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Joseph Rule Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2018-011
Abstract

Letter written by Joseph Rule from his camp at Petersburg, Virginia, December 15th, 1864 to his friend Silas. Letter details Rule's Company B, 50th New York Engineers involvement in the December, 1864 raid on the Weldon Railroad which was a major supply line for Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Peter Saunders Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-094
Abstract This collection contains correspondence, receipts, and leaflets belonging to Peter Saunders (1823-1904), a lawyer and farmer from Franklin County, Virginia. Additionally, three letters dated January 1884 discuss the appointment of Peter Saunders' son, Edward Watts Saunders (1860-1921), as the judge of Franklin County, Virginia. Edward W. Saunders would go on to be a member of Congress, judge of the Circuit Court, and a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals. Three letters dated 1873-1874...
Dates: 1873 - 1886

Shropshire, England, Farm and Household Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-066
Abstract

This collection contains a household and farming ledger owned by a Shropshire, England family, dating 1832-1867. Two articles and a letter report the discovery of coal in Shropshire. The ledger also contains financial records, notes on wine making and farming, instructions for care of cattle and pest control, and various receipes and remedies.

Dates: 1832 - 1867

John H. Snouffer Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-076
Abstract

This collection contains letters to and from Union Soldier John H. Snouffer of the 133rd Ohio Infantry. The letter was from a member of the same company in the same camp, Captain Ellis H. Heagler.

Dates: 1864

Soda Fountain Recipe Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-017
Abstract

This collection consists of a handwritten soda recipe book. Recipes include sundaes, punches, lemonades, egg cream drinks, and more.

Dates: Undated

Southwest Virginia Counties Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2000-092
Abstract

The Southwest Virginia Counties Collection includes correspondence, manuscript memoranda and recipe books, and family papers from the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke Counties.

Dates: 1824 - 1885

Spring Housekeeper's List

 File
Identifier: Ms-2019-025
Abstract

The Spring Housekeeper's List is from a store called Francisco in Danville, VA. It includes a list of food offerings and varieties, some with prices.

Dates: n.d.

St. Francis Hotel (San Francisco, CA) Liquor Store Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-021
Abstract

The collection contains a scrapbook of images from the liquor store window at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The collection likely dates from about the 1950s, though none of the items are specifically dated.

Dates: c.1950s

Daisy Starbird Manuscript Cookbook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-003
Abstract

The collection includes a manuscript cookbook containing recipes, home remedies, and crochet instructions written in several different hands.

Dates: c. 1905

State/Regional Home and Agricultural Publications,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-040
Scope and Content

The collection contains publications on topics including, but not limited to: war-time food use and victory gardens, home planning and organization, food and cooking, home demonstration, and household management. Although the emphasis in on Virginia state and local agencies, materials may also originate from around the United States.

