Cookbook of Maria Elisabeth Valborg Jørgensen Christiansen, 1925
Overview
Handwritten cookbook in Danish created by Maria Elisabeth Valborg Jørgensen Christiansen as part of a cooking course in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dates
- Creation: 1925
Language of Materials
Materials in Danish and English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Maria Elisabeth Valborg Jørgensen Christiansen as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderCollection consists of a handwritten cookbook in Danish created as part of the cooking course Maria Elisabeth Valborg Jørgensen Christiansen took in Copenhagen, Denmark. It also includes a receipt for the class and a letter fragment in English signed "Mother," undated.
BIOGRAPHY
Maria Elisabeth Valborg Jørgensen Christiansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 26, 1902, and died in Brookline, Massachusetts, on January 7, 1997. She took the Mariaforbundets Praktisk-Sociale Kursus in Copenhagen in 1925 to prepare for domestic life and work, prior to emigrating to America, where she met and married Kai Christiansen in Milwaukee. She resided in Rochester, Illinois, for many years, teaching piano, until moving to Attleboro, Massachusetts, and finally to Brookline.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2010-M231
The cookbook of Maria Elisabeth Valborg Jørgensen Christiansen were given by her daughter, Ingrid Christiansen, in October 2010.
Processing Information
Processed: December 2010
By: Anne Engelhart.
Updated and additional description added: July 2020
By: Paula Aloisio.
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by gifts from the Radcliffe College Class of 1957 Schlesinger Library Fund and the Gerard Schlesinger Library Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01756
Repository Details
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