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Item [1] promotes Granite iron ware. Includes user testimonials; product images; advice on dinner parties; soup, seafood, poultry, meat, vegetable, bread, biscuit, muffin, entree, pudding, salad, cake, pie, and miscellaneous recipes; advice on household cleaning, food storage, and weights and measures; and images of children in period dress. Some recipes contain wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: chicken soup, boiled tongue with tomato sauce, and Saratoga pudding. Damaged: brittle pages, cover detached, cover torn and part missing. 2 copies.

Item [2] promotes Agate iron ware. Includes list of awards; user testimonials; advertisement for the Sawtelle Agate chafing dish outfit; product images, descriptions, and prices; entree, dessert, and baked good recipes, endorsed by the State Department of the U.S. government; advice on roasting, frying, and broiling; advice on washing clothes, sanitation, and care for various medical conditions; section on sick room cookery; chart with average weight and height, based on age, for a man; list of antidotes for poison; and image of woman and child in period dress. Sample recipes: mullagatawny soup, two dinners from a sheep's pluck, and plum pudding for the million. Marked: No. 2.

Item [3] promotes Guernsey Earthenware. Includes advice on care and use of the cookware; soup, entree, vegetable, egg, and dessert recipes. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Hungarian goulasch, neck of lamb en casserole, and oysters coddled in ramekins.

Item [4] promotes the West Bend waterless cooker. Includes description of cooker and process of waterless cooking; images of cooker; advice on care and use of cooker; main dish, dessert, fruit, and vegetable recipes attributed to Christine Frederick; menu suggestions; advice on canning, preserving, and baking in cooker; kosher recipes; images of serving suggestions and woman in period dress; laid-in lid instructions and price list inserts; user testimonials; and index. Sample recipes: pot roast with noodles and vegetables, New England boiled dinner, and American chop suey.

Item [5] promotes West Bend's American Cooker. Includes reasons to use cooker for health, economy, and convenience; advice on care and use of cooker; meat, vegetable, cereal, soup, and dessert recipes; images of serving suggestions; price list for models No. 66 and No. 67; and endorsement by Ruth Stewart, managing editor of "The Peoples Popular Monthly". Sample recipes: rice pudding with raisins, vegetable dinner, and ham and cabbage. Damaged: pages 9-16 detached, with pages 11-14 missing.

Item [6] promotes West Bend's American Cooker. Item [6] is similar to item [5] but contains differing price list for models No. 66N and No. 70N; and copyright on back cover instead of first page. Damaged: pages 11-14 missing.

Item [7] promotes the American Waterless Cooker. Includes reasons for using cooker; advice on care and use of cooker; main dish, vegetable, fruit, cereal, and dessert recipes; menu suggestions; advice on preserving; images of serving suggestions and woman and child in period dress; price list for models No. 66B and No. 70B.; and user testimonials. Sample recipes: roast chicken, butterscotch pudding, and Boston brown bread. Damaged: cover tearing along binding.

Item [8] promotes the Griswold Tite-Top Dutch Oven. Includes images of serving suggestions and woman in period dress; advice on care and use of Dutch oven; charts showing cuts of meat for cow, lamb, and pig; main dish and dessert recipes; product images; and advertisement for Griswold Waffle Irons, Handle Griddle, Food Chopper, Safety Fill Tea Kettle; and Popover Pan. Sample recipes: Aunt Ellen's waffle recipe, Aunt Ellen's veal olives, and Aunt Ellen's barbecued ham. Marked: 300M--3-27.

Item [9] promotes Wear-Ever cooking utensils. Includes description of "Wear-Ever" cooking method; advice on care and use of utensils; vegetable, fruit, meat, fish, soup, stew, and salad recipes; menu suggestions; laid-in copy of "Martha Lee's Radio Chat" insert; images of serving suggestions; Priscilla Proving Plant Report by Della Thompson Lutes, director; and product descriptions and images for combination roaster & steamer, Triplicate pans, Tricolator coffee maker with endorsement from Katherine A. Fisher, director of Good Housekeeping Institute, and pancake griddle. Sample recipes: waterless vegetable chowder, veal a la jardiniere, and spiced ham. Marked: Form No. CU-120.

Item [10] promotes Corning Glass Works. Includes envelope addressed to Bernice Smith of Battle Creek, MI and return address Corning Glass Works in Corning, NY; postage 1 1/2 c.