Libraries

These are some of the libraries that have food-related Collections, sometimes with their Special Collections, such as menus or community cookbooks or manuscripts.

• Academy of Food Marketing

• Campbell Library

• Saint Joseph’s University

• http://www.sju.edu/CAMPBELL_LIBRARY/ library or

• http://jerome.sju.edu/library catalog

• (superb collection of corporate food histories)

• African American Cookbooks

• University of Alabama http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/collections/luptoncollection.htm or

• http://tinyurl.com/awl8a7

• (The David Walker Lupton African American Cookbook Collection at The W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library)

• Alice Statler Library

• City College of San Francisco

• http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/en/library.htmlhome

• or http://diego.ccsf.edu/library catalog

• (hospitality industry, six thousand pamphlets, fifteen hundred menus, nineteenth- and twentieth-century hotel and restaurant magazines, eighty-five current periodicals in hospitality industry)

• American Antiquarian Society

• http://www.americanantiquarian.org/home

• or http://catalog.mwa.org/library catalog

• (American cookbooks before 1876, history of American eating habits, manuals on brewing, baking, and confectionery)

• Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

• Radcliffe College

• http://www.radcliffe.edu/schlesinger_library.aspxhome

• or http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/library catalog

• (Schlesinger Library’s catalog is accessed through Harvard’s combined catalog)

• (American Institute of Food and Wine, Samuel and Narcissus Chamberlain Collection, Julia Child Collection, eighteenth- to twentieth-century American, English, and French cookery, publication: A Bibliography for Culinary Historians. The Radcliffe Culinary Friends publishes a newsletter, Radcliffe Culinary Times)

• Beatrice McIntosh Cookery Collection

• University of Massachusetts http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/cookbooks

• (books, pamphlets, and ephemeral items relating to the history of cookery in New England, dating to the early nineteenth century; part of the Special Collections of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library)

• Blagg-Huey Library

• Texas Woman’s University

• https://enterprise.twu.edu/vwebv/searchBasic library catalog

• (Mrs. Thomas M. Scruggs and Margaret Cook Cookery and Gastronomy Library, Marion S. Church Collection of Cookbooks and Menus)

• Botany Libraries/Gray Herbarium Libraries/Economic Botany Libraries

• Harvard University

• http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/library catalog

• Brooklyn Public Library

• http://brooklynpubliclibrary.org/home

• or http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/library catalog

• Cleveland Public Library, Science and Technology Dept.

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/cleveland.htmllibrary catalog

• (American regional and foreign cookery, historical and gastronomic material)

• Connecticut Historical Society

• http://www.chs.org/home

• or http://173.210.58.74/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=Firstlibrary catalog

• (Amelia Simmons early works, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Connecticut cookbooks)

• Eckles Library

• Mount Vernon College

• http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=Firstlibrary catalog

• (Les Dames d’Escoffier Collection; Eckles Library’s catalog is accessed through the Washington Research Library Consortium’s combined catalog)

• Giannini Foundation Library

• University of California

• http://are.berkeley.edu/library/library catalogs

• (monographs, reports, doctoral dissertations on agricultural economics, links to sources of related materials. The Foundation publishes two periodicals: Materials Added to the Giannini Foundation Library and Economic Research of Interest to Agriculture, which can be obtained by contacting the librarian)

• Harold Washington Library Center

• Business/Science/Technology Division

• http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/harold-washington/home and library catalog

• (Chicago Area Community Cookbook Collection)

• Harwell G. Davis Library (Special Collections Library)

• Samford University

• http://library.samford.edu/library catalog

• (Gottlieb Cookbook Collection)

• Hugh M. Morris Library

• University of Delaware

• http://www.lib.udel.edu

• or http://delcat.udel.edu/F/35E5VF6RSXFBKBEP8634K78DV18Y8XYTRTUEKA1GTNAKIRKDG7-22403?func=find-b-0&local_base=DEL_MAINlibrary catalog

• (eighteenth-century American cookbooks)

• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Library

• Carnegie-Mellon University

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/

• carnegiemellon.html library catalog

• (herbals from fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, Strandwell Collection of Linneaena, Michael Adason Library)

• Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library

• http://www.imcpl.org/home

• or http://sherloc.imcpl.org/library catalog

• or http://www.imcpl.lib.in.us/

• (Wright Marble Collection of Cookbooks and Menus)

• Institute for Hungarian Studies, The

• Indiana University

• http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/library catalog

• (The Louis Szathmáry Collection: a five thousand–volume collection containing some of the rarest books and journals in the library, including Hungarian-language cookbooks)

• Johnson and Wales College Library

• http://www.jwu.edu/main page,http://library.uri.edu/library catalog

• (forty-five bound periodicals, one hundred menus, twenty journals—Paul Fritzche Collection, Louis Szathmáry Collection)

• K-State Libraries

• Kansas State University

• Manhattan, KS 66506

• Telephone: (785) 532-3014

• http://www.lib.ksu.edu/catalog/library catalog

• (Abby Lillian Marlatt Collection, Clementine Paddleford Estate, sixteenth- to eighteenth-century cookbooks)

• Kelvin Smith Library

• Case Western Reserve University

• http://www.cwru.edu/uclibraries.htmlmain library page

• http://catalog.cwru.edu/search/library catalog

• (Frank Hadley Ginn Collection)

