Jay Anderson foodways research collection, 1971-1999
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Anderson, Jay (Jay Allan)
- Title
- Jay Anderson foodways research collection
- Dates
- 1971-1999 (inclusive)19711999
- Quantity
- ca. 4.5 linear feet, (9 boxes)
- Collection Number
- UUS_FOLK COLL 17b
- Summary
- Professor Jay Anderson's foodways research items: theses, books, and articles, correspondence with authors, etc.; most items are photocopies.
- Repository
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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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Restrictions
Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box number and folder number (or image number).
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Historical Note
Jay Anderson is a professor of History at Utah State University. Professor Anderson donated his vast cookbook and foodways collection, collected over a lifetime of research and specialization on foodways, to USU Libraries Fife Folklore Archives for student research. The collection includes international and domestic books on foodways.
Content Description
The Jay Anderson foodways follection is comprised of FOLK COLL 17 and FOLK COLL 17b. FOLK COLL 17 is the Foodways and Historic Cookbook Collection; items in FOLK COLL 17 can be accessed through USU Libraries online catalog. FOLK COLL 17b comprises Professor Anderson's foodways research and consists of nine boxes of photocopied thesis, articles, correspondence with author, etc., date and author noted when known. An inventory of FOLK COLL 17b follows.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Jay Anderson foodways research collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Jay Anderson foodways research collection, 1971-1999.(FOLK COLL 17b: box, folder). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement
Organized in 4 series.
- European food research
- American food research
- Methodology
- Historic foodways books.
Acquisition Information
Professor Jay Anderson donated his extensive cookbook and foodways collection to the Fife Folklore Archives in several installments in the 1990s, with the last deposit in 1999.
Processing Note
Originally processed by Rosanna Walker and updated by Randy Williams. Finding aid created by Randy Williams, April 2004; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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European Food Research
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Description: Rener, H. DThe Origin of Food HabitsDates: 1944Container: Box 1, Folder 1
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Bibliography of cookery books at Brotherton Library, Leeds University, Undated
Container: Box 1, Folder 2
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Description: Item 1: Blanche Leigh CollectionDates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Preston CollectionDates: Undated
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Description: Smallzried, Kathleen AnnThe Everlasting Pleasure: Influences on America's Kitchens, Cooks and Cookery, from 1565 to the year 2000Dates: 1956Container: Box 1, Folder 3
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Description: King, Frank ABeer Has a HistoryDates: 1947Container: Box 1, Folder 4
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Loran J. Sass
Container: Box 1, Folder 5
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Description: Item 1: Sass, Lorna J. "A Medieval Feast" GourmetDates: 1976 April
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Description: Item 2: Lorna J. Sass business cardDates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: PostcardDates: Undated
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Description: Item 4: LetterDates: Undated
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Description: Item 5: Book review for Sass' book: To the King's TasteDates: Undated
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Description: Item 6: "Recipes for the Ages (Medieval)"Philadelphia Inquirer
featuring Lorna Sass.
Dates: 1976 March 17
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Description: Fussel, G. EAn Eighteenth Century VillageDates: 1947Container: Box 1, Folder 6
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Description: Fussel, G. EThe English Rural LabourerDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1, Folder 7
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Description: Fussel, G. E. "The Elizabethan Countrywoman," The English Countrywoman A.D. 1500-2000Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1, Folder 8
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Description: West, John. "Probate Records, Inventories and Wills" Village RecordsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1, Folder 9
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Description: Roeder, Charles. "Notes on Food and Drink in Lancashire and Other Northern Counties"Container: Box 1, Folder 10
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Description: Martin, E. W., ed. Preface and chapter "Peasants and Peasant Life" from Country Life in EnglandDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1, Folder 11
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Description: Ashley, Leonard R. N. "Scoff Lore: An Introduction to British Words for Food and Drink"Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1, Folder 12
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American Food Research
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Description: Gates, CatherineOn The Culture of Indians Living in the Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of Approximately 1620-1990 Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MADates: 1966Container: Box 1, Folder 13
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Description: Gates, Catherine. "Drink, Drugs, & Indulgence," from On The Culture of Indians Living in the Region of Plymouth: Covering the Period of Approximately 1620-1990Dates: 1966Container: Box 1, Folder 14
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Information on New England horticulture
Container: Box 2, Folder 1
(16 items: 2-15 appear to be from the same source, possibly a living history museum.)
