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• Recipe book, 1840?
  Call number: TX714.R43 1840. A collection of recipes in a variety of hands. Dated approximately 1840.
• The practice of cookery, pastry, pickling, preserving, &c.
  Call number: TX705.F8. A recipe book containing recipes for cooking, baking, pickling, and preserving. Full title: The practice of cookery, pastry, pickling, preserving, & c. containing figures of dinners. With: some short observations concerning the due method of treating the gout, & c.
• Recipe book, 1850
  Call number: TX714.M36 1850. A recipe book containing recipes in a variety of hands, including recipes for making and preserving food, drink, medical preparations, other household items, and more; the journal likely used for other purposes along the way, including by a glazier. Dated 1850. Printed label of Chambers and Hallagan's printing office, 4 Abbey Street, Dublin.
• The medical recipes of the late Doctor Taylor of Innerkip
  Call number: RS131.23.T39 1885. A collection of medical recipes. Full title: The medical recipes of the late Doctor Taylor of Innerkip, published, according to instructions left by him, by Geo. Hotson & Jas. Miller. Alternate title: Valuable medicinal recipes used by the late Dr. Taylor of Innerkip.
• An Epitomie of most experienced, excellent and profitable secrets appertaining to physicke and chirurgery
  Call number: RS125.W66 1651. Contains recipes relating to medicine and surgery. Full title: An Epitomie of most experienced, excellent and profitable secrets appertaining to physicke and chirurgery : for all those diseases that are most predominant and dangerous (curable by art) in the body of man, as by the table appeares ; also, the judgement of urines ; for the benefit of such discreet ladies, gentlewomen and other which labour to doe good in that art, mystery and profession, by O.W., Professour in physicke and chyrurgery.
• A Collection of above three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery
  Call number: RS127.C6 1719. A recipe book containing recipes for cooking and medicine. Full title: A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery; for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses. By several hands. 2d ed., to which is added, a second part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meats &c.
• Ruby Muriel Carter Graduation Certificate - Public Health
  Ruby Carter was a nursing student at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in London, Ontario. This is certificate from the University of Western Ontario, certifying Carter as a Public Health Nurse.
• Ruby Muriel Carter Graduation Certificate - Registered Nurse
  Ruby Carter was a nursing student at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in London, Ontario. This is a certificate from the Province of Ontario, certifying Carter as a Registered Nurse.
• Ruby Muriel Carter Graduation Certificate - Victoria Hospital
  Ruby Carter was a nursing student at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in London, Ontario. This is Ruby's graduation certificate from the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing Program.
• Victoria Hospital Training School Yearbook, 1929
  Ruby Carter was a nursing student at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in London, Ontario. This is the 1929 Victoria Hospital Training School yearbook, the year that Ruby graduated from the program.
• Ruby Muriel Carter Diary, 1926 - 1929
  Ruby Carter was a nursing student at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in London, Ontario. This diary includes poetry, newspaper clippings, photos and other items, all relating to Ruby's time as a nurse.
• Kathleen McIntyre Pool Certification
  Kathleen McIntyre trained as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. This is a pool certificate allowing McIntyre access to the Albany Y. W. C. A. swimming pool.
• Kathleen McIntyre Graduation Photo
  Kathleen McIntyre trained as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. This is a graduation photo of McIntyre in her nurse's uniform.
• Kathleen McIntyre Diary, 1955
  Kathleen McIntyre trained as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. This diary includes details of her trip to Germany to visit her son.
• Kathleen McIntyre Diary, 1924 - 1926
  Kathleen McIntyre trained as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. This diary includes poetry; entries about her daily life; and details about her employment at a hospital in Albany, New York, including descriptions of the deaths of two patients.
• Kathleen McIntyre Diary, 1922
  Kathleen McIntyre trained as a nurse at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. This diary includes daily descriptions of her nurse training at Victoria Hospital; encounters with supervisors and doctors; and transcriptions and clippings of poems.
• Accounts and medical recipe books of George Whitehouse
  Archival box number: B4119. The accounts and medical recipe books of George Whitehouse, a physician and surgeon of London, dating approximately 1850-1870. Volume 1 contains office accounts from 1851-1857 as well as food and medicinal recipes with family legal notes. Volume 2 contains recipes and medicinal recipes only.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1909 Mexico, California, New Orleans
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from January 26, 1909 - April 16, 1909, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1903 France, Tunisia, Algeria, Spain
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from February 20, 1903 - August 2, 1903, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, photos, and maps.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1900 - 1903 Canada
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from January 1, 1900 - February 26, 1903, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, and photos.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1900 - 1901 Egypt
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from December 30, 1900 - February 5, 1901, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, photos, menus, and tickets.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1900 - 1901 Italy, England, Naples
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from November 3, 1900 - April 15, 1901, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, photos, menus, and tickets.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1898 - 1899 Canada
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from August 21, 1898 - December 26, 1899, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, photos, menus, and tickets.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1898 Greece, Palestine, Syria, Constantinople
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from March 22, 1898 - May 6, 1898, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, photos, tickets, and pressed flowers.
• Travel Diary of Milly Harris, 1898 Jeypore, Burma, Cairo
  A handwritten diary kept by Milly Harris from February 2, 1898 - March 20, 1898, in London Ontario and on her travels.  Milly (Amelia) Harris (1869-1959) was the daughter of George Becher Harris and Lucy Ronalds. Milly traveled extensively and kept diaries documenting her trips. She lived in Eldon House in London, Ontario for her whole life. She was an amateur photographer and many of the photographs in the diaries and Harris Family fonds were taken by her. Includes news clippings, magazine cutouts, photos, menus, maps, and pressed flowers.