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History of Food and Drink

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this heading for collections that relate to the History of Food and Drink Collection, the Peacock-Harper Collection, the Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbook and Nutritional Literature Collection, the Cocktail History Collection, the Food Technology and Production Collection, and any materials related to social, economic, and domestic aspects of food and drink history.

Found in 172 Collections and/or Records:

McCormick & Co. Advertising Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-079
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter, booklet, and circular addressed to McCormick & Co. distributors in 1905. All three items address a change in advertising and/or updates on spice markets.

Dates: 1905

Menu Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-079
Abstract

The Menu Collection contains 118 menus from across the world. The bulk of the menus are from the United States and Europe. Most of the menus are from the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, along with some menus dating earlier in the twentieth century. The menus contain a wide variety of cuisines. The collection also contains additional papers, including restaurant business cards, a recipe pamphlet, and exchange rate document from the Icelandic bank.

Dates: 1939 - 2018

Military & Wartime Cookery Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-029
Abstract

The Military & Wartime Cookery Collection consists of a variety of manuscript and ephemeral materials relating to the history of military and wartime food and cooking. Items in the collection date from 1884 to 1965, though the bulk of the collection covers parts of World War I through World War II (1917-1945).

Dates: 1884 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1945

John M. Miller & Son Price List

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-016
Abstract

John M. Miller & Son Price List contains a price list for John M. Miller & Son, purveyors of confectionery, novelty boxes, Christmas goods, and fireworks. The company is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1886

Minor/Harland Manuscript Recipe Book,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-044
Abstract

The collection, a manuscript cookbook, dates to the late 19th century and only some of the recipes are attributed. Attributees include Mrs. E. J. Minor, Marion Harland (cookbook/household management author), Dr. Louis W. Minor, "mother's recipe book"/my mother, Mrs. Venable, Mrs. Gen(?) Maury, and others.

Dates: c.1895

Myers Bros. & Co. Trade Card,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-046
Abstract

The Myers Bros. and Co. Trade Card shows a Confederate soldier swapping tobacco with a Union soldier in exchange for a bag of coffee.

Dates: late 1860s-early 1900s (likely c. early 1870s)

Myrtle Creek, Oregon, Recipe Book,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-001
Abstract

The collection includes a book of recipes compiled from the Myrtle Creek, Oregon area sometime in the late 19th Century or early 20th Century.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century

National Agricultural Publications,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-022
Abstract

The collection contains United States Department of Agriculture, War Food Administration, and other national agency publications from the early 20th century to the present day.

Dates: 1917-present

National Biscuit Company Package Catalog

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-019
Abstract

The collection contains a single package catalog for the National Biscuit Company. Although the catalog is not dated, one item is from June 1931, suggesting the catalog is from about that time. It includes labels for more than forty crackers, cookies, and other snack items, and the back pages include sample display racks for stores.

Dates: c.1930s

National Biscuit Company Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-018
Abstract

The collection consists of a single black and white photograph of a group of National Biscuit Company salesman and delivery drivers posed outside of a factory. Most of the men are carrying cracker display units and the trucks in the background are advertising Uneeda Biscuits. The photograph is not dated.

Dates: n.d.