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Spring 2012,Volume 21, Number 1
Haviland
Quarterly
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Remembrance
HCIF and its members lost a long time supporter, member and
friend in Basil Hunt, who recently passed away after a lengthy
illness. Basil and his wife, Pat, who survives him, joined HCIF in
1996. The couple served with Donna Hafer as co-chairs of the St.
Louis HCIF Conference.
Basil was a career educator, starting as a teacher and advancing
to Superintendent of Schools. After his retirement he briefly
worked with the Internal Revenue Service. Basil loved his
collection of Haviland china, and enjoyed traipsing the countryside
near St. Louis in search of exiting finds. He was lots of fun and
leaves us with many fond memories. He will be sorely missed by
his many friends in HCIF, which would be everyone in the
organization who ever met him.
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Bits & Pieces
Notice of Next Board
of Directors Meeting
Classifieds
The Board of Directors of
HCIF/HCIEF will hold their next
meeting at the Embassy Suites
Scottsdale Phoenix hotel, located at
4415 E. Paradise Village Parkway South
Phoenix, AZ. The meeting will be held
on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, at 7:00
pm in the Painted Mountain Ballroom,
and will be open to the membership.
All members are encouraged to attend
these open meetings.
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Quarterly
Haviland
Spring 2012
Volume 21, Number 1
A Publication of the Haviland Collectors International Foundation
Barnum & Bailey
In this issue
Haviland Collectors International Foundation
HCIF is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to study and
preserve the products made by the early Haviland china companies in
France and America. HCIF is incorporated in the State of Missouri.
Membership
The Allure of Asparagus. . . . . . . . . . 4
Researching and Writing
About Haviland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Lucy Hayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Celebrity Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Pudding Bowls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Patterns of the Quarter. . . . . . . . . . 13
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communication or other conduct injurious to the best interests of the
organization. A single household membership is $50. Membership
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Officers for 2011-12
President, Carolyn Quinlan
First Vice President, Bonnie Kline
Second Vice President, Fred Daniels
Treasurer, Perry Haviland
Corresponding/Membership Secretary, Marguerite Ohland
Recording Secretary, Karen Levin
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is elected by the membership. Directors serve
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are as follows:
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Jackie Doctor
Donna Hafer
Nancy Hill (1 year term) Perry Haviland
Mary Ann Harrigan
Bonnie Kline
Karen Levin
Paul Ohland (1 year)
Marguerite Ohland
Carolyn Quinlan
Alice Pricer
Paul Robertson
Wallace Tomasini
Janice Stockman
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Haviland Quarterly Spring 2012
From the President
Carolyn Quinlan
The time has flown by and this is my
last President’s letter for the Quarterly. It
has been a privilege for me to serve as
President of this wonderful organization.
As I said when I began, I agreed to do this
in part to honor the memory of my parents
and my grandmother, who instilled the love
of Haviland in me.
I want to sincerely thank the
membership for their friendship and
support. It has been such fun to touch base
with people I haven’t even met and talk
about HCIF and Haviland.
I also wish to thank the Board of
Directors for their help and support during
the past two years. This group of people is
tireless in their efforts to further the
purposes of our organization and they are
to be commended for all they do.
We look forward to an active summer.
The Hayes Presidential Center in
Fremont, Ohio, near Toledo, has opened
our exhibit of some of the earliest examples
of Haviland China (1865–1895). Entitled
The Gilded Age of Haviland China, this
exhibit, created in partnership between
regional Haviland collectors and the
Presidential Center, is set to continue
through September 16. Anyone in the area
will certainly enjoy visiting this fabulous
exhibit.
Everyone is looking forward to the
HCIF Conference in Phoenix starting on
May 31, where we will see our own
Richard Burnham’s extensive collection of
Hayes Presidential China and hear an
exciting report from Robert and Barbara
Doares.
The future holds many plans for our
group and I hope that everyone will
attempt to take advantage of the events
offered by HCIF. We must continue to
expand our membership and enjoy what
others have done in the past to make
HCIF something of which we can all be
proud.
