Antique Metropolitan Life Cook Book & The Child Dr Ira S Wile Booklet Lot For Sale

Two antique/vintage Metropolitan Life Insurance Company informational booklets offered together.Includes:• The Metropolitan Life Cook Book — early Metropolitan Life recipe and household cooking booklet featuring period recipes, meal preparation information and home-economics advice.• The Child — Metropolitan Life Insurance Company booklet written for the company by Dr. Ira S. Wile. Includes period information on the home, preparing for a baby, infant care, feeding, nursing, hygiene and childhood health.Wonderful examples of early Metropolitan Life advertising/public-health ephemera and fascinating snapshots of American domestic life, cooking and child-rearing practices of the period.Both show age-related wear including toning, spotting/foxing, edge and corner wear and handling wear. The Child has more noticeable cover wear/creasing. Please review photos carefully for condition and completeness.