Guide to the Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0681
Creator:
Kimball, Alice Windsor.
Title: Alice Windsor Kimball scrapbook
Dates: 1900-1909
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Summary: The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes programs, clippings, invitations, notes and letters, photographs,
ticket stubs, postcards, pen and ink drawings, music manuscripts, and other memorabilia. The photographs are of dorm rooms,
campus buildings, Mrs. Dunn's cat, other students, the student production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," staff for
the women's DAILY PALO ALTO, fraternity and sorority houses, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade
Concert during the 1904 commencement week. Collection also includes the typescript text of Kimball's "Everyfreshman," a play
performed at the Delta Gamma house in ca. 1903.
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
Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook (SC0681). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Alice W. Kimball earned her A.B. in English at Stanford in 1904; as a student she was active in the English Club, wrote for
the women's editions of THE CHAPARRAL and the DAILY PALO ALTO, was associate editor of the student yearbook during her junior
year, and wrote the prize football song during her senior year. She died on April 10, 1928.
Description of the Collection
The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes programs, clippings, invitations, notes and letters, photographs,
ticket stubs, postcards, pen and ink drawings, music manuscripts, and other memorabilia. The photographs are of dorm rooms,
campus buildings, Mrs. Dunn's cat, other students, the student production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," staff for
the women's DAILY PALO ALTO, fraternity and sorority houses, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade
Concert during the 1904 commencement week. Collection also includes the typescript text of Kimball's "Everyfreshman," a play
performed at the Delta Gamma house in ca. 1903.
Access Terms
Kimball, Alice Windsor.
Stanford University. Class of 1904.
Albums.
Photoprints.
Women college students.
Box 2, Folder 1
Letter from Lenorr Williams
Box 2, Folder 4
Letter by Watson Nicholson introducing Alice Kimball, 1900
Box 2, Folder 5
The Chaparral, Jan. 31, 1909 – Larry Bowman Memorial Number
Box 2, Folder 8
Miscellaneous notes and letters
Box 2, Folder 10
Kimball, Alice W. "Everyfreshman," performed at the Delta Gamma house in ca. 1903 (typescript text)