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Siting Julia: Julia Child Centenary Exhibition

Opening September 21: Julia Child Centenary Exhibition

September 19, 2012
Julia Child
Library Exhibit

Opening this Friday, September 21, the Siting Julia: Julia Child Centenary Exhibition from the Schlesinger Library's Julia Child Papers traces her path through various sites: post–World War II Paris, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and national television.

Poster from the Alice Park Poster collection. A woman in armor on a horse carrying a flag in support of the Stanford Chapter of the Collegiate Woman Equal Suffrage League. Currently on display in the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library exhibit, Tenacious Women: Activists in a Democratic SocietyPoster from the Alice Park Poster collection. A woman in armor on a horse carrying a flag in support of the Stanford Chapter of the Collegiate Woman Equal Suffrage League. Currently on display in the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library exhibit, Tenacious Women: Activists in a Democratic Society

Suffrage Posters

August 22, 2012

The Schlesinger Library has recently digitized hundreds of posters from its collections, including dozens of suffrage posters representing the efforts of both the American and British suffrage campaigns. To celebrate the certification of the 19th Amendment, which occurred on August 26, 1920, we’ve put together a few highlights below.

Caroline Iverson Ackerman was the first Carol Lane, Women's Travel Director to be hired by Shell Oil Company.

Summer Vacation

August 21, 2012
Manuscript Collections
Travel
Shell Oil
Summer Vacation

The Schlesinger Library contains the papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman, aviator, journalist, and the first “Carol Lane, Women's Travel Director” to be hired by Shell Oil Company.

Happy 100th Birthday Julia Child

August 14, 2012
Audiovisual Collections
Culinary Collections
Digital Collections
Manuscript Collections
Julia Child

With generous funding from the Julia Child Foundation, the Schlesinger Library has recently digitized nearly 4,000 images of Julia and Paul Child from the Julia Child Papers.

Dione Lucas and Australian Television

August 1, 2012
Culinary Collections
Dione Lucas
Australian television
Jillian Adams

Dione Lucas, American celebrity chef and TV presenter, toured Australia and demonstrated French cordon bleu (blue ribbon) cooking in major department stores to promote the sale of TV sets during the 1950s.

Celebrating Bastille Day: 18th-century French Culinary Books at the Schlesinger (with Recipes!)

July 13, 2012
Book Postings

French cuisine and French culture are practically synonymous, so we are celebrating Bastille Day (July 14) by highlighting some of Schlesinger’s culinary books from late-18th-century France. Grain shortages and the consequent increase in bread prices were among the causes of the French Revolution, and the food supply was also a problem for the new government.

Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Elly Bulkin and Joan Larkin

Persephone Press: Short Time, Long-lasting Impact

July 10, 2012
Book Postings
Audiovisual Collections

Persephone Press, founded in 1976 by a lesbian-feminist collective called Pomegranate Productions, aimed to produce innovative material to foster lesbian sensibility and to effect social change. The collection includes audio recordings of Audre Lord and other poets featured in Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology (Persephone Press, 1981).

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Freedom for All

July 4, 2012
Manuscript Collections

Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Jennie Loitman Barron, whose papers may be found at the Schlesinger Library, presented her speech “Freedom for All” at the Independence Day exercises at Faneuil Hall in Boston in 1960.

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New Medical Romance Collection at the Schlesinger

June 28, 2012
Book Postings
Romance Fiction

The Schlesinger LIbrary’s growing collection of romance fiction now includes the complete works of Missouri writer Elizabeth Seifert (1897–1983), internationally best-selling author of more than 80 medical romances.

Helen Keller Radcliffe College graduation photo, 1904Helen Keller Radcliffe College graduation photo, 1904

On Radcliffe Alum Helen Keller's Birthday, Her Extraordinary Story

June 27, 2012
Helen Keller

Helen Keller came into the world on June 27, 1880. She entered Radcliffe College, where—with the aid of tutors, special proctors and her friend and teacher Anne Sullivan—she graduated cum laude in 1904. Throughout her life, she worked extensively in causes for the blind all over the world.

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