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Collection Title: Jane Adams Recipe and Menu Collection
Dates: 1920-1959
Identification: MS-0012
Creator:
Adams Recipe and Menu Collection
Physical Description: 8.52 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Jane Adams was wife of SDSU Professor John R. Adams.
This collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Publications
Recipes -- Specimens
Cookery
Menus -- Specimens
Recipes
1989
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted,
permission is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are
made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the
materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
This collection is open for research.
Identification of item, folder title, box number, John and Jane Adams Recipe and Menu Collection, Special Collections and
University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
I. Fliers, Booklets, Cookbooks, and Topical
II. Handwritten Recipes and Cutouts
III. Menus
Jane Adams collected recipes and menus from hundreds of food manufacturers and locales. The collection has been separated
into three sections, the largest being
Fliers, Booklets, Cookbooks, and Topical, which is alphabetically filed, and which includes product/company fliers, topical information, and cookbooks by title.
Handwritten Recipes and Cutouts includes handwritten recipes and clippings.
Menus consists of menus, sorted by location of origin. Most of the items in the collection were printed with no date; the collection
appears to cover approximately 1900 through the 1960s.