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Description: Item 1: "Bibliography: Horticulture"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: "Indian Gardens"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: Hussey, Jane Strickland, compiler Native Flora of New EnglandDates: 1968
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Description: Item 4: "Alden House: Garden of Wild Fruit, Berries and Flowers"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 5: "Bradford House: Garden of Flowering Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 6: "Common House: Brewer's Garden"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 7: "Brewster House: Goosefoot Garden of Culinary Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 8: "Cooke House: Garden of Sallet Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 9: "First House: Garden of Aromatic, Culinary and Medicinal Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 10: "Fuller House: Garden of Medicinal Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 11: "Howland House: Garden of Dyeing Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 12: "Soule House: Bee Garden"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 13: "Standish House: Garden of Wound Herbs"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 14: "Warren House: Rose Garden, Knot Garden, Vegetable Garden"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 15: "Winslow House: Garden of Simples"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 16: Hussey, Jane Strickland. "Notes on Pilgrim Herb Gardens"Dates: Undated
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Thanksgiving in U.S.A
Container: Box 2, Folder 2
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Description: Item 1: Joel, Yale. "A Traditional Thanksgiving," Boy's LifeDates: 1974
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Description: Item 2: Crosby, Alfred W. "Maize, Land, Demography and the American Character" Revue Francaise D'etudes AmericaninesDates: 1991
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Description: Item 3: The First Thanksgiving in April, El Paso (Texas) Mission Trail AssociationDates: Undated
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Description: Item 4: History of Plymouth Plantation, photocopied pages (114-127)Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 5: Of Plymouth Plantation photocopied pages (79-85, 90: excerpts from chapters XI & XII)Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 6: Photocopied pages (92-137) from a children's book on New England, including information on Samoset (March 1621), Massasoit, Squanto, New England 1621-1623, and Thanksgiving 1621Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 7: Pilgrim Courage photocopied pages (63-7, 69-71, 74-6, 95-60), including information on American Indians and ThanksgivingDates: Undated
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Description: Item 8: Pyle, Arthur G., compiler. "Pilgrim Corn Planting 1621," Plimoth Plantaion, Plymouth, MADates: Undated
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Description: Item 9: Baker, James W. "Recreating the First Thanksgiving Dinner," Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA
(Includes recipes.)
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Description: Item 10: Anderson, Jay. "The Bountiful Yeoman" Natural History with author note and additional readingDates: 1982
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Description: Strang, JeffA Transcription and Explication of the Wall-Tatam CookbookDates: 1980 MayContainer: Box 2, Folder 3
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Description: Transcript of Benjamin Hawley's diary, Chester CountyDates: 1769-1782Container: Box 2, Folder 4
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Foodways in eighteenth-century America
Container: Box 2, Folder 5
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Description: Item 1: Lemon, James T. "Household Consumption in Eighteenth-Century America and its Relationship to Production and Trade: The Situation Among Farmers in Southeastern Pennsylvania"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Yoder, Don. "Historical Sources For American Traditional Cookery: Examples from the Pennsylvania German Culture," (2 copies: one from unnamed journal and one draft copy.)Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: Saracino, Mary E. "Household Production of Alcohol in Eighteenth Century Connecticut," unpublished paper for American Folklife course at George Washington University taught by John ValchDates: 1982 December; December 1982.
