[4] Emma Seifrit was a clinical instructor in nutrition at Reading Hospital after college, and won an essay award from the American Dietetic Association in 1960.

[7] Publications by Weigley included "The High Fat Diet" (1963),[8] "The Philadelphia Chef: Mastering the Art of Philadelphia Cookery" (1972),[9] "'It might have been euthenics': The Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement" (1974),[10] "The Professionalization of Home Economics" (1976),[11] Sarah Tyson Rorer: The Nation's Instructress in Dietetics and Cookery (1977),[12] a biography based on her dissertation,[2][13] "Infant Feeding Practices: A Century of Transitions" (1988),[14] and Robinson's Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy (1997), a textbook.

[16] The collection included her own essay, "Food in the days of the Declaration of Independence".

[17] Her collection of Sarah Tyson Rorer papers is housed at the American Philosophical Society library.

[2] Weigley was one of the thousand names included in The New York Times cover story on May 24, 2020, "U.S.