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Kitchen Equipment Collection, 1850-2003 Ms.2023.002


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Kaitlynn Harless, Graduate Assistant

Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Identification
Ms.2023.002
Title
Kitchen Equipment Collection 1847-2003
Quantity
1.8 Cubic Feet, 2 boxes
Language
Majority of materials in this collection are in English. Some materials are in German, French, Italian, or Spanish.
Abstract
This collection includes five series of kitchen equipment, Housewares, Kitchen Appliances, Kitchen Accessories and Designs, Ranges, Stoves, and Ovens, and Other items. Items range from the Antebellum era to the early 2000s. The majority of items are from the United States, with some pieces from Canada, England, France, Germany, and Spain. Items include sales and promotional materials such as catalogs, product cookbooks, brochures, trade cards, coupons, handbills, broadsides, and billheads. The collection also has a safety grater with its original packaging and a pie rimmer, crimper, and pastry cutter with an illustrated broadside. Many cookbooks were written for specific appliance products that include details on the appliance. Appliance directions and maintenance manuals are within the collection. Materials provide insight into consumer culture, technology, and history of gender, race, class, sanitation, marketing, and graphic design.

Administrative Information

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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Kitchen Equipment Collection, ca. 1850-2003, Ms2023-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Kitchen Equipment Collection was completed in March 2023.

Scope and Content

This collection includes five series of kitchen equipment, Housewares, Kitchen Appliances, Kitchen Accessories and Designs, Ranges, Stoves, and Ovens, and Other items. Items range from the Antebellum era to the early 2000s. The majority of items are from the United States, with some pieces from Canada, England, France, Germany, and Spain. Items include sales and promotional materials such as catalogs, product cookbooks, brochures, trade cards, coupons, handbills, broadsides, and billheads. The collection also has a safety grater with its original packaging and a pie rimmer, crimper, and pastry cutter with an illustrated broadside. Many cookbooks were written for specific appliance products that include details on the appliance. Appliance directions and maintenance manuals are within the collection. Materials provide insight into consumer culture, technology, and history of gender, race, class, sanitation, marketing, and graphic design.

Some materials include racialized depictions of African Americans and Asians, and a statement of such is marked next to each material.

Arrangement

Series I: Housewares includes materials dated from 1866 to 1982, with many of the items undated. All items are organized in alphabetical order. Housewares include many types of items such as aluminum, iron, tin, earthen, and other wares. There are also materials on utensils. The booklets subseries include catalogs and recipe books as product promotional materials, which are alphabetically organized in three folders. Instruction materials explain how to best use and maintain houseware products.

Series II: Kitchen Appliances includes materials dated from 1867 to 1972, with many undated. All items are organized in alphabetical order. The series includes a large number of materials related to refrigerators and freezers, with advertisements, booklets, recipes for ice cream and other cold foods, and instructions and maintenance manuals. The series covers other appliances such as the chafing dish, broilers, toasters, waffle irons, choppers, grinders, shredders, slicers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, mixers, blenders, frying, dishwashers, and skillets. Booklets and pamphlets contain appliance-specific cookbooks, catalogs, and other promotional materials.

Series III: Kitchen Accessories and Design includes materials dated from 1928 to 1993, with many undated. Accessories include items such as crochet patterns for potholders and a sewing pattern for an apron. Design items include materials that discuss how to best create a kitchen with colors, types of cabinets, countertops, and other such items.

Series IV: Stoves, Ranges, and Ovens includes materials dated from 1847 to 1977, with many undated. Types of stoves, ranges, and ovens include electric, oil, gas, fireless, and outdoor barbecuing. Materials include cookbooks for how to best cook with electric, oil, gas, or fireless. Other materials include promotional items on why to upgrade to a new type of cooking. Materials showcase the trends of cooking from the nineteenth century into the twentieth century.

Series V: Ephemera includes materials like paper bags with advertisements, recipes, greeting cards, notebooks, and other paper-based items that did not fit into other series. These items are undated.

Separated Material

This collection also included a more than 100 books, booklets, and other publications. As part of processing, these were removed and cataloged for the Rare Book Collection. Catalog records include the manuscript collection name and number (Kitchen Equipment Collection, Ms2023-002) and can be located by searching for that phrase.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Food Technology and Production
  • History of Food and Drink

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Kitchen Equipment Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).

