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This digital collection features a broad spectrum of materials related to the production, packaging, and marketing of food, including advertisements, printed ephemera, recipe books, and photographs. Subjects represented in the collection include food additives and adulteration, flavoring essences, and safety standards, as well as food-adjacent topics such as sugar, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and margarine.

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  • Dow Chemical Company19
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  • Liebig's Extract of Meat Company9
  • Perkin-Elmer Corporation8
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  • Advertisements36
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  • 12 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Taking the MYSTERY Out of MARGARINE

    • 1947

    Informational pamphlet about margarine published and distributed by the Kraft Foods Company Customer Service Department. The pamphlet details the ingredients and process for making Kraft Parkay, with an emphasis on…

    • Creator Of Work Kraft Foods Company
    • Subject Margarine--Marketing, Margarine, Kraft Foods Company, Advertising, Food industry and trade
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Véritable Extrait de Viande Liebig [Real Liebig Meat Extract] with lion chase in Africa

    • 1903

    Entitled "Afrique. Chasse au Lion," illustrated trade card depicts hunters chasing a lion in the African wilderness. A hunter on horseback wears a turban and aims a gun at a lion that is standing upon another hunter.…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera, Advertising cards, Advertising, Lion hunting, Africans in art, North Africans in art
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Véritable Extrait de Viande Liebig [Real Liebig Meat Extract] with crocodile chase in Egypt

    • 1903

    Entitled "Egypte. Chasse au Crocodile," illustrated trade card depicts men hunting a crocodile in the Egyptian wilderness. The imagery could be referencing European adventurer Sir Henry Morton Stanley's 1887 visit to…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera, Advertising cards, Advertising, Crocodile hunting, Africans in art, North Africans in art
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Cubes de Bouillon Oxo with August Wilhelm von Hofmann

    • 1903

    Illustrated trade card depicts German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) at the inauguration of the School of Chemistry in London in 1846, of which Hofmann served as the first director. Men stand at a table…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Hofmann, August Wilhelm von, 1818-1892, Advertising, Advertising cards, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Bouillon Oxo en Flacons [Bouillon Oxo in Bottles] with Justus von Liebig in Giessen in 1840

    • 1929

    Illustrated trade card depicts German chemist Justus von Liebig's (1803-1873) laboratory in Giessen in 1840. The trade card also features an inset bust of Liebig. Verso includes an advertisement for Oxo Bouillon, as…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Advertising, Advertising cards, Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von, 1803-1873, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Libox, Extrait de Viande Assaisonné [Libox, Seasoned Beef Extract] with Franz Karl Achard

    • 1903

    Illustrated trade card depicts German (Prussian) chemist, physicist, and biologist Franz Karl Achard (1753-1821) walking through a sugar beet refinery, with view of workers illustrating various stages of the production…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Achard, Franz Carl, 1753-1821, Advertising, Advertising cards, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera, Sugar--Manufacture and refining
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Libox, Extrait de Viande Assaisonné [Libox, Seasoned Beef Extract]

    • Claude Louis Berthollet visits Antoine Laurent Lavoisier at the Sorbonne in Paris
    • 1903

    Illustrated trade card depicts chemist Claude Louis Berthollet (1748-1822) visiting Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) while Lavoisier was working in a lab at the Université de Paris or Sorbonne University. They…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794, Université de Paris, Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 1748-1822, Advertising, Advertising cards, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Extrait de Viande de la Cie Liebig [Liebig Meat Extract Company] with Albertus Magnus

    • 1903

    Illustrated trade card depicts alchemist Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280) working in a lab with a vessel releasing steam. Also includes an inset bust of Magnus. Verso is an advertisement for Liebig's Extract of Meat along…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280, Advertising, Advertising cards, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Extrait de Viande de la Cie Liebig [Liebig Meat Extract Company]

    • Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān with his teacher Giafar el Ssâdik
    • 1903

