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Culinary Ephemera: Refrigerators and Freezers, 1860-1991

5.5 Linear Feet (10 small manuscript boxes and 1 oversize box.)

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes culinary-related items relating to refrigeration and freezing. Most items promote particular brands of refrigerators, freezers, and ice cream freezers, and often provide instructions or recipes relating to the use of those products, especially frozen desserts. Publications date from 1860-1991, with most from the 1890s-1950s.

Series 1: General

Box 60.

Creators include:

Bradley, Alice, 1875-1946.
Snow, Mary.
Admiral Corporation.
Coolerator Company (Duluth, Minn.)
Copeland Sales Company.
Servel, Inc.
Crosley Radio Corporation.
General Electric Company.
Edison General Electric Appliance Co.
Hotpoint, Inc.

Admiral recipe book. 80 p. circa 1950s

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 1

Item [1] promotes Admiral electric ranges and Dual Temp products. Introduction by Willie Mae Rogers, Director of Home Economics. Some recipes include wine or liquor as an ingredient. Marked Part # 248 A-898.

Coolerator flavor-saver refrigerator recipes. 28 p. 1949

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 2

Item [2] promotes Coolerator refrigerators. Recipes prepared or compiled by Mary Snow, food consultant. Price 50 cents.

How to use your Copeland. 21 p. circa 1940s

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 3

Item [3] promotes Copeland electric refrigerators. Handwritten recipe attributed to Millie Walton. Includes discussion of refrigerator theory. Marked form No. AD-5.

Making the most of your Electrolux : with practical recipes. 48 p. 1935

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 4

Item [4] promotes Electrolux refrigerators. It has illustrations of a unit with recommended placement of foods. Includes menus. Marked Form ADF-6.

Making the most of your Servel Electrolux. 48 p. 1937

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 5

Item [5] promotes Electrolux gas, kerosene, or bottled gas powered refrigerators. Note attached from Spring 2000 states that the book is from mother's first gas refrigerator and it is still running.

Recipes for delicious frozen dainties. 18 p. circa 1938

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 6

Item [6] promotes the Crosley refrigerator (electric). Revised operating instructions glued in. Has illustration of Shelvador, a rack for storing items in the door. Has illustration of the factory. Marked 16623-A.

How to store perishable foods : double-duty days ahead for your refrigerator : [folded brochure] circa 1943

Mixed Materials 60, Folder 7

Item [7] promotes General Electric (GE) refrigerators. Illustrations of other period products. Mentions rationing of canned goods during World War II. Price 1 cent. Marked 398-1671.

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