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Text and step-by-step illustrations describe various recipes and techniques for preparing pasta.
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Language of material: German Notes: Text on p. [2] provides step-by-step instructions for planning and executing surrender, and includes safe conduct text.
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Sample book containing examples on leather and paper of: type ornaments, stamps, rolls, fillets, personalized stamps, stamping frames in various sizes, die samples and other binding decorations. Various ink colors and gilt are shown. The final two pages contain samples of the Emery Record Preserving Company book labels and printed advertisements.
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Australia's first Chinese (Cantonese) cookery book. Short essays on Chinese foods abroad, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, bean curd (an invaluable food), See You (soy bean sauce), Chinese rice, preserving, and beverages are interspersed with thirty recipes. There is also a recipe for dim sums; the uniquely Melbourne version of a Cantonese siu mai dumpling. Geechoun was the son of Chinese market-gardeners in the Victorian city of Bendigo, who went on to become an importer, parliamentarian, and owner of the Kowlon restaurant in South Yarra.
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Manuscripts
A manuscript version of Koichi Shibata's printed text on childbirth for students of obstetrics, probably created sometime between 1900 and 1910. The text is in Japanese. This manuscript is accompanied by two paper doll manikins and a paper pelvis used to demonstrate different birthing techniques. The manuscript also includes seven tipped-in hand-drawn illustrations depicting different positions of fetuses in the womb.
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Visual Materials
Prints, advertising; Image of three individuals, a man wearing a hat labeled "Farmer," a man wearing an apron and a hat labeled "Dealer," and a woman wearing a uniform and a hat labeled "House Wife's League," standing in a line behind a table of food including a large basket of fruits and vegetables and canning jars, with Uncle Sam in the background; the poster promotes the canning and preserving campaign sponsored by the National Commercial Gas Association from June to November 1917 in the United States during World War I.
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