Bibliography on Newcomb College

Bragg, Jean Moore, and Susan Saward. The Newcomb Style: Newcomb College Arts & Crafts and Art Pottery Collector’s Guide. New Orleans, LA: Jean Bragg Gallery, 2002.

Callen, Anthea. Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.

Conradsen, David and others. The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery. New York: Skira Rizzoli Press, 2013.

Dixon, Brandt V. B. A Brief History of H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, 1887-1919: A Personal Reminiscence. New Orleans: Hauser Printing Co., 1928.

Dyer, John P. Tulane: The Biography of a University 1834-1965. New York and London: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1966.

Johnson, Joan Marie. Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Mohr, Clarence L. and Joseph E. Gordon. Tulane: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945-1980. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Newcomb, Josephine Louise. In Memoriam: Harriott Sophie Newcomb. [Place of Publication not identified, Publisher not identified], 1871? Available in JL Newcomb Book collection, Newcomb Archives, and HathiTrust, in electronic copy.

Ormond, Suzanne, and Mary E. Irvine. Louisiana’s Art Nouveau. The Crafts of the Newcomb Style. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., 1976.

Poesch, Jessie. Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1895-1940. Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984.

Poesch, Jessie. Newcomb Pottery & Crafts: An Educational Enterprise for Women, 1895-1940. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2003.

Tucker, Susan and Beth Willinger, eds. Newcomb College, 1886-2006: Higher Education for Women in New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

Susan Wittig. “Reflections of Sorrow and Hope.” Newcomb News 5, no. 11 (1981): 2–11, Newcomb Archives, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University.