Container List

Series I: Housewares
Items dated from 1866 to 1982, with most items undated.
  • box-folder 1 folder: 1
    Subseries A: Billheads
    Bibliography
    • "Charles F. Gardiner - Dealer in Stoves, Hardware, Tin & Wooden Ware, Tools, and Farming Implements, Ammunition and Fishing Tackle, Etc., Mining Powder, Dynamite, Etc." (1897)
    • "G. G. Backofen Manufacturer of Tin, Copper & Sheet Iron Ware." (1851)
    • "Iron Clad Manufacturing Co." (1897)
    • "Lewis & Conger Importers and Dealers in House Furnishing Hardware." (1897)
    • "Mappin & Webb." (1887) 2 items.
    • "The Waterman Kitchen Furnishing Store - Supply Receipt." (1898)
  • Subseries B: Booklets
    Bibliography
    • "The Agate Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Au Grand Vatel, J. Dupont & Malgat." (1929) (French)
    • "Cooking and Serving in Guernsey Earthenware." (1909)
    • "The Dover Stamping Co.'s Cook Book." (1899)
    • "First Aid to the Cook." (1913)
    • "Food Surprises from The MIRRO Test Kitchen." (Undated)
    • "Granite Iron Ware Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Granite Iron Ware Cook Book" (ca. 1878)
    • "Guernsey Ware: Cook and serve in the same dish." (Undated)
    • "How to Use the Ateco Cake Ornamenting Tools." (Undated)
    • "James Beard Cooks with Corning." (1973)
    • "The Joys of Perfect Cooking." (1950)
    • Miss Servette: The Silent Table Servant." (1916)
    • "Price List "L & G" Galvanized Ware." (1902)
    • "Pyrex Experts Book on Better Cooking." (1925)
    • "The Recipe Book for Club Aluminum Ware with Personal Service." (1926)
    • "Recipes for Laurel Aluminum Ware." (Undated)
    • "Recipes for the New Maid of Honor Cast Aluminum." (Undated)
    • "The Right Pans for Better Cooking." (Undated)
    • "Servant Question Solved: Patented Household Specialties." (Undated)
    • "Stoneware: Its Uses and Economies with Recipes and Directions for Packing and Preserving by Leading Authorites." (Undated)
    • "The Taylor Cook Book"Oven Thermometer Book of Recipes for Baking and Roasting." (1916)
    • "Universal - For All Good Housekeepers." (Undated)
    • "Universal Bread Maker." (Undated)
    • "Unusual Old World and American Recipes." (Undated)
    • "U.S. Enameled Ware, Catalog No. 11." (Undated)
    • "U.S. Enameled Ware, Catalog No. 12." (1941)
    • "The "Wear-Ever" Kitchen." (Undated)
    • "What's New in Cookery from the MIRRO Test Kitchen." (1928)
    • box-folder 1 folder: 2
      Booklets A-G
    • box-folder 1 folder: 3
      Booklets H-Re
    • box-folder 1 folder: 4
      Booklets Ri-W
  • box-folder 1 folder: 5
    Subseries C: Broadsides
    Bibliography
    • "Andrew Bryson Ware." (ca. 1890)
    • "The Matchless Sifter, Colander & Strainer." (ca. 1879)
    • "Union Parer and Corer." (1882)
  • folder box: 1 folder: 6
    Subseries D: Correspondence
    Bibliography
    • "To Manufacturers and Dealers in Mop Sticks in the United States." (ca. 1870-1880)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 7
    Subseries E: Handbills
    Bibliography
    • ""Augite" The Woman's Friend, Stove Mat." (Undated)
    • "Cutting Blocks: B. F. Gardner." (Undated)
    • "Important Facts About Cake-Making." (Undated)
    • "The Perfect Noodle Cutter." (Undated)
    • "Pillsbury's Combined Sifter and Strainer." (Undated)
    • "Useful Novelties: Eureka Novelty Co." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 8
    Subseries F: Instructions
    Bibliography
    • "The Compensating Oven Thermometer." (Undated)
    • "Franco-American Patent Can-Opener." (ca. 1982)
    • "Instruction Chart for Operation of Time and Temperature Controls." (Undated)
    • "Mason's Patent Jar." (Undated)
    • "Vaughn's Safety Roll Jr. Can-Opener." (Undated)
  • box-folder 2 folder: 2
    Subseries G: Oversize
    Bibliography
    • "318 Pieces of Patent Bottom Fire-Proof TinWare." (Undated)
