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Happy Thanksgiving Leon Miller, head of the Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC), reviews LaRC’s extensive Louisiana cookbook collection. Because food and foodways are central to Louisiana, documenting our state's food culture is a special mission of the Louisiana Research Collection. Not only does LaRC collect menus and other restaurant ephemera ( which it has put online ), it also makes a special effort to acquire Louisiana cookbooks. Many cookbooks from well-known chefs, restaurants, and presses are readily available, while others are more difficult to obtain. Particularly difficult are self-published cookbooks that document a family's recipes or are sold by organizations as a fund-raising tool. LaRC recently acquired nearly a hundred self-published cookbooks from Louisiana churches, schools, social organizations, and families in parishes and small towns across the state, from the Episcopal School of Acadiana to the Baton Rouge Chapter of Sweet Adelines. Such self-...
Special Mission Spotlight The New Orleans Garden Society recently donated copies of their yearbooks for the years 1988-2016. Preserving the legacy of Louisiana horticultural, gardening, and environmental societies is a special mission of the Louisiana Research Collection. Among the many organizations represented in our holdings are the East Feliciana Pilgrimage & Garden Club, Fall Garden Festival, Garden Sprouts (a children's gardening club), Garden Study Club of New Orleans, Japanese Garden Society of New Orleans, Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Metairie Garden Club, New Orleans Botanical Garden Foundation, New Orleans Garden Society, New Orleans Old Garden Rose Society, Southern Garden History Society, and many more. LaRC also preserves documents for many societies devoted to specific flowers or plants, such as the clubs for Amaryllis, Azaleas, Camellias, Crepe Myrtles, Daylilies, Lilies, Louisiana Iris, and others. In addition, the Louisiana Research...
The papers of Harold Lief, M.D. (1917-2007) The papers of Harold Lief, M.D. (1917-2007) are now available. The guide to the collection is available online here . Lief was an influential professor of psychiatry as well as a distinguished practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He made significant contributions to the field of human sexuality by advocating for the incorporation of sexuality education in medical schools and conducting scientific research regarding sex education and sex therapy. Dr. Lief received his M.D. from New York University in 1942 and completed his psychoanalytic training at Columbia University in 1950. While at Columbia University, he studied with Sandor Rado, an associate of Sigmund Freud. He became a professor of psychiatry and neurology at Tulane University in 1951. While a professor at Tulane University, Dr. Lief worked with Dr. Alan Mayers and Dr. David Reed on the Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT). The SKAT was originally created to gather, e...
This exhibit includes several new acquisitions for the Louisiana Research Collection. http://news.tulane.edu/news/rare-books-display-library-exhibit Michael Kuczynski, professor and chair of the Department of English in the Tulane School of Liberal Arts, believes the past is meant to be touched. That’s the idea behind an exhibit titled “An Open Book” that he curated in collaboration with the staff of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. On display is a diverse selection of rare materials recently acquired through a gift from Stuart Rose, a current Tulane parent, bibliophile and major collector. One of the exhibit’s highlights is a 1499 edition of St. Augustine’s sermons, printed in Paris. It features a woodcut frontispiece depicting Augustine composing his works. The volume is one of only nine copies known to exist and immediately enhances Tulane’s holdings in rare incunables, or books printed before 1500. “Open books in medieval art, such as Tu...
Connie Griffith papers William R. Cullison, III, recently donated the papers of Connie Griffith (1904-1997; 19 linear feet) to the Louisiana Research Collection. The guide to the collection is available online. While Tulane University has intermittently acquired Louisiana archival documents since at least 1889, in 1953 Howard-Tilton Memorial Library hired Griffith as its first person charged with overseeing special collections. At the time the collection was small and little-known, consisting of fewer than 35,000 items. By the time she retired some twenty years later, Mrs. Griffith had built it into a repository of national significance, with over two and a half million pieces. Consuelo “Connie” Garza Griffith was bor...
Take a whirlwind tour and learn about the exhibit “The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner” at LaRC's compatriot institution, the Southeastern Architectural Archive at Tulane University (SE AA). This exhibit opened on August 17, 2017, in conjunction with the premier screening of the feature documentary " Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner " at the New Orleans Museum of Art . Generously supported by Lettermans, The Louisiana Architectural Foundation , and the Marjorie Peirce Geiser and John Geiser Jr. Fund of the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the exhibit will be open through June 8, 2018 on the the third floor of Tulane University's Jones Hall at 6801 Freret Street.
Leon Miller, head of the Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) at Tulane University, unfurls a banner for the New Orleans Community Chest. The New Orleans Community Chest was founded in 1924 as the fund-raising arm of the Council of Social Agencies of New Orleans. While a few Community Chests remain, most changed their name to “The United Way” by the early 1960s. LaRC preserves the records of the Council of Social Agencies as part of its special mission to preserve and documen t social welfare activities in our area. In addition to preserving the records of the New Orleans Council of Social Agencies, LaRC is the official archives of the Jewish Children’s Home, Kingsley House, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Poydras Home, the Protestant Children’s Home, the Traveler’s Aid Society, the Waldo Burton Home, the Orleans Neighborhood Centers, the Women’s Exchange, the YWCA, and many more. You can learn more about LaRC social welfare holdings here: http://larc.tula...