Corner Book Shop (New York, N. Y.) records, 1940-1980 (inclusive).

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Corner Book Shop (New York, N. Y.) records, 1940-1980 (inclusive).

1940-1990

https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/5318

Records of the Corner Book Shop consist of correspondence with customers (some of them well known in the culinary field); correspondence with and orders to publishers and European booksellers; shop catalogues and orders from them; day books recording sales in the shop; papers about shop assistants, taxes, and publicity; and correspondence, orders, reviews, and other papers concerning the bibliography.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Corner Book Shop

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Eleanor Lowenstein was born in New York City in 1909 and was graduated from Cornell University with a degree in psychology in 1929. For several years she was a social worker, first at a state hospital, then at a reform school for boys in Warwick, NY, in Westchester County, and at the Hudson School for Girls. As she found much of this work unsuitable, she left social work and went to work at the University Place Bookshop, which belonged to her friend, Walter Goldwater. She enjoyed th...

Culinary Institute of America

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Child, Julia, 1912-2004

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Julia Child, cookbook writer, cookery teacher, and TV personality, was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams, in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912. She attended the Katharine Branson School in Ross, California (1927-1930), and graduated from Smith College in 1934. She worked in public relations in New York City (1934-1941) and served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, 1941-1946). She was stationed in Ceylon, where she met her future husband, and in China. In 1946, sh...

Lowenstein, Eleanor

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Lincoln, Waldo, 1849-1933

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Wine and Food Society

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American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....

Corner Book Shop (New York, N. Y.)

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The Corner Book Shop, 102 Fourth Ave, NYC, was founded by Eleanor Lowenstein in 1940. It specialized primarily in books on food, cookery, and wine; other specialties were theater, radio, television, puppetry, crime, and psychology. Lowenstein, a Cornell graduate and former social worker, became an internationally renowned expert on cookbooks, and edited two revised editions of Waldo Lincoln's bibliography, American Cookery Books, published by the American Antiquarian Society, 1954 and 1972. ...