Dates: 1934-present

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Cocktail History Collection 30
Cocktails -- History 29
Food Technology and Production 28
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South 24
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Folk, historical, and patent medicine 16
Agriculture 15
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 15
Advertisements 14
Cookbooks 14
Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbooks and Nutrition Literature Collection 11
Culinary pamphlets 11
Ephemera 10
Home economics 10
Traditional medicine 10
Nutrition 8
Pamphlets 8
World War, 1939-1945 8
Menus 6
Photographs 5
Advertising cards 4
Agricultural extension work 4
Ledgers (account books) 4
Patent medicines 4
Science and Technology 4
Children -- Nutrition 3
Faculty and staff 3
Postcards 3
University History 3
Wine and wine making 3
World War, 1914-1918 3
Health 2
Roanoke (Va.) 2
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Virginia 2
Virginia -- History 2
Women -- History 2
Wythe County (Va.) 2
Account books 1
African Americans -- History 1
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Beer 1
Blacksburg (Va.) 1
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Education, Higher 1
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Giles County (Va.) 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
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Montgomery County (Va.) 1
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 1
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865 1
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Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1864-1865 1
Posters 1
Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
Puzzles and games 1
Railroad 1
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Rockbridge County (Va.) 1
Salem (Va.) 1
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Toys 1
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental Histories 1
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Language
English 160
Spanish; Castilian 3
French 2
German 2
Arabic 1
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Names
Virginia Cooperative Extension (1995-) 4
Virginia Cooperative Extension Service 4
United States. Bureau of Internal Revenue 3
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944) 3
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 3
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-) 3
National Biscuit Company 2
United States. Department of Agriculture 2
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872-1896) 2
Alwood, William Bradford, 1859-1946 1
American Agricultural Chemical Company 1
American Egg Board 1
Atlas Flour Mills (Milwaukee, WI) 1
Aumann, James H. S. 1
Ballard and Ballard Company (1880-1951) (Louisville, KY) 1
Barnard, Judith Roane Fenner, 1896-1984 1
Barton, JoAnn 1
Barton, Mart, 1879-1962 1
Bernard Food Industries (Evanston, Illinois) 1
Bluthentahl & Bickart (1880-1919) (Georgia) 1
Brady, Daniel C. E. (Daniel Charles Elliott), 1821-1878 1
Bralley, John, 1797-1866 1
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875 1
Bridges & Sanders. New River Nursery 1
Brown, Alexander W. , 1878-? 1
Brown, J. A. (Deputy tax collector, Martinsville, Va.) 1
Burnett, C. M. 1
C. E. Sydnor & Co. (Richmond, Va.) 1
Cameron, Janet L., 1904-1986 1
Campbell, Frank Leslie, 1898-1979 1
Carter, Zoonomia D. Hoxey, fl.1840s-1850s 1
Cary, Katherine Roy Gordon, b.1895 1
Colgate & Company 1
Cramer, Bettie (Elizabeth?) D., b. abt. 1838? 1
Cumberland Packing Corporation 1
Cushen, Helen, 1908-1991 1
De Laval Separator Company 1
Dill, Joseph G., 1828-1886 1
Elliott, Moses, 1775-1849 1
Elliott, Richard Moses, 1844-1908 1
Elliott, S. Maria (Sophronia Maria), 1854-1942 1
Evaporated Milk Association 1
Figgat, Nancy Godwin, 1835-1919 1
Fletcher, Timothy, 1779-1864 1
Food and Agricultural Education Information System (Texas A & M University) 1
Forman, Elvira Jane Hanna, 1837-1905 1
Giovanni, Gary Ann, 1940-2005 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.) 1
Hauser Institute of New York City 1
Hauser, Gayelord 1
Hertzler, Ann A., 1935-2014 1
Heuer, Leone Ann 1
Hodgkins, Samuel (New York) 1
Hotel Roanoke 1
Hotel St. Francis (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
J. E. Cooley, General Commission Merchant (New York, (N.Y.)) 1
J. H. Filbert, Inc (1917-1986) 1
Jesey (Union soldier) 1
John M. Miller & Son (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Johnson, Alice Webb 1
Jordan, Joseph V. (Los Angeles Modern Bartending School) 1
Kammerer, Joseph 1
Keyes, Ralph 1
LactAid, Inc 1
Ladies Monumental Association (Columbus, Mississippi) 1
Lake, W. D., Mrs. 1
Lilley, Thomas (distiller) 1
Litchfield, Elizabeth Pannill Pierce, abt. 1844-1892 1
Litchfield, Mary Louisa, abt. 1828-1906 1
Loomis, Julia 1
Los Angeles Modern Bartending School (before 1965) (Los Angeles, CA) 1
Lowenbach Brothers (Alexandria, Va.) 1
Luke(?), Edith 1
McBryde, Cora Bolton, 1839-1920 1
McCormick & Co. (Baltimore, Md.) 1
Myers Bros. & Co (Richmond, Va.) 1
National Printing & Engraving Company (U.S.) 1
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982) 1
Noyes, William H. (William Hazen), b. abt. 1841 1
Old Kentucky Distillery (c.1880-1919) (Louisville, Kentucky) 1
Olver, Lynne, d.2015 1
Osborn, Marion (Shipley), b. abt. 1842 1
Osborn, Milton A. (Milton Ackerman), 1844-1890 1
Peacock Harper Culinary Friends 1
Pitts, W. H. 1
Porter, A. P. 1
Porterfield family (Giles County, Va.) 1
Powers, John S., 1844-1864 1
Preston family (Montgomery County, Va.) 1
Price, Williamson 1
Quality Chemical Company 1
Read, Thomas 1
Ross, Alice, 1930- 1
Rule, Joseph 1
S. Maria Elliott family 1
S. S. Pierce Co (Boston, Mass.) 1
Saunders family 1
Saunders, Peter, 1823-1904 1
Scholz, Henry 1
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