For Better Results Always Use Baker’s Flavors and Colors.
C.1910s–1920s counter top display advertisement piece for Baker’s Pure Extract Vanilla and Baker’s Color Paste for baking. The products were made and sold by the... Read More
Food and Drink
College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926.
Curious, rare, unrecorded. A cook book/shopping directory hybrid aimed at college women in the Boston–New York corridor. The cooking recipes, mostly for candies and desserts... Read More
Fun to Cook Book.
C.1955 Children’s cook book with easy, child-friendly recipes issued by the Carnation Company, cheerfully illustrated. While the company’s evaporated milk is not featured in every... Read More
![[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]. Frederick and Everhard Delius, Fredk., Everhd. Delius.](/pictures/thumb/3726520_1.jpg?v=1534362400)
[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]
Signed 18th century circular letter and price list from Frederick and Everhard Delius, merchants of Bremen. The firm imported food goods and other commodities from... Read More
Hedges & Butler Ltd. Wines & Spirits. Special List.
C.1933 immediate-post-American Prohibition, British trade catalog with American ordering instruction sheet and “Export Price List” issued by Hedges and Butler, Ltd. of London, wine and... Read More
![Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]. Iris F. Leonard, Dorit K. Weigert.](/pictures/thumb/3726591_1.jpg?v=1534362418)
Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]
A bright, cheerful suite of candy-making instructional books, very period in design, geared toward women seeking to become candy-making entrepreneurs. (It’s a sweet deal.) The... Read More
![Boyd & Fichten. [Restaurant Menu]. confectioners John L. Boyd and Jacob P. Fichten.](/pictures/thumb/3727553_1.jpg?v=1537547098)
Boyd & Fichten. [Restaurant Menu]
C. 1910s menus from Madison, Wisconsin confectioners Boyd & Fichten. The menu includes soda fountain treats such as ice cream, sundaes, variously flavored sodas, lemonades... Read More
![[1793 for 1794 Almanac] Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris…for the Year of Our Lord 1794…. i. e. John Nathan Hutchins, Andrew Beers.](/pictures/thumb/3725802_1.jpg?v=1534362322)
[1793 for 1794 Almanac] Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris…for the Year of Our Lord 1794…
The Anatomy of Man’s Body illustration defines areas controlling neck, breast, bowels, secrets, knees, arms, heart, reigns, thighs, legs. Within, Hugh Gaine advertises he will... Read More
1811 Autograph Document Signed, Establishing a Tavern in Maurice River, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
Twelve men attest with their autographs to the worthiness of the character of John Williams. Williams is a “suitable person to keep an Inn and... Read More
1743 Land Indenture Signed by Anthony Morris, Brewer and Mayor of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia land indenture signed by Anthony Morris (II) (1682–1763) of Philadelphia, here acting as “one of his Majesty’s Justices.” Proprietor of the Morris Brewery, Morris... Read More
No License. A Question to be Settled in the State of New York, 19th of May, 1846…
“Citizens of the State of Nfw [sic] York, Look at the Following. Will You Vote License?” On May 19, 1846, an important vote was to... Read More
[“We are Going to Prescott’s to Buy Our Groceries” – Two Original Photographs].
Two photographs depicting circus-like clown characters and an elaborately decorated wagon and horse each advertising L. C. Prescott’s grocery business. One photo shows an Uncle... Read More
1840s Collection: Business Diary etc. of Seedsmen and Commercial Vegetable and Fruit Growers and Sellers, the Rand Family of Boston.
Three handwritten notebooks from the 1840s document the seed, vegetable and fruit selling business of the Rand family as well as their personal lives. This... Read More
Exciting Fruit Gifts from Mission Pak in California.
C.1952 Christmas catalog of fresh and candied California fruit and nuts from pioneering fruit sellers and marketers Mission Pak of Los Angeles. Founded in 1917... Read More
Vital Health Secrets of the Maya Indians.
