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Plumas County historical cookbook

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Description: "This cookbook represents a year-long project of the Plumas County Museum ... the emphasis on the Plumas County historical cookbook is historical, and the data contained after each recipe is copied in its original form."
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1969?]
Call number: 639378
Dimensions: 23 cm
Associated people: Cranston, Anne M.,; Callahan, Elanne C.,
Associated organization: Plumas County Museum (Quincy, Calif.)
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California cookbook scrapbook : manuscript

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Manuscript cookbook scrapbook containing mostly culinary recipes. Contains numerous mounted magazine clippings and printed ephemera with culinary recipes, as well as mounted handwritten recipes. One notable hand written recipe is for bookbinding paste. Printed ephemera includes recipe booklets from Everhot, Richfield Gas, Swans Down Cake Flour and Betty Crocker.

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Walker Mining - Plumas County

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The collection contains letters, documents, maps and reports related to the professional activities of mining engineer Harley A. Sill. There are reports on ores and mines and technical data, chiefly from California, Arizona, Nevada, Canada and Mexico. There are also some reports on mines in other parts of the United States and in South and Central America. There is also one small box containing bibliographical references related to mines and metallurgy (Box 15).

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Map of Plumas County, California, and portions of Lassen, Sierra, Nevada, Yuba, Butte, Tehama and Shasta Counties, California, and Roop and Washoe Counties, Nevada / Compiled from the most authentic sources by Arthur W. Keddie, U. S. Dep. Surveyor. Quincy, Cal. 1886

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Map of Plumas County with drainage, roads, railroads, settlements and mines indicated. A dotted manuscript line, apparently indicating a possible extension of the Sierra Valley & Mohawk Railroad, has been drawn between Beckworth, the terminus, and Quincy. Varnished map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: shaded. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: 247720 James Y. Boyd, Esq. Map California XX.

247720

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Golconda Copper Co., Ltd. - Plumas County

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Rose Loutrie's cook book : manuscript

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Manuscript cookbook containing culinary recipes written in one hand containing a total of 29 recipes for cakes, candies, frostings, gingerbread, salads, and a recipe for nut soup. Mounted on first leaf is a letter from the author's mother that includes a recipe for nut marmalade using lemons and rhubarb with a lullaby. A recipe for "Licking Good Pickle" in the same hand mounted on the verso.

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A family cookbook Odyssey

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Reminscences of the author's childhood in Maryland in the 1920s. Included is a transcript of the cookbook that belonged to Helen Thompson, sister-in-law of Elbrdige Gerry (mssHM 68177).

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