| Date of Items: | 1683 to 1983 |
| Processed by: | Originally processed by Rosanna Walker and updated by Randy Williams. |
| Register Prepared by: | Randy Williams, April 2004 |
| Linear Feet: | 4.5 |
Historical Note
Jay Anderson is a professor of History at Utah State University. Professor Anderson donated his vast cookbook
and foodways collection, collected over a lifetime of research and specialization on foodways, to USU Libraries
Fife Folklore Archives for student research. The collection includes international and domestic books on foodways.
Provenance
Professor Jay Anderson donated his extensive cookbook and foodways collection to the Fife Folklore Archives in several
installments in the 1990s, with the last deposit in 1999.
Scope and Content
The Jay Anderson Foodways Collection is comprised of FOLK COLL 17 and FOLK COLL 17b. FOLK COLL 17 is the Foodways
and Historic Cookbook Collection; items in FOLK COLL 17 can be accessed through USU Libraries
online catalog. FOLK COLL 17b comprises Professor Anderson's foodways
research and consists of nine boxes of photocopied thesis, articles, correspondence with author, etc., date and author
noted when known. An inventory of FOLK COLL 17b follows.
FOLK COLL 17b Inventory
Box 1:   European Food Research (Folders 1-12),   American Food Research (Folders 13-14)
- Folder 1:   Rener, H. D. The Origin of Food Habits, 1944. (1 item)
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Folder 2:   Bibliography of cookery books at Brotherton Library, Leeds University. (2 items)
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- Item 1:   Blanche Leigh Collection
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- Item 2:   Preston Collection
Folder 3:   Smallzried, Kathleen Ann. The Everlasting Pleasure: Influences on America's Kitchens,
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Cooks and Cookery, from 1565 to the year 2000, 1956. (1 item)
Folder 4:   King, Frank A. Beer Has a History, 1947. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   Loran J. Sass. (6 items)
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- Item 1:   Sass, Lorna J. "A Medieval Feast," Gourmet April 1976.
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- Item 2:   Lorna J. Sass business card
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- Item 3:   Postcard
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- Item 4:   Letter
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- Item 5:   Book review for Sass' book: To the King's Taste.
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- Item 6:   "Recipes for the Ages (Medieval)," Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 March 1976, featuring Lorna Sass.
Folder 6:   Fussel, G. E. An Eighteenth Century Village, 1947. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   Fussel, G. E. The English Rural Labourer. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   Fussel, G. E. "The Elizabethan Countrywoman," The English Countrywoman A.D. 1500-2000. (1 item)
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Folder 9:   West, John. "Probate Records, Inventories and Wills," Village Records. (1 item)
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Folder 10:   Roeder, Charles. "Notes on Food and Drink in Lancashire and Other Northern Counties." (1 item)
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Folder 11:   Martin, E. W., ed. Preface and chapter "Peasants and Peasant Life" from Country Life in England. (1 item)
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Folder 12:   Ashley, Leonard R. N. "Scoff Lore: An Introduction to British Words for Food and Drink." (1 item)
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Folder 13:   Gates, Catherine. On The Culture of Indians Living in the Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of
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Approximately 1620-1990, 1966, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. (1 item)
Folder 14:   Gates, Catherine. "Drink, Drugs, & Indulgence," from On The Culture of Indians Living in the Region of Plymouth:
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Covering the Period of Approximately1620-1990, 1966. (1 item)
Box 2:   American Food Research (Folders 1-7)
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Folder 1:   Information on New England horticulture. (16 items: 2-15 appear to be from the same source, possibly a living history museum.)
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- Item 1:   "Bibliography: Horticulture."
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- Item 2:   "Indian Gardens."
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- Item 3:   Hussey, Jane Strickland, compiler. Native Flora of New England, 1968.
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- Item 4:   "Alden House: Garden of Wild Fruit, Berries and Flowers."
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- Item 5:   "Bradford House: Garden of Flowering Herbs."
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- Item 6:   "Common House: Brewer's Garden."
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- Item 7:   "Brewster House: Goosefoot Garden of Culinary Herbs."
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- Item 8:   "Cooke House: Garden of Sallet Herbs.".
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- Item 9:   "First House: Garden of Aromatic, Culinary and Medicinal Herbs."
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- Item 10:   "Fuller House: Garden of Medicinal Herbs."
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- Item 11:   "Howland House: Garden of Dyeing Herbs."
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- Item 12:   "Soule House: Bee Garden."
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- Item 13:   "Standish House: Garden of Wound Herbs."
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- Item 14:   "Warren House: Rose Garden, Knot Garden, Vegetable Garden."
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- Item 15:   "Winslow House: Garden of Simples."
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- Item 16:   Hussey, Jane Strickland. "Notes on Pilgrim Herb Gardens."
