Culinary Ephemera: Corn Products, 1876-1988
.5 Linear Feet (1 small manuscript box.)
.5 Linear Feet (1 small manuscript box.)
3.5 Linear Feet (7 small manuscript boxes)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to various kinds of fat used in cooking, including lard, margarine, vegetable oils, and shortening. It does not include materials specifically focused on butter, which are part of the Culinary Ephemera: Dairy collection. Publications date from 1889-1990s, with most materials concentrated in the 1900s-1950s. Brands and products of particular note include Wesson Oil, Oleomargarine, Spry shortening, and Crisco shortening.
17.5 Linear Feet (35 small manuscript boxes)
12 Linear Feet (22 small manuscript boxes and 2 oversize boxes.)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials relating to fruits, vegetables, and nuts in fresh, dried, canned, frozen, and juiced forms. Publications date from 1885-2003, with most materials from the 1920s-1980s. Although a few vegetables appear, such as corn, potatoes, and mushrooms, the bulk of this collection consists of publications promoting fruit (especially cranberries, bananas, citrus fruits, pineapple, and raisins), and nuts (especially coocnuts, almonds, pecans, walnuts, and peanuts).
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).
2 Linear Feet (4 small manuscript boxes)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes materials promoting a wide variety of food products, ranging from snacks to salad dressings to pickles to desserts. Most are published by corporations that produce multiple, sometimes unrelated, food products. Publications date form 1873-1995, with most from the 1930s-1970s. Corporate authors of particular note include H. J. Heinz and Co., General Food Corporation, Hunt-Wesson Foods, and Kraft Foods.
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.
3.5 Linear Feet
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to herbs and spices, flavoring extracts, and salt products. A small number of baking powder promotional items are also included in this collection. Publications date from 1874 to circa 1999, with most items from the 1920s-1960s. Particularly well-represented are publications from Joseph Burnett & Co., R.T. French Company, McCormick & Co., Inc., C.F. Sauer Co., D.&L. Slade Co., Spice Islands Company, Diamond Crystal Salt Company; Morton Salt Company; and Worcester Salt Company.
3 Linear Feet (6 small manuscript boxes)
Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional items related to sweetening products, including sugar, maple syrup, honey, and molasses. There is also a small amount of material related to artificial sweeteners. Publications date from circa 1906 to circa 2000, with most items from the 1920s-1950s. Notable examples of corporate authors include American Molasses Company, Crescent Manufacturing Company, American Sugar Refining Company, California and Hawaiian Sugar Company, Inc., Hipolite Company, Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association, and the American Honey Institute.