Kurtz, Edna Rosalinde Riseman
2007-74

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Creator - Creator
Kurtz, Edna
Title
Edna Rosalinde Riseman Kurtz Collection
ID
2007-74
Date [inclusive]
Betwwen 1919 and 1993
Extent
1.0 Cubic feet 1 box
Language
English

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Scope and Contents note

This collection contains memorabilia from Edna Rosalinde Riseman Kurtz's years at Newcomb (NC 1923), as well as afterwards. It includes her class schedule, certificates and event programs, as well as personal correspondence, etchings and her graduation tassel. Also donated were publications such as Jambalaya and Under the Oaks, commencement programs, and pieces of her scrapbooks.

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Organization and Arrangement

Personal materials are found in one carton. Remaining publications are placed in their corresponding collections.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Newcomb Archives October 2000

Newcomb Center for Research on Women
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Scrapbooks

Subject(s)

  • Student Life -- 1920s

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Newcomb College Scrapbooks as a Representation of Cultural History: New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s.

By Shaayna Slotkhin. Senior Honors Thesis, Department of Communication, Tulane University, May 2011.

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Collection Inventory

Carton 1 of 1   1.0 Cubic feet 1 carton

General note

Graduation card with photo

Photo - May 1973

Donation letter to Under the Oaks (8/12/93)

Letter of thanks from Opelousas-Eunice Public Library

Fiftieth year reunion program (5/13/73)

Certificate of the fiftieth anniversary

Certificate from the American Red Cross to Mildred B. Riseman (2/21/58)

Certificate from the American Red Cross to Mildred B. Riseman (7/13/60)

Newcomb Centennial Calendar of Events

Alumni Association invitation to a party honoring Newcomb Class of 1923

Sixtieth reunion letter

Schedule of her classes 1919-1920

Newcomb anniversary booklet 1986

Graduation tassel

Two damascene etchings of:

--Gibson Hall - in the name of Mildred Riseman, no. 178 of the series

--Newcomb Hall - in the name of Edna Riseman, no. 71 of the series

(2) Mid-Year Convocation for the Conferring of Degrees program (2/7/48)

(1) Summer Session of the Conferring of Degrees Program (9/2/50)

(2) Commencement booklets 1935

(1) Commencement booklet 1937

Commencement programs for the following dates: 6/6/23, (4) 6/12/35, 6/9/37, 6/7/39, 5/13/73

Newcomb Under the Oaks for the following dates: Spring 1984, Winter 1984, Fall 1984-Winter 1985, Fall 1985, Spring 1986, Fall 1986

Newcomb News August 1981

Newcomb Alumnae Newsletter - Winter 1972, Summer 1972

Jambalaya 1923 -- shelved in back room

Scrapbook -- Scrapbook collection

Newcomb Ring -- Memorabilia Collection MC-5

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