Jane and Michael Stern Collection
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Stern, Michael, 1946-
Stern, Jane
- Dates:
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1890-2008
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17 Cubic feet (41 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1392
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The 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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Katzen, Mollie, 1950-
- Dates:
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1972-2002
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5.25 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1434
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection includes Katzen's notes and notebooks compiled during her writing of The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest.
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Gleason, Connie
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1915, 1946.
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0.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0568
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two cookbooks: The Great 20th Century Cook Book, 1915; and The American Woman's Cook Book, 1946.
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Baker, Frances S., 1911-1999
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circa 1900-1993
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0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0612
- Repository:
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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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Wells, Ellen B.
- Dates:
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1874-2009
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18 Cubic feet (20 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0396
- Repository:
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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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Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Zinn, Manfredo
Marx, Dick
Nunez, Raul
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1926-1988
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17.4 Cubic feet (86 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0198
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Marlboro Oral History and Documentation Project is the result of a two-year effort supported in part by a gift from Philip Morris, Inc. Sixty oral history interviews and a variety of television commercials, print advertising, promotional materials, packaging, and industry publications were gathered to document Marlboro cigarette advertising. T...
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Bush, Laura
Pepin, Jacques
Obama, Michelle
Obama, Barack
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circa 1952-2015
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0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1371
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the life and career of French chef, author, and television personality Jacques Pepin primarily through correspondence, menus, and photographs.
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Kushi, Aveline, 1923-
Kushi, Michio, 1926-
Ohsawa, George
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1960-2006, undated
bulk 1970-1989
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29 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
339 cassette tapes
218 video recordings
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0619
- Repository:
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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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Mamer, Stuart M.
Mamer, Louisan E., 1910-2005
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1927-2002
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10.1 Cubic feet (31 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0862
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Mamer collection includes a wide range of materials used to teach concepts and the usage of electricity to predominately rural audiences. Mamer kept many of her materials in labeled notebooks; other papers were filed loosely with no apparent order. The collection materials date pre-dominantly from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. There are some materials from the late 1930s. There is only one item from 1927 and one from 1999.
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Custom Auto and Equipment Sales
Parlett, John K., 1937-2005
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1859-2011, undated
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20 Cubic feet (60 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1225
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The John K. Parlett Collection of Agricultural Ephemera, 1859-2011, undated, is a collection of operator's instruction manuals, parts illustrations manuals, dealership materials, farming, farm life, and agriculture-related ephemera. The material is from national companies as well as local manufacturers and businesses.