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Pender Turnbull papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0437
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of personal correspondence, food and drink recipes, photographs of the Rice campus, buildings, faculty, and student activities, and four Campanile yearbooks.

Dates

  • 1913-1983

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Biographical / Historical

Miss Euphemia Pender Turnbull was born on November 6, 1896, in Rockingham Nova Scotia, enrolled at Rice Institute in the fall of 1915, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919. After graduation she accepted a summer job at the Institute and became a permanent member of the library staff that fall, and remaining on campus for the next fifty years. Although she never officially received the title of University Archivist, she was best known in this role.

Extent

1.5 Linear Feet ( (2 boxes))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

The collection consists of personal correspondence, food and drink recipes of Pender Turnbull, Rice Institute graduate and librarian. Photographs of the Rice campus, buildings, faculty, and student activities are also included.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Estate of Miss Pender Turnbull, 1993, 1994.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Addendum materials were donated by Beverly Hendrickson in the summer of 2019.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Pender Turnbull papers, 1913-1983
Status
Completed
Author
Amanda Focke
Date
2009
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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