Collection Timeline

1884 to 1922

1884
Cookbook by Mary B. Welch, Instructor, Domestic Economy, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames, Iowa. Among the contributors are other professors from Iowa State College, including Professor of Pathology and Histology Dr. D. S. Fairchild; Professor of Chemistry Thomas E. Pope; and Professor of Physics J. K. Macomber.

1889
Book on preparing corn (maize) dishes by Mary S. Scott.

1890
Guide to cooking, housekeeping, and care of the sick, published by Mrs. Hattie A. Burr of Boston to support the women's suffrage movement. The foreword notes that many of the contributors are "eminent in their professions as teachers, lecturers, physicians, ministers, and authors." This copy is missing pages 65 and 66.

1895
Recipes compiled by women of Christ Church Parish, Burlington, Iowa.

1902
Recipes compiled by the Women of the Friends' Building Association of the Friends' Church in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Recipes for preparing Sinclair's Fidelity products, compiled by Janet McKenzie Hill, editor of "The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics."

1903
Recipes compiled by the Ladies' Cemetery Association of Elgin, Iowa. An alternate title on the cover reads "L.C.A. cook book."

1906
Recipes compiled by Chapter M. of the P.E.O. Sisterhood under the direction of executive committee members Dickie Cornell Gebhardt and Maude Gilson Mentzer. An alternate title on the cover reads "Tested recipes."
Honey preparation and recipes containing honey, created by Western Honey Producers of Sioux City, Iowa.
Recipes compiled by the Redfield Women's Club, Redfield, Iowa. An alternate title on the cover reads "Redfield cook book."

1915
Written by Elizabeth Kleber (Mrs. L. O. Kleber) and published by the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. This copy was given to Carrie Chapman Catt according to a handwritten note inside the cover: "To Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt from the editress, Elizabeth Kleber, August the twenty-third."

1920
Recipes contributed by the "famous" cooks of Pella, Iowa, and compiled by the Ladies' Auxiliary of Central College.

1922
Recipes contributed by women of the Keosauqua, Iowa, region and compiled by the Second Committee of the Dorcas Society of the Christian Church. An alternate title on the cover reads "Keosauqua cook book and business directory. Second edition."