Folder 2:   Thanksgiving in U.S.A. (10 items)
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- Item 1:   Joel, Yale. "A Traditional Thanksgiving," Boy's Life, November 1974.
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- Item 2:   Crosby, Alfred W. "Maize, Land, Demography and the American Character,"
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Revue Francaise D'etudes Americanines, 1991.
- Item 3:   The First Thanksgiving in April, El Paso (Texas) Mission Trail Association.
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- Item 4:   History of Plymouth Plantation, photocopied pages (114-127).
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- Item 5:   Of Plymouth Plantation photocopied pages (79-85, 90: excerpts from chapters XI & XII).
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- Item 6:   Photocopied pages (92-137) from a children's book on New England, including information on Samoset
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(March 1621), Massasoit, Squanto, New England 1621-1623, and Thanksgiving 1621.
- Item 7:   Pilgrim Courage photocopied pages (63-7, 69-71, 74-6, 95-60), including information on American
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Indians and Thanksgiving.
- Item 8:   Pyle, Arthur G., compiler. "Pilgrim Corn Planting 1621," Plimoth Plantaion, Plymouth MA.
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- Item 9:   Baker, James W. "Recreating the First Thanksgiving Dinner," Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth MA. (Includes recipes.)
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- Item 10:   Anderson, Jay. "The Bountiful Yeoman," Natural History, Oct. 1982, with author note and additional reading.
Folder 3:   Strang, Jeff. A Transcription and Explication of the Wall-Tatam Cookbook, May 1980. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   Transcript of Benjamin Hawley's diary, Chester County, 1769-82. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   Foodways in eighteenth-century America. (3 items)
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- Item 1:   Lemon, James T. "Household Consumption in Eighteenth-Century America and its Relationship to Production and
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Trade: The Situation Among Farmers in Southeastern Pennsylvania."
- Item 2:   Yoder, Don. "Historical Sources For American Traditional Cookery: Examples from the Pennsylvania German Culture,"
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(2 copies: one from unnamed journal and one draft copy.)
- Item 3:   Saracino, Mary E. "Household Production of Alcohol in Eighteenth Century Connecticut," unpublished paper for
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American Folklife course at George Washington University taught by John Valch, December 1982.
Folder 6:   Bartis, Peter T. "'Twas Water Soup but Slightly Thinner," unpublished paper. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   History of food and drink in America. (3 items)
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- Item 1:   Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. Weiss. The Early Breweries of New Jersey, New Jersey Agricultural So., 1963,
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photocopies of pages 7-97.
- Item 2:   Richman, Irwin. "The History of the Tomato in America," The Proceedings: New Jersey Historical So.
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- Item 3:   Yoder, Don. "The Sausage Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans," copy of paper draft.
Box 3:   American Food Research (Folders 1-9),   Methodology (Folders 10-16)
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Folder 1:   Fraser, Kathryn M. Foodways in 1850: A Sourcebook For the Homeplace-1850, TVA's Land Between the Lakes, 1983. (1 item)
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Folder 2:   Meat preservation. (3 items)
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- Item 1:   Burnett, Edmund Cody. Hog Raising and Hog Driving in the Region of the French Broad River.
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- Item 2:   Jones, Dale. "Smoking the Meat in Western Kentucky: or Barbecue on my Brain." Unpublished student paper, Spring 1983.
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- Item 3:   Perdue, Chuck. "Enough Salt to Track a Rabbit." Unpublished paper, Woodville, Virginia, 7 January 1970.
Folder 3:   "Say it With Food," Center for Southern Folklore Magazine, Fall 1980. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   Alder, Thomas A. "'Sunday breakfast was always special with us': A Report on Foodways in South Central Georgia," Folklore Reprint Series,
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Folder 5:   Camp, Charles. "Foodways in Everyday Life," American Quarterly, 34: 3 (1982), (1 item)
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Folder 6:   Exhibition Catalog: "Thought for Food: An Exhibition of Cookery Book, November 1984-February 1985," General Foods Collection Gallery. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   "Toward a Method for the Study of Food in Popular Culture," Journal of American Culture. Entire issue devoted to foods. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   Forster, Robert and Orest Ranum. Food and Drink in History: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations, V. 5. (1 item)
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Folder 9:   Jones, Michael Owen, Bruce Giuliano, Roberta Krell, editors."Foodways and Eating Habits: Directions for Research. Western Folklore Quarterly, 40:1
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- (January 1981), entire issue devoted to food. (1 item)
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Folder 10:   Dentan, R., ed. "Appendix E: A Preliminary Guide to the Collection of Info on Food Behavior," Final Report USPHS Grant No. 3557, 1961. (1 item)
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Folder 11:   The Digest: A Newsletter for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food. Volumes: 1:1, 1:3, 2:2, 2:3, and Digest Directory. (5 items)
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Folder 12:   Verdier, Yvonne. "Repas Bas-Normands,"L'Homme Revue Francaise d'Anthropologie Volume 6: (1966). (1 item)
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Folder 13:   Bennett, John W. " Social Scientific Research in Human Subsistence," American Anthropologist, (1946). (1 item)
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Folder 14:   Research outlines and questions. (3 items)
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- Item 1:   Outline: "Culinary Anthropology."
