Stanford. Also included is a manuscript poem by her sister Alice W. Kimball. The photographs are of her dorm room, campus buildings and scenes, fraternity houses, other students, the board of the Students' Guild, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade Concert during the 1904 commencement week.
- Biographical / historical:
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Ruth Laird Kimball earned her A.B. in English at Stanford in 1904; as a student she was active in the English Club, worked on the student production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," served on the Board of Directors for the Students' Guild, and was vice-president of the Senior Class. She died on August 16, 1917.
- Physical location:
- Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-22 15:14:22 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Terms of access:
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While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
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Ruth Laird Kimball Scrapbook (SC0682). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022