![Item #3424 [COOKERY-MANUSCRIPT] ALICE WILLIAMS COOK BOOK; "Gilt Edge" loose leaf price book N.Y.,...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3424.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674524189)
c. 1920's. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated. 19 .5 x 14 cm. Unique handmade cook book fashioned from a lined, tabbed, loose leaf binder, covered with heavy waxed wallpaper or waxed cloth. Alice has both typed the various recipes along with her hand written recipes. It appears Alice may have gone back and..... More
![Item #3340 [DAY BOOK] [NAVY] [HAWAII] Homemaker's Daily Ledger; Navy Spouse](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667951606)
Honolulu, Hawaii: 1927-1928. Hardcover. 105 pages of handwritten notes. As the US Navy was working to build up the Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, personnel along with their families carved out a life in the area. This dairy/day book gives us a glimpse into the daily lives of these families..... More
![Item #4096 [VIRGINIA] [ACCOUNT BOOK] Staunton, Augusta County, Farm and Boarding House](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4096.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705678386)
1862-1875. Hardcover. 228 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. Owner used 3/4 of the lined pages. Staunton, Virginia, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Augusta County), is situated between the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east and the Allegheny Mountains on the west. This account book, written during the Civil..... More
![Item #4526 [WOMEN] [DIARY] Event-filled 1903 daily diary - full year; The Standard DIARY 1903....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739323691)
Pitcher, Chenango, New York: 1903. Cardboard covers. Kate (Catherine Hakes) Blackman (Aug 31, 1840 - Aug 17, 1917) was born in Pitcher, New York, and raised on a farm, surrounded by many siblings. Kate later married her husband Birdsall Blackman and settled down on a farm in her hometown. Pitcher..... More
![Item #4234 [MANUSCRIPT] [CULINARY] Clarksburg, West Virginia. Lucy Clare Clifford](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4234.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718123886)
Clarksburg, West Virginia: 1908. Hardcover. 22 x 15 cm. Lucy Clare Clifford (1887-1961) was a 21 year old young woman when she set about writing down her recipes. One can see she was very interested in candy/confection making and was exceptionally precise as to the exact directions logged in her..... More
![Item #3666 [MANUSCRIPT] [DANISH] [MILITARY] 19th Century Journal - Danish/German. Laue Jensen Dixen](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3666.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686083954)
1848-1851. Sewn binding. 16 x 11 cm. This journal belonged to Laue Jensen Dixon (once written Lauety), who was a member of the 10th Infantry Battalion from 1848 to 1851, after which he became part of the Gendarmerie. Dixen appears to have traveled around Denmark and Germany and was most..... More
![Item #2664 [MANUSCRIPT] Cook Book Renée Oakman - Knox School. Renée Oakman](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2664.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716496441)
c. 1920. Wraps. 31 pages. Renée Oakman attended the Knox School in Briarcliff Manor while residing in Manhattan with her parents John Saunders Oakman, an Architect, and her Mother, Margaret Curzon Marquaund, a cousin of Edward Everett Hale. Part of the New York social elite, Renée spent her summers on..... More
![Item #4254 [HANDMADE] [MENNONITE] COOKBOOK. Warkentin Sisters](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4254.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718123723)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: c.1940's. Sewn binding. 32 pages. 21 x 13 cm. A handmade, hand sewn book made out of white oil cloth and paper. On the interior of the front page, written in pencil, reads: "Warkenton Sisters Cookbook." With 57 recipes handwritten (one in German), and at least three..... More