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Meet Constance Carter, Head, Science Reference Section, Science, Technology & Business Division, Library of Congress. |
Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section, Library of Congress, describes the resourceful ways American housewives found to feed their families during hard times of the past. Note: To view the Webcast, you must have the RealPlayer software, available at the RealNetworks player download site |
| Library of Congress Web Sites of Interest | |
American Women: A Gateway to the Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States Library of Congress Online Catalog Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1923 |
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Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project Hearth: A Core Electronic Collection of Books and Journals in Home Economics and Related Disciplines Published Between 1850 and 1950 North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 |
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Print Sources on Thrift in the Home: Primary Sources Alcott, William Andrus. The Young-Housekeeper, or Thoughts on Food and Cookery. 2nd stereotype ed. Boston: G. W. Light, 1838. Allen, Ida Cogswell Bailey. Solving the High Cost of Eating: A Cookbook to Live by. New York: Farrar, c1952. Benson, Oscar Herman. Home Canning and Food Thrift. Albany: New York (State), Department of Farms and Markets, 1920. (Bulletin, no. 130) Bitting, A. W., and K. G. Bitting. Canning and How to use Canned Foods. Washington: National Canning Association, c1916. Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The American Frugal Housewife. 16th ed. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1835. -----. The Frugal Housewife. Boston: March & Capen, and Carter & Hendee, 1829. Clarke, Ida Clyde Gallagher. American Women and the World War. New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times. Corson, Juliet. Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six. NewYork: The Author, 1877. -----. Twenty-five Cent Dinners for Families of Six. 17th ed. New York: O. Judd Co., 1885. Creswell, Mary E., and Ola Powell. Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables, As Taught to Canning Club Members in Southern States. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1917. (Farmers Bulletin, United States, Dept. of Agriculture, 853) Doddridge, Amelia. Liberty Recipes. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1918. Dodge, David. “Domestic Economy in the Confederacy.” Atlantic Monthly 58, no. 346 (Aug. 1886): 229-43. Drying Fruits and Vegetables in the Home—with Recipes for Cooking. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1917. (Farmers’ Bulletin, 841) Franks, Thetta Quay. Efficiency in the Household: A Book for Every Woman. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. -----. The Margin of Happiness, the Reward of Thrift. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917. Food Thrift: Suggestions, Menus, Recipes with Substitutes. Boston: Dept. of University Extension, Massachusetts Board of Education, 1917. (Bulletin, v. 2, no. 5, Sept. 1917. Whole no. 11.) Goodfellow, Mrs. Mrs. Goodfellow’s Cookery As It Should Be: A New Manual of the Dining Room and Kitchen. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865. Goudiss, C. Houston, and Alberta M. Goudiss. Foods That Will Win the War, and How to Cook Them. New York: World Syndicate Company, c1918. Hague, Parthenia Antoinette. A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888. Handy, Amy L. War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. Herrick, Christine Terhune. Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1890. Hill, Janet McKenzie. Canning, Preserving and Jelly Making. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. -----. War Time Recipes. Cincinnati: Proctor and Gamble Company, c1918. Howland, E. A. The New England Economical Housekeeper, and Family Receipt Book. Worcester: S. A. Howland, 1845. Hughes, Dora Morrell. Thrift in the Household. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1918. Hurn, Ethel Alice. Wisconsin Women in the War Between the States. Madison: Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. (Wisconsin History Commission. Original Papers, no. 6.) Kinghorne, J. W. Preserving Eggs. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1920. (Farmers Bulletin, 1109.) Knight, Mrs. S.G. Tit-bits or, How to Prepare a Nice Dish at a Moderate Expense. Boston: Crosby and Nichols; New York: O. S. Felt, 1864. Lusk, Graham. Food in War Time. Philadelphia, London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1918. Morton, Lillian. Thrift Cook Book for the Economical Housewife: Proven Recipes of Delicious Foods Helping to Conserve Wheat, Sugar, Beef, and Other Expensive Materials, and Still Supply Attractive and Healthful Meals at Home. Chicago: Shrewsbury Publishing Co., c1918. Murphy, Bessie R., comp. Legumes: Dried Beans, Peas, Lentils for Breakfast, Dinner, Supper. Chicago, New York: Rand, McNally and Co., c1920. Murphy, Margot. Wartime Meals, How to Plan Them, How to Buy Them, How to Cook Them. New York: Greenberg, 1942. National War Garden Commission. Home Drying Manual for Vegetables and Fruits. Washington: National Emergency Food Garden Commission, c1917. Neil, Marion Harris. Canning, Preserving and Pickling. Philadelphia: D. McKay, c1914. -----. The Thrift Cook Book. Philadelphia: D. McKay, c1919. “Our Women in the War.” The Lives They Lived, the Deaths They Died. Charleston, S.C.: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1885. Paul, Sara T. The Economical Cook Book. Philadelphia: The International Press, c1905. Porcher, Francis Peyre. