Pillsbury Company Bake-Off Collection
name: label: Collector
content: Pillsbury Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Contests -- United States
label: Topic
content: Food
label: Topic
content: Housewives -- United States
label: Topic
content: Baking
label: Topic
content: Baked products
label: Topic
content: Cookery, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by The Pillsbury Company, through Ms. Jackie Peterson (letter from Craig Orr to her, April 5, 2001).
creator: label: Collector
content: Pillsbury Company
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content: Pillsbury Company Bake-Off Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Records consist of cookbooks produced after these contests, biographies of contestants, and videotapes of Bake-Offs.
bioghist: label: Historical
content: The Pillsbury Company donated these materials to the Archives Center in 1999 as part of the company's celebration of its fiftieth anniversary of the Pillsbury Bake-Off. The inspiration for the contest was to acquire recipes using Pillsbury's Best Enriched Flour for placement inside bags of the flour. The first contest, held in New York City's Waldorf Astoria in 1949, was so successful that Pillsbury decided to hold the contest each year. In the mid-1970s, however, the Bake-Off began to be held every other year with the result that the 50th anniversary Bake-Off in 1998 was, in fact, the 38th contest. An indicator of the status of this on-going baking event, especially in its early years, was the attendance of Eleanor Roosevelt at the first contest, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the second, and Mamie Eisenhower in 1962.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.15 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0690
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Tear sheets
label: Type
content: Videotapes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into fivce series.

Series 1: Historical Background, 1985			
 
Series 2: Cookbooks, 1933-1998	

Series 3: Bake-Off Contestants, 1957-1998

Series 4: Videotapes of Bake-Offs, 1950, 1955, 1968, 1976, 1996	

Series 5: Advertisements, 1949-1983
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Susan B. Strange, 2001.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Tear sheets -- 1940-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Videotapes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Material documenting Pillsbury's Bake-Off from its inception in 1949 through its 50th anniversary in 1999. Papers include primarily cookbooks issued after Bake-Offs, biographies of contestants and VHS videos of five Bake-Offs.