The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Patterson, Fred, Mrs.

Title: Recipe book

Dates: [ca. 1870-ca. 1879]

Call No.: Doc. 391

Acc. No.: 78x310

Quantity: 1 volume

Location: 31 D

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Mrs. Fred Patterson resided in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Recipe and scrapbook kept in a memoranda book of Howard & Co.'s Express. Although the bulk of the clipped and handwritten recipes are for entrees, breads, and desserts, remedies and household hints are also included. There are also newspaper clippings of poetry, sermons, and reports about local events, a miner's strike in Pottsville, and the results of the 1870 census of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Six wood cut illustrations of local sites and events and a map of coal regions are also in the volume. A label for the McLaughlin Brothers' Steam-Power printing establishment, Philadelphia, Pa. is in the front of the volume.

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

Gift of George D. Patterson and Mrs. Charles Uhle.

ACCESS POINTS

Topics:

Cookery, American.

Therapeutics - History - 19th century.

Recipes - Pennsylvania - Pottsville.

Home economics.

Wood-engraving - Themes, motives.

Landscape - Pictorial works.

Pottsville (Pa.) - History - Sources.

Clippings.

Recipes.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 31 D

List of illustrations in Doc. 391 (acc. 78x310):

Label, McLaughlin Brothers' Steam-Power Printing Establishment, Philadelphia, PA, n.d.

Illustration, Group of Miners Discussing Strike, from Pottsville, PA, newspaper, April 10, 1875.

Illustration, [Bridge at Havre-de-Grace] and Ice Gorge in the Susquehanna [River, PA], April 3, 1875.

Illustration, scenes from flooding: A voyage for supplies [raiding a liquor store]; a leading occupation [men talking]; the signal of distress [family trapped on roof], from Pottsville, PA, newspaper, April 3, 1875.

Illustration, Ruined Houses, below Port Jervis, [Delaware River], N.Y., from Pottsville, PA, newspaper, April 6, 1875.

Illustration, Renovo [an estate], Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, n.p., n.d.

Illustration, same scenes of flooding as above, Bridge at Havre-de-Grace, and Ice Gorge, Susquehanna River [ from Pottsville, PA, newspaper, April 3, 1875.]

Map, Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, from Pottsville, PA, newspaper, April 9, 1875.