• Knight Library, Special Collections Division

• University of Oregon

• http://janus.uoregon.edu/search/Xlibrary catalog

• (papers of Oregon pioneer women Lauretta M. Cloran; kitchen diaries and menus)

• Library Learning Center

• University of Wisconsin-Stout

• http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/index.cfmlibrary catalog

• (cookery, nutrition)

• Lilly Library

• Indiana University

• http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/indiana.html,libprd.uits.indiana.edu,2200&CI=183114library catalog

• (rare vols. 400; manuscripts: Gernon Collection of late eighteenth- to twentieth-century American cookbooks, English and American receipt books in manuscripts, from 1660–1917, works on wine, grapes, and vineyards)

• Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library

• http://www.masshort.org/MHS-Libraryhome

• or http://mmas.masscat.org/library catalog

• (herbals, thousands of seed catalogs)

• Michigan State University Libraries

• Special Collections Division

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/michstate.htmllibrary catalog

• (eighteenth-century British, nineteenth-century American, African American, American Regional and Ethnic, Church and Charity, pre-1800, International, Jewish/Kosher, as well as some uncategorizable, mostly humorous, cookbooks, Mary Ross Reynolds Collection)

• Mortimer Rare Book Room, William A. Nielson Library

• Smith College

• http://www.smith.edu/library/library catalog

• (Thornton Collection of fifteenth- to nineteenth-century herbals)

• Morton Collectanea

• University of Miami

• http://merrick.library.miami.edu/library catalog

• (herbals)

• Napa Valley Wine Library Association

• St. Helena Public Library

• http://www.napawinelibrary.com/home

• or http://snapweb.snap.lib.ca.us/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?getBasicTerms+24946library catalog

• (fifty periodicals, transcribed oral histories of people associated with the wine industry)

• National Agricultural Library, Washington, DC (NAL)

• D.C. Reference Center

• http://www.nal.usda.gov/ or

• http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/AGRICOLA library catalog

• Nestlé Library

• Cornell University School of Hotel Administration

• http://hotelschool.cornell.edu/library/home

• or http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/cornell.htmllibrary catalog

• (largest hospitality collection in United States, Oscar of the Waldorf Collection of six thousand menus)

• New York Academy of Medicine Library

• http://www.nyam.org/library/search-collections/library catalog

• (three thousand pamphlets, five hundred menus, manuscripts, Margaret Barclay Wilson Collection, rare books and manuscripts as early as the ninth century. The Rare Book and History of Medicine Collection is open by appointment only. Tuesday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

• New York Public Library

• http://catalog.nypl.org/library catalog

• (cookbooks, food service, food science, menu collection)

• New York State Agricultural Experimental Station Library

• Cornell University

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/cornell.htmllibrary catalog

• (farm and crop information)

• New York State Library

• http://nysl.nysed.gov/uhtbin/cgisirsi/mzhpOvLjfG/NYSL/301060016/60/502/Xlibrary catalog

• (cookery, food history)

• Penrose Library

• University of Denver

• http://library.du.edu/site/library catalog

• (Husted Culinary Collection)

• Popular Culture Library

• Bowling Green State University

• http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/library catalog

• (cookbooks, folk history)

• Rare Book and Special Collections Division

• Library of Congress

• http://catalog.loc.gov/library catalog

• (Katherine Golden Bitting Collection, Elizabeth Robins Pennell Cookbook Collection)

• Research Library, Department of Special Collections

• University of California, Los Angeles

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/melvyl.htmllibrary catalog

• (California cookbooks)

• Steenbock Memorial Library

• University of Wisconsin

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/wisconsin.htmllibrary catalog

• (Levitan collection of cookbooks)

• Stirton-Kelson Library

• Idaho State University

• http://www.isu.edu/library/library catalog

• (manuscripts by women pioneers of Southeast Idaho)

• McLean Library

• Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

• http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/garden/libraryhome.htmlmain library page

• http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48993/Flibrary catalog

• (information on edible flowers, vegetable gardening, herbs, and historical backgrounds)

• Thomas Branigan Memorial Library

• http://chile.las-cruces.org/library catalog

• (Louise Garrett Collection)

• UC University Libraries, Special Collections

• University of California, Davis

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/melvyl.htmllibrary catalog

• (agriculture, especially enology and viticulture; Chinese cookery)

• UI Libraries, Special Collections

• University of Iowa

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/uiowa.htmllibrary catalog

• (one hundred manuscripts, thirty-five hundred pamphlets, Szathmáry Collection of Culinary Arts: twenty thousand items from fifteenth through twentieth centuries—will soon be available as a six-volume set, the Iowa Szathmáry Culinary Arts Series)

• Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Department of Special Collections Center

• University of Pennsylvania

• http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/library catalog

• (Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books in the Culinary Arts)

• Walter Clinton Jackson Library, Special Collections S.O.

• University of South Carolina, Greensboro

• http://ilsweb.uncg.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/log_in?SETTING_KEY=English&servers=1home&guest=guest&screen=home.htmllibrary catalog

• (North Carolina and southern cookery; the Women’s Collection includes “domestic life” of the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries)

• Widener University Library

• Widener University

• http://libcat.widener.edu/library catalog

• (cookery, food service, restaurants, volume feeding)