Collections used
Alumni Association records [(BC1991-042)]
Bette Arnold Collection of Bette’s Rolls Royce Restaurant Materials (MS2012-009)
Boston College athletic programs (BC1997-006)
Boston College faculty and staff photographs (BC2000-005)
Charitable Irish Society records (MS1993-012)
Commercial Club of Boston records (MS1992-017)
Ellerton J. Brehaut Boston history collection (MS2008-016)
Graham Greene papers (MS1995-003)
Greater Boston Area materials (MS2013-020)
Judson C. Sapp papers and collection of Rex Stout (MS1996-022)
Alfred Noyes papers (MS2006-054)
John F. X. Murphy, SJ, faculty papers (BC2001-121)
Joseph R. N. Maxwell, SJ, President’s Office records (BC2013-016)
Louis J. Gallagher, SJ, President’s Office records (BC2004-020)
Philomatheia records (BC1998-031)
Robert G. Lowery papers and collection of Sean O’Casey (MS1996-025)
William J. Leonard, SJ, papers (BC2000-023)
William James McGarry, SJ, President’s Office records (BC2004-007)
Boston Collection, John J. Burns Library, Boston College
General Collection, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Nursing Collection, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Stout Collection, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
SOURCES “Clubs & Associations”
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. “About.” Accessed January 7, 2014. http://www.ahac.us.com/about.htm
Charitable Irish Society. Accessed January 7, 2014. http://www.charitableirishsociety.org/
Hall. “A Historical Overview of Philanthropy, Voluntary Associations, and Nonprofit Organizations in the United States, 1600-2000.” In The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, edited by Walter W. Powell and Richard Steinberg, 32-64. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Larkin. “Life in Antebellum America – Overview.” Accessed January 7, 2014. http://www.teachushistory.org/detocqueville-visit-united-states/overview
Neem. Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early Nation Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.
South Boston Citizens’ Association. “About.” Accessed January 7, 2014. https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Boston-Citizens-Association/417334460199?sk=info
SOURCES “Cooks”
Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1892. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1893.
Lincoln. Boston School Kitchen Textbook: Lessons in Cooking for the Use of Classes in Public and Industrial Schools. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887.
Michigan State University. “Farmer, Fannie Merritt,” in Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project. Accessed September 25, 2013. http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/authors/author_farmer.html
Shapiro. “The Mother of Level Measurements.” In Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century, 100-119. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2009.
SOURCES “Literary Lunches”
“Alfred Noyes,” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.
Alfred Noyes papers (MS2006-054)
Foyles. “About.” Accessed January 14, 2014. http://www.foyles.co.uk/about-foyles
“Graham Greene,” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009.
Omar Khayyam Club. Accessed January 14, 2014. http://www.omar-khayyam-club.com/
Rex Stout papers MS1986-096
The Robert Louis Stevenson Club. “About.” Accessed January 14, 2014. http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/about-rls-club Founded 1920.
The Shakespeare Reading Society. Accessed January 14, 2014. http://shakespearereadingsociety.wordpress.com/
The Wolfe Pack. “About Us.” Accessed January 14, 2014. http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/about_us/about_us.htm
SOURCES “Restaurants”
Brayley. “An Originator of Soups,” in The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, vol. 10 (1905-1906): 445-446.
Drake and Watkins. Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs. Boston: W.A. Butterfield, 1917.
Heimann. “Yesterday’s Menu.” Country Living, 21.8 (August 1998): 62.
Heimann, ed. Menu Design in America. Cologne, Germany: TASCHEN, 2011.
Sprang. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Steinber, Ellen F., Prost, Jack H. “A Menu and a Mystery: The Case of the 1834 Delmonico Bill of Fare.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, vol. 8, no.2 (Spring 2008): 40-50.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Menus: the Art of Dining.” http://digital.library.unlv.edu/collections/menus. Accessed 11/14/2013.
Weaver. Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2010.