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Old Cookbooks Find a Home at Harvard

The Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library is home to one of the world’s most outstanding collections of historical cookbooks, numbering over 20,000 volumes from around the world, and also holds the papers of Julia and Paul Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and other culinary luminaries.

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Women on the Clock: Hard Work and Low Wages

The Schlesinger Library's current exhibit Women on the Clock: Hard Work and Low Wages showcases the everyday experiences of women who work for an hourly wage. The exhibit opens on Friday, October 21, 2011, and runs through Monday, March 12, 2012, and will be on view in the Schlesinger Library’s first floor exhibit area during regular library hours: Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Stay Connected

Social media has come to the Schlesinger Library. Now, with our new presence on Facebook, you have one more way – in addition to our web site and e-newsletter – to stay up to date on our programing, events, and exhibits, as well as to share and discuss postings. Click on the "find us on Facebook" image above.


Julia Child Papers Open to Research

The papers, additional papers, and videotape collection of cook, cookbook author, and television personality Julia Child (1912-2004) are now open to research at the Schlesinger Library. Consisting of material related to Child’s work as a teacher, television personality, and cookbook author, the papers include address books, biographical material, cooking demonstration menus and programs, notebooks, correspondence, recipes, clippings, drafts, photographs, etc. The finding aids are available online at Harvard University's OASIS website:

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:R#AD.SCHL:sch00222

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:R#AD.SCHL:sch01321

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:R#AD.SCHL:sch01344