Sources & corrections / 8 November 2026

The source history.

How the exhibition’s evidence was selected, checked and corrected.

These entries describe the sources behind the exhibition. A transcription check, a page-image inspection and an archival catalogue description establish different kinds of evidence.

Washington cookbook accounts.

Cora Smith Eaton’s original reports distinguish a 3,000-book batch, its $1,351.01 cost, $1,017.70 in sales receipts and a $333.31 gap described as covered by donations. The dollar cost does not establish 1,351 copies sold, and the covered gap is not an outstanding loss. The 1922 history’s assertion of 3,000 sold remains unverified by the cash reports.

The two November 1910 sheets contain differing cost totals. Their figures are retained as recorded, without an unsupported explanation.

Boston events & political publishing.

The 1902 movement history reports $6,000 cleared by the 1886 bazaar, nearly $8,000 gross receipts for the separate 1887 bazaar, and $2,346 gross receipts for the 1890 Country Store. These event totals do not isolate cookbook income or form a comparable profit series.

The consulted Burr copy is a second edition naming both 1886 and 1890 events. Its selected pages, including the advertisement on p.viii, were checked against the Michigan State University images. Iowa State’s parallel copy supplied searchable text for navigation, not the final page-image references.

The cookbook in public.

The Washington chapter of the 1922 movement history, pp.677–678, reports canvassing, club discussions and fair booths. It is a retrospective account consulted as a transcription. Eaton’s original convention-expense attachment records a separate 1909 dinner: $200 expense, $168 in ticket receipts and $32 net cost. The source supplies no menu or attendance count.

Rules, membership & financial knowledge.

Rochdale’s rule book records three adoption meetings in 1877. Its title page and rules on pp.6, 9 and 31 were visually checked. The specified initial payments total 2s 3d; the obligation to take at least five shares is separate. These clauses establish formal provisions rather than actual participation.

Webb’s consulted fifth edition of Industrial Co-operation (1912), pp.95 and 212, supplies accounting duties and reported Guild subscriptions, grants and educational activity. The two catalogue descriptions of Abbott’s On Reading Balance Sheets retain their differing supplied dates, [1914] and [1915]; they do not establish the pamphlet’s contents.

Household budgets & industrial earnings.

Rowntree’s pp.109–110 tables, fuel assumptions and footnotes were checked against the page images. The Commons debate of 14 April 1902 records the use of his poverty research in an argument about food taxation; it establishes no measured retail-price effect.

Mallon’s Table C, p.225, and the method and population definitions on pp.213 and 215 were checked against the scan. The four averages were cross-checked in the official 1913 statistical abstract. Preserved food concerns an ordinary seasonal week, unlike the September reference for the other selected groups. Original employer returns were not independently assessed.

Recipes, domestic work & editorial selection.

The three Beeton recipes retain their source numbering, printed costs, yields and transcription uncertainties. The raised-pie mould appears assembled and open on p.797, below paragraph 1670; that paragraph concerns oven heat rather than mould construction.

Dorothy Wordsworth’s entry dated 25 November 1801 and Knight’s 1897 editorial preface were consulted in the Gutenberg transcription. They establish a published account of baking and correspondence, and a stated selection policy; they establish no exact Beeton recipe match or household-income calculation.

Catalogue evidence at West Hull.

The U DHC catalogue identifies Guild minutes, management minutes, quarterly accounts and a letterbook with overlapping dates. Pages 3, 8 and 17 were visually checked; p.5 was checked as catalogue text. The chapter presents those descriptions without attributing uninspected events to the original volumes. Membership, attendance and class composition are not quantified.

Interpretations & illustrations.

The Leonard–Hoar–Vest exchange provides a counter-reading to the assumption that recognition of care necessarily supported suffrage. Its comparison with the cookbook is curatorial, rather than a demonstrated exchange between the authors.

AI-generated food illustrations and modern schematic drawings are labelled separately from historical scans. They establish no historical appearance, class, ownership or event reconstruction.

The source register contains 35 references and 32 evidence claims, each with a locator, interpretation and limit. Downloadable records identify the scope of additional verification for each claim.