The American Pictorial Home Book
or Housekeeper's Encyclopedia - online book

A reference manual of household management in Victorian times.

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The American Pictorial Home Book,
OR
HOUSEKEEPER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA,
Is the result of many years of earnest effort and practical study. It is a work that may be studied with pleasure and profit during the hours of ease and leisure, and in cases of emergency it can be referred to as a judicious friend and adviser in a remedial point of view.
It is unsurpassed as a valuable Reference Book for young housekeepers, and a prompt and ready guide in all household matters; in caring for the Sick and directing Servants; in the Nursery, Laundry, Dairy, Poultry and Farm Yards, the Garden, Etiquette, etc. Its recipes and suggestions are applicable to all climates and all conditions of life.