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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:

Cocktail Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-027
Abstract

The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats (i.e., postcards, pamphlets, and adverstising ephemera) relating to the history of the cocktails, spirits, and wine, dating from the about the 1870s to the present.

Dates: c.1870s-2000s

Cocktail Manual (Typed)

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-027
Abstract

This resource is a typed instruction manual for creating cocktails from the 1950s. It includes ingredients, desciptions about how to make cocktails, glassware and tools, as well as prices.

Dates: After 1951

Colgate Books and Sample Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-005
Abstract

This collection contains Mother Goose nursery rhyme booklets and a sample tube of Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream from 1908.

Dates: 1908

Jessie Willcox Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-038
Abstract

The Jessie Willcox Smith Collection (1898-1934) is a collection of illustrations by Willcox used for advertisements, magazine covers, and stories.

Dates: 1898 - 1934

"Cooking Recipes" Recipe Book

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-023
Abstract

This collection includes a recipe book containing hand-written recipes for soups, salads, puddings, cookies, cakes, icings, and biscuits. The date, location, and full author name remain unknown.

Dates: n.d.

"Cooking Recipes" Recipe Book

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2008_023_CookingRecipes_RecipeBook

J. E. Cooley [New York] Advertising Broadside,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-007
Abstract

Single-page advertising flyer and price list for J. E. Cooley, grocer, New York, NY, dated 1863.

Dates: 1863

Bettie D. Cramer Manuscript Book,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-062
Abstract

The collection consists of a manuscript receipt book created by/belonging to Bettie D. Cramer of Wheeling, West Virginia, c. 1883. The notebook contains recipes, housekeeping tips, and elocution exercises.

Dates: c. 1883-1884

Culinary Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-028
Abstract

The Culinary Ephemera Collection was established in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats (postcards, menus, children's activities, advertising pamphlets, and more) that relate to food, nutrition, and medicine, dating from the early 19th century to the present.

Dates: c.1900s-2000s