Thanks again for a wonderful
experience! I
From the Editor
Fellow collectors and Friends,
As much as I have enjoyed editing the
HCIF Quarterly, it is time for me to move
on. Editing is a bit of a misnomer in
relation to the Quarterly; producing it
would be a more accurate description. Like
all such jobs, it would have been impossible
without the help of a lot of other people. I
would like to thank first and foremost,
Marguerite and Paul Ohland, who have
managed the membership records and the
mailing functions for HCIF for as long as I
can remember. They have always been
super cooperative and speedy in responding
to any and every request. We all owe them
more gratitude that we can ever adequately
express.
My most frequent contributor, Rich
Pryor, is next up on my list of those who
are appreciated. I am glad to see that Rich
will be serving on the Board, I know he
will be a valued contributor. I can’t thank
everyone individually, some others who
helped me a lot were Janice Stockman,
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Jackie Doctor, and Dale Caldwell. Finally,
our graphic artist, Dannielle Stark, was
always a pleasure to work with, and always
made whatever we sent her look better
than anyone could imagine.
To all of you, my thanks and best
wishes!
Sharon Green I
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TheAllure
of Asparagus
by Sharon Green
Asparagus has a long history going back
as far as the first century. There are records
of it growing in ancient Greece and Rome.
Asparagus was cultivated in gardens in
ancient Rome as far back as the first
century AD. Some varieties produced such
big shoots that they were three to the
pound! Egyptians over 2,000 years ago
cultivated asparagus for medicinal reasons
and legend has it that it was so revered it
was offered it up to gods in their rituals. It
was surely first discovered growing wild.
A wild asparagus has thin shoots —
thinner than a pencil and it is much
different than the asparagus that you find
in the produce department of the local
grocery store. Through selective breeding
and growing techniques growers have
developed a thicker stem with more edible
flesh.
Haviland asparagus plate from the 1950s, with individual serving tongs, French hallmark
Back mark on asparagus plate
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The Ancient Greeks and Romans used
a Persian word “asparag” which meant shoot
to describe it. The term “sperage” became
popular for many years and in the 16th
century the term “sparagus” was being used
in English speaking countries. The
peasants would call it “sparrow grass.”
During the 19th century the term
“asparagus” gained prominence about the
same time that cultivation of asparagus
started in the United States.
Asparagus is planted in the ground
three years before it can be harvested for
the full season. Farmers only harvest for a
short period of time the first few years to
allow for further growth. The mature plant
is harvested all season which typically
stretches up to 90 days. Asparagus will
grow sometimes six to seven inches in one
day! And it produces from eight to 12 years
depending on different factors.
White asparagus does come from the
same plant as green asparagus. When the
spears emerge from the ground, the
sunlight turns the stalks green. To get
white asparagus, about six inches of dirt is
piled on top of the plants so that the stalks
can grow underground. They will grow at
the same rate as an uncovered stalk. When
the tip breaks the soil surface, the worker
probes under ground with his special knife
to cut the stalk. This stalk is all white.
Purple asparagus originated from a
region around Albenga, Italy. This cultivar
is known as Violetto d’Albenga. Although
the spears are deep purple, the ferns are
actually green. Purple asparagus is much
sweeter and more tender than green
asparagus. Purple asparagus retains its
color after brief cooking such as quick
sauteing. But it loses its purple and changes
to green if subjected to prolonged cooking.
Asparagus is grown pretty much all over
the world. California produces most of the
crop for the United States, and it is also
grown commercially in Washington and
Michigan.
The Stockton, California, Asparagus
Festival held the last weekend in April is
ranked by some culinary critics as one of
the best food festivals in the West. That's
because Asparagus Alley offers delicious
and unique dishes for all tastes. In 2011,
over 36,000 pounds of delicious asparagus
was enjoyed by all — from deep-fried
asparagus (40,000 orders), Asparagus Tritip Sandwiches (9,000 orders), Asparagus
Burritos (4,000 orders), to pasta dishes
(8,500 orders).
The Victorians consumed prodigious
amounts of asparagus, but in more formal
dishes and circumstances. Springtime
menus from that era often featured
asparagus as part of the entree course.
Cookbooks for the home cook, in keeping
with the general practice of cooking
vegetables to death, often instruct to cook
asparagus for up to one hour. But the book
put out by Delmonico’s Restaurant in New
York City, The Epicurean by Chef Charles
Ranhofer, (1891) instructs to boil the
spears quickly, keeping them slightly hard.
