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...

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, notes on cookbooks, collecting cookbooks, her biography, newspaper articles she wrote, and photographs. Within the newspaper clippings, is the advertisement Mary Ross Reynolds answered for her first editorial job in Springfield, Mass.