Culinary Ephemera: Appliances, Circa 1860s - Circa 1990s
8 Linear Feet (16 small manuscript boxes.)
8 Linear Feet (16 small manuscript boxes.)
7 Linear Feet (14 small manuscript boxes.)
This collection includes pamphlets and recipe booklets promoting companies and corporations, such as gas companies, insurance companies, and others. It also includes books for brides promoting the goods and services provided by advertisers within these books, as well as catalogs for household goods and some food products. Publications date from 1840-1994.
1 Linear Foot (2 oversize manuscript boxes)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection consists of issues of Cookbook Gossip Newsletter, issued between 1990-2001. Topics of interest to cookbook and culinary history collectors are covered, including articles on the history of cookbook collecting; articles on particular cookbooks, authors, or companies, such as Mrs. Lincoln, The White House Cookbook, and Knox Gelatine; and announcements of exhibits such as "American Cookery - The Bicentennial 1776-1996, An Exhibition of American Cookbooks at the Clements Library."
2.50 Linear Feet (5 small manuscript boxes.)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials from numerous cookware companies for products from pyrex to Teflon products to Tupperware, among many others. Publications date from the 1870s-1994, but the bulk of materials are concentrated in the 1920s-1970s.
5 Linear Feet (10 small manuscript boxes)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to gelatin and tapioca. Publications date from the 1850s-2000, with most materials from the 1910s-1990s. In addition to aspics, translucent desserts, and puddings, this collection also includes a number of items promoting gelatin-based ice cream recipes, particularly from Royal Baking Powder Company and General Foods Corporation (producer of Jell-O).
4 Linear Feet (8 Hollinger boxes)
The collection includes promotional material and recipes from and related to magazines, newspapers, and other publications, with the largest groupings of materials from Good Housekeeping magazine and the Detroit Free Press. The material contains information about recipes, crafts, entertaining, and homemaking.
5.5 Linear Feet (10 small manuscript boxes and 1 oversize box.)