Newcomb Archives
Witherspoon, Evelyn
2007-124
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Newcomb Archives
- Creator - Creator
- Witherspoon, Evelyn
- Title
- Evelyn Witherspoon Collection
- ID
- 2007-124
- Date [inclusive]
- Between 1935 and 1993
- Extent
- 1.0 Cubic feet
- Language
- English
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Newcomb Archives
Newcomb Center for Research on WomenSeltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu
Controlled Access Headings
Occupation(s)
- Artists
- Newcomb College, Alumnae
Subject(s)
- Culinary History
General note
Donations:
1. Address diary (5"x7" brown hardcover with inscription in gold on front cover) Contains:
--Addresses
--Several letters
--Namecards
--Date of deaths
--Pictures of: Tom Sheoman at 4 months (b&w 2.5"x3.5"), Cindy Sheomen at 3 years (b&w 2.5"x3.5"), "A Middle House, May 8, 1965" (Japan, color 2.5"x3.5"), "Kyoto, Japan, 1965" (b&w 4.5"x3"), "Kyoto, Japan, 1965" (color 3.5"x2.5")
--One postcard: Ireland: 1993
2. Book: 'Margaret Pace Willson: Watercolor's' (white cover with painting on front, 8.5"x8.5", contains a short bio of artist and colored photographs of her paintings)
3. Four pictures (7"x5" b&w):
--Front porch
--Lounge/dining room
--Library
--Back porch
4. Flyer: "Masks & Other Faces" Margaret Witherspoon (8.5"x5.5")
5. Photograph of ocean (b&w 10"x8")
6. "Carolyn Durieux, 1965" photograph (b&w 4"x5")
7. Flyer: Art Exhibition New Orleans at Delgado Community College 1981 (20"x16" with b&w, photo of 9 artists on front)
8. Flyer: Exhibition of Jade Jewett paintings at Gasperi Gallery (5.5"x7" with color photo of "Getting a Handful")
9. 'Quarante Club 1992-1993' (small 4"x5.5" booklet with pick cover)
10. 'Quarante Club 1984-1985' (small 4"x5.5" with grey cover)
11. Flyer: Kathleen Sidwell exhibition at Le Mieux Galleries 1992 (with color photo of "Center of it All")
12. One handwritten recipe of Delphine's Easy Veal Stew (4"x6" index card)
13. 'American Wildlife Address Book.' Montana: Falcon Publishing Co., Inc., 1989, illus. (6.5"x7.5" with color photo of a fawn on front cover)
14. One "One Year Diary" (4"x5.5" dark green cover with gold inscription) contains entries from 1970
15. 'Degas: A New Art Book & Engagement Book 1989.' New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, illus. (8"x8.5"spiral bound with color pictures of paintings)
16. 'New Orleans Collects.' New Orleans Museum of Art, 1971, illus. (9"x8" lime green cover, contains listings of New Orleans private art collections)
17. '1977 Artists Biennial.' New Orleans Museum of Ar, 1977. (off-white cover with raised lettering, 8.5"x9.75")
18. One Schedule from Tulane's Summer Lyric Theatre for 1985 "West Side Story," "Sheman," "Doah," & "Annie" (with listing of cast, 6"x 9.5" with cream and turquoise cover)
19. One two-page typed (8.5"x14") history of Benachi-Torre-Derbes estate at 2257 Bayou Road, New Orleans dated August 1, 1987
20. One handmade booklet with 9"x6" orange cover titled 'Unsent Letters to My Wife.' contains poems published in 'Negative Capability' Oct, 1982
21. One picture album (6.5"x5", with multicolored covered) contains photos of several events/people including a Witherspoon exhibition dated April 14-30, 1991)
22. One small gray address book with gold inscription (4.5"x2")
23. One small address book without cover (2.5"x3.75")
24. Three photostats of newspaper articles:
--Fuller, Edmund. "The Exuberant Story of 'Our Town's' Author." 'The Wall Street Journal' Nov.7, 1983.
--Hoelterhoff, Manuela. "American 19th-Century Artists on View All Over." 'Wall Street Journal' Nov. 8, 1983.
--Jackson, Brooks. "Group Formed by Sen. Heinz to Pour Money Into GOP Races." 'The Wall Street Journal' (no date)
25. Two (8.5"x14") pages of Emergency Department questionnaire from Healthcare Communications with a return envelope
26. One book missing cover: Scott, Natalie and Caroline Merrick Jones. 'Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans.' New Orleans: Scott and Jones Publishers, 1935. 95+pps.
27. Four pages from De la Banca, Madame Calderone. "Life in Mexico." London: J.M. Dent & Sons. (a title page and an introduction)
28. One front and back cover (brown 5.5"x8.5") of the 'Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merrit Farmer'
29. One page quote "To the wise man all the world's a '??'" (floral design border)
30. One front Cover of 'New Orleans Recipes' by Mary Moore Brenier (8.5"x5.5" with picture of African-American woman)
31. One leaf of index of a cookbook title? (pps. 489-490, pale yellow, spiral bound)
32. One water-damaged spiral bound book with title page and cover missing (lists recipes and contains advertisements, 9"x6") 70+pps.
33. One backcover (hard) with a list of recipes and page numbers (7"x4")
34. One flyer from Moile Reliquares galleries (for an opening reception featuring Mark Smith and Judith Cooper on March 6, ?) (with picture of a Mark Smith 3-D piece on one side, 6"x9")
General note
Useful to: Art historians (especially New Orleans area), Social Scientists, Culinary Historians, photographers.