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Jacqueline B. Williams potato-related ephemera collection, 1816-2002

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Williams, Jacqueline B.
Title
Jacqueline B. Williams potato-related ephemera collection
Dates
1816-2002 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.1 cubic feet, (3 boxes plus 1 oversize vertical file)
Collection Number
6405
Summary
Newspaper clippings, bulletins, photographs, and copies of articles about the potato and its history
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

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Languages
Collection materials are in English.
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Biographical Note

Jacqueline Williams is a foodways historian and author of "Wagon Wheel Kitchens," "The Way We Ate," and "The Hill with a Future: Seattle's Capital Hill 1900-1946." She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Content Description

Newspaper clippings, bulletins, photographs, and copies of articles about the potato and its history (both around the world and in Washington state), publicity materials and newsletters from The Potato Museum, articles and ephemera about the Northern Pacific Railroad Great Big Baked Potato, Washington State Potato Commission materials, recipes and menus, and other potato-related ephemera. Additionally, this collection contains notes and correspondence related to Jacqueline Williams and her involvement with potato-related work.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donor: Jacqueline (Jackie) Williams, 2014

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Newsletters: The Potato Museum's Peelings
    Dates: 1984-1990
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Newsletters
    Dates: 1990-1997
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Correspondence

    Mainly letters and cards to Jacqueline B. Williams

    Dates: 1985-1994
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: News Clippings and Articles
    Dates: approximately 1970s-1990s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Northern Pacific Railway and the "Great Big Baked Potato"
    Dates: circa 1990s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Post-War Northern Pacific Blotter "All Aboard - The "Great Big" Baked Potato: Yellowstone Park Line
    Dates: 1946-1947
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Northern Pacific Great Big Baked Potato-themed Souvenir Dinner Program and Dance Card with tiny pencil attached. The Railway Club and Railway Glee Club, Livingston, Montana
    Dates: 1909
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Northern Pacific Great Big Baked Potato postcard

    Photograph of 1920 Denby delivery truck with "Route of the Great Big Baked Potato: Northern Pacific Railway: Dairy and Poultry Farms, Kent Wash." advertisement on side

    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: General potato history and notes
    Dates: approximately 1870s-1990s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Potatoes in Washington State

    Pamphlets, fliers, correspondence, notes, and articles

    Dates: 1928-2002
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Forty-first Annual Washington State Potato Conference and Trade Show
    Dates: 2001-2002
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: The Potato Museum

    Articles, news clippings, handouts, notes, and correspondence

    Dates: approximately 1985-1992
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Potato Pete blotter (reproduction): "I'm an Energy Food! Says 'Potato Pete'"
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Potato Pete's recipe book. Produced by Britain's Ministry of Food
    Dates: approximately 1941
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: War-Time Production Series pamphlet: "Potato Culture"

    Published by the Agricultural Supplies Board-Ottawa, Canada

    Dates: 1940
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Potatoes: to Know and to Serve by Ernest Oldmeadow. Published by the Wine and Food Society, London
    Dates: 1943
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: "The Potato Mania" essay by Henry Ward Beecher
    Dates: 1870
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Published Pamphlets on Potato Cultivation and Use in Eastern U.S. and Europe
    Dates: 1884-1990
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Published pamphlets on Potato Cultivation and Use in Southern and Western U.S
    Dates: 1884-1990
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: University Journals Featuring Potato Articles
    Dates: 1921-1951
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Plastic Toy Potato Handgun with Original Packaging
    Dates: between 1950 and 1990
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Farm Crop Models: Rye, Sugar Beet, Potato, and Black Rust on Wheat. London: Gresham Publishing Company
    Dates: approximately 1910s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Vintage Can Label: Gold Bar Sweet Potatoes
    Dates: between 1916 and 1967
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Advertising Card: Wood, Gray & Co. (Sacramento, California)
    Dates: approximately 1895
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Advertisement for Pearl of Savoy Potatoes: "The Earliest Potato in Cultivation,"

    Features an image of a young girl with a basket of potatoes. Printed by Cosack & Co., Buffalo, N.Y.

    Dates: 1885
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Spud-o-Meter "To measure your fresh Washington State potatoes"

    Produced by the Washington State Potato Commission

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Packaging label: Baked Potato Donut, made by Donut & Cookie Bakery, Inc., Connecticut.
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Advertisement featuring J. H. Bufford's Sons lithograph: G. W. Ingalls & Co., The Great Bargain Boot and Shoe Store, Elmira, New York

    The image on this ad is from the series Bufford's vegetable cards. It shows an old man with a body shaped like a potato.

    Dates: 1887
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Advertisement for Rice's Potato Seeds

    Features an image of a man holding a knapsack and pipe with a potato-like head: "New Early Sunrise has proved itself the earliest of all producing potatoes fit for the table in fifty two days from time of planting."

    Dates: approximately 1880s-1890s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: "Crystal Spud" Cards from Galway Irish Crystal Company
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Idaho Potatoes Stamp
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Potato Postage Stamp from Spain
    Dates: 1989
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Vintage potato Valentine's Card

    Features a girl peeking over a potato (approximately 3" x 3", when closed)

    Dates: approximately 1930s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Thirteen potato Tax Stamps
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Commercial Catalogs
    Dates: 1949-1996
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Potato Humor: Comics and an article
    Dates: approximately 1970s-1990s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: The Potato in Art
    Dates: approximately 1980s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Potato Greeting Cards and Postcards
    Dates: approximately 1900s-1990s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Photographs and Copies of Photographs
    Dates: approximately 1980s-1990s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: Recipes and Menus
    Dates: approximately 1915-1990
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 2, Folder 9
  • Description: Presto brand french fry cutter (aluminum, approximately 5.5" x 3.5")
    Dates: approximately 1950s
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Novelty burlap sack labeled "Taters," with stuffed nylon "potatoes" that have googly eyes (4.5" x 6")
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Slick brand shoe-string potato cutter (metal, approximately 3" x 1") with original manufacturer's card
    Dates: approximately 1935
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: White pencil with the words "Potato Face" printed in green, with felt potato face on top of pencil
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Wooden potato masher (approximately 10" x 2.5")
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Hinged pewter potato butter mold (approximately 3.5" x 2.5" when closed)
    Dates: approximately 1900
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Wooden potato (approximately 3.5" x 2")
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Two wooden potatoes (approximately 2.5" x 1.5")
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Two paper-mache potatoes (approximately 4" x 2.5")
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Plastic Idaho potato pin
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Twelve Peruvian chuños of assorted sizes and colors (freeze-dried potato product traditionally from South America)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Ceramic potato coin bank (approximately 5" x 3.5")
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6405-001 Box 3
  • Description: Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine: Potato Wars edition
    Dates: 1985
    Container: Vf:oversize OSVF 213
  • Description: The Irish Farmer's Journal
    Dates: 1816
    Container: Vf:oversize OSVF 213

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Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)


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