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Description: Bartis, Peter T. "'Twas Water Soup but Slightly Thinner," unpublished paperDates: UndatedContainer: Box 2, Folder 6
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History of food and drink in America
Container: Box 2, Folder 7
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Description: Item 1: Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. WeissThe Early Breweries of New Jersey New Jersey Agricultural So., photoies of pages 7-97Dates: 1963
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Description: Item 2: Richman, Irwin. "The History of the Tomato in America" The Proceedings: New Jersey Historical SoDates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: Yoder, Don. "The Sausage Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans," copy of paper draftDates: Undated
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Description: Fraser, Kathryn MFoodways in 1850: A Sourcebook For the Homeplace-1850 TVA's Land Between the LakesDates: 1983Container: Box 3, Folder 1
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Meat preservation
Container: Box 3, Folder 2
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Description: Item 1: Burnett, Edmund CodyHog Raising and Hog Driving in the Region of the French Broad RiverDates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Jones, Dale. "Smoking the Meat in Western Kentucky: or Barbecue on my Brain." Unpublished student paperDates: 1983
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Description: Item 3: Perdue, Chuck. "Enough Salt to Track a Rabbit." Unpublished paper, Woodville, VirginiaDates: 1970 January 7
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Description: "Say it With Food" Center for Southern Folklore MagazineDates: 1980Container: Box 3, Folder 3
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Description: Alder, Thomas A. "'Sunday breakfast was always special with us': A Report on Foodways in South Central Georgia" Folklore Reprint Series, V. 7: 1Dates: 1979 FebruaryContainer: Box 3, Folder 4
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Description: Camp, Charles. "Foodways in Everyday Life," American Quarterly 34: 3Dates: 1982Container: Box 3, Folder 5
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Description: Exhibition Catalog: "Thought for Food: An Exhibition of Cookery Book, November 1984-February 1985," General Foods Collection GalleryDates: 1984-1985Container: Box 3, Folder 6
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Description: "Toward a Method for the Study of Food in Popular Culture" Journal of American Culture Entire issue devoted to foodsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 3, Folder 7
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Description: Forster, Robert and Orest Ranum. Food and Drink in History: Selections from the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations V. 5Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 3, Folder 8
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Description: Jones, Michael Owen, Bruce Giuliano, Roberta Krell, editors."Foodways and Eating Habits: Directions for ResearchWestern Folklore Quarterly, 40:1Dates: 1981 JanuaryContainer: Box 3, Folder 9
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Methodology
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Description: Dentan, R., ed. "Appendix E: A Preliminary Guide to the Collection of Info on Food Behavior," Final Report USPHS Grant No. 3557Dates: 1961Container: Box 3, Folder 10
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Description: The Digest: A Newsletter for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food Volumes: 1:1, 1:3, 2:2, 2:3, and Digest DirectoryDates: UndatedContainer: Box 3, Folder 11
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Description: Verdier, Yvonne. "Repas Bas-Normands,"L'Homme Revue Francaise d'Anthropologie Volume 6:Dates: 1966Container: Box 3, Folder 12
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Description: Bennett, John W. " Social Scientific Research in Human Subsistence" American AnthropologistDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 13
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Research outlines and questions
Container: Box 3, Folder 14
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Description: Item 1: Outline: "Culinary Anthropology"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Outline: "Preliminary System of Classification"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: Questions: "The Present Position of Food Research in Europe and the USA: Some Questions"Dates: Undated
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Description: Kariel, Herbert G. "A Proposed Classification of Diet" Dietary ClassificationDates: UndatedContainer: Box 3, Folder 15
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Description: Lockwood, William G., Yvonne R. Lockwood. "The Cornish Pasty in Northern Michigan" Oxford Symposium 1983: Food in MotionDates: 1983Container: Box 3, Folder 16
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Marshall, Howard Wight. "Foodways and Regional Character"
Container: Box 4, Folder 1
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Description: Item 1: Letter from Jan Brunvand (edJournal of American Folklore) regarding reader (Anderson) response to Marshall articleDates: 1979 February 7
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Description: Item 2: Follow-up letter from Brunvand regarding articleDates: 1979 March 19
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Description: Item 3: Review copy of Marshall manuscriptDates: Undated
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Description: SNACS Field Handbook: Foodways Society for the North American Cultural Survey of foodways of New YorkDates: 1976 OctoberContainer: Box 4, Folder 2
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Description: A 4-H FolkPatterns Project: Foodways Cooperative Extension Service, Folk Arts Division, The Museum, Michigan State UniversityDates: UndatedContainer: Box 4, Folder 3
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Questionnaires
Container: Box 4, Folder 4
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Description: Item 1: "Philadelphia Food Survey Project: Household Questionnaire"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: "Foodways: Meal Questionnaire: 4-H"Dates: Undated
