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Beyond the Reading Room

Anecdotes and other notes from the U-M Special Collections Research Center.
Detailed illustration from Audubon's Birds of North America of a nest in a tree with birds sitting around it.

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Photograph: Portrait of Eleanor Burke Leacock sitting at a desk, with a book case visible behind her.
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  • Juli McLoone
Eleanor Burke Leacock, Feminist Anthropologist
"Utterly stunned, I walked down Broadway with a frie[n]d, repeating over and over to him, “Do you realize there are some things I will not be able to do simply because I am a woman? Do you realize…” I could not stop recounting the incident." In these words, anthropologist Eleanor Leacock recalls the moment in 1943 when she was denied an Assistantship solely because of her gender and she realized the full extent of discrimination that she would face as a female academic.
The cover of an issue of the Boston Cooking School Magazine: the stylized figure of a woman in a red gown cooing over achafing dish
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  • Jacqueline L Jacobson
Diverse City - National Women's History Month
American Culinary History materials are full of representations of women and femininity These images are occasionally realistic, often absolute fantasy, and and sometimes somewhere in between.
Image of student viewing Galileo Manuscript
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  • Athena Jackson
Intrepid High School Student's Science Experiment Brings Him to Galileo Manuscript
We are always delighted to support learning and engagement with our materials, especially as they inspire new scholarship and research. Read this guest blog post from local high school student, Dale (Trip) Apley III, who visited our library to analyze the Galileo Manuscript for a scientific experiment he recently conducted.
Opening page of the text of The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen. 1928 Fine Press Edition with chapter heading of red shoes and leaves.
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  • Juli McLoone
Fairy Tale Fridays: The Red Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen's “The Red Shoes” tells the story of an orphan girl whose uncontrolled desire for material pleasures and social status leads to her downfall.
Verstille's Southern Cookery book cover
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  • Rashelle M Nagar
Beyond the Recipes
Curator JJ Jacobson's guest lecture in undergraduate seminar Race and Culture in the American South (History 262/AmCult 263) introduces students to Special Collection materials at U-M while also demonstrating how to use cookbooks as primary sources.
Book Cover with an image of Uncle Sam weighing a man and a woman in an old-fashioned scale.
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  • Jacqueline L Jacobson
Pies for Pi Day
Every year, March the 14th, 3/14 or 3.14, is Pi Day. Once century, however, the date is 3/14/15, making it an extra special Pi Day. Tomorrow is such a day. In celebration, we present a Suffragist pie recipe from a 1915 suffrage charity cook book.
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  • Julie Herrada
A Recon Project in the Labadie Collection
A long-desired recon project finally gets attention.
African American woman holding a frying pan
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  • Jacqueline L Jacobson
Diverse City - African American History Month
One thread that runs through Southern cookbooks is the figure of the African American in the kitchen.
Poster for Screening Event: Food Chains documentary
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  • Athena Jackson
FOOD CHAIN$ Screening @ U-M Library: Joseph A. Labadie Collection Connection
Mark your calendars for a free screening of FOOD CHAIN$: The Revolution in America's Fields documentary.

March 3, 2015 | 4pm to 6pm | Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
Bull's head watermark in Isl. Ms. 836
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  • Evyn Kropf
Watermark Wednesdays: Bull's head
This Wednesday's watermark feature: bull's head motifs in watermarked papers from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection