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1835 original handwritten Americana : manuscript recipes, remedies and cookery book
Item
Identifier: MSS 433 codex
Dates:
1835
Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker culinary ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 314 large
Scope and Contents
The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker culinary ephemera collection contains thousands of food and cookery related publications produced primarily by companies in the United States from the late nineteenth century up to the present. The collection provides a rich resource to study the evolution and history of advertising, food products, individual companies, technology, food preparation, and food production. It was organized, described, and donated in 2005 by Shirley Brocker Sliker, who...
Dates:
1850-2010
Anna West, her booke, Janu ye 6th, 1684
Item
Identifier: MSS 137 codex
Dates:
approximately 1684-1821
Battle Creek Sanitarium collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 263 large
Scope and Contents
The collection contains articles, pamphlets, menus, and postcards published by the Battle Creek Sanitarium from 1920-1930. Most of the articles and pamphlets were written by John Harvey Kellogg and were published by the Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1929.
Dates:
1920-1930
Charles Hutchinson Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: 00024
Scope and Contents
The collection contains diaries (1891-1916), journals (1858-1869), and an account book (1859-1861) of Charles Hutchinson Thompson (1838-1916), a clerk in the State offices in Lansing, Michigan. Born in LeRoy, New York, he visited Michigan in 1845-1847 and returned to Orleans County, New York, where he attended school and held various jobs. Thompson moved to Michigan in 1856 and worked on a farm in Van Buren County until December 1857, when he was appointed porter in the State offices. He...
Dates:
1843 - 1916
Comfort Foods collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4 large
Scope and Contents
The Comfort Foods Collection contains an invitation, the program, a list of actors, the grant, a copy of the play script, and pages from the cookbooks; all relating to the production of Comfort Foods, as performed at the MSU Libraries on October 30, 2012.
Dates:
2011-2012