Series: 36 CC - 37 CC (Volumes 36-37)
Scope and Content Note: Two of Shane's notebooks (entitled by Shane as “Recipes,” volumes I and II). Of particular interest is the latter half of Volume 36 CC (pp. 45-91) devoted to the principles, techniques, and formulas for making daguerreotypes, with bibliographical references on these and other forms of mid-nineteenth century photography. Several newspaper clippings and one illustrated handbill advertising daguerreotype studios are mounted in the manuscript text. The first half of 36 CC and all of 37 CC are indeed filled with “Recipes”: some for cooking and preserving food; many for medicines and for other health and dental remedies not only for human use but also for animals; and others embracing a variety of household and garden hints. Notes by Draper in Volume 37 CC indicate that he had copied many of the entries; without doubt these copies were considered for use in the one volume home-and-farm encyclopedia which he and William A. Croffut edited and published in 1869, entitled A Helping Hand for Town and Country.