Food & Wine
Cooking, Baking, Advertising to Children
Mansfield, Ohio: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 1951. For all the children that are interested in cooking, or at least assisting their mom, this cookbook has the basics to know how to start. 32 pages. With an introduction with some basics about measuring, prepping and preparing recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly.....
Price: $65.00
Cuba, Tropical Beer, Travel & Tourism
Cuba: [1930]. A large format fold-out promotional brochure for "Tropical Beer' and Cuba. The cover is an illustration a lighthouse, palm trees, smokestacks and water. It is captioned "Welcome to Cuba - Tropical Beer". The back cover lists places of interest in Havana with a vignette of an image from.....
Price: $325.00
Food Science, Nutrition, Body Image
Hollywood, California: The Food Chemistry Educational Institute, 1933. A brief science-based pocket guide to gaining weight for those who "are thin because of their chemical makeup" (p. 4). Includes detailed descriptions of how digestion and exercise can affect weight, and offers a dietary regime with recipes. Organizes foods into different.....
Price: $150.00
Children's stories, Coffee, Conduct of life, Currants, Honey, Laziness, Rice, Salt, Sugarcane, Tea
New York: Educational Publishing Company, 1909. 153 pp, stamped cloth over board covers. This book is a collection of ten short stories told by Aunt Martha to her rambunctious two nephews. The stores are meant to be educational, yet fun. The stories center around the things found in Aunt Martha's.....
Price: $40.00
health & welfare, advertising, diet, pseudo diets, pseudo science, science & technology
New York, NY: Corrective Eating Society, INC, 1917. A short booklet from the Corrective Eating Society about why some foods cause an upset stomach and how to change one's diet to minimize stomach issues. The booklet starts by proclaiming that "no discovery of the past fifty years in the field.....
Price: $100.00
food & wine, women's work, home economics, brewing, recipe
New York, NY: Robert Sears, 1848. A book for housewives containing numerous receipts, or recipes, as they are now called. Both words are derived from the Latin verb 'recipere' which means to 'receive or take'. The book provides 'receipts' for a variety of items, from over two dozen different types.....
Price: $75.00
stout, sports, beer, guinness, advertising, marketing, poetry, poem , verse, humor
Dublin: Guinness, 1950s. A humorous and colorful advertising booklet for Guinness Stout. The booklet contains a series of illustrations featuring people doing different sports activities in late Victorian/ Edwardian dress. The activities has been organized by month, so for example, in January the figures are ice skating and in September.....
Price: $125.00
Cold War,Stockpiling and Rationing,Supply Chain,Civil Defense
Sacramento, California: Office of Civil Defense, c.1952. A Cold War-era publication from the State of California Office of Civil Defense, guiding residents in how to stockpile and ration food in the event of a nuclear attack: "If there is an atomic attack on our cities there will be immediate disruption.....
Price: $175.00
diet, hay diet, diet, sanatorium, health, weight, spa
Mount Pocono, PA: Pocono Haven, 1936. An 8 page booklet advertising "The Hay Way to Health", otherwise known as the Hay diet created by Dr. William Howard Hay (1866-1940). Hay was an American physician who was the owner and director of Pocono Haven, a sanatorium in Pennsylvania. The booklet describes.....
Price: $90.00
Prohibition, alcohol, food & wine, religion, government, election, politics, classes & movements
Chicago, IL: Christian Century Press, Nov-30. An informational pamphlet containing two articles, "Modified Prohibition" and "Dry Thoughts on Election Day" first printed in the November 5, 1930 and the November 12, 1930 issues of The Christian Century respectively. The first article argues for a less stringent approach to alcohol than.....
Price: $125.00