- Special Collections
- Posted August 20, 2008
Culinary Collection- The library houses a collection of cookbooks and texts
on food with a focus on local cuisine and community cookbooks. The collection also includes reference sources concerned with food history, international and regional cookbooks, and guides to entertaining and hosting.
The Culinary Library also sponsors the work of the New Orleans Culinary History Group and an almost annual series of programs on culinary history.
In these endeavors, the Center works with a number of other groups in New Orleans, including the Historic New Orleans Collection, Slow Food New Orleans, the Food and Beverage Museum, and other groups.
For more information, see, History of the Culinary Collection at the Vorhoff Library and Newcomb Archives.
Drag King Collection- The New Orleans Drag King Collection
Project is housing its new collection of oral histories, personal
papers, ephemera reflecting the community activities and personal
experiences of the drag king performance culture in New Orleans from
its beginnings in the late 1990s to the current day. Old and new
flyers, press releases, sketches, notes, letters, and any other papers
that document and provide insight into the various drag king activities
in town are some of the pieces in the library and are looking to be
acquired.
Ephemera Collection - These files include newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other documents on issues concerning women and girls that the Center has collected and filed for use by students and faculty.
Biographical Files - These files are comprised of biographical information of students, alumni, and faculty of Newcomb College that has been collected from student records, newspapers, correspondence, and other sources.
Newcomb Authors Collection- This collection is comprised of books written by Newcomb students and alumnae. The collection has also recently been expanded to include texts written by faculty Associates of the Women’s Studies Program of Tulane University.
Video Collection- The Center houses a number of videos that discuss women’s issues across time and culture through both documentaries and video-taped lectures held at Newcomb College. Students may watch videos at the Vorhoff Library, but may not check them out. Professors may check out videos for up to two days for classroom viewing.
Zale Writers Collection- Every year, Newcomb brings a nationally known writer to campus to give lectures and teach classes and workshops. This collection includes all books written by these authors, correspondence with the authors, photographs, and publicity related to the project. Learn more about the Zale-Writer-in-Residence program.
Zine Collection- Zines can be defined as small, self-produced semi-periodicals, ranging in a vast variety of subjects that interest the author. The collection includes but is not limited to fanzines, personal zines or perzines, and scene zines.
Prescriptive Literature Collection - This collection contains guides to parenting, marriage and sexuality, and other topics dating from the nineteenth century to the present.
