A great online resource that is downloadable @ http://www.mspong.org/cyclopedia/download/cyclopedia.pdf is The Household Cyclopedia of General Information. It contains over 10,000 'receipts' or homemade items concerning useful and domestic arts - all of them; from agriculture to wines.
It was published in 1881 by Henry Hartshorne, M.D. who was a professor of Hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania. There were a slew of other contributors to this endeavor, from a report on the trial of agricultural implements that occurred at the Great National Field Trial in Auburn, New York and a treatise on Bees by E.S. Tuper; Plus much, much more.
This is a great digital item to have printed and bound, then given as a gift. Of course keep a hardcopy for your library too ;-}
“The only easy day was yesterday.”
From On Lavender Lane by JoAnn Ross
From On Lavender Lane by JoAnn Ross
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Cant get it to open up. What do i need to try?
ReplyDeleteI will have to do this. Thanks for the post
ReplyDeleteFor those of you that are having problems loading this for download from its original site @ http://www.mspong.org/cyclopedia/download/cyclopedia.pdf (Note: For some reason it seems to take up to a minute to display for download in the browser.)
ReplyDeleteI have uploaded this at scribd.com @ http://www.scribd.com/doc/83841785/The-Household-Cyclopedia-Over-10-000-Useful-Domestic-Arts-How-to-s-1881
You will need a scribd.com login ID to download. You do NOT need a Facebook ID, just hit Scribd. in the upper left corner of the scribd.com page and select create a scribd account.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to y'all ;-}