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Description: "Food Habits" Journal of Nutrition Education 5:1Dates: 1973 January-MarchContainer: Box 4, Folder 5
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Description: Mead, MargaretFood Habits Research: Problems of the 1960sDates: 1964Container: Box 4, Folder 6
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Description: National Geographic, contains article "Food: Will There be Enough," and "The Nightmare of Famine." 148:1Dates: 1975 JulyContainer: Box 4, Folder 7
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Food research: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Undated
Container: Box 4, Folder 8
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Description: Item 1: Newman, L.F. "Some Notes on Foods and Dietetics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: "Sixteenth Century: Slow Progress"Dates: Undated
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Gray Graffam
Container: Box 4, Folder 9
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Description: Item 1: Letter from Gray Graffam to Jay AndersonDates: 1984 April 26
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Description: Item 2: Graffam, Gray, "Foodways as a Conceptual Framework in Archaeological Research: A New Perspective"Dates: Undated
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Description: Hoskins, W. G.The Making of the English Landscape pp. 118-27Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 4, Folder 10
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Description: Thirsk, Joan, ed.The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume IV 1500-1640, table of contents, 108-13; 300-7; 412-65Dates: 1967Container: Box 4, Folder 11
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Articles by: V. G. B. Atwater; G. E. Fussell; W. G. Hoskins; W. Harwood Long
Container: Box 5, Folder 1
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Description: Item 1: Fussell, G. E."The Traffic in Farm Produce in Seventeenth-Century England" Western Middle West, 1900-1914Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Fussell, G. E. and V. G. B. Atwater. "Agriculture of Rural England in the Seventeenth Century" Economic GeographyDates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: Fussell, G. E. "The Grasses and Grassland Cultivation of Britain: Before 1700"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 4: Fussell, G. E. "Social and Agrarian Background of the Pilgrim Fathers"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 5: Fussell, G. E. "Crop Nutrition in Tudor and Early Stuart England" The Agrarian History ReviewDates: Undated
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Description: Item 6: Fussell, G. E. "The Elizabethan and Early Stuart Dairy Farmer"Dates: Undated
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Description: Item 7: Fussell, G. E. "History and Agricultural Science." first two pages of articleDates: Undated
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Description: Item 8: Hoskins, W. G. "Regional Farming in England"Dates: 1953
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Description: Item 9: Long, Harwood. "Regional Farming in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire"Dates: Undated
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Letters and Articles
Container: Box 5, Folder 2
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Description: Item 1: Lucas, A. T. "Irish Food Before the Potato" GwerinDates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Fussell, G. E. and G. H. Kenyon. "Letters to the Editor" The Agricultural History ReviewDates: Undated
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Description: Item 3: Fussell, G. E. "The Change in Farm Labourers' Diet During Two Centuries" The Economic Journal, pp. 268-274Dates: 1927 May
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Description: Item 4: Atkinson, Frank. "Oatbread of Northern England" Gwerin
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Description: Trow-Smith, Robert. "The Livestock Topography of Tudor and Stuart Britain" A History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700 pp.172-259Dates: 1956Container: Box 5, Folder 3
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Description: "Conditions of Nourishment." Photocopy from unknown source of 1800s report on the dietary conditions in England, Wales, and ScotlandContainer: Box 5, Folder 4
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Description: Fussell, G. E., ed.Robert Loder's Farm Accounts 1610-1620Dates: 1936Container: Box 5, Folder 5
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Historic Foodways Books (photocopies) and Menus
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Description: Taylor, JohnAll the Works of John TaylorDates: 1630Container: Box 5, Folder 6
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Description: Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641: Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry BestDates: 1857Container: Box 5, Folder 7
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Menus
Container: Box 5, Folder 8
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Description: Item 1: Menu from Durgin-Park Market Dining Rooms," Boston, MADates: Undated
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Description: Item 2: Menu (17 cards) with photographs from Mount Pleasant House, New HampshireDates: 1898
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Description: A Book of Cookrye: Very necessary for all such as delight thereinDates: 1587Container: Box 6, Folder 1
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Description: Tusser, ThomasFive Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie pp. 120-41Dates: 1590Container: Box 6, Folder 2
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Description: Plat, Sir HughDelights for Ladies(1609) 1948 introductionDates: 1609.; 1948Container: Box 6, Folder 3
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Description: The Country House-Wives Garden: Containing Rules for Herbs, and Seeds (1617)Dates: 1948Container: Box 6, Folder 4
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Description: The Complete Country HousewifeContainer: Box 6, Folder 5
