The homemaker's helper . Kelvinator wartime idea exchange for home economists. Project 6: Household hints for household efficiency
Description:
The front cover is green and black with a picture of hamburgers on a platter and daffodils behind it. The back cover is white with a paragraph on foods fights for freedom, a line drawing of a Kelvinator stove and refrigerator. The dealer The Good Housekeeping Shop and all branch stores, 1250 Library Avenue is below. Ra. 9850 is in the lower right corner. The rest of the text is 40 prize-winning suggestions submitted by Home Economists in the National Contest sponsored by Nash-Kelvinator. The front end page has a letter to the housewives of America from Joan Adams, Director, Kelvin Kitchen. Tips are organized into be efficiency-minded, cook with dispatch, make the minutes count, eliminate unnecessary steps, and simplify sewing. There is information on the electric freezer, nutritional value of food, some foods need cold and moisture, wartime demands on the homemaker, and better care of appliances means less repair. There are black and white photos and color drawings. There are no page numbers.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Kelvinator Refrigerators
Publisher: Kelvinator Division, Nash-Kelvinator Corp. (Detroit, Mich.)
1943 (ca.)
20.3 X 14.0 cm
Pamphlets
Language: English
Key Terms:
- Illustrations, Drawn Color
- Illustrations Drawn Black and White
- Michigan
- Illustrations, Photographic Black and White
- Typed Letters Signed
- Wartime Cooking
- World War II
Copyright: Permission is granted from the copyright owner/holder.
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Citation: The homemaker's helper . Kelvinator wartime idea exchange for home economists. Project 6: Household hints for household efficiency. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=3804

