History of Food and Drink
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 210 Collections and/or Records:
Culinary Ephemera Collection
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.
Culinary Pamphlet Collection
The collection includes small publications and pamphlets created and distributed by culinary, appliance, and food-related companies from about the 1870s to the 1990s. Most pamphlets contain advertisements, recipes, product information, testimonials, or some combination of all four.
Isabel Davis Recipe Books and Loose Recipes
This collection consists of a bound book of hand-written recipes and clipped recipes from newspapers, an unbound notebook of hand-written recipes, and loose recipes; both handwritten and clipped.
De Laval Separator Company Brochures
The collection contains a letter and broadside advertisement for De Laval Cream Separators, addressed to Mr. S. D. Stokes of Roanoke, Virginia, dated February 2, 1925, as well as a pamphlet for "The De Laval Cream Separator 'No. 10'."
Joseph G. Dill Letter to Daniel C. E. Brady
The collection consists of a letter from Joseph G. Dill to Daniel C. E. Brady, written from Richmond, Virginia, on May 30, 1862. Dill writes Brady on a variety of topics including recent war news, the challenges of sending mail through conflict zones, a recent fishing party, the warther, and the price of goods.
Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil Trade Card
The Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil trade card is an advertisement for a cure-all serum marketed most popularly during the Victorian era. This particular trade card was distributed by James H. S. Aumann, M.D., a druggist and chemist from Wytheville, Virginia.
Drink Recipe Book, Minnesota School of Bartending
This collection contains a manual for the Minnesota School of Bartending, titled "Drink Recipe Book," from 1968.
"Eat-It-All" Ice Cream Cone Collection
This collection consists of approximately 70 full-color Eat-It-All Ice Cream Cone display and price cards, likely from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Educational Cookery Collection
The Educational Cookery Collection includes flyers, pamphlets, cooking school catalogs, recipes, menus, cookery lessons, and other ephemera relating to cookery and education, dating from the 1880s to the 1960s.
Egg beater
This item is a vintage egg beater, probably from the early 20th century. This item was donated along with Artifcat-062, Hand Grinder.