Pender Turnbull papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0437

Staff Only

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

Creation: 1913-1983

Creator

Turnbull, Pender (Author, Person)

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

Abstract

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.