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• Southern States

• The Southern Gardener and Receipt-Book: Containing Valuable Information, Original and Otherwise, on All Subjects Connected With Domestic and Rural Affairs, Gardening, Cookery, Beverages, Dairy, Medical, Veterinary, and Miscellaneous (third edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and co., 1860), by Mary L. Edgeworth, contrib. by P. Thornton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information, Containing Over Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful and Domestic Arts (New York: T. Kelly, 1881), ed. by Henry Hartshorne (PDF with commentary at rexresearch.com)
• The Household Cyclopedia of General Information, Containing Over Ten Thousand Receipts, in All the Useful and Domestic Arts (Philadelphia: T. E. Zell, 1883), ed. by Henry Hartshorne (PDF with commentary at rexresearch.com)
• Fortunes in Formulas, for Home, Farm, and Workshop (New York and Boston: Books, Inc., c1939), ed. by Gardner Dexter Hiscox and T. O'Conor Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Effective Small Home (New York: R. M. McBride & company, 1917), by Lilian Bayliss Green
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Milliners' Guide: A Complete Handy Reference Book for the Workroom, ed. by Julia Bottomley and Emma Maxwell Burke (page images at Wisconsin)
• Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature (London: Printed for M. Gilliflower and J. Partridge, 1685), by Nicolas Lémery
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Scammell's Universal Treasure-House of Useful Knowledge: An Encyclopedia of Valuable Receipts in the Principal Arts of Life (Salt Lake City: H. A. Hess, 1889), ed. by Henry Bucklin Scammell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets, by Daniel Young (Gutenberg text)
• How to Do Things: A Compendium of New and Practical Farm and Household Devices, Helps, Hints, Recipes, Formulas and Useful Information From The Farm Journal (Philadelphia: W. Atkinson Co., c1919) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Domestic Economy, or, House-Keeper's Guide: Comprising a Very Large Collection Of Original Recipes, Derived from the Practical Experience of the Author (Dayton, OH: J. Wilson, 1841), by George Girardey (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• The New London Family Cook: or, Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide (London: Printed for J. Cundee, 1808), by Duncan Macdonald
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Perfumery and Kindred Arts: A Comprehensive Treatise on Perfumery (Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1877), by R. S. Cristiani (multiple formats at archive.org)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times (Richmond: West and Johnston, 1863)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Recipes from Codex Matritensis A16 (Ahora 19): Palaeographical Edition From a Black-on-White Facsimile (in Latin, with English notes and glossary; Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 1912), ed. by John M. Burnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion (14th edition; London: Printed for R. Ware et al., 1750), by E. Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Compositiones Variae, From Codex 490, Biblioteca Capitolare, Lucca, Italy : An Introductory Study (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1939), by Rozelle Parker Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Plain Plantain: Country Wines, Dishes, and Herbal Cures, From a 17th Century Household M.S. Receipt Book (Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1922), by Susanna Avery, ed. by Russell George Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Country Housewife's Family Companion (originally published 1750), by William Ellis (HTML and PDF with commenary at soilandhealth.org)

• A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House Servant's Directory (Boston: Munroe and Francis; New York: C. S. Francis, 1827), by Robert Roberts (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)
• A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (Paw Paw, MI: Printed by T. O. Ward, 1866), by Malinda Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New South Investigated (Detroit: Ferguson Printing Co., 1888), by D. Augustus Straker (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Northern Men Say of the South (Charlotte, NC: Observer Steam Job Print, 1879), ed. by N. Dumont (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), ed. by David Colin Crass, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks (PDF at Tennessee)

• A Diary from Dixie (New York: P. Smith, 1929), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1906), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Michael O'Brien (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Address Delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Athens, Georgia, Historian General, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1911-1916: The Civilization of the Old South: What Made it; What Destroyed it; What Has Replaced It (1916), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Travels in Georgia and Florida, 1773-74: A Report to Dr. John Fothergill (from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1943), by William Bartram, ed. by Francis Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the War: A Southern Tour, by Whitelaw Reid (page images at MOA)
• Down South (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883), by Lady Duffus Hardy
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics, by J. Milton Mackie (page images at MOA)
• Incidents of a Southern Tour, by H. Cowles Atwater (page images at MOA)
• Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South: or, First Impressions of the Country and Its People, by Anson De Puy Van Buren (page images at MOA)
• Letters from the Slave States, by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
• A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1868), by J. T. Trowbridge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Slave States of America (2 volumes; London and Paris, Fisher, Son and Co., ca. 1842), by James Silk Buckingham
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1866), by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
• The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas, by Sidney Andrews (page images at MOA)
• A Winter From Home, by Charles A. Clinton (page images at MOA)
• A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York; London: Dix and Edwards; Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1856), by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• South and North: or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the South, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
• Travels in Lower Canada, With the Author's Recollections of the Soil, and Aspect, the Morals, Habits, and Religious Institutions of That Country (with Cornelius' "Tour in Virginia, Tennessee, etc." London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820), by Joseph Sansom, contrib. by Elias Cornelius (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Western Lands and Western Waters (London: S. O. Beeton, 1864), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• A Journey in the Back Country (London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images in Germany)
• A Journey in the Back Country (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google)
• Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston, by the Upper Carolinas (London: Printed by D. N. Shury, for B. Crosby and Co., and J. F. Hughes 1805), by François André Michaux (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Diary of William Fairfax Gray, From Virginia to Texas, 1835-1837, by William Fairfax Gray, ed. by Paul D. Lack (HTML at smu.edu)
• Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During and After the War of Secession, With Extracts from the Author's Journal, and Epitome of the New South (Birmingham, AL: Roberts and Son, 1895), by Kate Cumming
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)
• Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791), by William Bartram
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • page images at loc.gov

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