    • "Cooking By Steam! H. L. Duncklee's Fulton Steamer." (Undated)
    • "Dandy Safety Grater." (Undated) (Includes 2 items - original packaging and grater)
    • "Elizabeth David Ltd." (Undated) (Includes 5 items in a folder)
    • "Excelsior Cooking Utensils." (1872)
    • "Jumbo 324 Pieces Patent Fire Proof Bottom TinWare." (Undated)
    • "Lechner & Stump's Pie Rimmer, Crimper and Pastry Cutter." (ca. 1866) (Includes 2 items - broadside and pie rimmer, crimper and pastry cutter)
    • "Mendets. Mends All Leaks Instantly." (Undated) (Realia)
    • "Price List of the Celebrated Crystal Steel, Kitchen Ware." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 9
    Subseries H: Pamphlets
    Bibliography
    • "Griswold Cast Iron Cooking Utensil." (Undated)
    • "Hardware Circular: Empire Agricultural Works." (ca. 1880s)
    • "J. Hall Rohrman & Son, Tin Wares: Plain, Stamped and Japanned." (1886)
    • "Krug's Weekly Bulletin." (Undated)
    • "Modern Cooking with The Robert Shaw Automaticook." (Undated)
    • ""Never Break" Wrought Steel Hollow Ware." (ca. 1880s)
    • "New Standard Cherry Stoner: Number Twenty." (Undated)
    • "Pyrex Transparent Ovenware." (Undated)
    • "Safety Hollow Ware: Kettle and Steamer Combined." (Undated)
    • "Saulson's Patent Comfort Dinner Pail." (Undated)
    • "Speedo Can Openers and Speedo Sharpeners." (Undated)
    • "Stoddard Churn." (1882)
    • "The "Wear-Ever" Test Kitchen Present Menu of the Month." (1938)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 10
    Subseries I: Trading Cards
    Bibliography
    • "The Oval Churn." (Undated)
    • "Good-Will Soap." (Undated)
    • "Ironclad Enameled Iron Ware." (Undated)
    • "Granite Iron Ware Trading Cards." (Undated) 3 items.
    • "Wm. H. Smead Crockery and Glassware Trading Cards." (Undated) 2 items.
    • "Le Squeezit." (Undated) French
    • "The Teller Kitchen Knife." (Undated)
    • "Funk's Corn Grater." (Undated)
    • "The Pearl Polish." (Undated)
    • "Empire Wringer." (Undated)
    • "Cross' Patent Milk Rack." (ca. 1866)
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Series II: Kitchen Appliances
Items dated from 1867 to 1972, with most items undated.
  • box-folder 1 folder: 11
    Subseries A: Advertisements
    Bibliography
    • "Minitmaid The Magic Cooker." (Undated)
    • "Turan Micro-Slicerizer." (1972)
    • "Rollman Chopper No. 23." (Undated)
  • Subseries B: Booklets
    Bibliography
    • "24 Delicious Recipes: Waffle-ized." (Undated)
    • "250 Luscious Refrigerator Desserts." (1941)
    • "500 Recipes for Vita Mix and other make Liquefying Machines." (1951)
    • "The Alaska Freezer." (Undated)
    • "Belding's Extra Refrigerators - Repurposed with glued-on lined paper and handwritten popular quotes." (1889)
    • "The Betty Crocker Guide to Pressure Cooking with the General Mills Pressure Quick Saucepan." (Undated)
    • "Catalogue of Refrigerator Hardware, Volume C." (Undated)
    • "The Chafing Dish." (Undated)
    • "Chafing Dish Recipes also Deserts and Candy Making." (Undated)
    • "Cold Cooking." (1949)
    • "Cooking With Cold." (Undated)
    • "A Design Engineering Case Study: The Electric Slicing Knife." (Undated)
    • "The Dutch Oven Cook Book: One Hundred Famous American Recipes for the Oven." (Undated)
    • "Dutch Oven Cooking with Sourdough." (Undated)
    • "Electric Waffle Iron Recipes." (Undated)
    • "Frozen Dainties: Practical Recipes: Food Preservation, How to save on foods, the proper care of the Refrigerator." (Undated)
    • "Frozen Desserts De Luxe from Frigidaire." (1924)
    • "Frying Facts by he Home Economics Department, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio." (Undated)
    • "Fun With Your Ice Cream Freezer." (Undated)
    • "Guide to Leisurely Cooking and Dining with Hotable and Hotray." (Undated)
