Category Archives: Jessica Lacher-Feldman

Hoole Library Featured in ARL book and website, Celebrating Research

Posted on March 28, 2008 by | Posted in: Book Collections, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Lupton African American Cookbook Collection | 1 Comment

The W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, and specifically the David Walker Lupton African-American Cookbook Collection is featured in the Association of Research Libraries’ book and website, Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research … Continue reading →

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! A Memorable dinner at Antoines in New Orleans: March 17, 1914

Posted on March 11, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, New Orleans, T.P. Thompson Collection | Leave a comment

Featured here is the menu and program cover from the annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner in New Orleans. This particular dinner was held at Antoine’s and featured such delicious green delicacies as Absinthe Verte and Artichaux Bayard. The final course … Continue reading →

Turning Japanese: How Winnifred Eaton became Onoto Watanna in Victorian America

Posted on March 11, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Publishers' Bindings Online, Richard Minsky Collection | Leave a comment

Join us Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at the Hoole Special Collections Library, 2nd Floor Mary Harmon Bryant Hall at 4:30 pm for a lecture by Dr. Edward Tang, Associate Professor of American Studies, The University of Alabama. [flier for event … Continue reading →

Forty Years After — Emphasis ’68 — Directions: American Society at the Crossroads

Posted on February 28, 2008 by | Posted in: Emphasis Program, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, University Archives | Leave a comment

In March of 1968, The University of Alabama hosted a powerful group of speakers brought together to discuss problems and issues in American Society. Emphasis ’68: American Society at the Crossroads stands today as a snapshot in time, that serves … Continue reading →

Voyages dans l’Amérique Septentrionale — Collot’s Atlas now online!

Posted on February 25, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Rare Books Collection | Leave a comment

In 1796, French general and military engineer Georges Henri Victor Collot descended the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on a spying mission from the French government. Returning to France in 1800, Collot died in 1805. His Voyages dans l’Amérique Septentrionale was … Continue reading →

Standing Up to be Counted: GLBTQ student group archives come to Hoole Library

Posted on February 7, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, LGBTQ History, Manuscript Collections | Leave a comment

Memo dated April 13, (1983) soliciting support of UA faculty to “stand up and be counted” as a co-advisor and supportor to the soon-to-be established GLBTQ student group, the Gay Student Union. 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of the first … Continue reading →

Minsky Collection in PBO! From the real to the virtual!

Posted on February 6, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Publishers' Bindings Online, Richard Minsky Collection | 2 Comments

It is a distinct pleasure and honor to announce that the Richard Minsky Collection of 19th and early 20th century publishers’ bindings have been added to Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books. This incredible group of books was … Continue reading →

Laissez les bon temps rouler! Ou? A Mobile, bien sur!

Posted on February 4, 2008 by | Posted in: Alabama Collection, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Manuscript Collections, Mobile | 1 Comment

Alabamians are quick to point out that New Orleans was not the first place, nor is it the only place that Mardi Gras is celebrated. While celebrations occur throughout the state of Alabama, it is Mobile’s Mardi Gras tradition, which … Continue reading →

The David Walker Lupton African American Cookbook Collection — So much more than recipes!

Posted on February 4, 2008 by | Posted in: Book Collections, Cookbooks, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Lupton African American Cookbook Collection | 2 Comments

The University of Alabama Libraries holds one of the largest collections of African American cookbooks in the country – some 450 volumes (and growing!) covering the period from 1827, when the first book with recipes by an African American was … Continue reading →

Inscribed items by Alabama native Helen Keller: A Gift of Betsy Plank, 2007

Posted on January 25, 2008 by | Posted in: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Manuscript Collections | Tagged | Leave a comment

A small exhibit is now on display in the lobby of the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library. The items were part of a gift to The University of Alabama Libraries by Betsy Plank, UA alumna and pioneer in the field … Continue reading →