Bibliography: Culinary History

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Culinary History Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

  • RC.24 Research Center Recipe Booklet Collection
    • box 1-26 Booklets, 1852-2006
       
  • RC.17 Research Center Menu Collection
    • box 1-10 Menus, 1861-1994
       
  • RC.16 Research Center Label Collection
    • box 1-6 1860-2010
       
  • R.C.73 Research Center Packaging Collection
     
  • RC.25 Research Center Trade Card Collection
     
  • RC.50 Research Center General Advertisement Collection
    • box 1 Baked Products, Baking, Beverages, Candy, Cereals
    • box 2 Condiments, Food, Frozen Food, Fruit, Glassware, Household Appliances and Equipment, Kitchen Cabinets, Kitchen Utensils
    • box 5 Refrigerators, Restaurants, Soups, Stoves, Sweeteners, Syrups
    • box 6 Baked Products, Baking Candy, Cereal, Condiments, Food, Meat, Soups
       
  • RC.21 Research Center General Postcard Collection
    • box 3
      • Children - Eating and Drinking
      • Eating and Drinking
      • Eating and Drinking - Picnics
    • box 5 Fruit
    • box 6
      • Industry - Beer
      • Industry - Dairy
      • Industry - Flour and Meal
      • Industry - Food
      • Industry - Stoves - Peninsular Stove Co.
      • Industry - Sugar
      • Interiors - Dining Rooms
      • Interiors - Kitchens
    • box 8
      • Ovens
      • Restaurants, Lunch Rooms, Etc.
    • box 10
      • Wine and Wine-Making
      • Women - Domestic Life
    • box 12
      • Cheese
      • Deserts
      • Fruit
    • box 13
      • Industry - Food
      • Interiors - Dining Halls
    • box 14 Restaurants, Lunch Rooms, Etc.
       
  • RC.29 General Photographs Collection
    • Cabinet Cards
      • box 3 (size K)
        • Industry - Dairy
        • Interiors - Kitchen
      • box 5 (size K)
        • Women - Domestic Life
    • Cartes de Visite
      • box 1 Brewery Workers
    • Photoprints
      • box 6 (size A)
        • Advertisements - Alcoholic Beverages
        • Advertisements - Candy
        • Advertisements - Food
      • box 11 (size A)
        • Bakers and Bakeries
        • Baking - Ovens
      • box 16 (size A) Butchers and Butchering
      • box 19 (size A) Dairying
      • box 21 (size A)
        • Eating and Drinking - 1900-1909
        • Eating and Drinking - 1910-1919
        • Eating and Drinking - 1950-1959
        • Eating and Drinking - Picnics
      • box 25 (size A) Food Vendors Grocery Stores
      • box 29 (size A) Industry - Beer
      • box 31 (size A)
        • Industry - Dairy
        • Industry - Flour and Meal
      • box 33 (size A)
        • Interiors - Dining Rooms
        • Interiors - Kitchens
      • box 46 (size A) Restaurants, Lunchrooms, Etc.
      • box 53 (size A) Vending Machines
      • box 55 (size A)
        • Women - Domestic Life - 1900-1909
        • Women - Domestic Life - 1920-1929
        • Women - Domestic Life - 1930-1939
      • box 61 (size BB) Milkmen
      • box 62 (size BB) Restaurants, Lunchrooms, Etc.
    • Stereographs
      • box 6 Eating and Drinking
      • box 9 Interiors - Kitchens
      • box 13
        • Railroads - Cars and Car Interiors - Dining Cars
        • Restaurants, Lunch Rooms, Etc.
      • box 17 Wine and Winemaking
    • Tintypes
      • box 3 (size J) Eating and Drinking - Picnics
      • box 10 (size J) Occupations - Cooks
      • box 15 (size A) Occupations - Confectioner
         
  • RC.14 Exhibitions and Worlds Fair Collection
    • box 6 Panama-Pacific (San Francisco, CA), 1915; Menu Alt Nurnberg Café
    • box 23 Knoxville World’s Fair, 1982; Menu Lay's Meat Card, Table-top sign "see the Budweiser Clydesdales", Welcome to the Strohaus
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  • RC.8 Almanac Collection
    • box 22 Horsford Almanac & Cook Book, 1879, 1884
    • box 52 Watkin's Almanac Home Doctor & Cookbook, 1911
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  • Acc. 2019.88 California Packing Corporation Del Monte Records
    • Contains photographs, administrative documents, recipes, and advertisements, 1913-1989.
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  • Acc. 53.41 H.J. Heinz Company Collection
    • Contains photographic prints, advertising layouts, publications, sales training and employee information, product shipping records, scrapbooks, and account books, 1879-1990.
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  • Acc. 71.1 Gwinn Dairy Collection
    • Contains advertisements, product literature, correspondence, publications, brochures, articles, and images, 1763-1971.
       