    • "Hamilton Beach Mixette: Recipe and Instruction Book." (Undated)
    • "Home Freezers and Home Freezing." (1951)
    • "How to Enjoy Better Living With Your Crosley Shelvador Refrigerator." (1951)
    • "How to Get the Most Out of Your Sunbeam Mixmaster." (1950)
    • "How to Prepare and Serve Little America Finer Frosted Foods." (1941)
    • "How to Use Your Copeland." (Undated)
    • "Il Gelataio: The IceCream Man." (Undated)
    • "Imperial Refrigerators." (1890)
    • "Keen Kutter Meat and Food Chopper Cook Book with Recipes for Economical and Delicious Dishes." (Undated)
    • "A Lecture on Food and Digestion by B. F. Beardsley, M.D." (1887)
    • "Let's Get Acquainted with your Hotpoint: Combination Refrigerator-Freezer Instruction and Recipe Book." (Undated)
    • "Mirromatic Pressure Pan Directions Timetables Recipes." (1961)
    • "The New Delicious Wholesome Way of Frying." (Undated)
    • "Portable Mixer: General Electric." (Undated)
    • "Quaker City Grinding Mill 35th Annual Catalogue." (1902)
    • "Recipes for the Jewett Chafing Dish." (1892)
    • "Savory Prize Recipe Book for the Savory Roaster." (Undated)
    • "Tested Recipes and Instructions for the Hamilton Beach Model "C" Food Mixer and Attachments." (Undated)
    • "Tested Recipes and Instructions for the Hamilton Beach Model "E" Food Mixer and Attachments." (Undated)
    • "Universal Bread Maker."
    • "The Universal Food Chopper." (1899)
    • "Universal Food Chopper." (Undated)
    • "Universal Food Chopper." (Undated)
    • "Waring Blendor: Made In Seconds." (Undated)
    • "The Westinghouse Refrigerator Book." (1935)
    • "World's Easiest Recipes for Automatic Refrigerator." (ca. 1936)
    • "Your Waring Cookbook: The Pleasure of Blending." (Undated)
    • box-folder 1 folder: 12
      Booklets #-Ch
    • box-folder 1 folder: 13
      Booklets Co-G
    • box-folder 1 folder: 14
      Booklets H-K
    • box-folder 1 folder: 15
      Booklets L-S
    • box-folder 1 folder: 16
      Booklets T-Y
  • box-folder 1 folder: 17
    Subseries C: Broadsides
    Bibliography
    • "Staples' Common Sense Refrigerators." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 18
    Subseries D: Correspondence
    Bibliography
    • "Correspondence: re: New Standard Food Chopper and Cherry Stoner and pricelist." (1912)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 19
    Subseries E: Handbills
    Bibliography
    • "The Handy Toaster is the Only Toaster." (Undated)
    • "Quaker City Drug and Peanut Butter Mill." (1901)
    • "Griswold Combination Meat and Food Chopper." (Undated)
    • "The Keystone Ice Cream Freezer." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 20
    Subseries F: Instructions
    Bibliography
    • "To Purchasers of The Arnold Automatic Steam Cooker." (Undated)
  • box-folder 2 folder: 3
    Subseries G: Oversize
    Bibliography
    • "The Handy Chafing Dish." (1895) (Newspaper clipping)
  • Subseries H: Pamphlets
    Bibliography
    • "The Arnold Automatic Steam Cooker." (Undated)
    • "The Arnold Automatic Steam Cooker." (Undated)
    • "The Baldwin Dry Air Refrigerator." (1882)
    • "Coldspot Refrigerators: Space Age Design." (1959)
    • "Combination Waffle Iron, Griddle and Sandwich Toaster." (Undated)
    • "Cooking A La Superior: Superior Steam Cooker Recipes." (Undated)
    • "Cooking Foods in Their Own Moisture with the New Utility Cooker." (Undated)
    • "Daggett's Patent Russia Iron Roaster & Baker." (Undated)
    • "Delicous Waffles - The Wagner Waffle Iron." (ca. 1904)
    • "Dundee Dripless Smokeless Broiler." (1922)
    • "E. C. Seamen's Patent Premium Ice Cream Freezer." (1874)
    • "The F. H. Lawson Company: New List December, Applying to Catalogue No. 11." (1906)
    • "Friendly Advise on The Use and Care of your General Electric Refrigerator." (1933)
