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Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. 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.

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.

Elizabeth Musser of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, kept a diary about her daily activities throughout the year 1850. She attended religious meetings, visited and received family members and neighbors, and performed household chores.

Elizabeth Musser of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, kept a 106-page diary about her daily life throughout the year 1850. Musser's brief entries pertain to her social life and home life, and most end with her signature or calligraphic flourishes. She baked, churned butter, sewed frocks and pillowcases, purchased goods, and performed other tasks. On one occasion, she mentioned selling butter that was to be shipped via railroad (November 25). The diary records Musser's occasional trips to Lancaster; her attendance at religious meetings, funerals, burials, and a baptism (April 20); and her regular visits to and from family members and acquaintances. One camp meeting Musser attended was hosted by African Americans (August 17). Many of her acquaintances were members of the Musser family, Lapp family, Houser family, McKillips family, Buckwalter family, Delinger family, Meyers family, or Dunlap family.

Ethel and Nina Newton kept 2 daily diaries about their life in a farm in Amanda, Ohio, in 1900 and 1901. The sisters primarily wrote about their daily activities, which included farm work, housework, and attendance at school. They occasionally commented on holidays and political events.

Sisters Ethel and Nina Newton kept 2 daily diaries about their life on a farm in Amanda, Ohio, in 1900 and 1901. Their entries pertain to their daily activities, which included farm work, housework, and attendance at school.

Ethel and Nina filled one composition book each: Ethel wrote from February 28, 1900-August 7, 1900 (103 pages) and Nina wrote from August 25, 1900-April 4, 1901. The girls recounted their daily activities at home, on the farm, and in school. They mentioned the farm work of their father and other laborers, who tended to potatoes, corn,, other crops, and livestock. Their mother cooked, sewed, and did other household work, sometimes assisted by the girls. Nina frequently documented the names of the books and magazines she and the other members of the family read. Both girls attended school, did homework, and went to Sunday school. The diaries include occasional mentions of newsworthy events, such as the census-taker's visit (June 2, 1900), a local girl's death (June 16, 1900), and Washington's birthday (February 22, 1901). Nina commented on her father's intention to vote for William McKinley and celebrated the Republicans' local and national victories (November 6, 1900-November 7, 1900). On several holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day, she enclosed or copied dinner menus.

This collection is made up of letters that Velma Reynolds Loehr received from family members and a friend between 1904 and 1908. Her correspondents reported on farm life, social events, and other news from Danvers and Le Roy, Illinois.

This collection is made up of 9 letters that Velma Reynolds Loehr received from family members and a friend between 1904 and 1908. The first letter, written by Sadie Yoder in Danvers, Illinois, largely concerns the women's upcoming marriages (February 14, 1904). Members of the Reynolds family, including Velma's father, Gould J. Reynolds, and her siblings Ora, Dolly, [Clinton], and Maude, wrote the remaining letters. Writing from Le Roy, Illinois, they commented on farm work, household chores, news of family and friends, and their social activities, including trips to Bloomington, Illinois, and a street fair in Le Roy. Dolly Reynolds reported that an acquaintance continued to make paper flowers, despite having been married (May 5, 1904), and C. Reynolds (likely Clinton) discussed his plans to work in a canning factory (June 6, 1906). Several of Velma's correspondents mentioned the growth of her sons. Maude Reynolds enclosed two small plants in her letter of July 31, 1906.

The Women, Gender, and Family collection contains miscellaneous individual items relating to women, gender, and family primarily in America, between 1678 and 1996.

The Women, Gender, and Family collection contains miscellaneous items relating to women, gender, and family between 1678 and 1996. The bulk of the collection ranges in from 1800 to the early 20th century and is geographically focused on the United States of America. Topics include marriage and divorce, childrearing and motherhood, household management, and consensual and coerced sex. Other areas of interest cover women’s various forms of labor, legal restitution for paternity suits and financial support, and education for women and children. While not as heavily represented, multiple items detail women's engagement in politics, slavery and abolition, and women's rights.

This volume holds 15 sets of minutes taken at meetings of the Youths Literary Society, along with manuscript and newspaper copies of recipes and household cleaning tips.

This volume holds 15 sets of minutes taken at meetings of the Youths Literary Society, along with manuscript and newspaper copies of recipes and household cleaning tips. The first 4 pages contain a copy of the organization's constitution, which states its intention "to cultivate and improve the literary talent of, and encourage all good and noble sentiments in its members," and lays out several basic rules for its general membership and officers. Three pages of bylaws follow, concerned primarily with the structure of individual meetings and drawing heavily on rules previously established by similar groups. Meeting minutes, usually one or two pages long, follow a gender-divided list of the society's members, and chronicle the group's activities over the course of 15 meetings, with the final entry dated May 25, 1867. The remainder of the volume contains manuscript recipes and newspaper clippings; most of the recipes are for cakes and other desserts, though four refer to medical complaints. In addition to the manuscript recipes, a number of newspaper clippings from the 1880s provide recipes and housekeeping information. Of note is a clipping containing George Wilson's cure for cancer, which uses sorrel. The final pages of the book contain knitting instructions, as well as a recipe for duck feed.