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Up a country lane scrapbook, vol. 09: January 4, 1988 - December 27, 1993
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Evelyn Birkby Collection

Up a country lane scrapbook, vol. 10: January 3, 1994 - December 30, 1997
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Evelyn Birkby Collection

Up a country lane scrapbook, vol. 11: January 6, 1998 - December 27, 2001
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Evelyn Birkby Collection

Up a country lane scrapbook, vol. 12: January 3, 2002 - December 27, 2005
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Evelyn Birkby Collection

Up a country lane scrapbook, vol. 04: January 7, 1964 - December 30, 1968
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 also includes awards presented to Birkby by Iowa Press Women, Inc....
Evelyn Birkby Collection

Our dumb animal, 1927
Winchester, Mollie Chadwick. "Abe Lincoln's echoing shot" p. 32. Lincoln quotations and illustration--p. 31.
James W. Bollinger Collection

English cookbook, 1770-1790
Cookery
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,...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

English recipe book, 1820
Cookery; Medicines
Anonymous. 1820. This book, rebound in grey boards, has 250 pages of which 217 are written. This recipe book contains some 360 recipes--culinary, household, and medical--written clearly on about 210 pages. Recipes include: Pomade Divine-Beef Marrow...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

Bethune family recipe book, 1826-1898
Cookery; Medicines
The manuscript is written in several hands and bound in its original vellum. There are 148 pages all of which are written including both cooking and medical recipes. Given to G. Stephens from her mother J. Bethune 1898, the book was started in...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

Harriet Dawbarne cookbook, January 1834
Cookery
Compiled by Harriet Dawbarne, January 1834. Liverpool. The book has 98 pages of which 78 are written. Written into the book is: "Harriet Dawbarne January 1st, 1834. Liverpool 18 Byrom Street." Added later in another hand is "My father and mother...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

American cookbook, 1838-1851
Baking
The book includes recipes, along with some purchases, and the haying dates for 1838-1851. There are 31 pages of which 11 are written. (4 x 6 5/8 in., 10 x 17 cm.) Recipes include: Wafers, Jumbles, Diet Bread, Wonders, A light Cake baked in cups,...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

American cookbook, 1900-1920
Cookery
Anonymous, circa 1900-1920. This handwritten notebook has 64 pages of which 33 pages are written. Some of the more unusual recipes are: Olive Oil Pickles, Cherry Honey, Pecan Sticks, Brown War Cake, Mock angel food cake.
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

Pennsylvania cookbook, 1889
Cookery
Anonymous, circa 1889. There are 198 pages. Handwritten recipes and newspaper recipes are pasted into the "Annual-Report of the State Librarian" of Pennsylvania. The date 1889 is written in this book which is probably from Pennsylvania.
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

M. E. Ludwig cookbook, 1910
Cookery; Nutrition
This is a handwritten notebook of M.E. Ludwig for her Dietetics class. Some of the recipes are handwritten in pencil and some in ink. Others are pasted in from cookbooks and newspaper clippings. There are several newspaper clippings of Miss...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

English cookbook, 1700
Cookery
This manuscript is in the original calf binding from the 18th century, with 340 pages of which 124 are written. There are 314 recipes on 200 leaves. The recipe book is written in many hands. After each recipe are the names of the cooks and scribes...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

Carr family cookbook, 1741-1753
Cookery
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."...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

Catherine Russell cookbook, ca. 1740s
Cookery
This mid-18th century book with beautiful calligraphy was written in one hand. Very unusual recipes such as: orange tart or pudding, Pennyrialls pudding, pasty paste, calve's foot pye 2 ways, lamb pye 2 ways, rabbit pye, roast capon with oysters,...
Szathmary Culinary Manuscripts and Cookbooks

Commonplace-book of Thomas E. Corkhill, 1851-1895
Clergy; Chaplains; War; Military life; Military medicine; Campaigns & battles; Hospital ships; Religion; Reunions; Reformatories
Corkhill was a Methodist minister, instrumental in the founding of Iowa Wesleyan College and the reformatories in Mitchellville and Eldora, Iowa. Governor Samuel Kirkwood commissioned this account of Corkhill's experiences as a chaplain for the...
Civil War Diaries and Letters

Bean family letters, 1862-1863
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...
Civil War Diaries and Letters

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