Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Cameron, Katherine Scott
- Extent:
- 2.25 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Katherine Scott Cameron Papers (SC1029). Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection includes a scrapbook containing university forms, clippings, programs, brochures, photographs, and other memorabilia from Cameron's student days at Stanford, 1965-1969; and outgoing letters to family, 1965-1967, discussing her social life, fashions, dorms, athletic events, excursions off-campus, and her time in the overseas program in Britain. Some of the letters were typed in the form of a newsletter she called the "Stanford Scandal Sheet." Items of note in the scrapbook include Operation Match questionnaire (computerized dating service), memo re pre-football game activities on campus involving a cable car and photographs of the cable car, a white armband from a Vietnam War protest, 1967, and the undergraduate women's bill of rights (re living off-campus), 1967.
- Biographical / historical:
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Katherine (Kit) Cameron earned her AB in English at Stanford in 1969; as a student she was active in campus theatricals, served on the Ram's Head board in 1966/67, and participated in the overseas program at Harlaxton Manor in England, June-December 1967.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials were the gift of Katherine Scott Cameron, 2011-2019.
- 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
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Materials are open to research use.
- 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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[identification of item], Katherine Scott Cameron Papers (SC1029). Department of Special Collections, 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