{"id":24,"date":"2016-03-03T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2016-04-12T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:07:19","slug":"the-beatrice-millar-fonds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/the-beatrice-millar-fonds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatrice Millar Fonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatrice Millar Fonds are part of the Beatrice Miller Ephemera Collection, comprising of pieces from the year 1911, with a lot of wartime paraphernalia and British Columbia-specific documentation. The collection was donated to the university in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Millar worked for BC Hydro in the 1960s and 70s as a Home Service Consultant, responsible for coordinating the company&#8217;s customer information television and radio broadcast appearances. She collected materials in support of her function as a home economist, and the collection provides primary documentation of trends in home economics, women&#8217;s labour and the domestic arts. Special emphasis in the collection is on recipe compilations &#8212; many unpublished in any official manner.<\/p>\n<p>The book &#8220;Home Canning, Drying and Preserving&#8221; is unique in the collection in that it\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>a published book, it isn&#8217;t a pamphlet and\u00a0is essentially a compilation of many of Miller&#8217;s pamphlets she produced for the BC public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatrice Millar Fonds are part of the Beatrice Miller Ephemera Collection, comprising of pieces from the year 1911, with a lot of wartime paraphernalia and British Columbia-specific documentation. The collection was donated to the university in the 1970s. Beatrice Millar worked for BC Hydro in the 1960s and 70s as a Home Service Consultant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39890,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/homecanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}