Marion Nestle Higley Hill Camp Photographs
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Abstract
This collection contains Marion Nestle's photographs of Higley Hill Camp in Vermont, taken in 1946-1948.
Historical/Biographical Note
Marion Nestle (1936-) is the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Nestle is a leading nutrition scholar and has written three award winning books, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health; Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety; and What to Eat. As a child, she attended camp Higley Hill in Vermont. Her father, Ted Zittel, was a labor publicist, most notably successful for the strike against the Brass Rail Restaurant in New York City.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Content Note
The collection also contains small, black-and-white images of the Higley Hill Camp from 1946-1948. The photographs are from a disassembled scrapbook with photographs depicting Ted, Tillie, and Marion Zittel, Manny and Grace Granich, and Sandy Nemiroff at Higley Hill. The photographs also depict Higley Hill after a fire and floods in spring 1948.This collection also includes a photocopy of the scrapbook including captions and further description of the images by Marion (Zittel) Nestle.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Marion Nestle were transferred to New York University in 2006 by Marion Nestle. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu, (212) 998-2630.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Marion Nestle Higley Hill Camp Photographs; PHOTOS 239; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Marion Nestle in 2006. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 2006.069 and NPA.2006.104.
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Processing Information
When received, the scrapbook was disassembled and photographs were placed in order in archival envelopes. Each envelope contains the photographs for each page and the envelopes are numbered with the original page numbers.