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This is an image for a chocolate cake recipe from an Hershey's pamphlet titled "9 Famous Recipes."

The Book for Receipts is a recipe book written in England in 1731. At least two owners added to this work (the names of owners remain unknown) because the handwriting changes in the last third of text. Some recipe contributors are named, such as:…

The "277 Standard/100 Tropical Recipes" is a 1944 revised edition and includes cocktail recipes in two sections. This edition built on the first version, copyright in 1937. Pages are carbon type copies of recipes, arranged in alphabetical order…

Cooking Recipes is a book filled with hand-written recipes. A hand-painted image of a girl with a duck adorns the cover of "Cooking Recipes." Within the book's pages exist a variety of recipes for soups, salads, puddings, cookies, cakes, icings, and…

This is an image of the container used to market Baker's Breakfast Cocoa featuring the iconic "Bella Chocolatiere," or chocolate lady." It comes from ther 1928 cookbook titles "Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa".

A recipe book handwritten in German. The book is broken up into sections, but only about one-third contain recipes. Most of the recipes are in the "Backwerk" or "Baking" section. Some examples of recipes include: "Kartoffelsalat" (potato salad),…

A bound volume of recipes, handwritten or clipped from newspapers. The recipes are in no particular order and include main dishes, sides, and some breakfast items. The majority are dessert recipes. Some examples include "Grapenut pudding," "Deviled…

235 pages

This is an image of Hershey's breakfast cocoa, Milk Chocolate Kisses, and baking chocolate products from the pamphlet "The Hershey's Recipe Book."

This is an image of Hershey's sweet milk chocolate, chocolate syrup, and Sweet milk chocolate with almond bars from the pamphlet "The Hershey's Recipe Book."

This is an image of Hershey's products adversized in the 1949 pamphlet "Hershey's Recipes," featuring Hershey's breakfast cocoa, syrup, semi-sweet chocolate and "Dainties."

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An advertising booklet depicting the storyline of a chicken wedding with advertisements dispersed throughout the story. The advertisements are for items such as instant louse killer and Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a.

272 pages

72 pages

Front and back cover pages only.

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Home of Sandy Bosworth: Culinary Committee review of books for addition to Peacock Harper Collection in Special Collections, Newman Library, Blacksburg, Virginia

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372 pages

This landscape drawing, created by artist Agnes MacDonald, depicts a child running across train tracks to retrieve a package of jello as a train approaches in the background. This art acts as the cover for an untitiled pamphlet containing jello…

Home of Alice Johnson: Mrs. Alice Johnson and Gail MacMillan discussing the Janet Cameron scrapbook. In 2000, The Virginia Tech College of Human Resources and Education (CHRE) appointed Jean Robbins to form a committee to promote the preservation of…

Home of Alice Johnson: Mrs. Alice Johnson and Gail MacMillan discussing the Janet Cameron scrapbook. In 2000, The Virginia Tech College of Human Resources and Education (CHRE) appointed Jean Robbins to form a committee to promote the preservation of…

Photograph of Alice Johnson holding a scrapbook made by Janet Cameron.

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108 pages

The collection consists of an illustrated scrapbook, detailing the set up for a household, possibly compiled for a new bride or a school assignment. Each room is mapped out and illustrated with magazine pictures and includes a price list of…

Photograph of Ann Hertzler working outside at a resource table at the homecoming event. Behind her are tables under a tent, with several unidentifed people in attendence.

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Cartoon illustrated by Don Herold depicting a person leaning against a knox gelatin box captioned "Thank goodness for this Knox Gelatine to lean on". The pamphlet is dedicated to providing ways to use Knox gelatin as a weight loss food.

Cartoon illustrated by Don Herold depicting a slim, happy woman with the caption "Knox gelatine will give me a "stay-slim" assist for the rest of my life. The pamphlet is dedicated to providing ways to use Knox gelatin as a weight loss food.

Image of an asparagus Jell-O salad mold from the pamphlet "The Jell-O Girl Entertains" circa 1920.

Left to right: Martha Akers, Cynthia Bertleson, JoAnn Emmel, and JoAnne Barton.

Left to right: unidentified lady, Sandy Bosworth, Leni Sorenson, Frances Trent.

Seated: Dorothy Layman, Agnes Jacoby. Standing: Dorothy Herndon, Leni Sorenson, Frances Trent

Seated: Ann Hertzler and Connie Anderson. Standing,left to right: Ann Dumper, unidentified lady, Martha Akers, Polly Holloway, Jean Robbins.

An advertisement for a medicine to treat "all diseases originating in impure blood." The ad states that the medicine can be used for illnesses such as sores, ulcers, rheumatism, and sciatica.

The cartoon on this back cover shows a clown gesturing to a sign reading "Meet the Jell-O family of desserts," and underneath listing all of the current Jell-O flavors as well as pudding flavors.

This pamphlet cover art, created by artist Agnes MacDonald, depicts a grandfather and grandson sitting on a porch in New England with a plate of Jello surrounded by yellow trees. The entire pamphlet provides Jell-O recipes and more artistic…

The illustration captioned, "The House That Jell-O Built" depicts the Genesse Pure Food Company Factory encased in a rectangular Jell-O mold and placed on a serving platter. The pamphlet contains Jell-O preparation instructions from the Jell-O Girl…

This pamphlet, produced by L. Frank Baum, included a story featuring his characters from The Wizard of Oz. The storybook promoted Jell-O at the beginning and the end of the book, and was branded with the two characters carrying the Jell-O mold on the…

This is an image of a diagram of the process Walter Baker uses to process coca beans into a variety of chocolate products from the General Foods and Walter Baker pamphlet "Chocolate Cookery."

This is an image of the container used to market Baker's Breakfast Cocoa featuring the iconic "Bella Chocolatiere," or chocolate lady." It comes from ther 1928 cookbook titles "Famous Recipes for Baker's Chocolate and Breakfast Cocoa".