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- Item 2:   Outline: "Preliminary System of Classification."
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- Item 3:   Questions: "The Present Position of Food Research in Europe and the USA: Some Questions."
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Folder 15:   Kariel, Herbert G. "A Proposed Classification of Diet," Dietary Classification. (1 item)
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Folder 16:   Lockwood, William G., Yvonne R. Lockwood. "The Cornish Pasty in Northern Michigan," Oxford Symposium 1983: Food in Motion. (1 item)
Box 4:   Methodology (Folders 1-11)
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Folder 1:   Marshall, Howard Wight. "Foodways and Regional Character." (3 items)
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- Item 1:   Letter from Jan Brunvand (ed. Journal of American Folklore) regarding reader (Anderson) response to Marshall article, 7 February 1979.
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- Item 2:   Follow-up letter from Brunvand regarding article, 19 March 1979.
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- Item 3:   Review copy of Marshall manuscript.
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Folder 2:   SNACS Field Handbook: Foodways, Society for the North American Cultural Survey of foodways of New York, October 1976. (1 item)
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Folder 3:   A 4-H FolkPatterns Project: Foodways. Cooperative Extension Service, Folk Arts Division, The Museum, Michigan State University. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   Questionnaires. (2 items)
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- Item 1:   "Philadelphia Food Survey Project: Household Questionnaire."
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- Item 2:   "Foodways: Meal Questionnaire: 4-H."
Folder 5:   "Food Habits," Journal of Nutrition Education, 5:1 (Jan/March 1973). (1 item)
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Folder 6:   Mead, Margaret. Food Habits Research: Problems of the 1960s, 1964. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   National Geographic, 148:1 (July 1975), contains article "Food: Will There be Enough," and "The Nightmare of Famine." (1 item)
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Folder 8:   Food research: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (2 items)
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- Item 1:   Newman, L.F. "Some Notes on Foods and Dietetics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
- Item 2:   "Sixteenth Century: Slow Progress."
Folder 9:   Gray Graffam. (2 items)
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- Item 1:   Letter from Gray Graffam to Jay Anderson, April 26, 1984.
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- Item 2:   Graffam, Gray, "Foodways as a Conceptual Framework in Archaeological Research: A New Perspective."
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Folder 10:   Hoskins, W. G. The Making of the English Landscape, pp. 118-27. (1 item)
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Folder 11:   Thirsk, Joan, ed. The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume IV 1500-1640, 1967, table of contents, 108-13; 300-7; 412-65. (1 item)
Box 5:   Methodology (Folders 1-5)   Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) (Folders 6-7)   Menu (Folders 8)
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Folder 1:   Articles by: V. G. B. Atwater; G. E. Fussell; W. G. Hoskins; W. Harwood Long. (9 items)
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- Item 1:   Fussell, G. E."The Traffic in Farm Produce in Seventeenth-Century England," Western Middle West, 1900-1914.
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- Item 2:   Fussell, G. E. and V. G. B. Atwater. "Agriculture of Rural England in the Seventeenth Century," Economic Geography.
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- Item 3:   Fussell, G. E. "The Grasses and Grassland Cultivation of Britain: Before 1700."
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- Item 4:   Fussell, G. E. "Social and Agrarian Background of the Pilgrim Fathers."
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- Item 5:   Fussell, G. E. "Crop Nutrition in Tudor and Early Stuart England," The Agrarian History Review.
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- Item 6:   Fussell, G. E. "The Elizabethan and Early Stuart Dairy Farmer."
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- Item 7:   Fussell, G. E. "History and Agricultural Science." first two pages of article.
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- Item 8:   Hoskins, W. G. "Regional Farming in England," 1953
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- Item 9:   Long, Harwood. "Regional Farming in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire."
Folder 2:   Letters and Articles (4 items)
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- Item 1:   Lucas, A. T. "Irish Food Before the Potato." Gwerin.
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- Item 2:   Fussell, G. E. and G. H. Kenyon. "Letters to the Editor," The Agricultural History Review.
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- Item 3:   Fussell, G. E. "The Change in Farm Labourers' Diet During Two Centuries," The Economic Journal, May 1927, pp 268-274.
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- Item 4:   Atkinson, Frank. "Oatbread of Northern England." Gwerin.