    • "Health: Science of Proper Eating, Science of Proper Cooking and What It Means to Health." (Undated)
    • "Hot Water Without Gas." (Undated)
    • "The Keystone Ice Cream Freezer." (Undated)
    • "L. H. Mace & Co. Manufacturers of Refrigerators." (1889)
    • "Let's French Fry Today The Shallow Way!" (ca. 1930s-1950s)
    • "Lodge Dutch Oven ... 100 Years & Still Cooking." (Undated)
    • "Lodge Dutch Oven: Complimentary Recipe Cards." (Undated)
    • "Lodge Dutch Oven: Great American Outdoor Dutch Oven Cooking!" (Undated)
    • "Lodge Dutch Oven: New Product Introductions." (Undated)
    • "Look At the Features in the New Universal Mixer and Beater." (Undated)
    • "OK: Superfex The Oil-Burning Refrigerator." (Undated)
    • "The Original Rochow Swirl Mixer and Covered Measuring Cup." (Undated)
    • "Pemco Farm Type Portable." (Undated)
    • "The Perfection Refrigerator." (1878)
    • "Recipes for Cooking in The Arnold Automatic Steam Cooker." (Undated)
    • "Sanette The Automatic Dishwasher and Drier." (ca. 1920-1930s)
    • "The Savage Ovenette." (Undated)
    • "Toas-Tite For Drip-Proof Sandwiches Sealed In Golden Hot Toast." (Undated)
    • "The Toastmaster Automatic Toaster: Its Use And Care." (1941)
    • "Toastmaster Automatic Waffle Baker." (Undated)
    • "The Triple Motion 'White Mountain.'" (Undated)
    • "White Mountain Refrigerators." (1897)
    • "The Wonder Shredder." (Undated)
    • "Your New Toastmaster Powermatic Toaster." (Undated)
    • "Your Refrigerator ... Now Cleaner, Sweeter in half the time." (1950)
    • "The Zero Refrigerator with Water and Wine Cooler Combined." (1867)
    • box-folder 1 folder: 21
      Pamphlets A-L
    • box-folder 1 folder: 22
      Booklets P-Z
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Series III: Kitchen Accessories and Design
Items dated from 1928 to 1993, with other items undated.English.
  • box-folder 1 folder: 23
    Subseries A: Advertisements
    Bibliography
    • "Kleenex Table Napkins Coupon "Save 10 cents." (Undated)
    • "Shopper Guide: Food Containers and Covers - Air Vent Bowl Covers and Gold Seal Pack Food Bags." (Undated)
    • "Universal-Metall-Putz-Pomade." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 24
    Subseries B: Booklets
    Bibliography
    • "Cooking with Cathy the Microcrisp Way." (1993)
    • "Delineator: Kitchen and Laundry Plans and Equipment." (1928)
    • "Foods and Equipment for Use in the control of Sugar and Starch Restricted Diets." (1930)
    • "The Hoosier Cabinet and the Model Kitchen." (Undated)
    • "Kitchen Storage Space." (1938)
    • "A Place to Eat." (1976)
    • "Planning the Efficient Kitchen." (1946)
    • "You and Your Kitchen." (1914)
  • box-folder 2 folder: 4
    Subseries C: Oversize
    Bibliography
    • "Better Homes & Gardens Clipping - Among Ourselves." (Undated)
    • "Practical Ideas for Kitchen Convenience - Booklet and Scrapbook." (1944)
    • "Spezialität: Bessere Kücheneinrichtungen in weiß- und naturlackiert." (Undated) (German)
    • "Sunset Magazine Clipping." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 25
    Subseries D: Pamphlets
    Bibliography
    • "Given Away Absolutely Free by the Cortland Kitchen Cabinet Co." (Undated)
    • "Homemaker's Digest, Volume IV, no. 2." (1949)
    • "How to Get the New Kitchen You Want: Plan-It-Yourself Ideas." (Undated)
    • "How You Can Use Crystal Tissues in Your Home." (Undated)
    • "A More Colourful Life With Genuine Arborite." (Undated)
    • "A Step-Saving U Kitchen, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 14." (1951)
    • "That's the Kitchen I Want." (Undated) Includes 3 items.
    • "Things to Know Before Planning a Kitchen." (Undated)
    • "Wax String." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 26
    Subseries E: Patterns
    Bibliography
    • "Make Your Own Walt Disney Cinderella Apron." (ca. 1950)
