Album 1815. Anonymous. No location. It has 88 pages with the inside covers written and some pages blank. This is an English Cookery Manuscript from the United Kingdom with one address listed as Edinburgh. There are prescriptions and recipes. Some...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Survayer of the Meltings Gold Pot Book the 25 April 1814. It has the original vellum on boards with a gold gilt stamped family coat of arms on front & rear cover. There are 334 pages of which 122 are written. The first part of the manuscript lists...
This book contains the name of Abigail Wellington Townsend and has 99 pages. Included are recipes for: A Loaf Cake; Beckey's cake; Gingerbread to bake in pan's minced pies; fish sauce; Almond Cake; To stew a calfshead; To make [forced?] meat;...
The bookplate of "Wm. F. Murphy, Blank Book Manufacturer No. 27 N. Seventh Street, (Old U.S. Mint,) Philadelphia" is pasted inside the front cover of this cookbook. There are 128 pages of which 30 are blank, with 50 pages of recipes laid in....
The recipes date from the 1880's-1890's. There is a newspaper recipe for Emma Paddock Telford's "Chocolate Fudge Recipes for College Girls' Spreads." Ms. Telford wrote several books published between 1908 and 1914. The other newspaper clippings in...
Marcellus Warner Darling was a native of New York. He enlisted in Company K, 154th New York Volunteers on September 6, 1862. The 154th saw a great deal of action during the Civil War. Darling was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, was...
Families; Physicians; Military medicine; Military hospitals; Sick persons; Soldiers; War casualties; Medicines; Amputation; Typhus fever; Harvesting; Food supply; Debt; Swine; Wages; War ships; Death
Correspondence between Dr. Asa Bean and his family while he served as a surgeon in the Union Army in Maryland, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Dr. Bean died of disease on a hospital ship April 26, 1863 as his wife, Mary Bean, was traveling to Memphis to...