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. New ed. Charleston: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Printers, 1869. Richardson, Anna Steese Sausser. Adventures in Thrift. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1916. Rorer, Sara Tyson (Heston). Canning and Preserving. Philadelphia: Arnold and Company, 1887. Smith, Coral B. New Dishes from Left-Overs. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. United Daughters of the Confederacy. South Carolina Division. South Carolina Women in the Confederacy: Records Collected by Mrs. A. T. Smythe, Miss M. B. Poppenheim and Mrs. Thomas Taylor. Ed. and pub. by Mrs. Thomas Taylor, Chairman, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. August Kohn, Miss Poppenheim, Miss Martha B. Washington, State Committee, Daughters of the Confederacy. Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1903-7. United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1886. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1887. Walker, C. Irvine, comp. The Women of the Southern Confederacy During the War 1861-5: Original Historic Incidents of Their Heroism, Suffering and Devotion. Published in “Our Women in the War” supplements to leading newspapers in Tennessee and Mississippi, together with Arkansas memorial, clipped from original publications and arranged under direction of Gen’l C. Irvine Walker ... under whose general supervision, aiding the work for the memorials to the women of the confederacy, the various supplements were published. Charleston, S.C.: n.p., 1908. -----, comp. The Women of the Southern Confederacy During the War 1861-5: Original Historic Incidents of their Heroism, Suffering and Devotion. Published in “Our Women in the War” supplements to leading newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, clipped from original publications and arranged under direction of Gen’l C. Irvine Walker ... under whose general supervision, aiding the work for the memorials to the women of the confederacy, the various supplements were published. Charleston, S.C.: n.p., 1906? Watkins, John Elfreth. “Our Daily Bread: What the Government Chemists are Learning About our Food Faults.” Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine 6 (June 1905): 61-68. Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Lyles, Mrs. W. H. Wilson, and Mollie Huggins. Good Things to Eat. Nashville, Tenn., Dallas, Tex.: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, Smith & Lamar, Agents, 1909. Wright, Julia McNair. The Complete Home. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Ohio, etc.: J. C. McCurdy & Co., 1879. Print Sources on Thrift in the Home: Secondary Sources and Modern Examples Bentley, Amy. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1998. Burroughs, Frances M. “The Confederate Receipt Book: A Study of Food Substitution in the American Civil War.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 93 (1992): 31-50. Chambers, Trish. Civil War Women: Their Roles and Legacies. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2005. Currie, Stephen. Women of the Civil War. San Diego: Lucent Books, c2003. Davis, William C. A Taste for War: the Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c2003. Eighmey, Rae Katherine. Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cooks, and Conservation during World War I. St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2010. Lawson, Laura J. City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2005. Pilato, Denise E. The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors. Rumble, Victoria R. Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., c2009. Shephard, Sue. Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Simkins, Francis Butler, and James Welch Patton. Women of the Confederacy. Richmond, New York: Garrett and Massie, Inc., c1936. Solomon, Steve. Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times. Gabriola Island, Spaulding, Lily May, and John Spaulding, eds. Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c1999. Sperling, John G. Great Depressions: 1837-1844, 1893-1898, 1929-1939. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1966. Wolf, Ray, ed. Eating Better for Less: A Guide to Managing your Personal Food Supply. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, c1978. Periodicals Atlantic Monthly. LC call number: AP2.A8 http://lccn.loc.gov/05022829 |
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