Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library

Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library, named after Harriot Sophie Newcomb and Nadine Vorhoff respectively, together form a GLAM institution which is part of Newcomb College Institute, at Tulane University, New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana.[1]

The Newcomb Archives was founded in 1988 while the Nadine Vorhoff Library was established earlier in 1975.[2]

The Newcomb Archives preserves historical printed and manuscript materials in relation to the lives of women in general, and to the following subjects in particular:[2]

  • history of women at Newcomb College and Tulane University,
  • women's education,
  • women in the Gulf South,
  • culinary history.

The Vorhoff Library was initially a conventional campus library which issued books and reading material to the campus students. It has now been recast as a non-circulating special collections library. This Library will work in conjunction with the Newcomb Archives and also house special collections on the subjects listed above.[2]

References
  1. "History of Newcomb College". Tulane University. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. "About the Nadine Vorhoff Library". Tulane University. Retrieved 19 December 2014.



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