[Fannie Farmer and her classmates at the Boston Cooking School or at Miss Farmer's School of Cookery].
Boston: Elmer Chickering, [circa 1889-1893]. Albumen print photograph, (19 x 24 cm. plus margins). Photographer’s imprint and manuscript inscriptions on verso, identifying the women pictured and their hometowns. This rare photo, taken by Boston photographer Elmer Chickering, shows Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857–1915) seated at front left surrounded by the students. Most are holding cooking utensils while one holds a cookbook and another kneads dough. Farmer graduated Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cooking.....