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The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) collects materials that document the world’s cultures and the history of anthropology, including records, fieldnotes, letters, images, maps, recordings and the Human Studies Film Archive.
Directory of archival collections from libraries, museums, historical societies and other institutions that hold cultural heritage material. The bulk of the material is from the United States, but material from Canada, Australia, parts of Europe, and elsewhere is also included.
Primary source materials, including letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries, from ProQuest's University Publications of America (UPA) Collection in a digital format. Includes Black freedom struggle in the 20th century; Struggle for women's rights, organizational records, 1880-1990; and Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library.
Searches across all Gale Primary Source holdings in our subscription or select specific categories or groups of archives to search within, including 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Archives Unbound, Associated Press Collections Online, British Library Newspapers, China and the Modern World, Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004, Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Financial Times Historical Archive, Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003, Indigenous Peoples: North America, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992, Sabin Americana 1500-1926, Sunday Times Digital Archive, Times Digital Archive, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, U.S. Declassified Documents Online, and Women's Studies Archive.
Periodicals from the collection at the American Antiquarian Society documenting the American life from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Date range: 1691-1877.
preserved advertising campaigns for several familiar companies, such as Marlboro, Alka-Seltzer, Federal Express, Cover Girl, and Nike. It also holds the records of the NW Ayer Advertising Agency and business papers from Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Carvel Ice Cream, and other companies with images dating back to the late 1700s.
The New York Public Library digital menu collection contains over 18,000 items.
Features objects that tell personal stories of American immigration and migration, presented by the Tenement Museum.
Over 40,000 historical menus includes menus from CIA restaurants and donations from major menu collectors; the collection illustrates the history of dining in America and abroad, with menus from all of the states and over 80 countries, as well as ships, railroads and airlines.
Over 30 oral history interviews with Native American elders, teachers, farmers, hunters, wild food foragers, fishermen, cooks and chefs, activists, and advocate, featuring contemporary Native American community leaders and traditional food gatherers sharing diverse stories of native foodways, their cultural knowledge and practices of indigenous nutrition and health.
UTSA’s Mexican Cookbook Collection is comprised of more than 2,000 cookbooks, from 1789 to the present, with most books dating from 1940-2000. In addition to broad general coverage, the collection includes concentrations in the areas of regional cooking, healthy and vegetarian recipes, corporate advertising cookbooks, and manuscript recipe books.
Includes books from the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA, The Bancroft Library at The University of California, Berkeley, and the Prelinger Library. These fascinating books take us back to an America in the early decades of the 20th century covering topics on cookery, textiles, family and home, budgeting, domestic sciences, and many other delightful topics.
Feeding America is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes 76 cookbooks from the MSU Libraries' collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.
This research guide highlights to early charity and community cookbooks from across the United States and digitized from the Library of Congress collections.
Early American Cookbooks is a carefully curated collection of 1450 cookbooks published in the United States between 1800 and 1920, via HathiTrust. See the two tabs to the right for examples of the earliet African American Southern cookbooks.
Russell, M., Brown, H. Evans. (1866). A domestic cook book: containing a careful selection of useful receipts for the kitchen. Paw Paw, Mich.: The Author.
Fisher, A., Women's Co-operative Printing Union (Firm). (1881). What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc. San Francisco: Women's Co-operative Printing Office, 420, 424 & 430 Montgomery Street.
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