Product Cookbooks Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Wells, Ellen B.
topic: label: Topic
content: Home economics -- 1870-1990
label: Topic
content: Women -- Nutrition -- 1870-1990
label: Topic
content: Food -- 1870-1990
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Cookbooks -- 1870-1990
label: Topic
content: Cookery -- 1870-1990
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Ellen Wells on December 21, 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wells, Ellen B.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Product Cookbooks Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection consists of cookbooks, but many would accurately be described as pamphlets. Also included are some labels from products that contain recipes. The cookbooks were produced by  manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.
accruals: label: Accruals
content: The Archives Center continues to add to this collection. Addenda were added by Michael Ravnitzky, February 23, 2007; Tillman Neuner, January 28, 2010; James T. Smith, March 3, 2012; O.C. and Pat Boldt, March 6, 2012; Shirley Cherkasky, March 27, 2012; Leslie Browne, March 23, 2012; Mary Lou Collector, March 30, 2012; Shirley Cherkasky, 2012 and 2013; Vera Glocklin, 2013; Shirley Cherkasky, May 2013, 2015, 2016; Michael Mitchell, 2016; Shirley Cherkasky 2016-2019; Sandra Friedman 2017; David R. Bender 2017; Anita MacDougall (in memory of Dora F. Halder) 2017; and Jan Akerson 2019.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: This is an collection begun by the Archives Center to house examples of what is generally termed product cookboosk.  These cookbooks are produced by manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers and to ecourage use of their particular product.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1874-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0396
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Cookbooks
label: Type
content: Pamphlets
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series and is alphabetical by name of manufacturer.   In box 15 there are no folders numbered 36 or 74.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Erin Molloy, volunteer, and Alison Oswald, archivist, 2012. Revised by Jakob Dopp, intern, 2015; revised Austin Arminio, intern, 2016; Isaac Simon, intern, 2018.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Cookbooks -- 1870-1990
label: Genre/Form
content: Pamphlets -- 1870-1990
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These items are termed cookbooks because they contain recipes, but they would accurately be described as pamphlets. The collection also contains some labels from products that contain recipes. They were produced by  manufacturers of the ingredients of foods; by beverage producers; by the manufacturers of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate; by trade associations; and by electric and power companies who produced cookbooks for their customers.  Many of the cookbooks advertise the products represented, and they reflect how companies wished to be seen throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many of the companies represented are national in scope.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials held in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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Pillsbury Company Bake-Off Collection, 1949-1999 (AC0690)

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