Health bulletin promoting the nutritional value of toasted pepitoria squash [pumpkin] seeds as a “wonderfood” eaten by the Hunzas Indians of Central America. The bulletin... Read More
![R. Bolland & Sons Wedding Cakes [Trade Catalogs]. R. Bolland & Sons.](/pictures/thumb/3727712_1.jpg?v=1536690621)
R. Bolland & Sons Wedding Cakes [Trade Catalogs].
C. 1890s trade catalog of wedding cakes issued by Chester, England restaurateurs, R. Bolland & Sons, “Historic Bride Cake Makers to the Royal Family.” Full-page... Read More
![[Americans at Guantanamo:] The Radio Restaurant Rodrigo Rey Doce Propietor [sic] ... Welcome V.S. [sic] Navy ... GoodHome Cooking…. Rodrigo Rey Doce.](/pictures/thumb/3726630_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
[Americans at Guantanamo:] The Radio Restaurant Rodrigo Rey Doce Propietor [sic] ... Welcome V.S. [sic] Navy ... GoodHome Cooking…
An unusual imprint, and an unusual broadside, which serves as both menu and advertisement for Rodrigo Rey Doce’s restaurant, named “The Radio” and offering “Good... Read More
![[Washington, D.C.] Chinese Lantern Cafe. Native Style Menu. S J. Chan, Chinese Lantern Cafe.](/pictures/thumb/3726696_1.jpg?v=1534362444)
[Washington, D.C.] Chinese Lantern Cafe. Native Style Menu.
Interesting Chinese restaurant menu from Washington, D.C. offering “Native Style” or authentic Chinese cuisine to Americans. The restaurant’s proprietor, S.J. Chan hoped: ...to introduce Chinese... Read More
For Sale, The Following Valuable Plantation or Farm Situated in Somerset County, Maryland…
Unrecorded 1876 broadside issued by prominent Delaware peach farmer and Samuel Townsend (1812–1881) and his son Richard Townsend (1839–?) offering for sale “Peach Blossom” fruit... Read More
![Catalogue and Price List of the Snow Hill Nurseries Near Snow Hill, Md. [...] Worcester Co., Md. W. M. Peters & Sons Snow Hill Nurseries.](/pictures/thumb/3726656_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Catalogue and Price List of the Snow Hill Nurseries Near Snow Hill, Md. [...] Worcester Co., Md.
Fruit tree nursery trade catalog with a focus on apples and peaches issued by Snow Hill Nurseries of Worcester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Beginning... Read More
![[1903 South Omaha Live Stock Exchange Photograph—“The Second Market of the World.”]. South Omaha Live Stock Exchange.](/pictures/thumb/3726150_1.jpg?v=1534362338)
[1903 South Omaha Live Stock Exchange Photograph—“The Second Market of the World.”]
The Union Stockyards of South Omaha, Nebraska were founded in 1883 and soon became a rival to the great Chicago stockyard and meatpacking industry. This... Read More
Official Recipe Book. What to Eat. How to Cook It.
WWI-era cookbook issued in March 1918 by the State Council of Defense of Illinois. “This book of recipes was compiled for the Patriotic Food Show... Read More
The Ladies Fair! The Fairest Fare! (Women’s Activities, Food, & George Washington)
Ante-bellum advertising broadside for a three-day philanthropic “Ladies Fair” in Muncy, Pennsylvania. The fair sold articles of clothing and other handicrafts made by women as... Read More
Sir, I beg leave to inform you that I have recently opened a Warehouse… [opening lines from 1812 printed circular with manuscript letter].
Printed circular letter explaining the expansion in 1812 of the business of Thomas Lacey who was manufacturing and dealing in gold and silver luxury goods... Read More
Delicious Coffee. The Patent New Process ... The Old Way of Roasting… Try Union Coffees…
Advertising handbill touting the quality and health benefits of roasted coffees from the Union Coffee Co. of New York. The Coffee roasted by the PATENT... Read More