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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCLA CROWE
- Title
- CROWE, (George Edward) Wilson (1891-1955)
- Date(s)
- 1911-1975
- Level of description
- Collection
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 2 boxes
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Crowe | (George Edward) Wilson | company director
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born, Toronto, Canada, 1891; served as Lieutenant, Canadian Army Service Corps, Western Front, World War One; agent for British Canadian Export Company, Ltd, London, 1921; founded Easiwork, 1922, importing kitchen cabinets and labour saving domestic equipment from Canada; wrote articles on household appliances for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1928; supplied pressure cookers and kitchen fittings to Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) mobile canteens, London, World War Two; died, London, 1955.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Placed in the Archives, 2014, by Mrs Georgina Willey (daughter), a former student at King's College of Household and Social Science.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Pamphlets, leaflets and books on cookery and nutrition, 1911-1975, collected by Wilson Crowe, managing director of Easiwork kitchen cabinet and appliance manufacturers, and subsequently by his wife, Maud ('Molly') Crowe. The collection includes promotional material from chiefly UK food and kitchen appliance manufacturers and World War Two pamphlets, and also includes collections of American recipes from the Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago, USA, 1942-1943, 'A cook's tour of the Soviet Union', produced by Russia Today magazine, 1944, and '100 Jamaica recipes', published by the Gleaner Company Ltd, Kingston, Jamaica, 1946.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
The collection is open for consultation in the Archives Reading Room only, subject to signature of a Reader Undertaking form and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be referred to the Senior Archives Manager.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Physical characteristics and technical requirements
A few items have detached covers, most are in good condition.
- Finding aids
This summary guide and an item list available in the Archives Reading Room.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
KCL Archives: the Queen Elizabeth College collection includes similar publications relating to cookery and nutrition, 1915-1960 (ref: QAL/PUB4)
Description control
- Rules or conventions
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
February 2015
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