Those who enforced the rituals of
Victorian dining addressed the problem of
eating a stalk of asparagus by developing
dishes and contrivances for the service and
consumption of the vegetable that were
particular to asparagus. The Haviland
companies produced at least two styles of
asparagus plates, the Marseilles blank with
an asparagus stalk incorporated into the
plate and the Haviland Frugier plate with
its two side wells. It has been suggested
that the proper use of the two side wells
was for melted butter or vinaigrette in one
The asparagus platter with liner in Schlieger #73
Raised asparagus stalk decoration at the end of the platter
and mayonnaise based sauce in the other
or sauce in one and tough stalk ends in the
other. A special serving platter was also
produced by Haviland & Co. which has a
drain or liner. (Haviland acquired the
Frugier company in the 1950s so the plate
illustrated is quite recent.)
Special plates were not the only dining
accouterments required to consume
asparagus at table, a special hooded server
was developed to transfer asparagus from
the platter to the diner’s plate. This silver
serving piece looked somewhat like a
pancake spatula with a cove across the top
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of the blade to keep the spears from falling
off when they were scooped up. There was
a special tongs, as shown in the photo, for
each diner to use in transferring the
asparagus from plate to mouth, necessary
to avoid the horror of fingers contacting
food at table. Which brings us to the
question, why was it so important to serve
the whole stalk why didn’t they just cut the
stalks up before serving the asparagus? I
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Researching
and Writing
About Haviland
By Richard Pryor
I’d like to discuss how each of us can
enlarge the body of knowledge about our
Haviland hobby and at the same time add
to our enjoyment. You can easily write an
article for the Quarterly and you don’t need
to be a Rhodes scholar to do so. I never
thought I’d be writing about Haviland, and
it did take some arm-twisting, but it
turned out to be fun.
So How Does One Get Started?
With any research, the topic begins with
a simple question. From there you are led
to other questions and discovery. My first
question, which began my obsession with
Haviland, was the same that many of you
out there had when you started: What is
the name of my pattern? When I inherited
a dinner set from my late cousin Gladys
Freese in 1972 that was the question I had.
And I wanted to know, how old is it?
I was introduced to the late Lillian
Johnson, and later to the late Lois
Montgomery. Both were early pattern
matchers in California. Lillian identified
the pattern as 52D. She also gave me my
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first lesson in the Schleiger system of
identification. At that time most of what
we know now was in its infancy and the
best she could do on the age question was
“late 19th century.” This did lead to my
next question and ultimately to my joining
HCIF.
My next question was much harder to
answer. I had inherited the set from my
cousin, Gladys. But who owned it
originally? It was probably not my cousin’s,
as she was married in 1918, and the pattern
was much earlier according to the
matchers. It could have been the wedding
china of Mathilda Ricketts nee Kober, or
the good china that had belonged to her
mother-in-law, Edith Freese.
The first clue of course came from the
back mark. The mark is that of S.
Sternheim and Son. They were a San
Francisco retailer and their history reads
like a history of San Francisco.
Where Do I Look?
The first place is the Internet. Google
and Wikipedia will offer many suggestions,
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and the information they can provide will
trigger ideas for further research. But the
best source, and the most fun to delve into,
will be your local museum or historical
society. The people there spend their time
pouring over the material they have in their
collection regarding their own town. If you
have a question, they may have an answer.
They are also more than willing to assist
you in your research. And they may also
know where to direct you to find other
resources they know about.
Start taking notes. Add to your
information. Remember, nothing is
insignificant. You may think it has no
relevance, but possibly it will in the near
future. Write everything down. Starting
with the names on your backmark, for
example, look up the company history.
Look in old business directories, you may
even want to drive by the address and see if
the building is still there. What has
happened to the business over time? Are
there any pictures, or any advertisements in
newspapers of the era?
Once you have your extremely rough
outline then you can start on the draft of
your article. Print out what you have and
look at it on paper. (Forty-seven errors that
were not there before you printed it will
magically appear.) Add to the article as you
can and at one point you will have a
complete rough draft ready to be edited.
