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Metadata
Title |
Margaret Whiteside Cookbook |
Object Name |
Cookbook |
Creator |
Whiteside, Margaret Proudfoot |
Other Creators |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) |
Dates of Creation |
1840-1961 |
Scope & Content |
Leather bound blank book with handwritten recipes that belonged to Margaret Whiteside and given by her to Grandma Moses. Many newspaper clippings with helpful household tips (i.e. how to make lamps shine brighter, recipes for hair dye and ways to prevent greying of hair). Most of the middle pages of the book are blank. Writing on first few and last few. Some notes affixed into pages with small pins. Inside back cover is written: "This book was bought in 1840 by Margaret Whiteside." |
Administrative/Biographical History |
Anna Mary Moses worked for the Whitesides as a young girl and the book was given to her by Margaret Whiteside before her death. |
Information |
Anna Mary Robertson went to work as a hired girl at the age of twelve in 1872. At the time arrangements like this were a common way for a girl to gain education and experience in household management while making money for her future life and meeting new people. She found a position in the household of Thomas and Margaret Whiteside, who were distant relations. She later remembered her years with the Whitesides fondly. The Whitesides were an older couple with no surviving children of their own. Margaret was in poor health, and became very attached to young Anna Mary. When she died in 1876 Anna Mary continued to work for her husband until a family member took over management of the Whiteside farm. Before her death, Margaret gave Anna Mary gifts with sentimental and practical value including a sewing box she had been given as a girl, a needlebook and toiletry bag she had made herself, and her cookbook full of handwritten recipes. |
Related People |
Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Whiteside, Margaret E. Proudfit |
Catalog Number |
2008.58 |