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Description: The Household ReceiptsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 6, Folder 6
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Description: Cookerie and HuswiferieDates: UndatedContainer: Box 6, Folder 7
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Description: N.B. The Court and CountryDates: 1618Container: Box 6, Folder 8
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Description: Ashley, Sir WilliamThe Bread of our Forefathers: An Inquiry in Economic HistoryDates: 1928Container: Box 6, Folder 9
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Description: FantasticksDates: 1626Container: Box 7, Folder 1
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Description: The Great Feast: At the [I]nthronization of the Reverend Father in God, George Neavill, Arch-Bishop of YorkDates: 1645Container: Box 7, Folder 2
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Description: Murrell, JohnA New Book of CookeriesDates: 1630Container: Box 7, Folder 3
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Description: New England Prospect 1865 [1634], pp 1-77Dates: 1865Container: Box 7, Folder 4
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Description: Butler, CharlesThe Feminin[e] Monarchi: or The Histori of Beespartial copyDates: 1634Container: Box 7, Folder 5
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Description: The French CookDates: 1673Container: Box 7, Folder 6
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Description: MacDonell, Anne, ed,The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight OpenedDates: 1910Container: Box 7, Folder 7
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Description: A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and ChyrurgeryDates: 1635Container: Box 7, Folder 8
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Description: G. M. lter The English Hous-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman[1660]Dates: 1942Container: Box 7, Folder 9
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Description: Jeamson, ThomasArtificiall EmbellishmentsDates: 1665Container: Box 7, Folder 10
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Description: A New Orchard & GardenDates: 1683Container: Box 8, Folder 1
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Description: Markham, G.Country Contentments: Or The Husbanmans RecreationsDates: 1683Container: Box 8, Folder 2
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Description: Markham, G.The English House-WifeDates: 1683Container: Box 8, Folder 3
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Description: Salmon, William. Excerpts from Salmon Family DictionaryDates: 1698Container: Box 8, Folder 4
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Description: Evelyn, JohnAcetaria: A Discourse on SalletsDates: 1699Container: Box 8, Folder 5
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Description: A Learned Dissertation on DumplingsDates: 1726Container: Box 8, Folder 6
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Description: James, Philip, ed.A Butler's Recipe Book 1719Dates: 1935Container: Box 8, Folder 7
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Description: A Collection of Receipts in Cookery: Physick and Surgery (1724)Dates: 1958Container: Box 8, Folder 8
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Description: Gardiner, Anne GibbonsMrs. Gardiner's Receipts from 1763Dates: 1938Container: Box 8, Folder 9
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Description: Carter, SusannahThe Frugal Housewife or Complete Woman CookDates: 1772Container: Box 8, Folder 10
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Description: The Farmer's Wife: Or the Complete Country HousewifeDates: circa 1740Container: Box 8, Folder 11
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Description: Davies, J.The Innkeeper and Butler's Guide: Or a Directory in the Making and Managing of British WinesDates: 1808Container: Box 8, Folder 12
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Description: Fessenden, Thomas G.The Husbandman and HousewifeDates: 1820Container: Box 9, Folder 1
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Description: Recipes from the estate of Dr. Benjamin F. Heyward, Worcester, MADates: circa 1820Container: Box 9, Folder 2
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Description: Handwritten recipes "Mrs. Dorothea Green from her affectionate cousin F.R. Green"Dates: 1823-1828Container: Box 9, Folder 3
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Description: Hewlett, EstherCottage ComfortsDates: 1826Container: Box 9, Folder 4
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Description: Handwritten recipes "Charlotte F. W. Gilbert from her friend A. D. Waters"Dates: 1828Container: Box 9, Folder 5
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Description: The Housekeeper's BookDates: 1838Container: Box 9, Folder 6
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Description: The American HousewifeDates: 1841Container: Box 9, Folder 7
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Description: Sanderson, J.M.Cook and Confectioner: The Complete CookDates: 1849Container: Box 9, Folder 8
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Description: The Country Kitchen Revised and Enlarged: The Farmer Recipe BookDates: 1903Container: Box 9, Folder 9
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Description: Fussel, G.E.An Eighteenth Century VillageDates: UndatedContainer: Box 9, Folder 10
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Description: Rouff, MarcelThe Passionate EpicureDates: 1962Container: Box 9, Folder 11
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Description: A True Gentlewoman's DelightDates: UndatedContainer: Box 9, Folder 12
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Description: Partial copy of House-Book of Lady Grisell BaillieDates: UndatedContainer: Box 9, Folder 13
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Description: Borde, Andrew. Partial copy of The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge (1870)Dates: 1893Container: Box 9, Folder 14
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Cookery.
- Diet.
- Food habits.
- Food--History.
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