Folder 3:   Trow-Smith, Robert. "The Livestock Topography of Tudor and Stuart Britain," A History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, 1956,
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pp.172-259. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   "Conditions of Nourishment." Photocopy from unknown source of 1800s report on the dietary conditions in England, Wales, and Scotland. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   Fussell, G. E., ed. Robert Loder's Farm Accounts 1610-1620, 1936. (1 item)
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Folder 6:   Taylor, John. All the Works of John Taylor, 1630. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, 1857. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   Menus. (2 items)
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- Item 1:   Menu from Durgin-Park Market Dining Rooms," Boston, MA.
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- Item 2:   Menu (17 cards) with photographs from Mount Pleasant House, New Hampshire, 1898.
Box 6:   Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) (Folders 1-9)
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Folder 1:   A Book of Cookrye: Very necessary for all such as delight therein, 1587. (1 item)
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Folder 2:   Tusser, Thomas. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie, 1590 pp. 120-41. (1 item)
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Folder 3:   Plat, Sir Hugh. Delights for Ladies, (1609) 1948 introduction. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   The Country House-Wives Garden: Containing Rules for Herbs, and Seeds, (1617) 1948 edition. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   The Complete Country Housewife. (1 item)
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Folder 6:   The Household Receipts. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   Cookerie and Huswiferie. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   N.B. The Court and Country, 1618. (1 item)
- Folder 9:   Ashley, Sir William. The Bread of our Forefathers: An Inquiry in Economic History, 1928. (1 item)
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Box 7:   Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) (Folders 1-10)
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Folder 1:   Fantasticks, [1626]. (1 item)
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Folder 2:   The Great Feast: At the [I]nthronization of the Reverend Father in God, George Neavill, Arch-Bishop of York, 1645. (1 item)
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Folder 3:   Murrell, John. A New Book of Cookeries, 1630. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   New England Prospect, 1865 [1634], pp 1-77. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   Butler, Charles. The Feminin[e] Monarchi: or The Histori of Bees, 1634, partial copy. (1 item)
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Folder 6:   The French Cook, 1673. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   MacDonell, Anne, ed. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened, 1910. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery, 1635. (1 item)
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Folder 9:   G. M. lterThe English Hous-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman, 1942 [1660]. (1 item)
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Folder 10:   Jeamson, Thomas. Artificiall Embellishments, 1665. (1 item)
Box 8:   Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) (Folders 1-12)
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Folder 1:   A New Orchard & Garden, 1683. (1 item)
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Folder 2:   Markham, G. Country Contentments: Or The Husbanmans Recreations, 1683. (1 item)
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Folder 3:   Markham, G. The English House-Wife, 1683. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   Salmon, William. Excerpts from Salmon Family Dictionary, 1698. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   Evelyn, John. Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets, 1699. (1 item)
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Folder 6:   A Learned Dissertation on Dumplings, 1726. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   James, Philip, ed. A Butler's Recipe Book 1719, 1935. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   A Collection of Receipts in Cookery: Physick and Surgery, (1724) 1958. (1 item)
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Folder 9:   Gardiner, Anne Gibbons. Mrs. Gardiner's Receipts from 1763, 1938. (1 item)
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Folder 10:   Carter, Susannah. The Frugal Housewife or Complete Woman Cook, 1772. (1 item)
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Folder 11:   The Farmer's Wife: Or the Complete Country Housewife, 1740? (1 item)
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Folder 12:   Davies, J. The Innkeeper and Butler's Guide: Or a Directory in the Making and Managing of British Wines, 1808. (1 item)
Box 9:   Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) (Folders 1-14)
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Folder 1:   Fessenden, Thomas G. The Husbandman and Housewife, 1820. (1 item)
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Folder 2:   Recipes from the estate of Dr. Benjamin F. Heyward, Worcester, MA, ca. 1820. (1 item)
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Folder 3:   Handwritten recipes "Mrs. Dorothea Green from her affectionate cousin F.R. Green," 1823-8. (1 item)
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Folder 4:   Hewlett, Esther. Cottage Comforts, 1826. (1 item)
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Folder 5:   Handwritten recipes "Charlotte F. W. Gilbert from her friend A. D. Waters," 1828. (1 item)
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Folder 6:   The Housekeeper's Book, 1838. (1 item)
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Folder 7:   The American Housewife, 1841. (1 item)
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Folder 8:   Sanderson, J.M. Cook and Confectioner: The Complete Cook, 1849. (1 item)
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Folder 9:   The Country Kitchen Revised and Enlarged: The Farmer Recipe Book, 1903. (1 item)
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Folder 10:   Fussel, G.E. An Eighteenth Century Village. (1 item)
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Folder 11:   Rouff, Marcel. The Passionate Epicure, 1962. (1 item)
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Folder 12:   A True Gentlewoman's Delight. (1 item)
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Folder 13:   Partial copy of House-Book of Lady Grisell Baillie. (1 item)
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Folder 14:   Borde, Andrew. Partial copy of The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge, (1870) 1893. (1 item)