Overview
Reminiscences, photographs, and correspondence relating to a backyard pig roast attended by Julia and Paul Child in 1967.
Dates
- Creation: 1967
- Creation: 2016
Creator
- Pearson, Barbara Zurer, 1944- (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Barbara Zurer Pearson is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. 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
2 foldersThe papers of Barbara Zurer Pearson contain reminiscences by Pearson and a guest, Martha Greenberg Dennis, of a backyard pig roast attended by Julia and Paul Child; copies of photographs of the occasion; and correspondence between Pearson and Julia Child, including Pearson's invitation, Child's response, and Child's thank-you note following the event.
BIOGRAPHY
In 1967 Barbara Zurer Pearson lived at 21 Mellen Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a group of graduate students. In July they decided to hold a pig and lamb roast and asked their neighbor Julia Child for recipes. Both Paul and Julia Child attended the party and Julia provided her expertise in carving the animals.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 2016-M210, 2023-M58
The papers of Barbara Zurer Pearson were given to the Schlesinger Library by Barbara Zurer Pearson in November 2016 and May 2023.
Processing Information
Processed: December 2016
By: Anne Engelhart
Updated and additional material added: February 2024
By: Johanna Carll
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.
Creator
- Pearson, Barbara Zurer, 1944- (Person)
- Title
- Pearson, Barbara Zurer, 1944-. Papers of Barbara Zurer Pearson, 1967, 2016: A Finding Aid
- 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 the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02264
Repository Details
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