    • "Star Pot Holders - Crochet Patterns." (1944) Racialized depictions of African Americans and Chinese people.
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Series IV: Stoves, Ranges, and Ovens
1847-1977
  • box-folder 1 folder: 27
    Subseries A: Billheads
    Bibliography
    • "Paris Flat Top and Favorita Upper Oven Ranges." (1886)
  • Subseries B: Booklets
    Bibliography
    • "The Acme Automatic Fireless Cooker." (Undated)
    • "The Aga Cooker: Controlled Heat, Stored Heat." (1933)
    • "The Amazing Story of the Aga Cooker." (ca. 1932)
    • "American Liquid Fuel Appliances." (1937)
    • "The Art of Grilling, Baking, Barbecuing." (1952)
    • "The Boss Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Catalogue Excelsior Cook Stoves Unsurpassed Stoves & Ranges." (Undated)
    • "Chimney & Stove Cleaning." (1977)
    • "Cooking Made Easier." (Undated)
    • "Cooking By Gas." (Undated)
    • "Delicious Fireless Cooked Dishes." (1919)
    • "Directions for Operating Clark Jewel Gas Stoves." (1920)
    • "Directions for setting up and operating your High-Power Perfection Oil Cook Stove." (Undated)
    • "Directions for Using New Perfection Oil Cook Stoves." (Undated)
    • "Eclipse Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Eclipse Household Expense Book." (Undated)
    • "Electric Ranges and Appliances Westinghouse Catalogue." (1923)
    • "Elektrische Hochtenmperatur-Üfen." (Undated) (German)
    • "Fireless Cooking: Containing Directions and Recipes." (1918)
    • "Fireless Cooking: Instructions and Recipes for Use with Duplex Fireless Stoves." (Undated)
    • "Fireless Cooking: The Method of Confining Heat So That The Full Value of Each Unit of Heat Is Utilized." (Undated)
    • "Glenwood Gas Ranges: Glenwood Quality Throughout." (Undated)
    • "Glenwood Wood Furnace: Either Coal or Wood." (ca. 1902)
    • "Hotpoint Electric Range: Your Dream Come True." (1916)
    • "Ivanhoe Long Chimney or Short Drum Oil Stoves." (Undated) (includes clippings inside)
    • "J. M. Davis Mercantile Company Catalogue." (Undated)
    • "Just A Cook Book." (1902)
    • "Just A Cook Book for Economical Gas Cooking." (1902)
    • "Kitchen Talk." (Undated)
    • "Kitchenkook Ranges and other American Appliances." (1938)
    • "Majestic Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Majestic Cook Book." (1899)
    • "Modern Menus." (Undated)
    • "The Monitor Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Morning Oregonian Free Electric Cooking School." (1927)
    • "Quick Meal Oil: Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Burners, Water Heaters, Ovens." (1940)
    • "Ready Prepared Menus." (Undated)
    • "Recipes in Rhyme." (Undated)
    • "Stories of the Glenwood By People Who Use Them: The Glenwood Hot Water Heater." (ca. 1901)
    • "Stoves." (1930)
    • "Tappan Eclipse Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Universal Electric Range Cook Book." (Undated)
    • "Wickless Blue Flame Cook Stoves." (Undated)
    • box-folder 1 folder: 28
      Booklets A-C
    • box-folder 1 folder: 29
      Booklets D-F
    • box-folder 1 folder: 30
      Booklets G-K
    • box-folder 1 folder: 31
      Booklets M-R
    • box-folder 1 folder: 32
      Booklets S-W
  • box-folder 1 folder: 33
    Subseries C: Broadsides
    Bibliography
    • "Cooking Without Fire! Is the Greatest Wonder of the Age. Cooey's Cottage Kitchen!" (Undated)
    • "The Heywood Oven Heat Distributor or Baking Shield." (ca. 1878)
    • "The Midnight Sun Gas Furnace." (ca. 1875)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 34
    Subseries D: Bulletins
    Bibliography
    • "The Jewel Gasolene Stove Bulletin, Devoted Exclusively to the Interests of George M. Clark & Company." (1889)
    • "National The World's most Beautiful Ranges." (Undated)
    • "The Tortoise Slow Combustion Stoves." (1893)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 35
