[Sca-cooks] OP: Home economics Database

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

>From ResearchBUZZ:

"** Cornell University Creates Home Economics Archive

Cornell University has created an archive of over 1,500
volumes (over 600,000 pages) related to home economics at
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html . The
volumes available within were published between 1850 and
1950 and are just as fun a cultural browse as they are an
exploration into home economics.

There's such a vast amount of information on this site that
there are several different ways to view it. You can browse
the topic lists, which include bibliographies of the archive
contents in that topic. You can browse an alphabetical
listing of books (this is a LONG browse.) Or you can search
by keyword. Keyword search can be full-text, author, or
title, and you can build a Boolean query with a series of
pull-down menus.

The search "soap making" found 30 results (note that the
search results counts by the number of matches found in each
document, so this search found 30 results in something less
than 30 volumes. For example, if a search result found five
volumes with ten matches of the keyword in each volume, that
search would have fifty results.) Search results include the
name of the volume (and sometimes the date) as well as a
link to the table of contents and to matching keywords.

I found myself drawn to "The modern laundry guide: a
collection of the best articles published in the National
Laundry Journal during the past two years" (published in
1905). I clicked on the table of contents and got further
information about the book as well as links to its content.
You can view the volumes in the archives page-by-page or as
entire text files (the site does warn that entire books can
be very huge and can crash your browser.) Lots to see here. "

-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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