  • Acc. 96.34.9 Twin Pines Dairy
     
  • Acc. 75.121 New England Pie Company Records
    • The New England Pie Company of Detroit, Michigan operated from 1902 until about 1927. The records are comprised of letterhead, a newspaper article, and a photograph album.
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  • Acc. 85.79 Wason Manufacturing Company Records
    • New England division of the J. G. Brill Co. for the manufacture of steel dining cars. Includes early press announcements for the new facility, investment and employment advertisements, clippings, and a photograph album used as a sales tool.
       
  • Acc. 88.326 Egmont Arens Food Packaging Design
    • Includes labels, wrappers, and packaging items, as well as several product brochures and photo vignette books, 1930s-1950s.
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  • Acc. 2012.55 Alvin A Duniven
    • Includes papers and photographs relating to White Castle restaurants, employees and managers, and company bowling leagues and picnics.
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  • Acc. 2019.72 Richard J.S. Gutman Diner Collection
    • Materials related to diner design, construction and operation, and consists of photographs, menus, drawings, periodicals, clippings and articles, ephemera, business records, trade catalogs and product literature, artwork, and film and sound recordings.
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  • Acc. 2002.121 Zinns Diner Collection
    • Includes menus, photographs, placements, promotional brochures and flyers, and an oral history, 1970-1995.
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  • Acc. 89.432 Holton W. Diamond Papers
    • Includes research in the areas of soybean use in non-dairy foods, correspondence and business records, laboratory notes and records, 1933-1971.
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  • Acc. 951 Ford Motor Company Non-Serial Publications Collection
    • box 18 Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places, Volume 2, 1954
    • box 28 Lincoln/Mercury Edition, Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places, 1954
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  • Acc. 1485 George Brack Papers
    • box 1 Ford Recipe Book, 1950
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  • Acc. 1389 75th Anniversary Committee Records
    • box 3 Ford Diamond Jubilee Recipe Collection
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  • Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
    • box 2381 Richmond Hill Plantation, 1939 (includes recipe for Scuppernong Grape Wine)
    • box 3035 Edison Institute Schools; Ann Arbor House Menus (Kindergarten), 1950-1952
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  • Acc. 1 Fair Lane Papers
    • box 11 Notebook, circa 1929 (includes recipes)
    • box 39
      • Recipes and cookbooks, requests for and offers of, 1914-1947, and undated
      • Article and photograph regarding Clara B. Ford's cookbook collection, 1949
      • Menus, 1929, and undated
      • Food preservation, correspondence and notes regarding home canning at Fair Lane, 1942-1944, and undated
      • Recipes and notes on cooking, undated
    • box 40
      • Recipes and notes on cooking, undated (6 folders)
      • Food; Miscellaneous bills and receipts, 1921-1949, and undated
    • box 102 Menus: Miscellaneous domestic and foreign menus, undated
    • box 105 S.S. Washington, Menus, from onboard restaurants
    • box 106
      • S.S. Majestic, Menus, from onboard restaurants
      • S.S Europa, Menus, from onboard restaurants
    • box 125 Menus, from Wayside Inn, 1938-1941
    • box 128 Light's Golden Jubilee; Miscellaneous materials, 1929 (includes dinner menus)
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  • Acc. 23 General Personal Records
    • box 16 Menus, undated (contains illustrated children’s menu from Chicago hotel)
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  • Acc. 11 Henry Ford II European Trip Collection
    • box 2 Dinner menus, London, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp and Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, 1928
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  • Acc. 59.150 James H Burris Papers
    • box 1 Includes two canning recipe books with notes by Elizabeth Burris
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  • Acc. 1527 Ford R Bryan Papers
    • box 1 Bryan, Ellen Juntunen, Recipe Box
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  • Acc. 2015.10 Research Center Collection on The Roddis Family
    • box 6 1911, Cruise to Germany, menu; 1928, Mediterranean cruise, menu
    • box 9 1948, Caribbean cruise to Rio de Janeiro, menus; 1949, Europe, menus
    • box 10 1954, South Africa, menus
    • box 11 1966, Caribbean cruise, Menu and recipes
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  • Acc. 2010.85 Leab Kyes Family Scrapbook Collection
    • Includes menus from the family’s travels in the United States and Europe, 1903-2009.
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  • Acc. 2005.100 Eva Tanguay Papers
    • box 1 Menus, 1905, 1910, 1911, undated
       
  • Acc. 2009.123 Bobby Unser Papers
    • box 2 Chili cook-off, 1976
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  • Acc. 536 Public Relations Research Library Press Releases
    • box 23 Cooking for Profit Magazine, Ford Plant Cafeteria Cooks with Gas, 1953
    • box 66 Liggett Cook Book
    • box 79 Oakwood Hospital; Cafeteria, 1953, Kitchen, 1952, Meals, 1952
       
