Massachusetts

American Antiquarian Society, Worchester, MA

http://www.americanantiquarian.org

Phone Inquiries: (508) 775-5221

Holdings focus on texts published in the United States prior to 1876. Cookbook collection is formed from the collection of Waldo Lincoln and contains about eleven hundred pre-1877 cookbooks.

Harvard University Libraries, Cambridge, MA

http://lib.harvard.edu

Harvard has seventy-plus libraries. Access is somewhat restricted. Visiting scholars need to apply to the individual library for information about privileges. Although the majority of Harvard’s cookery collection was transferred to the Schlesinger Library (see entry for Schlesinger Library), the Houghton Rare Books Library holds a few old and rare volumes and the Widener library holds a basic collection of general food volumes.

Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study–The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Cambridge, MA

http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles

Phone Inquiries: (617) 495-8540

Collection includes over fifteen thousand cookery and domestic science books dating from the sixteenth century to the present as well as the papers of several culinary luminaries, including Julia Child, M. F. K. Fisher, Irma Rombauer, and Marion Rombauer.

University of Massachusetts Library, Amherst, MA

http://www.library.umass.edu

Phone Inquiries: (413) 545-9275

Library holds the Carolyn Maddox Beard collection of approximately one hundred titles of primarily late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century texts as well as the Regional Community Cookbooks Collection of four hundred titles dating from 1886 to the present as well as the McIntosh Cookery Collection of seventy-five hundred books, pamphlets, and other ephemera related to the cookery of New England. The collection also is strong in community cookbooks, corporate cookbooks, and ephemera.