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Indexed clipping scrapbooks and unmounted pamphlets and clippings used to illustrate talks Milhan gave during her 25 years in home demonstration work; subjects include the history of food, clothing, and various customs; persons active in home demonstration extension work; and the history of home economics.

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Clippings, correspondence and cookbooks of Michael Field. Also, condolence letters to Frances Field on the death of her husband, Michael Field.

Abstract The Nahum (Nach) Waxman Collection of Food and Culinary Trade Cards documents the history of food and household product industries through trade ephemera and advertising cards dating from the 1860s to the 1990s. It contains mainly trade cards, along with food labels, menus, advertising samples, culinary-themed print materials, and ephemera related to food, culinary, beverages, household and equipment, retail and commercial, agriculture, cigarettes, and more. The collection also offers...

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Typescripts in English of medieval and earlier recipes.

Abstract

A group of pamphlets, newsletters, and other underground or ephemeral publications focused on the topics of vegetarianism, organic eating and food systems, sustainable forest and land management, collective farming, commune living, survivalism, alternative lifestyles, anti-nuclear efforts, human rights and fair labor practices.