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Susan Tucker is an American archivist. She was the Curator of Books and Records for the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library at Newcomb College of Tulane University for over 30 years. [1] She retired in 2015. [2] She is a longtime member of the Society of American Archivists and is active in the Women's Collection Roundtable. [3] She is now an archival consultant specializing in genealogy and family records. [4]
Tucker was born in Mobile, Alabama, and moved to New Orleans to attend Newcomb College, [5] from which she graduated in 1972. [2] She holds degrees in history, librarianship, and archival studies, the latter from the University of Amsterdam. [3]
With other Newcomb College staff, Tucker helped found the Newcomb Archives in 1988. [2] They found scrapbooks and student records from a vault in Newcomb Hall and the basement in the Josephine Louise House at Tulane University. [2] Since 1988, Tucker aided in the collections gathered at the archives, forming a concentration on women who taught at and attended Newcomb, as well as the women of the Louisiana women's movement. [2] She also worked heavily on the history of African American and white women domestic workers of the 1970s and 1980s. [5]
While at the Newcomb Archives, she was responsible for assembling the Culinary History Collection and substantially expanded the Oral History Project. [1] [2] She was instrumental in the formation of the New Orleans Culinary History Group. At the Vorhoff Library, the group organized the first exhibition on Lena Richards and Mary Land, two cookbook authors from Louisiana. [6] The group also worked on other exhibitions and bibliographies. [7]
She has written several articles as well as reviews of articles and texts in journals such as the American Archivist . [8] She has also edited and co-edited many books and her book, Telling Memories Among Southern Women, helped serve as inspiration for the novel and film The Help . [2] [3]
material culture for The Scrapbook in American Life, 2006 [10]
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or Newcomb College, was the coordinate women's college of Tulane University located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was founded by Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1886 in memory of her daughter.
Josephine Louise Newcomb was the philanthropist whose donations led to the founding of Newcomb College, the coordinate college for women within Tulane University.
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May Hyman Lesser was an American artist and medical illustrator.
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Martha Reinhard Smallwood Field, known as Mattie Field, was an American journalist. She usually wrote under the pen name Catherine Cole or Catharine Cole. She was one of the earliest professional women newspaper reporters in New Orleans, Louisiana. A champion of women's education and social justice, she also founded the city's first circulating library and helped found a number of other civic institutions.
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Marika Cifor is an American archivist and feminist academic known for her work in archival science, library science, and digital studies. Her research focuses on community archives, HIV/AIDS, affect theory, and approaches to archival practice rooted in social justice. She is an assistant professor at the University of Washington Information School. She also holds an adjunct faculty appointment in UW's Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies department.
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