Food & collective activity / Washington / 1909–1910
The Cookbook
in Public.
A doorstep. A meeting. A booth. A table.
Four settings where food met organised activity.
This American comparison connects reported campaign methods with an original expense statement. The scenes are thematic—not a journey followed by one book or person.
All four settings are shown. Source notes open below each.
Book + conversation · Contemporary schematic, not an archival image or a reconstruction of a particular event.
Who could enter a political conversation through an ordinary visit?
Washington / campaign of 1909–1910
A book carried into the campaign.
The later movement history describes personal canvassing and campaign workers carrying packages of cookbooks into the field. It places the publication alongside conversations with neighbours and everyday contacts.
Interpretation: The cookbook could serve as a portable introduction to a political conversation.
Read the source ↗
History of Woman Suffrage, vol.VI (1922), Washington chapter XLVI, p.677; chapter-source note196.
Inspected: Specified passage reviewed in Gutenberg transcription; original page image not checked.
Evidence & limits
Limit: A retrospective account of campaign methods. It does not identify every visitor or purchaser, or prove that each conversation included a sale or changed a vote.
Menu + discussion · Contemporary schematic, not an archival image or a reconstruction of a particular event.
How did practical household knowledge acquire a public audience?
Washington / campaign of 1909–1910
A menu became a subject for discussion.
The same chapter reports suffrage-club programmes about food quality and the exhibition and discussion of model menus.
Interpretation: Knowledge associated with household provision became material for collective discussion.
Read the source ↗
History of Woman Suffrage, vol.VI (1922), chapter XLVI, p.677.
Inspected: Specified passage reviewed in Gutenberg transcription; not a club-minute or original-image check.
Evidence & limits
Limit: The passage does not name particular meetings, count attendees or reproduce the menus. It does not establish that these programmes used a particular cookbook recipe.
Book + badge + enrolment · Contemporary schematic, not an archival image or a reconstruction of a particular event.
When did buying an object become an invitation to join?
Washington / campaign of 1909–1910
Publishing, selling and recruiting met.
The history describes suffrage booths selling cookbooks, pins and pennants while collecting enrolment signatures. Its discussion then turns to publicity at Seattle’s 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Interpretation: A booth brought material goods and opportunities for political participation into one setting.
Read the source ↗
History of Woman Suffrage, vol.VI (1922), chapter XLVI, pp.677–678.
Inspected: Specified passage reviewed in Gutenberg transcription; no booth account or original-image check.
Evidence & limits
Limit: The account does not give transactions, recruitment totals or conversion rates. Do not assign every reported booth practice to the Exposition or treat signatures as votes.
Dinner + tickets + hospitality · Contemporary schematic, not an archival image or a reconstruction of a particular event.
What did it cost to bring people to the same table?
Washington / national convention expense / 1909
Hospitality left an account.
Eaton’s convention-expense statement records a daylight dinner costing $200, ticket receipts of $168 and a stated net cost of $32.
Interpretation: Shared hospitality required resources as well as organisation. This dinner was a net expense in the reported account, not a demonstrated fundraiser.
Read the source ↗
Eaton, Treasurer’s Report through 10 January 1911, attached Report of National Convention Expense, 1909, manuscript p.3; item14747, SL_devoe_000954.jpg; WSL Manuscripts, MS171, Box2.
Inspected: Entire original page image visually checked; factual dinner lines and arithmetic checked.
Evidence & limits
Limit: The statement does not supply the menu, number of diners, ticket price, seating or a record of conversations. It is separate from cookbook sales and the later banquet to DeVoe.
Activity is not an impact score. These sources describe settings and practices, not measured effects on votes. The dinner account does not isolate cookbook income or establish what was said around the table.