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With only one known print copy in existence, "A Domestic Cook Book" is part of a HathiTrust Digital Library's collection of African American Cookbooks.
February 7, 2025
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HathiTrust's Top Titles of 2024 includes ice cream, doll-making, "Passing," and U.S. government proceedings on school bussing and labor.
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University of Michigan Museums and Herbarium
1,342 items
Materials in this collection were digitized under a CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant allowing digital access to rare and special books in the museum's library.
African American Cookbooks
55 items
Includes the oldest known cookbook by an African American woman, published in 1866.
Typographic Periodicals
1,367 items
Journals, magazines, and annuals with substantial content on typefaces and typesetting, as well as advertisements from type foundries and composing machines.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set
30,197 items
This regularly updated collection is one of the largest digitized resources of U.S. Congressional documents.
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