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Home Economics Pamphlet Collection

The Paul and Janice Hessling Home Economics Pamphlets Collection consists of commercial and government publications on the subject of home management and nutrition and includes educational materials, recipes, household hints, and other materials. The pamphlets were originally published between 1826 and the present.

"Aunt Babette's" cook book
xxiv, 495 pages ; 19 cm
A proper newe booke of cokerye
clxiv pages, 1 leaf, 124 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 22 cm
Choosing between the ham and the union
Reprinted Bryan Simon,"Choosing between the Ham and the Union: Paternalism in the Cone Mills of Greensboro, 1925-1930." from "Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles," edited by Jeffrey Leiter, Michael Schulman, and Rhinda Zingraff. Copyright 1991 ILR Press. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.
Household management
Laundering
Practical cooking and serving
xviii pages, 1 leaf, 679 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 21 cm
Table service
xii, 128 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
The home economics movement

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