History of Food and Drink
Found in 160 Collections and/or Records:
"Record" Recipe Book
This collection contains a record book with handwritten and news-clipping recipes.
Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection
The Alice Ross Ephemera Collection includes more than 2,000 pieces of ephemera related to food & culinary history, advertising/marketing, food production, agriculture, holidays and celebrations, and domestic culture, dating from the mid-19th to the mid/late 20th century.
Joseph Rule Letter
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.
Sallie Wilson Recipe Book, n.d. (Ms2009-002)
Shropshire, England, Farm and Household Ledger
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.
John H. Snouffer Letters
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.
Southwest Virginia Counties Collection
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.
Southwest Virginia Counties Collection, 1783-1878 (Ms2000-092)
Spring Housekeeper's List
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.
St. Francis Hotel (San Francisco, CA) Liquor Store Scrapbook
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.