Exhibits

Lives on Letterhead: A Reflection of Family Business in the South from the Newcomb Archives One of the collections housed in the Newcomb Archives is the collection of Newcomb College Student Records, dating from 1895-1925. As in all archival collections, this collection shows us the past -- glimpses of the dreams and hopes of generations to come before us. One way that this collection allows this sort of reflection is through its letterheads, the very stationery on which parents and their daughters wrote to the College. These colorful pages provide information about the family business or the employer, usually of the father- and by extension information about the whole of the commercial South.

Two Women and Their Cookbooks: Lena Richard and Mary Land: Learn about two women who helped define and popularize Louisiana cooking during the mid-20th century. An exhibit about Land and Richard is on view in the Center's Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room November 2-December 21, 2001. This project is supported by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. You may also wish to view the exhibition guide. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

The Newcomb Arcade Web Archive includes select issues in their entirety and an anthology of pieces from the publication. The Newcomb Arcade was the magazine published by the students and alumnae of The College from 1909-1934.

Ruth and Rosalie: Friendships and Historical Process. The history of New Orleans and Louisiana in the twentieth century has been shaped not only by the names writ large in history books and mentioned on the History Channel, but by many dedicated and brave women whose involvement in social and political causes revolutionized politics, education, and many other facets of life in the city and state. Two of these women, Ruth Dreyfous and Rosalie Cohen, are commemorated here for their work to improve New Orleans for its citizens.

The Newcomb Pottery page is dedicated to the ceramics tradition of Newcomb College of the last hundred years. Features the biographies of some of the women potters as well as the history of Newcomb Pottery.

Scrapbooks: A page about scrapbooks, their history, and their cultural significance.

We also have a highly non-traditional page dedicated to Valentines. Explore this day of inamorata through the lens of an early 1900s scrapbook.

Whence came such cultural phenomena as Women's History Month, Black History Month, Gay and Lesbian History Month and National Cheese Day? To learn more about the "holidaying of America," visit the Newcomb student-produced web site Every Other Gets a Month.

Curious to learn more about H. Sophie Newcomb College?

Read our Brief History or click Here to learn a little something about Josephine Louise Newcomb's book collection.

Visit Newcomb Through the Years, a photo exhibit in-progress by former Center student worker Kate Bolin.

Or learn more about The Newcomb Relief Unit, a relief unit made up of Newcomb alumni that assisted overseas after World War I.
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