Time In A Jar

Front and back covers of a promotional booklet published by Hazel-Atlas Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia.

Center photo from the booklet. Every cellar needs some lacy frills, don't you think?

There are a lot of really nice illustrations in here. No artist's name given, unfortunately.

I like the overalls better than the pinafore, myself.

Some more clippings of the intro and chapter headings. Among other things, they recommend that Mrs. America put up 20 quarts of tomatoes and tomato juice for each person in the family. (!!) I feel really bad for anyone in the upper left corner who doesn't like tomatoes.

A couple of chapter pages. At least they don't seem to demand that you buy one set of this giant-ass cookware and one stove for each member of the family...

Atlas Jars: The Rock Opera . Mom's dual personae: The Acid Queen and the Non-Acid Queen, were played by identical twins.

I can't recall seeing instructions for canning wheat before, but maybe I just wasn't paying proper attention.

So many weeks of work in that stifling hot kitchen. It's no wonder that in the end, Mom started hallucinating that the produce was alive and doing a ritual dance on the stove...