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Finding Aid for the Tolman-Bacher House Recipe Collection 1925-1991, bulk 1925-1964

10270-MS

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Box 1, Folder 1

Gray, Shirley B.: Introduction to the recipe collection 1991 Jun 26

Box 1, Folder 2

Bacher, Byrl Fox: My Own Recipes 1925

Physical Description: Small ring binder.

Note

Contains handwritten and printed recipes, bound and loose. Byrl Fox Bacher was the mother of Robert Fox Bacher.

Box 1, Folder 3

Tolman, Ruth: Recipe collection, handwritten and typed undated: ca. 1930s-1940s

Note

Some pages fragile, soiled.

Box 1, Folder 4

Tolman, Ruth: Recipe collection, printed undated: ca. 1930s-1940s

Box 1, Folder 5

Sherman, Mary: Recipe collection undated

Physical Description: Bound notebook.

Note

Contains handwritten entries. Mary Sherman was the mother of Ruth Sherman Tolman.

Box 1, Folder 6

Bacher, Martha: Recipe collection undated

Physical Description: Handmade notebook, fragile, loose pages. Majority is handwritten mimeographed pages.

Note

Contains handwritten attribution to Martha Bacher. Martha was the daughter of Robert and Jean Bacher.

Box 1, Folder 7

Recipe notebooks, handwritten, unidentified undated

Physical Description: One Standard school series composition book; the other bound with marbled boards.

Note

Marbled notebook has handwritten attribution to Mary Sherman and Ruth Tolman. Contains two different hands.

Box 1, Folder 8

Recipe collection, blue fabric binder, unidentified undated

Note

Mixed collection of loose recipes, a few identified by name.

Box 1, Folder 9

Athenaeum Apicians' menus 1964

Box 1, Folder 10

Miscellaneous recipes, clippings and documents undated: ca. 1950s

Note

Contains signed note by Shirley Gray concerning Chemistry Division picnic budget.

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