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Pat Sweeney Scrapbook
The majority of scrapbooks in the Women Veterans Historical Project Collections are from World War II. Sweeney created this homemade album with interesting graphic elements. Marsha Paulette “Pat” Sweeney (b. 1942), of Pembroke, North Carolina, served in the American Red Cross from 1964 to 1965. Sweeney was born on 17 February 1942 to Joseph Walter […]
New Acquisitions – Fall 2022
RARE BOOKS “Capacity Taste, and Fertile Imagination” We recently purchased a copy of François Menon’s The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed (1767) for our Historical Cookbooks in the Woman’s Collection. This copy is the first edition in English of Menon’s encyclopedic cookbook, translated from the original French Les soupers de la cour (1755). Promoting simple […]