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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
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
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.
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.
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.
Kimball, Alice Windsor.
Kimball, Ruth Laird.
Machrihanish Golf Club of California (Stanford,
Calif.)
Stanford University--Student housing.
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Class of 1904.
Albums
Photoprints
Women college students.