Guide to the Ruth Laird Kimball Scrapbook
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
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Overview
Call Number: SC0682
Creator:
Kimball, Ruth Laird.
Title: Ruth Laird Kimball scrapbook
Dates: 1900-1907
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Summary: 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.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
Ruth Laird Kimball Scrapbook (SC0682). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
Description of the Collection
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.
Access Terms
Kimball, Alice Windsor.
Kimball, Ruth Laird.
Machrihanish Golf Club of California (Stanford, Calif.)
Stanford University. Class of 1904.
Albums.
Photoprints.
Women college students.
Box 2, Folder 1
Loose pages from back of scrapbook
Box 2, Folder 2
Clipping on organized class rush at Stanford, Sept. 30, 1906
Box 2, Folder 3
Letter from Watson Nicholson introducing Ruth Kimball, 1900
Box 2, Folder 4
Photographs from “Knight of the Burning Pestle”
Box 2, Folder 5
Poster from “Knight of the Burning Pestle”
Box 2, Folder 6
Photographs and illustrations, misc.
