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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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  • Baked products industry4
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  • Rumford Chemical Works4
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  • 40 items
    Ephemera, Publications

    J.W. Colton's Choice Cooking Recipes, Preparations and Calendar for 1876-77

    • Centennial Cook Book
    • 1876

    …This cookbook produced by J.W. Colton was possibly distributed at the 1876 Centennial…

    • Author Colton, J.W. (Firm)
    • Subject Cooking, American, Cooking, Cookbooks, Centennial Exhibition, Quacks and quackery
  • 19 items
    Manuscripts, Advertisements

    Notebook containing an advertisement for The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical

    • 1850

    A notebook containing handwritten references to various recipes and uses for ingredients. The first page includes an advertisement for The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its Application…

    • Contributor Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897
    • Subject Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888, Morfit, Campbell, 1820-1897, Cookbooks
  • 437 items
    Publications

    The Baker's Book [Volume II]

    • A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in all Countries
    • 1903

    The illustrated second volume of The Baker's Book, providing a comprehensive discussion of baking. Intended to be "every baker's hand book," the series describes the global history and significance of baked goods,…

    • Contributor Braun, Emil
    • Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
    • Subject Baking, Bread, Cooking (Bread), Bread--Composition, Bread molds (Baking), Baking--Equipment and supplies, Cookbooks
  • 342 items
    Publications

    The Baker's Book [Volume I]

    • A Practical Hand Book of the Baking Industry in all Countries
    • 1901

    The illustrated first volume of The Baker's Book, providing a comprehensive discussion of baking knowledge. Intended to be "every baker's hand book," the series describes the global history and significance of baked…

    • Contributor Braun, Emil
    • Publisher D. Van Nostrand Company
    • Subject Baking, Bread, Cooking (Bread), Bread--Composition, Bread molds (Baking), Baking--Equipment and supplies, Cookbooks
  • 4 items
    Ephemera, Pamphlets

    A Selection of Choice Recipes

    • How's That, Grandma?
    • 1920

    A colorful printed booklet containing six recipes using and advertising Rumford Baking Powder. The cover image features a girl and her grandmother baking in the kitchen. Inside, recipes include the Rumford Biscuit, Corn…

    • Printer American Lithographic Company
    • Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
    • Subject Cookbooks, Rumford Company, Baking powder, Recipes, Advertising--Baking powder, Baking, Baked products industry, Cooking, American
  • 28 items
    Publications

    Honey and Its Uses in the Home

    • 1915

    Informational pamphlet on honey includes a description of how honey is produced, its value as a food, the flavor of honey, its health benefits, its economy, household uses, and how it can be used in cooking. Contains…

    • Author Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927, Atwater, Helen W
    • Publisher United States. Department of Agriculture
    • Subject Honey, Cooking, Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927, Atwater, Helen W., Cookbooks, United States. Department of Agriculture, Recipes
  • 40 items
    Ephemera, Publications

    The Horsford 1887 Almanac and Cook Book

    • 1887

    Published by Rumford Chemical Works, this almanac features advertisements for Professor Horsford's baking powder and acid phosphate along with other products manufactured by Rumford Chemical Works. Also includes…

    • Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
    • Subject Rumford Chemical Works, Baked products industry, Baking powder, Advertising--Baking powder, Baked products, Cooking, American, Almanacs, American, Cookbooks, Recipes
  • 30 items
    Publications

    The Horsford Cook Book

    • Circa 1877

    …Pocket-sized cookbook features recipes using Horsford baking powder including recipes for…

    • Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
    • Subject Baking, Baking powder, Cooking, Rumford Chemical Works, Recipes, Baked products, Baked products industry
  • 52 items
    Publications, Ephemera

    The Rumford Cook Book

    • Circa 1910

    …Produced by Rumford Chemical Works, manufacturers of baking powder, this cookbook features an illustration of the Rumford Chemical Works manufactory …illustration of the baking powder they produce on the backside of the cookbook. An advertisement for Rumford baking powder can be found on the first…

    • Author Farmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857-1915
    • Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
    • Subject Cooking, American, Farmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857-1915, Bread, Biscuits, Cake, Desserts, Cooking (Fish), Rumford Chemical Works, Cookbooks, Manufacturing industries, Baking powder, Advertising--Baking powder, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, Baked products industry, Recipes
  • Photograph of Konrad Bloch
    12 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Konrad E. Bloch

    • 1993-Mar-22

    …for a year or so." And so I went. I hadn't done any research, only a cookbook kind of chemistry. I remember the first thing you did when …

    • Interviewee Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Subject University of Oxford, Biosynthesis, Biochemists, Human Genome Project, Cholesterol, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Organic, Harvard University, Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-, Columbia University, Nobel Prize winners, Cholesterol--Synthesis, Nutrition

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