Scope and Contents Contains 27 items documenting the domestic, agricultural, and personal interests of the Rice family. Materials include the personal cookbook of Olivia Johns Rice; a receipt book dated 190_; a set of No-Show Lace Collar Supporters; a pamphlet by J. H. Kellogg promoting the health benefits of oranges; and an order book for eggs and milk. Also present are several books, pamphlets, and manuals on the care, feeding, breeding, and hatching of chickens and ducks (1914-1924), along with promotional...

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Contains a personal cookbook belonging to Olivia Johns Rice, a pamphlet by J.H Kellogg promoting the health benefits of oranges, as well as promotional recipe booklets from Sunkist, Bert Olney Canning, Minute Tapioca, Gelatine, Malted Cereal Coffee, and Jelly Crystals.

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Books, pamphlets, and manuals on the care, feeding, breeding, and hatching of chickens and ducks. As well as an order book regarding the sale of eggs and milk.

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Contains a fact book on President Herbert Hoover and the Republican administration produced in 1932 by the Women’s Division of the Republican National Committee, a tourist guidebook to Jamestown and Newport, Rhode Island, a 1932 church handbook of daily prayers and Sunday School guidance, a booklet on mathematical shorthand and a dime saver from Citizens Savings Bank in Providence.

Scope and Contents Contains a set of No-Show Lace Collar Supporters, an unused photograph-album page, a promotional pamphlet for Great White Frost Refrigerators, a book on mathematical shorthand, and a laundry manual distributed with Fels-Naphtha soap, a baby-care book published in 1906 by Ivory Soap contains handwritten information on Lois Rice from 1913, a cancelled bank book belonging to Olivia J. Rice from the Savings Bank of Newport with entries from 1919 to 1933, A pamphlet from Hood Sarsaparilla and...

Abstract The Olivia Johns Rice Collection comprises 660 items housed in five boxes and documents the personal, professional, familial, and community life of Olivia Johns Rice and members of the Johns, Rice, and Hazard families from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The collection includes extensive correspondence; legal, financial, and educational records; church membership materials; agricultural and household documents; personal identification papers; printed ephemera;...