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Women's Historical Resources
For manuscript and archival sources in the Philadelphia area, see:
Guide to Women's History Resources in the Delaware Valley Area.
1983
H Magill Reference Room HQ1438 A118 V38 1983
B Canaday Ref HQ1438 A118 V38 1983
Cookery
- A recently-acquired collection--The Esther
B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts--includes predominantly
printed sources but also some manuscript items that document the history
of cookery and also shed ancillary light on women's literacy, the history
of medicine ("recipes" could be medical as well as culinary),
household organization, behavior, and other aspects of early modern
and recent life. Texts run from fifteenth-century editions of Platina
and manuscripts of Apicius, through La Varenne, Brillat-Savarin, and
other seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century cookery writers,
to a small selection of twentieth-century cookbooks.
Contact: University
of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library, Special Collections, 3420 Walnut
St., Philadelphia. 215-898-7088 See examples from the collection at:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/aresty/aresty22.html
Women Physicians
- The Medical College of Pennsylvania (formerly the Female Medical College
of Pennsylvania) has an archives and special collections devoted to
MCP and to women physicians in general. Materials include the files
of the College, student theses, personal correspondence, business papers,
organizational records, and photographs. Material date from the 1840s
to the present, with the greatest concentration coming from the United
States.
Contact: Medical
College of Pennsylvania, Archives and Special Collections on Women in
Medicine, 3300 Henry Ave., Philadelphia. 215-842-7124
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