This is what I found out about my
inherited dinnerware.
In 1849 San Francisco was nothing
more than a small shipping village called
Yerba Buena. It was and is situated on
seven prominent, sand and flea-infested
hills. An early account of San Francisco in
the 1850s had travelers leaving their
saddles on the bed of the hotel room and
sleeping on the floor. Their bedrolls were
cleaner and had fewer fleas. Then gold was
discovered in Coloma, which at that time
was a two-day journey to the northeast of
San Francisco. The village of Yerba Buena
(now San Francisco after the Franciscan
mission) was swelling rapidly with those
who had gold fever. Abandoned ships
clogged the harbor. Sailors had jumped
ship to seek their fortune in the gold fields.
Many of these ships eventually became the
foundations and basements of buildings
that were erected on top of them. Several
such basements still exist today.
The reality of the gold rush was that
most prospectors found nothing. Few made
fortunes. Corporations took over, etc.
Those who really cashed in were the
merchants who came to service and supply
the miners. Those who made money
mined the miners. There is an old poem, if
somewhat irreverent:
The miners came in ’49
The whores in ’51.
And when they got together,
T’was born the native son.
By 1863 the Civil War (or the War
Between the States) was raging. California
was now a state, and San Francisco an
incorporated city. Amiel Wangenheim,
Samuel Sternheim, A. L. (Albert Levi)
Wangenheim, and David Stern (son-in-law
of Levi Strauss) founded Wangenheim and
Sternheim. This group of young
entrepreneurs was in the business of
importing crockery, glass, restaurant and
bar supplies. They had a small two-story
shop on Market Street, which at that time
was the central retail district of San
Francisco.
In the 1870s a second mineral rush hit
the west coast, this time in the search for
silver. A massive deposit was found near
Virginia City, Nevada. The Comstock
Load brought more fortune seekers from
the East and more wealth for the West.
About this time (1875) Wangenheim and
Sternheim had relocated to the corner of
Sansome and California Streets.
By 1884 Wangenheim and Sternheim
occupied a large four-story building at the
corner of Sansome and California, later
moving to Pine and Sansome. San
Francisco was fast becoming a wealthy city.
Wangenheim and Sternheim were located
near two of the most prestigious hotels in
San Francisco: William Ralston's Grand
Hotel, and his Palace Hotel, still in
exhistence.
The business continued to grow and by
1899, it occupied a larger building in the
heart of the retail district at the corner of
Sutter and Market. Wangenheim had
passed away but the store still bore his
name. They still imported goods but also
exported merchandise to Hawaii, the
South Seas and Asiatic ports. Sternheim
along with Levi Strauss and many other
businessmen belonged to the “Traffic
Association of California.” Sternheim was
also a Mason.
In 1900 the store changed its name
when Sternheim’s son Benjamin became a
partner. The business was now S.
Sternheim and Son. As you can see this is
now giving me a clearer picture of the age
of my set. It is also a part of San Francisco
history. It doesn't stop here.
S. Sternheim and Son closed its doors
in 1906. Actually, they had no choice.
California is crisscrossed with dozens of
fault lines and on April 18th of 1906, the
San Andreas Fault moved — in some
places — as much as 12 feet in a matter of
45 seconds. The damage was widespread,
but three fires broke out due to broken gas
lines. With no water pressure due to
ruptured water mains, and a misguided
attempt to create firebreaks by the Army,
San Francisco burned.
S. Sternheim and Son reopened in 1907
at the corner of Van Ness and Sutter but
by 1908 the firm vanished from the
records.
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Did I get my question answered? Well, I
think so. The Ricketts family lived in San
Luis Obispo and moved to San Francisco
after 1906. They came to this area too late
to have been the first purchasers. The
Freese family lived on Army Street at the
time of the earthquake and fire. They had
moved from Minneapolis in the 1890s so I
concluded that they probably purchased
the set new for their new house in San
Francisco after they moved to California.
Edith Freese probably purchased it
sometime after 1900.
How Do You Create An Article?
You do what I just did. You start with
your question and begin fleshing out a
picture. Begin with what you know and go
from there. With modern computers, this
can be done quite easily. Every time you
find something new, insert it and move on.
