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Fine Old Dixie Recipes: Southern Cook Book: 322 Old Dixie Recipes

1939

Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A cookbook with a brown, wood board cover. The wood board front cover has a carved and painted illustration on the front of a stereotypical "Mammy" figure carrying a turkey on a tray. The figure is depicted in profile, facing the right edge of the cover. She is wearing a white kerchief on her head, a white apron, a red and white plaid dress, and a red neck kerchief with yellow polka dots. Black painted, carved lettering appears centered at the top of the front cover and reads, [Fine / Old Dixie / Recipes] in two (2) fonts. The back wood board cover is blank. The wood board covers are bound together with three (3) green plastic spiral rings at the spine.

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Catalog reference: 2007.7.388

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