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NINETEENTH-CENTURY AGRICULTURAL NEWSPAPERS
American Agriculturist
American Farmer
The Cultivator (New York State Agricultural Society)
The Gardener’s Magazine
Illinois Farmer
The New Genesee Farmer and Gardener’s Journal
Prairie Farmer
Tenn
essee Farmer
Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer
Valley Farmer
NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, AND JOURNALS
Agricultural History
American Cookery (The Boston Cooking School Magazine)
Daily Illinois State Journal
The Family Magazine, or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge
Godey’s Lady’s Book
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Indiana Magazine of History
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Life Magazine
Lincoln Editor: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln
New York Times
Sangamo Journal
White House History
DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS
Cutter Papers. Collection of the Lincoln Cottage. National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC.
Menu collection. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN.
INDEX
Page numbers in italics denote recipes.
African Americans (free)
contraband camps
Cornelia Mitchell
Mariah Vance, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
Mary “Aunt” Williams
White House servants
William H. Johnson, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
See also slavery; slaves
Allen, Dr. John, 4.1, 4.2
Almond Pound Cake, 6.1
almonds, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Andrews, Henry, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
anecdotes told by Lincoln
apple overboard
gingerbread
prairie-chicken hunter
sausage
apees, 5.1, 5.2
apple butter, 9.1, 9.2
apples
anecdote
Lincoln’s love of, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Lincoln’s technique to eat
preservation, 5.1, 9.1
scarcity, 3.1, 3.2
trees planted by the Lincolns, 3.1, 9.1
Astor House
Audubon, John James
Ayers, Phillip Wheelock, itr.1, 8.1
Bacon-Basted Militia Chicken, 5.1
Baked Beans, 9.1
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