Produce and conserve, share and play square : the grocer and the consumer on the home-front battlefield during World War II edited by Barbara McLean Ward

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Barbara McLean.

Strawbery Banke, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abbott Store (Portsmouth, N.H.)--Exhibitions.

Abbott Store (Portsmouth, N.H.).

World War, 1939-1945--New Hampshire--Portsmouth--Exhibitions.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--United States--Exhibitions.

Grocery trade--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Grocery trade.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Portsmouth, N.H.] : Strawbery Banke ; Hanover [N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, 1994.

Contents:

American home front / Harvard Sitkoff

Victory begins at home : Portsmouth and Puddle Dock during World War II / Gregory C. Colati and Ryan H. Madden

Fair share at a fair price : rationing, resource management and price controls during World War II / Barbara McLean Ward

War in the kitchen / Mary Drake McFeely

Suspended in time : Mom and Pop groceries, chain stores and national advertising during the World War II interlude / Roland Marchand

From corner store to convenience mart : a footnote / Gerald W.R. Ward

Restocking the shelves : Strawbery Banke Museum and the restoration of the Abbott's "Little corner store" / Karin E. Cullity

Preparing the collection for display / Rodney D. Rowland.

Notes:

Issued in conjunction with the installation of a permanent exhibition of the local corner grocery store ca. 1944 at Strawbery Banke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Produce and conserve, share and play square.

ISBN:

0874516552

9780874516555

OCLC:

28063596