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Call Number: SC0784
Creator:
Straight, Edith
Title: Edith Straight scrapbook
Dates: 1891-1963
Bulk Dates: 1891-1901
Physical Description:
0.25 linear foot
Summary: Scrapbook documents her college career at Vassar (1892-1894) and
Stanford University (1894-1896) as well as her marriage and the birth of her first two
children. Included are calling cards, programs from cultural and athletic events,
illustrations, dance cards, invitations, notes and letters, tourist brochures,
clippings, and photographs. Of note are the LSJU Fire Notice, listing the fire alarm
whistles and the locations of hose carts and fire hydrants, ca. 1896; samples of cloth
used for her wedding clothes and trousseau; and congratulatory letters on her marriage
and the birth of her children. Additional miscellaneous items (housed in box 2) include
a photograph of Edith and her brother Herbert Randall Straight, 1891; Edith's Stanford
diploma, 1896; biography of Straight written by her granddaughter Anne Gay Hartman; and
clippings and articles about Herbert R. Straight, 1941 and 1963.
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.
Edith Straight Scrapbook (SC0784). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Edith Straight earned her A.B. in English at Stanford in May 1896; she married Frank
Williams Hastings Jr. in 1898. They resided in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Scrapbook documents her college career at Vassar (1892-1894) and Stanford University
(1894-1896) as well as her marriage and the birth of her first two children. Included
are calling cards, programs from cultural and athletic events, illustrations, dance
cards, invitations, notes and letters, tourist brochures, clippings, and photographs. Of
note are the LSJU Fire Notice, listing the fire alarm whistles and the locations of hose
carts and fire hydrants, ca. 1896; samples of cloth used for her wedding clothes and
trousseau; and congratulatory letters on her marriage and the birth of her children.
Additional miscellaneous items (housed in box 2) include a photograph of Edith and her
brother Herbert Randall Straight, 1891; Edith's Stanford diploma, 1896; biography of
Straight written by her granddaughter Anne Gay Hartman; and clippings and articles about
Herbert R. Straight, 1941 and 1963.
Stanford University--Students.
Straight, Edith
Straight, Herbert Randall.
Vassar College--Students.
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