Lyford, Katharine Van Etten, 1897-1976
Dublin Core
Creator
Digital Processor: Northuis, Madalyn
Original Processor: Nonack, Stephen
Title
Lyford, Katharine Van Etten, 1897-1976
Publisher
Boston Athenaeum
Date
1922-1976
Subject
Automobile travel
Journalists--Correspondence
Women journalists
Cultural relations
South America--Description and travel
Latin America--Description and travel
Cuba--Description and travel
Costa Rica--Description and travel
Ecuador--Description and travel
Brazil--Description and travel
Argentina--Description and travel
Uruguay--Description and travel
Honduras--Description and travel
Panama--Description and travel
El Salvador--Description and travel
Venezuela--Description and travel
Colombia--Description and travel
Nova Scotia--Description and travel
Vancouver (B.C.)--Description and travel
Travel writing
Food writing
Publishers and publishing
Correspondene
Business Correspondence
Description
The collection contains letters, diaries, notebooks, typescripts, drawings and clippings, the bulk consisting of drafts of articles and stories based on travels in Central and South America, submitted to the Christian Science monitor and other national newspapers and magazines. Her success as a free-lance writer and her social contacts, to some extent, are documented in the correspondence file, 1922-1976. A major unpublished manuscript, entitled "Without a man," records her motor tour of South America, 1946-7, the first undertaken by unescorted women. Miss Lyford was a sensitive observer and wrote in a positive, informed way about foreign cultures. Many naive sketches and watercolors illustrating her travels are also contained here. Few papers of a strictly personal nature are found in the collection. Rather, her writings illuminate favorite topics and concerns: holiday celebrations around the world, patterns of folk-life in developing nations, the process of intercultural exchange and the achievements of women in the Third World. Other writings include stories for children, pieces of local or historical interest, poems and translations from the Portuguese.
Rights
This Material is the Property of the Boston Athenaeum and is for RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.
Language
English
Spanish
French
Contributor
Gift of the Estate of Katherine Van Etten Lyford, 1976.
Collection Items
"Papers of Katharine Van Etten Lyford"
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The Finding Aid for the Katharine Van Etten Lyford Collection
Notebook, Cuba
Lyford's Cuban travel journal contains watercolors, graphite sketches, and notes. Due to memory constraints, this digital reproduction DOES NOT include the notebook's blank pages. If citing page numbers, please request to see the original scans.
Katharine Van Etten Lyford to My Dear Family, Nov 13, [1918]
Personal Correspondence. Lyford's account of her celebrations at the end of World War I. Notes on back.
Anna-Lisa Olsson to Katharine Van Etten Lyford, July 28, 1972
Business Correspondence. Acceptance of Lyford's "Boston Pan de Bono" recipe for publication in _Woman's Day_.
"A Plain Bus Back-End Just Doesn't Go In Colombia"
The men and women of Medellin, Colombia fight to preserve bus-end art.
"Plum Pudding, Baked Goose, Lutfisk-Spice International Christmas Menus"
"Christmas favorites in foods skip blithely across boundary lines these days. So why not a helping of potatoes with distinctly South American flavor, a bit of Scandinavian Smorgasbord or a sizable portion of 'Old Thatched Roof' from ye olde England?"