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First World War Cookbooks
by Rumford Chemical Works; U.S. Department of Food Conservation; U.S. Food Administration (1914 – 1918)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
These three cookbooks were created during the First World War to show Americans how to limit their food usage in support of the war between 1914 and 1918. They include the Rumford Common Sense Cook Book, War-Time Cook and Health Book, and War Cook Book for American Women. They include recipes that use limited ingredients and descriptions for the different foods.
Folklife Collection - Folk Medicine from Inman, SC and Fletcher, NC
by Salisbury University Students (1977)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In a series of interviews of local Eastern Shore residents in 1977, former Salisbury University students and teachers collected folk life material. Frank L. Holden's collection deals with folk medicine used in South and North Carolina. Each text contains a brief description of the home remedy and the informant. The interviewer also commented on each remedy.
Garland Collection
by Armour and Company; Avon Products, Inc.; Burroughs, Laura Lee; Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc.; Fostoria Glass Company; General Foods Corporation, Consumer Service Department; Ladies' Home Journal; Latrobe, Ferdinand C.; Lever Golden Jubilee; Zwetsch, James Carlton (1933 – 1965)
6 folders (0.06 linear feet)
This collection contains a book, printed material and several booklets on the subject of homemaking. Included are entertainment tips and recipes designed for rations, seafood, canned meat and party food. Also included in this collection are booklets on the subject of flower arranging published by Coca-Cola in the early 1940's. The majority of the books belonged to Emma Adkins. She purchased the cookbooks in the 1930s and 1940s and used them until her vision failed. The Chesapeake Cookbook belonged to Garland's aunt, Luvicia Frances Adkins Andrew and was purchased in Baltimore.
Gilliss Family Collection
by Gilliss, E.J.; Gilliss, Elizabeth A. Hall; Gilliss, John P.R.; Gilliss, Mae (or May) (1732 – 1994)
11 boxes (6.25 linear feet)
The Gilliss Family Collection documents the Gilliss, Hall, and Fassitt families between 1732 and 1994, though primarily between 1830 and 1920. Documents include family history research, photographs, land and legal documents, correspondence (primarily sent to Lizzie A. (Hall) Gilliss in the 1860s and 1870s), ledgers (primarily medical journals of Dr. John P.R. Gilliss from the 1830s and 1840s), and business documents (primarily from E.J. Gilliss' company, Gilliss and Gilliss, between the 1879 and the 1951).
Home Remedies and Recipes Journal
by Unknown (circa 1840 – 1878)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This journal primarily contains circa 1840s home remedies for afflictions and recipes for common household items such as cologne, ice cream, hair oil, shaving cream, soap, ink, ointment, bitters, and tooth paste. Several entries concern the health of horses. The journal also includes geometry notes, ephemera from 1878, and farming notes and publication cuttings from the 1850s.
Humphreys Family papers
by Humphreys, Eugene W.; Humphreys, Josephine (1860 – 1963)
4 cartons, 2 boxes (5 linear feet)
The Humphreys family papers document the educational and social activities of Dr. Eugene and Josephine Humphreys and their children who lived at 105 Broad Street, Salisbury, Maryland. Materials date from 1867-1963 with the bulk of the material dating from 1890-1933 including correspondence, educational, economic and photographic materials of the family. Also documented through correspondence, legal records, and photographs are boarders who resided with the Humphreys and associated families including Mary Gordon Toadvine, Joseph and Mary Graham and John D. Williams.
Jeanne Severance Letters
by Severance, Jeanne (1945 – 1962)
4 folders (0.4 linear feet)
This collection consists of letters from Jeanne Severance, a Red Cross volunteer, to Martha and Constance Greene from 1945 to 1946. Severance wrote from and reported on events in the many places she served, which included France, India, China, Myanmar, and Mexico. Several letters were censored by the United States Army. Also included are photographs of the Greenes in 1962 and some newspaper clippings. At the time, the Greenes had opened the office of Martha Greene real estate company on Long Island in Montauk, New York; there are several pictures of Martha in front of the original offices. The transcription of the letters is attached.
Johnson County, Missouri Board of Health Minutes
by Johnson County Board of Health (1901 – 1911)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
The minutes of the Johnson County Board of Health details a group of doctors who met in Warrensburg, Missouri between 1901 and 1911 to share what families they had visited and treated, noting the racial background of the families.
Junior Board Follies newsletter
by Cargill, Jerome H. (1962)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains a copy of the Junior Board Follies of 1962 documenting the activities of the organization.
Ledger of Dr. Clark Hancock
by Hancock, Clark (1937 – 1947)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
This ledger was kept by Clark Hancock, a doctor from Smith Center, Kansas between 1937 and 1942, and also includes enclosed letters that date to 1947. Hancock recorded the names of townspeople from the farming community who paid for treatment, usually with goods such as melons, apples, potatoes, onions, turkey, milk, eggs, lettuce, chickens, or by chopping wood and ironing. The letters included are between Clark and an itinerant evangelist preacher, Henry Clarence Hall.
Lyle Leland Gordy papers
by Gordy, Lyle (1915 – 1927)
2 oversize folders (5 linear feet)
The papers of Lyle Leland Gordy comprehensively document his education for medical practice at the University Hospital, Baltimore and membership in the Randolph Winslow Surgical Society through a series of certificates and photographs. Additionally, a diploma for his son, Lee Acworth Gordy from the Baltimore City College, demonstrates an emphasis on post-secondary education, 1915-1927.
Marah Finney Collection
by Finney, Marah; Hearn, Ebenezer; Hearn, General Ebenezer; Stevenson, John (1748 – 1989)
7 boxes (2.5 linear feet)
This collection contains materials from the Stevenson and Hearn families of Newtown, later Pocomoke City, Maryland from 1748 to 1989. The earliest documents consist of papers of John Stevenson, a doctor who attended the University of Pennsylvania for medicine in 1797 and 1798, studying under Benjamin Rush. Stevenson also settled estates, and the collection includes records detailing some of the accounts he worked. The collection also includes the scrapbooks assembled by Ebenezer Hearn, who was a teacher and involved in the Temperance Movement in the lower Eastern Shore. The scrapbooks contain news clippings related to the local and national Temperance and alcohol prohibition movement, with other clippings of national events, sermons, and education topics.