Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1911-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 boxes
Scope and content
Pamphlets, leaflets and books on cookery and nutrition, 1911-1975, collected by Wilson Crowe, managing director of Easiwork kitchen cabinet and appliance manufacturers, and subsequently by his wife, Maud ('Molly') Crowe. The collection includes promotional material from chiefly UK food and kitchen appliance manufacturers and World War Two pamphlets, and also includes collections of American recipes from the Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago, USA, 1942-1943, 'A cook's tour of the Soviet Union', produced by Russia Today magazine, 1944, and '100 Jamaica recipes', published by the Gleaner Company Ltd, Kingston, Jamaica, 1946.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, Toronto, Canada, 1891; served as Lieutenant, Canadian Army Service Corps, Western Front, World War One; agent for British Canadian Export Company, Ltd, London, 1921; founded Easiwork, 1922, importing kitchen cabinets and labour saving domestic equipment from Canada; wrote articles on household appliances for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1928; supplied pressure cookers and kitchen fittings to Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) mobile canteens, London, World War Two; died, London, 1955.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Archives, 2014, by Mrs Georgina Willey (daughter), a former student at King's College of Household and Social Science.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Physical Description
A few items have detached covers, most are in good condition.
Finding aids
This summary guide and an item list available in the Archives Reading Room.
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
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People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.