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Examples below
Please note that this search page covers the Advertising Cookbooks Category only, containg scanned images and transcribed text
from 82 cookbooks, dating between 1878 - 1929.
All categories in the Emergence of Advertising in America project (EAA) are representative, not
comprehensive. If you perform very narrowly defined searches, you increase your chances of a
"zero" result. There are two ways to search the Advertising Cookbooks Category: the Keyword Search and the Complex Search.
The Keyword Search (found on the General EAA Search Page)
allows keyword searching on information that physically describes
the book (database terms) as well as on information found within each book (transcribed text).
Only the Title Page and the Table of Contents/Index of each book have been
transcribed (i.e. typed into a text document and thus made searchable). We have not transcribed
the content of all the scanned pages. The
information found here may include chapter and section titles, bibliographic data, etc.
The Complex Search
allows you to search on several words at once ("Boolean" searching) in the Advertising Cookbooks database, combining
selected keywords and database terms, along with illustration and special features descriptions. The
database terms included were deemed most
likely to be useful to a range of users of the EAA project.
An explanation of all terms used in the Complex
Search is available in the Advertising Cookbooks Database
Terms and Descriptions page.
Please note that most of the books included in the Advertising Cookbooks on
Advertising section of the EAA project are text-heavy without many illustrations. In most cases,
the entire book has not been scanned, rather excerpts (selected chapters and
many of the illustrations - usually about 10 - 30 pages) are presented here. A handful of the shorter books
or pamphlets are presented in their entirety. You may determine whether the
whole book or just selections is included by checking the "Notes" section of the
database or the "About this Book" section provided for each item.
You may consult lists of the items in this category arranged by
title and by
subject. For further questions please
consult the FAQs.
Search Examples and Information
Examples
| Keyword Search
| Complex Search
Field: contains:
allows you to locate words in the book title, author, subject, etc.
(see
pull-down menu under All). After entering the word(s) you would
like to search for, you can limit your
search by selecting a term from the pull-down menu,
or you may search for the word(s) in the entire database by accepting the default
"All" for a complete list of available fields. Complex searches allow you to search on several words at once ("Boolean" searching) in the
Advertising Cookbooks database.
A list of all the subjects
and titles
included in the Advertising Cookbooks Category
is available to assist you.
Illustration & Special Features:
pre-set searches are available that will help you to find
cookbooks containing illustrations,
as well as images and references to specific
cultures (e.g. African/African-American, Asian, etc.)
or subject matters (military, children) that may be of particular interest.
You may limit a complex search to one type of illustration or special
feature, or, by choosing the default "All" your search returns will
include illustrations with any of these features.
Categories:
identifies the category you are searching in the database. A
description of all the categories that make up the EAA project, including the number of ads each contains,
is available on the Browse Categories page.
For information on the items in all the pull-down menus above, see the
Advertising Cookbooks
Database Terms and Descriptions page.
Please note that this search page covers the Advertising Cookbooks Category only.
As with all the search pages, this category is representative, not comprehensive. If you
perform very narrowly defined searches, you increase your chances of a "zero" result. Note that for your search return you will see a brief description of the cookbook. Choose the
"View this book" link under the image of the book to access all the scanned images and transcribed text.
- To search for the word cake across all transcribed texts and
descriptive terms (database terms) including Advertising Cookbooks,
- Go to the "Keyword" Search on the General EAA Search Page,
- Type cake in the Search for: box.
- Choose the "Everything in Emergence of Advertising in America" in the In: box.
- Click the Search button in the right side table, and
- Wait for the results!
- To search for all Advertising Cookbooks written or approved by the Janet McKenzie Hill in
the 1900s
with illustrations,
- Choose Author in the first Field:.
- Type Janet McKenzie Hill in the first contains box.
- Choose Date in the second Field:.
- Type 19* in the second contains box.
(Note that the '*' means that you'll accept any year in the 1900s. If you'd like to search within only one year, just enter that specific year - 1919.)
- Choose Illustrations in Item
from the Illustrations and
Special Features menu.
- Click the Search button in the right side table, and
- Wait for the results!
- To search for cookbooks about baking
with children in any of the illustrations,
- Choose Subject from the first Field menu. (Note that a list of all Cookbook Subject names is available.)
- Type baking in the first contains box.
- Choose Children
from the Illustrations and
Special Features menu.
- Click the the Search button, and
- Wait for the results!
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