History of Food and Drink
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this heading for collections that relate to the History of Food and Drink Collection, the Peacock-Harper Collection, the Ann Hertzler Children's Cookbook and Nutritional Literature Collection, the Cocktail History Collection, the Food Technology and Production Collection, and any materials related to social, economic, and domestic aspects of food and drink history.Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:
John S. Powers Letter,
The collection includes a letter from John S. Powers to Nellie E. Williams on November 23, 1862 and a sprig from a boxwood tree. Powers letter includes a personal description of conditions in Alexandria, local sites, and news.
Quality Chemical Company Collection,
The collection contains a promotional letter, a special offer flyer, a catalog of chemicals, and an order blank and addressed envelope from the Quality Chemical Company of Detroit, Michigan.
Recipe Scrapbook [School Project],
The collection includes clipped recipes, magazine images of food, household and kitchen tips. Though the collection is undated, an article about Franklin Delano Roosevelt suggests the scrapbook was composed no earlier than 1933.
Recipe Scrapbook (Spiral Notebook),
The collection contains a spiral sketchbook converted into a recipe book. The volume includes clipped, printed, and handwritten recipes, as well clippings pictures of food and hand drawn sample table.
"Record" Recipe Book,
This collection contains a record book with handwritten and news-clipping recipes.
Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection
The Alice Ross Ephemera Collection includes more than 2,000 pieces of ephemera related to food & culinary history, advertising/marketing, food production, agriculture, holidays and celebrations, and domestic culture, dating from the mid-19th to the mid/late 20th century.
Sallie Wilson Recipe Book, n.d. (Ms2009-002)
Southwest Virginia Counties Collection
The collection includes correspondence, manuscript memoranda and recipe books, and family papers from the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke Counties.
Southwest Virginia Counties Collection, 1783-1878 (Ms2000-092)
St. Francis Hotel (San Francisco, CA) Liquor Store Scrapbook
The collection contains a scrapbook of images from the liquor store window at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The collection likely dates from about the 1950s, though none of the items are specifically dated.