  • Acc. 1117 David Lewis Papers
    • box 1 Chef for Henry Ford, Jan Willemse, 1976
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  • Small Accessions
    • Acc. 1118 Recipe of Mrs. Henry Ford for wheat germ cookies (newspaper clipping).
    • Acc. 651 Walter J Bemb Papers (includes Copy of Ford Motor Co. branch manager’s dinner at Log Cabin Inn, 19 September 1906 (Program, menu, etc.))
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  • Acc. 32.351 Jenny Young Chandler Photographs Collection
    • box 1 (size J)
      • Industrial School, girls [cooking] (catalog number: 32.351.40)
      • Industrial School, girls cooking (catalog number: 32.351.41)
      • Gypsies, Kitchen scene (catalog number: 32.351.61)
      • Gypsies, Kitchen scene (catalog number: 32.351.62)
      • Pop corn wagon (catalog number: 32.351.76)
      • Wagons, lunch (The Way-Side[?] Inn) (catalog number: 32.351.78)
      • Wagons, Farenbach (Fehrenbach, table luxuries) (catalog number: 32.351.79)
      • Wagons, Farenbach (Fehrenbach, table luxuries) (catalog number: 32.351.80)
    • box 1 (size K)
      • Children, grape gatherers (catalog number: 32.351.147)
      • Children, tomato gatherers (catalog number: 32.351.148)
    • box 3 (size K) Street scenes, lunch wagon on New Street (catalog number: 32.351.240)
    • box 4 (size K)
      • Erie Basin, young crabbers (catalog number: 32.351.295)
      • North Beach, lemonade stand (catalog number: 32.351.341)
    • box 5 (size K)
      • Young clam diggers at Old Mill Creek (catalog number: 32.351.347)
      • Young crabbers (catalog number: 32.351.370)
      • Ridgewood, gathering radishes (catalog number: 32.351.392)
      • Local Valley, Horse Hollow Road, men fishing (catalog number: 32.351.395)
      • Roslyn, dairy (catalog number: 32.351.403)
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  • Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
    • box 21
      • Dearborn Inn (2 folders, 36a and 36b)
      • Botsford Inn (36c)
    • box 125 Lunch rooms (3 folders, 302a - 303b)
    • box 126 Lunch rooms (303c)
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  • Acc.188 Personal for Henry Ford Photographs
    • neg. 16079-80 Edison Cook Stove in Edison House, 2-3-36
    • neg. 32413-31 Antique Household Cooking Utensils, 7-10-1937
    • neg. 50354-402 Cookie Molds
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  • EI.16 Edison Institute Publications Records
    • box 1 Recipes for Soy Bean Foods; ca. 1935
    • box 8 Cooking Over the Coals (Livesay); 1978
    • box 10 Eagle Tavern Cookbook; 1988
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  • EI.186 Greenfield Village Buildings Records
    • box 17 Eagle Tavern; Menus, 1929, 1952, and 2000
    • box 34 Lamy’s Diner; Menu, 1946
    • box 40 Mattox House; Recipes from Georgia, undated
    • box 74 OS Eagle Tavern; Menus, c.1985, 2000
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  • EI.136 Carl Hood Administrative Records
    • box 3 Clinton Inn Menus, Jan-Sep 1943
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  • EI.103 Dearborn Inn Records
    • box 1 Menus, 1932, 1934, 1941, 1951, 1954, 1985
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  • EI.122 Wayside Inn Record
    • box 1 Menu, children's
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  • EI.229 Food Services Records
    • Includes usage statistics, menus, employee manual, recipes, programing, catering, administrative information, 1950-1995.
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  • EI.124 Food Service Costs and Sales Records
    • box 1 Clinton Inn, Garden Room, Lunch Wagon, Student Lunch Room, Village Stand, Wayside Stand, Restaurant Profit and Loss, 1943-1956
       
  • EI.220 Edison Institute Special Programs Records
    • box 1 2003 Fall Harvest Days (includes TOH menus)
    • box 2 2003 Day Out With Thomas (includes Menus)
    • box 4 2003 Halloween information (includes Taste of History menu)
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  • E.I. 1929 Edison Institute Photographs Series
    • E.I. Series
      • box 10 Collections, Soda Fountain
      • box 20
        • Departments, Food Service, Greenfield Village
        • Departments, Food Service, Museum (also see Catered Events)
        • Departments, Food Service, Museum, American Cafe
        • Departments, Food Service, Museum, Garden Room- 1954-1975
        • Departments, Food Service, Museum, Heritage Hall
        • Departments, Food Service, Museum, Michigan Cafe
        • Departments, Food Service, Museum, Snack Bar
      • box 33 Greenfield Village, Buildings, Eagle Tavern, Exterior
      • box 34 Greenfield Village, Buildings, Eagle Tavern, Interior
      • box 77 Greenfield Village, Christmas, Eagle Tavern
      • box 78 Greenfield Village, Crafts, Cooking
      • box 84 HFM, Exhibits, American Historic Table Settings – 1956
      • box 85 HFM, Exhibits, Gwinn Dairy Collection –1971
      • box 102 Special Events, Fall Cooking Weekends-1977-'79
      • box 108 Special Events, Taste of History
    • Schools Series
      • box 2
        • Buildings, Secretary House, Classroom Activities
        • Buildings, Secretary House, Clubhouse Activities
      • box 7 High School, Home Economics, Cooking
      • box 10
        • Student Activities, Food
        • Student Activities, Ford Homestead Dinner
      • box 13 Henry Ford Hospital, School of Home Arts, Student Activities, Food Prep

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