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Kellogg Company Home Economics promotions: Health Score Card H.E.8; Food Selection Chart H.E.14; Good Health Rules H.E.7; 3-cards: Food-Calcium H.E.12, Food-Iron H.E.13, Your Inside Story; 5 Diet Series pamphlets: Be Your Own Best Exhibit, Constipation H.E.1, Gaining Weight H.E.2, Reducing H.E.3, Food Iron H.E.4; original mailing envelope Nov. 20 1931 by Home Economics Dept [Mary Isabel Barber]

by Home Economics Dept [Mary Isabel Barber]

Kellogg Company Home Economics promotions: Health Score Card H.E.8; Food Selection Chart H.E.14; Good Health Rules H.E.7; 3-cards: Food-Calcium H.E.12, Food-Iron H.E.13, Your Inside Story; 5 Diet Series pamphlets: Be Your Own Best Exhibit,  Constipation H.E.1, Gaining Weight H.E.2, Reducing H.E.3, Food Iron H.E.4; original mailing envelope Nov. 20 1931 by Home Economics Dept [Mary Isabel Barber]

Kellogg Company Home Economics promotions: Health Score Card H.E.8; Food Selection Chart H.E.14; Good Health Rules H.E.7; 3-cards: Food-Calcium H.E.12, Food-Iron H.E.13, Your Inside Story; 5 Diet Series pamphlets: Be Your Own Best Exhibit, Constipation H.E.1, Gaining Weight H.E.2, Reducing H.E.3, Food Iron H.E.4; original mailing envelope Nov. 20 1931

by Home Economics Dept [Mary Isabel Barber]

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Battle Creek, MI: Kellogg Co, ca.1931. Illustrated by b/w and two color. Reprints edition. [Diet series c.1920-30 10-31-50M; H.E.1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14. 12 volumes. folded pamphlets, broadsides, sheets. 13-27 cm. Near Fine. Two pieces have old mailing creases, enveloped chipped open. The Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company was founded on February 19, 1906 by Battle Creek, MI Seventh Day Adventist brothers Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (co-inventor of flaked cereal) and Will Keith Kellogg. Kellogg established one of the first Home Economics departments in 1923 and hired Columbia University dietician Mary Isabel Barber and her 1st pamphlet was "The Food Selection Chart" (included). Envelope decade year is faint, based on the 1.4 oz weight of contents mailed for 4 cents, rate dates were 11/2/19 to 7/5/32. 1931 is only likely date as department was not established in 1921. Scarce intact request for this amount of literature..