Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Andrea Ledesma, Student Assistant, and Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
Permission to publish material from Bertha R.Wildasin Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Bertha R.Wildasin Collection, Ms2011-091, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
Virginia, Tech Special Collections received the Bertha R.Wildasin Collection in November 2010. Two additional handwritten notebooks were donated to the collection in June 2011.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Bertha R.Wildasin Collection was completed in October 2011.
Several binders originally housed a portion of the collection, but all materials were moved to folders during processing. The materials were kept in their original order within the folders.
The Culinary Papers series contains a variety of recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, snacks, and beverages. Roughly half of the material resides in culinary notebooks, the other within culinary binders. Regardless, the entire series consists of recipes both handwritten and clipped from magazines, newspapers, and boxes. Particularly interesting items include: magazines from the "Pillsbury Bake-Off," a recipe for "cranberry souffle salad," several articles on homemade Christmas gifts, and small a Jell-O cookbook.
The Ephemera series contains five subseries: Home Crafts and Improvement; Genealogy; News Clippings; Religious Ephemera; and Sewing and Fabric Crafts. Materials within these series vary from photographs to handwritten notes.
The collection is arranged in two series: Culinary Papers and Ephemera. The Culinary Papers are organized by materials type. Material removed from binders is in its original order in folders. Ephemera is organized into five subseries, alphabetically by topic. Since subseries are small and culled from other parts of the collection, materials are not arranged in any particular order.