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(FOOD & DRINK) SOUTH-
ERN PACIFIC CO.
Southern Pacific
Company. Special Recipes for
Guidance of Chefs on Dining, Café,
and Coffee Shop Cars.
225 pages with
5 pages of lined paper at the end for
notes. Tall 12mo, original cloth-backed
stiff card covers, printed in black
Np, 1944
[750/1,000]
RARE LITTLE POCKET GUIDE FOR CHEFS
on
the Southern Pacific Railroad. The preliminary
pages are filled with Southern Pacific’s strict
rules regarding everything from dress code and
uniform to smoking and “free meals,” etc. One
of the most powerful railroad companies of the
19th century, its chefs, waiters, and conductors
were black.
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(FOLK LORE.) LEON, ARGELIERS, ET AL, Editors.
Actas del Folklore.
Volume I, numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10-12. Illustrations. Uniform 4to’s; some wear to the
cover of the first number, and rear cover of the last number.
Habana: Gobierno Revolucionario, Consejo de Cultura, 1961
[600/800]
AN ALMOST COMPLETE RUN OF THIS RARE CULTURAL MAGAZINE
,
the fifth number of which
includes a 50 page special supplement “Cuadro Sinoptico de la Esclavitud en Cuba. . . (“synoptical
picture of slavery in Cuba and western culture.”). This is presented in chart form and gives a chronol-
ogy of slavery in the island from 1501 through 1880 contrasted with events in European culture. A
very scarce and important publication, with a great deal on “Santeria” or “Voudou” on the island.