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A closer look at the display board located in Newman library during the College of Human Resources and Education Homecoming event that advertises a new culinary collection.

Photograph taken of a painted portrait of Dora Greenlaw Peacock, given to Hollins University in 1998 along with a memorial scholarship in her name.

Home of Alice Johnson: In 2000, The Virginia Tech College of Human Resources and Education (CHRE) appointed Jean Robbins to form a committee to promote the preservation of culinary materials. Members of the first Culinary Collection Committee: Dr.…

Doug Seaman and others watch demonstration

Doug Seaman, Aaron Purcell (l to r)

Doug Seaman, Sandy Bosworth, Aaron Purcell (l to r)

384 pages

Photograph of the Peacock-Harper Culinary Collection Project presentation committee, from left to right; Dr. Janet Johnson, Mr. Archie Fralin, and Dr. Jean Robbins.

A planning meeting was held for the April Circle of Excellence conference. The conference was later cancelled due to the tragic 4/16 event at Virginia Tech.

Photograph of Dr. Janet Johnson, Dean of the College of Human Resources and Education, and Dr. Jean Robbins, the chair of the alumni project, are at the presentation by Mr. Archie Fralin, Director of Consumer Affairs of Kroger, Inc., for the…

An advertisement for "Indian Root Pills" depicting a Native man on a horse. The medicine is described as "The great blood purifier."

An almanac for the year 1870, part of a series of Shakespearian almanacs. This issue contains sections from Shakespeare's Seven Ages. The book contains the usual almanac information, along with quotations from Shakespeare and advertisements for…

Home of Alice Johnson: In 2000, The Virginia Tech College of Human Resources and Education (CHRE) appointed Jean Robbins to form a committee to promote the preservation of culinary materials. Members of the first Culinary Collection Committee: Dr.…

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While Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil was marketed until the 1940s and 1950s, the particular trade card in this collection most likely dates to the late Victorian era. The Victorian era is a period of time that directly corresponds with the reign of the…

A rare piece of Prohibition-era cocktailiana, presenting recipes for 72 concoctions listed alphabetically from Alexander to Woodstock, in a"slide rule format. This piece was distributed "compliments of Nat M. Leff, Boxing Promoter, boxers furnished…

This collection contains an undated cocktail menu for the South Pacific Room of the El Mirador Hotel. The menu's cover depicts South Pacific art and the El Mirador Hotel name. On the inside the menu shows colorful depictions of the cocktails offered…

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Emmel, (Seaman in mirror) Barton, Bertelsen (l ro r; Robbins w/back to camera)

5 volumes

A handwritten home remedy/receipt book with entries in English and French. The book is bound in red leather with paper marbling on the inner binding.

Pages from the receipt book dealing with specific home remedies.

412 pages

449 pages

An edition of a monthly medical pamphlet from 1879 detailing the "rules for the sick," from how to care for them to what to feed them.

661 pages

289 pages

594 pages

University of Missouri-Columbia Extension presentation, "Food Curriculum"

1001 pages

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Newman Library (Virginia Tech) Board room, February 20, 2004. Culinary Collection Committee meeting.

Four people sitting down at the event are pictured, they are thought to have been students at the time, the student on the left wears a name tag.

280 pages

243 pages

This pamphlet cover art, created by artist Agnes MacDonald, depicts a mountainside with a bear and cabin in the foreground, indicating that Jell-O can be enjoyed in the mountains. The entire pamphlet provides Jell-O recipes and more artistic…

This is an image of a chocolate cake with white frosting from the General Foods and Walter Baker pamphlet "Chocolate Cookery."

254 pages