    Illustrated trade card depicts 8th-century Arabic polymath Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c. 721-c. 815), westernized by Europeans as "Geber," speaking with his teacher Giafar el Ssâdik. They stand over a scroll with…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Advertising, Advertising cards, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera, Muslim scholars
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Trade card for Véritable Extrait de Viande Liebig [Real Liebig Meat Extract] with Justus von Liebig

    • 1903

    Illustrated trade card depicts the monument of Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) in Munich, Germany with an inset of Liebig working in the laboratory as well as a closeup of the statue's bust surrounded by a laurel wreath.…

    • Publisher Liebig's Extract of Meat Company
    • Subject Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von, 1803-1873, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Meat extract, Printed ephemera, Advertising, Advertising cards
  • Publications

    Percentage composition of foods

    • Part of The Science of Common Things; a Textbook of General Science
    • 1922

    Scientific diagram illustrates the percentage composition of foods including a pork chop, cod, egg, cream cheese, bean and bread. Illustrations are after the charts created by Charles Ford Langworthy of the United…

    • After Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932
    • Author Tower, Samuel Francis
    • Publisher D.C. Heath and Company
    • Subject Science--Experiments, Science--Study and teaching, Middle school education, Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932, Food--Composition, Education, Secondary, Textbooks, Science
  • Publications

    Percentage composition of foods

    • Part of The Science of Common Things; a Textbook of General Science
    • 1922

    Scientific diagram illustrates the percentage composition of foods including corn, potato, onion, apple, peanut butter and olive oil. Illustrations are after the charts created by Charles Ford Langworthy of the United…

    • After Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932
    • Author Tower, Samuel Francis
    • Publisher D.C. Heath and Company
    • Subject Science--Experiments, Science--Study and teaching, Middle school education, Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932, Food--Composition, Education, Secondary, Textbooks, Science
  • 12 items
    Publications

    Plastics Make the Package Dow Makes the Plastics

    • 1953

    Pamphlet reviews plastic packaging manufactured by Dow Chemical Company including flexible films like Saran Wrap, foamed products such as Styrofoam, coatings including Ethocel, as well as molding and extrusion materials…

    • Author Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics--Molding, Polymers, Food--Packaging, Plastics--Extrusion, Styrene, Thin films
  • 16 items
    Publications

    Quality products for the growing low- calorie market with Du Pont Cylan calcium cyclamate a non-nutritive sweetener

    • 1946

    Currently banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration due to potential health concerns, this pamphlet outlines how Cyclan, or calcium cyclamate, can be used as an artificial sweetener in place of sugar as a…

    • Author E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
    • Subject Dietetic foods, Nonnutritive sweeteners, Cyclamates, Low-calorie diet
  • Photographs, Negatives (Photographs)

    Gift box containing Dow plastics products

    • 1964

    General view of a promotional gift box containing assorted Dow plastics products, including Saran Wrap and Handi-Wrap sandwich bags. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Chemical industry, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Corporations, Advertising, Plastics industry and trade, Marketing, Food--Packaging, Plastics in packaging
  • 2 items
    Rare books

    A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons

    • 1820

    The cover and title page are digitized from the first edition of this seminal work responsible for exposing dangerous adulterations to foods and beverages. Food and drug purity legislation followed later in the…

    • Author Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
    • Printer Mallett, J.
    • Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
    • Subject Food contamination, Canning and preserving, Food--Preservation, Food--Safety measures, Toxicology, Food adulteration and inspection
  • 152 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    Adulterations of Food; With Short Processes for their Detection

    • 1874

    Chapters cover food types commonly adulterated through the use of additives, with some additives being non-food items such as plaster of Paris, lead and brick dust. End of book features plate illustrations of common…

    • Author Atcherley, Rowland J.
    • Publisher W. Ibister & Co.
    • Subject Food--Analysis, Food adulteration and inspection, Food additives
  • 30 items
    Publications

    The Horsford Cook Book

    • Circa 1877

    Pocket-sized cookbook features recipes using Horsford baking powder including recipes for biscuits, rolls, muffins and short cakes.

    • Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
    • Subject Baking, Baking powder, Cooking, Rumford Chemical Works, Recipes, Baked products, Baked products industry
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    Household supplies sales display featuring Saran Wrap and Handi-Wrap

    • 1965

    Two views of a sales display featuring assorted household supplies, including Dow brand Saran Wrap and Handi-wrap. Initially developed for the U.S. Army to wrap arms and equipment for transport during World War II,…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Marketing, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Advertising, Plastics industry and trade, Food--Packaging, Plastics in packaging
  • 2 items
    Publications

    Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999)

    • 1948-Jul-12

    Two-page article from the July 12, 1948 edition of Chemical and Engineering News profiling Dr. Betty J. Sullivan (1902-1999).

    Betty J. Sullivan was born on May 31, 1902 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and educated at the…

    • Subject Women in science, Flour industry, Chemists, Russell-Miller Milling Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.), Portraits, Wheat--Research, Food industry and trade, Sullivan, Betty, 1902-1999, Women chemists
  • 14 items
    Publications

    Dr. T. Taylor's reply to "Science", relating to the crystals of butter, animal fats, and oleomargarine

    • 1886

    This reprint is Dr. Thomas Taylor's reply to the magazine "Science" relating to his heavily disputed method of analyzing fats for adulteration. Dr. Thomas (1820-1910) was appointed in 1871 Microscopist to the United…

    • Author Taylor, Thomas
    • Subject Food--Analysis, Oils and fats, Margarine, Butter, Oils and fats--Research, Food adulteration and inspection
  • Publications, Lithographs

    Crystals of Fats, Butter, Beef & Lard, Representing Butter, Oleomargarine & Butterine

    • Plate I
    • Part of Dr. T. Taylor's reply to "Science", relating to the crystals of butter, animal fats, and oleomargarine
    • 1886

    Eighteen illustrations of various fats under a microscope. Some examples are under polarized light. Dr. Taylor was trying to create a method of analyzing different fat types to be able to judge purity of food against…

    • Author Taylor, Thomas
    • Printer Of Plates A. Hoen & Co.
    • Subject Food--Analysis, Oils and fats, Margarine, Butter, Oils and fats--Research
  • 150 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    The Ice Crop: How to Harvest, Store, Ship and Use Ice

    • A Complete Practical Treatise for Farmers, Dairymen, Ice Dealers, Produce Shippers, Meat Packers, Cold Storers, and All Interested in Ice Houses, Cold Storage and the Handling or Use of Ice in Any Way, Including Many Recipes for Iced Dishes and Beverages
    • 1893

    Comprehensive book on the ice industry with content and illustrations on the harvesting, cutting and storing of ice; ice house construction; handling, transport and marketing of ice; the use of ice in refrigeration; ice…

    • Author Hiles, Theron L.
    • Publisher Orange Judd & Company
    • Subject Icehouses, Recipes, Ice industry, Ice
  • 3 items
    Ephemera, Pamphlets

    15 Delightful Recipes Prepared in a New Way

    • 1930s

    Promotional pamphlet Aji-No-Moto, a mono sodium glutamate (MSG) food additive product manufactured by S. Suzuki & Co., Ltd. Designed to market Aji-No-Moto to housewives, the pamphlet includes recipes for a variety of…

    • Creator Of Work S. Suzuki & Co., Ltd., Rudolf Mosse, Inc.
    • Subject Food additives, Food additives industry, Recipes, Monosodium glutamate, Advertising
  • 2 items
    Advertisements, Ephemera

    Aji-No-Moto: A Real Flavor Triumph...

    • 1930s

    Advertisement for Aji-No-Moto, a mono sodium glutamate (MSG) food additive product manufactured by S. Suzuki & Co., Ltd.

    • Creator Of Work S. Suzuki & Co., Ltd.
    • Subject Food additives, Food additives industry, Monosodium glutamate, Advertising
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