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Digitized Content Frances S. Baker Product Cookbooks
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Creators:
Baker, Frances S., 1911-1999
Dates:
circa 1900-1993
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0612
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Small cookbooks, primarily in pamphlet form, produced either by the manufacturer of one of the ingredients or by the manufacturer of appliances used in preparing the recipe. These cookbooks also advertise the products represented. Collection includes pamphlets on canning, canning labels, recipes from newspapers, and several regional cookbooks, including Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

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Digitized Content Product Cookbooks Collection
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Creators:
Wells, Ellen B.
Dates:
1874-2009
Size:
18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0396
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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.

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Archives Center Cookbook Collection
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Creators:
Broussard-Simmons, Vanessa
Kraft General Foods, Inc.
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
Dates:
undated
Size:
3 Cubic feet (9 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0510
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists primarily of cookbooks and similar forms of literature containing recipes and - or information relating to food customs, created by producers and manufacturers of foods products, cooking utensils, kitchen appliances and equipment.

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Digitized Content Michio and Aveline Kushi Macrobiotics Collection
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Creators:
Kushi, Aveline, 1923-
Kushi, Michio, 1926-
Ohsawa, George
Dates:
1960-2006, undated
bulk 1970-1989
Size:
29 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
339 Cassette tapes
218 Video recordings
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0619
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Publications, photographs, articles, audio and video recordings, and teaching materials relating to the rise of Macrobiotics in the United States, as popularized by Michio and Aveline Kushi. The bulk of the material was produced for the Kushi Foundation, Kushi Institute, and East West Foundation.

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Digitized Content Jane and Michael Stern Collection
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Creators:
Stern, Michael, 1946-
Stern, Jane
Dates:
1890-2008
Size:
17 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1392
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection documents Jane and Michael Stern's travels across the United States collecting data for their books on American material culture subjects, with particular emphasis on food and dining.

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Digitized Content The Carolyn and Donald Grepke Paper Doll Collection
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Creators:
Grepke, Donald, 1932-
Grepke, Carolyn, 1937-1995
Dates:
circa 1800s-1998, undated
Size:
70 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0752
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Abstract: Collection consists of over a century of paper dolls documenting their use as advertisements, and depictions of popular culture, fashion trends, family lifestyles, gender roles, ideal communities,and cultural heroes.

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Digitized Content Archives Center Business Americana Collection
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Creators:
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center
Ravnitzky, Michael
Dates:
circa 1900-present
Size:
29 Cubic feet (55 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0404
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains a variety of business ephemera similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. The material in the Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian Institution staff.

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Digitized Content International Salt Company Records
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Creators:
International Salt Company
Costain, Harold Haliday
Rittase, William M., 1894-1968
Dates:
1881-1993
bulk 1920-1929
Size:
3.5 Cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1158
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection contains business records and photographic materials documenting the International Salt Company. The business records include correspondence, account and ledger books, a payroll book, patent and trademark information, print advertising and marketing materials, and a salesman salt display kit. The photographic materials include a series of photographs by William M. Rittase, a series of photographs by Harold Haliday Costain, a small photograph album, snapshots, and slides. The images cover all facets of the salt manufacturing and packaging operations, and include photographs taken in New York State, Michigan, and Louisiana.

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Digitized Content Edmund C. Tarbell papers
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Creators:
Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938
Dates:
circa 1855-circa 2000
bulk 1885-1938
Size:
7.2 Linear Feet
Collection ID:
AAA.tarbedmu
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of Boston painter Edmund Charles Tarbell measure 7.2 linear feet and date from circa 1855-circa 2000, bulk 1885-1938. The collection includes biographical material, correspondence, writings, diaries, personal business records, printed material, photographs, albums, glass plate negatives, and a scrapbook.

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Digitized Content Robinson and Via Family Papers
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Creators:
Robinson, Franklin A., Jr., 1959- (actor)
Dates:
1838-2017, undated
bulk 1872-1985
Size:
23.1 Cubic feet (71 boxes, 3 map-size folders)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0475
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.

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