Formulas, recipes, etc.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Dry goods and trimmings day book
Collection — small col. 48
Identifier: Col-1040
Content Description
Account book for an unidentified Soudersburg Village, Pennsylvania dry goods and trimming shop from 1839 to 1855. Goods sold include various types of fabric, including muslin, canvas, velvet, and silks, as well as trims, buttons, and other sewing notions. Recipes for treatments for various medical ailments are written on the inside of the back cover. Throughout the account book, numerous customers are noted as being people of color, including John M. Brook, Barry (Berry) Maloney,...
Dates:
1839-1855
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Dyeing book, 1754 - 1768
Item — Volume Col-50, acc. 62x31
Identifier: Col-50, acc. 62x31.1-.4
Scope and Contents
The volume (62x31.1) and the accompanying loose sheets (62 x 31.2-.4) compose Georg Timmich's collection of dye recipes for yarn and textile fabrics. Many of the recipes are accompanied by a swatch dyed to show the results. Toward the back of the volume, entries are made in a different handwriting of a more recent, probably 19th-century, style and spelling. The first page contains an ornate calligraphic verse "Alles mit Gott, So hat es keine Noth. Soli Deo Gloria" and the date 1754. Text in...
Dates:
1754 - 1768
Found in:
Winterthur Library
/
Swatch book collection
Hall Slack Papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-0014
Abstract
Personal and professional papers of Hall Slack, a wheelwright from Chester County, Pennsylvania and Cecil County, Maryland.
Dates:
1843 - 1893
Found in:
Winterthur Library
John H. (John Hudson) papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-0008
Scope and Contents
Almost exclusively business letters, including orders, complaints, bills, payments, inquiries, and the like, from November 1865-March 1866, mostly for felt and wadding. Machinery is discussed in some letters. Includes a few pieces of legal correspondence and personal letters. An item of particular note: a letter from Bacon's son Alonzo, dated 26 November [1865?], asking him to "present me with your gold fob seal that you used to wear when I first gave evidence that I was a nuisance .......
Dates:
1865-1866
Found in:
Winterthur Library
John M. Besson papers
Collection
Identifier: Col-0027
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of 5 out of at least 9 volumes of clippings, drawings, and excerpts kept by Besson in Philadelphia between 1813 and 1857. Collection includes numbered volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9. The contents range from historical anecdotes; to a list of Philadelphia's mayors between 1701 and 1820; to cures for such things as "the Bite of a mad dog" or "the Polypus in the nose"; to a diagram showing the arrangement of Philadelphia's wards; to census summaries. The volume marked "No. 5" has...
Dates:
1813-1857
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Mary Agnes Perrine Bell recipe book
Collection — Box small col. 53
Identifier: Col-1079
Content Description
Recipe book compiled by Mary Agnes Perrine Bell after her marriage. The book contains numerous recipes for baked goods, desserts, soups, preserves, and medicines amongst others. The recipes are written into the book, as well as set in amongst the pages of the book on loose sheets of paper and newspaper clippings.
At the end of the recipe book, samples of tatting have been pinned onto two facing pages.
Dates:
circa 1864-1875
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Yarn sample books, approximately 1847-1854
Item — Volume Col-50, acc. 65x662
Identifier: Col-50, acc. 65x662.1-.7
Scope and Contents
Consist of 7 small (8-12 leaves each) paperbound volumes containing recipes for dyeing yarn, most of which are accompanied by a yarn sample in the finished color. Four of the volumes have printed covers indicating that they were manufactured in Boston or Waltham, MA as savings account passbooks in 1847, 1853 and 1854; presumably the dye recipes come from that area and time period as well.The writing seems to have been done by at least two different people. One of the following...
Dates:
approximately 1847-1854
Found in:
Winterthur Library
/
Swatch book collection