Ontario: Hotpoint Electric Heating Co., 1916. Pamphlet. Illustrated trade catalog targeting housewives. The first four pages describe "The Evolution of Cooking" - begining with the cave woman, the different methods of creating fire, and the history of the stove from Pompeii to Benjamin Franklin. More
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London: Aga Heat Limited - Cookery Advisory Department. The AGA cooker was created by Swedish Nobel Prize winner, Physicist and engineer Nils Gustav Dalen (1869-1937). Although the AGA is now considered a luxury item, when first introduced, it became Britain's preferred cooking source for farms and the more isolated areas..... More
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Paris: Samaritaine, 1914. Staplebound. 15 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Early aspirational 20th century department store catalog intended to catch the eye of the growing working and middle class consumer. Samaritaine, founded in 1869, opened in the midst of a new industrial age that saw the price of consumer goods..... More
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10 pages. 15 x 12 cm. c. 1950's. Fully illustrated stove catalog, featuring dimensions - with individual prices typed in. Barcelona business stamp on rear: Jose Amado Mingrat. Covers lightly rubbed. More