Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Excerpted from The Irving library, vol. 7, no. 949. Includes debate with Stephen Douglas (June 17, 1858), speech at Independence Hall (Feb. 21, 1861), First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), Gettysburg...
Anonymous. circa 1770-1790 . This cookbook bound in its original vllum is indexed and the entries are numbered. It has 206 pages of which 50 are written. Recipes include: barley gruel, dry cherry's, lemmon cream, harts horn jelly, a presont strain,...
Contemporary binding of a collection of recipes written in different hands. Recipes are on paper of differing sizes, 10 leaves. Recipes include The Floating Island, red quinces whole, currant wine, buns, pancakes, two recipes for Collar beef, pot...
Isabella Carr. 1741. Also dated 1753, Margaret Carr. It is bound in full calf with original leather boards. There are 146 pages of which 109 are written. (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 16 x 21 cm.) It was inscribed by Margaret Carr "her book July 7, 1753."...
Receipts of Pastry and Cookery For the Use of his Scholars. Who teacheth at his School On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, in the Afternoon, in St. Martin's Le Grand. And on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, in the Afternoon, at his School next...
Anonymous. Circa 1750 -- 1780. The book is in its original vellum written in several hands. There are 230 pages of which 148 are written. The cookbook is indexed with recipes in other hands pasted in the back. Recipes include: to make French bread,...
Correspondence detailing the experiences of Joseph Franklin Culver, who served with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, Company A, from 1862-1865, first as a lieutenant and later as captain.
W.B. Emmons was a soldier with the 34th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. In his diary, he writes about the Atlanta Campaign, the end of the war, and Lincoln's assassination.
Letters detailing army life in 1863 for Civil War soldier William Titus Rigby of the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company B, including the Vicksburg campaign.
Letters from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa to family and friends while he was serving in the U.S. as a Navy pilot, awaiting orders to be sent into combat.
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...
Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters from Nile Kinnick to his family members during his military training at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Miami,...