Skip to main content

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:

Bridges & Sanders, New River Nursery Receipt,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-051
Abstract

The collections contains a receipt for D. S. Peirce dated September 18, 1874, for the purchase of apples from the New River Nursery in Jackson's Ferry, Wythe County, Va.

Dates: 1874 - 1874

Alexander W. Brown Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-033
Abstract

This collection contains seven daily diaries (1904, 1909-1912, 1916, 1921) of Alexander W. Brown, traveling salesman in the food product business.

Dates: 1904 - 1921

J. A. Brown Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-072
Abstract

This collection contains an Internal Revenue collections account book kept by J. A. Brown of Martinsville, Virginia, from 1889-1892.

Dates: 1889 - 1892

Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-078
Abstract

Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions was printed in Salem, Virginia in September 1851, and it contains directions on how to use C. M. Burnett's patent beveled wheat fan.

Dates: 1851

W. Atlee Burpee & Company Leaflets

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-010
Abstract

This collection contains numerous leaflets from the W. Atlee Burpee & Company from 1899-1915. The leaflets discuss planting, seed growing, and other agriculture strategies, and other gardening strageties for American garderners, farmers, and planters.

Dates: 1899 - 1915

C. E. Sydnor & Co. Letters to Tarter Bros.

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-071
Abstract

This collection contains three letters from "produce commission merchant" C. E. Sydnor & Co. of Richmond, Virginia, to the Tarter Brothers of Rural Retreat, primarily related to the purchase and shipment of cabbages.

Dates: 1898

Janet L. Cameron Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-021
Abstract

The collection includes biographical information about the life and career of Janet L. Cameron, a food and nutrition specialist with the Virginia Cooperative Extension from 1931-1964. Most of the collection consists of publications written by Cameron and others.

Dates: 1931 - 2001

Frank Leslie Campbell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1980-005
Abstract

This collection includes wine bottle labels collected by Frank Campbell, an entomologist with the National Academy of Science - National Research Council, and a manuscript draft of his European travel memoir, titled "Better Late."

Dates: 1953 - 1979

Katherine G. Cary Manuscript Recipe Book,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-005
Abstract

This collection consists of a recipe book containing printed and handwritten recipes compiled by Katherine G. Cary. Recipes include soups, breads, fish, salad dressing, sauces, pickles, and more.

Dates: c.1915?

CDV of Buttermilk Drinkers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-070
Abstract

This collection contains a printed image of five soldiers gathered around, pouring and drinking buttermilk from a jar, possibly during or shortly after the American Civil War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1864 - 1866