    Subseries E: Handbills
    Bibliography
    • "Farlar's New Steam Kitchen Range." (Undated)
    • "Jewel Step Stoves." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 36
    Subseries F: Instructions Card
    Bibliography
    • "Directions for setting up and caring for Perfection Smokeless Oil Heaters." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 37
    Subseries G: Newspaper
    Bibliography
    • "Scientific Mechanic: Heating and Freezing Engine." (1847)
  • box-folder 2 folder: 5
    Subseries H: Oversize
    Bibliography
    • "The 'Sunrise' Cook: A New and Handsome Wood Cook." (Undated)
    • "Stratton and Crouder's Manufactory and Warehoud." (Undated)
  • box-folder 1 folder: 38
    Subseries I: Pamphlets
    Bibliography
    • "The Art of Broiling "simple as A B C.'" (Undated)
    • "The Crowning Glory A Low-Priced Reservoir for Long Wood." (Undated)
    • "Detroit Gas Cocks." (Undated)
    • "Duplex Fireless Stoves." (Undated)
    • "Fire King Gas Ranges." (Undated)
    • "Gas Cooking & Heating Apparatus." (Undated)
    • "A Guide to Kitchen Comfort." (Undated)
    • "Hardwick All Gas Bungalow Range." (Undated)
    • "Home Comfort Range Latest Model - No. A-1." (Undated)
    • "Household Hints." (Undated)
    • "Household Ranges Built to Bake: The Household Home." (Undated)
    • "Household Ranges Built to Bake: The Household Liberty." (Undated)
    • "Ironcraft Barbecue Equipment." (Undated)
    • "Is the Cooking Stove an Apostate?" (1888)
    • "Jewel Gas Stoves." (1891)
    • "The Kitchen Complete - Westinghouse Electric Range." (Undated)
    • "New Ease, New Glamour For Your Kitchen with the Great New Glenwood Gas Range." (Undated)
    • "Perfect Coal & Combination Ranges Adapted to any fuel ... Coal, Oil, Gas, Wood." (Undated)
    • "Primus Stoves, Lanterns, etc. burning kerosene." (Undated)
    • "Springer-Küchen Aus Der Fabrik." (Undated) (German)
    • "A Thousand Hours - You Can Do It Better With Gas." (Undated)
    • "To Our Future Home Makers." (Undated)
    • "Universal Gas Range." (Undated)
    • "What We Know About Gas Stoves." (1892)
    • "The Youngstown Telegram Free Electric Cooking School." (1927)
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    Subseries J: Trading Cards
    Bibliography
    • "Acorn Stoves and Ranges." (Undated)
    • "Andes Stoves & Ranges: Active Andes." (Undated)
    • "Andes Stoves & Ranges: Art Andes, Parlor Stove." (Undated)
    • "Andes Stoves & Ranges: Art Andes, Parlor Stove." (Undated)
    • "Andes Stoves & Ranges: Lake Andes." (Undated)
    • "CoOperative Foundry Co. Best Known Best Made Best Liked Stoves & Ranges." (Undated)
    • "CoOperative Foundry Co. Red Cross Stoves & Ranges." (Undated)
    • "Florence Oil Stoves." (Undated)
    • "Garland Stoves and Ranges: Patience and Impatience." (Undated)
    • "Garland Stoves and Ranges: The Oakdale Garland." (1889)
    • "Garland Stoves and Ranges: The School M'am." (Undated)
    • "Golden Star Gasoline Stoves." (1882)
    • "The Honeymoon: A Tale of "Acorn" Stoves." (Undated)
    • "Hub Stoves & Ranges: The Ideal Hub Range." (Undated)
    • "Kineo Stoves Ranges - Noyes & Nutter Mft Co." (Undated)
    • "Model Stoves & Ranges - Spicers & Peckham Model." (Undated) Racialized depiction of African Americans.
    • "Monarch Malleable Home Service Tested Recipes Cards." (Undated)
    • "Monarch Malleable Tested Recipes Cards." (Undated)
    • "New Hub Ranges: The New Hub Range." (Undated)
    • "Rising Sun Stove Polish." (Undated) Racialized depiction of African Americans.
    • "Sterling and St. James Stoves and Ranges." (Undated)
    • "Syracuse Stove Company: Welcome Base Burner." (Undated)
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Series V: Ephemera
box-folder 2 folder: 1 Undated
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