Never fear editing. A second set of eyes
often helps in the flow of the article as well
as the basics. Also, the final editor may
reduce the size for space reasons or
possibly add information that you did not
find, such as a date or a photo. It’s all part
of creating an article, but in the end it is
you who have added to the knowledge of
our hobby. In the process, you have made
your own collection something very special
and meaningful for you, and you have been
published! And you never know,
sometimes a reader will contact you with
additional information that you never
would have found on your own! I
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Lucy Hayes and the Presidential
China of the Rutherford B. Hayes
Administration
by Sharon Green
This year the focus of the HCIF
Annual Conference is the Rutherford B.
Hayes Presidential service, the Haviland
china selected by Lucy Webb Hayes during
her husband’s administration (1877–1881).
This very unusual set of china is also the
focus this summer of an exhibit at the
Hayes Presidential Home and Library in
Fremont, Ohio. Organized by HCIF
members Janice Stockman, Bonnie and Jim
Kline and Jackie Doctor, with the
assistance of others in our organization, the
exhibit runs from May 15, 2013 to
September 20, 2012. In addition to the
display of Hayes china the exhibit
illustrates how the china was made and
how it was used.
This is the description of the Hayes
White House China from Party Politics:
Entertaining at the White House published
by the First Ladies Organization:
“The Hayes State Dinner service is the
most unusual of all the presidential china
services. The china’s creation came about
by a chance meeting in 1879 in the White
House conservatory between First Lady
Lucy Hayes and artist Theodore R. Davis.
Mrs. Hayes was in the process of choosing
fern clippings to send to Haviland and
Company for a new State Dinner service.
As the two talked, Mr. Davis brought up
the idea of using the flora and fauna of
North America as décor for the new china.
Lucy readily agreed and asked Davis to
oversee its direction. Theodore Davis went
into seclusion at his studio in Asbury Park,
New Jersey where he eventually produced
130 different designs of American plants,
animals and scenic views. He also created
several unique shapes for the fine china
itself. The total cost of the new china was
$3,120.00, and it was first used at an
intimate dinner in November 1880, in
honor of the newly-elected President and
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Mrs. James Garfield. Though art critics
were severe in their reviews, the service was
well-liked by the general public and
reproductions were extremely popular.”
Theodore Davis was widely known at
the time as a Civil War correspondent
artist, whose battlefield sketches were
widely published in the Northern
newspapers during the war. There were
two types of reproductions of the Hayes
service. The pattern was reproduced as an
exact copy of the Presidential pattern,
using the shapes and images of the Hayes
set itself. These sets were extremely
expensive costing $25,000 per set, (to
convert to today’s dollars multiply by 20)
and they were only purchased by the
millionaires of the Gilded Age such as
James Dooley, a partner of Jay Gould. A
complete set can be seen at Dooley’s home,
Maymount Mansion on the James River in
Virginia. The home is a museum owned by
the City of Richmond, VA.
In addition to the replica sets, Haviland
also produced a much less expensive
reproduction that was made by
photocopying the images and printing the
sepia and white photos in the center of
dinnerware decorated with standard
Haviland borders. Game sets decorated
with images of birds, and fish sets were
made. The photo reproduction process
caused the images to be reversed — if the
fish on a original Hayes platter faced left,
on the photo reproduction platter it faces
right.
The Hayes Presidential set of
dinnerware is so unique that one is
compelled to ask, who was this Mrs.
Hayes, that she would select such a radical
pattern. Often referred to in history books
as Lemonade Lucy because she did not
serve alcohol in the White House, in fact
she was not given this nickname until after
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her death and the ban on alcohol was
instituted by her husband, who supported
the Temperance Movement (and got their
votes).
Lucy was the first president’s wife with a
college degree, having graduated from
Wesleyan Female College in Cincinnati,
Ohio, at age18. She was exceptionally well
educated for her time. She married Hayes
when she was 21, after he had begun his
law practice. She was a strong anti slavery
advocate, yet she opposed giving women
the right to vote, probably in support of her
husband’s views. Religion permeated her
life, and she held Sunday evening group
hymn sings with the cabinet and
congressmen at the White House,
something that is unimaginable today.
Lucy was very popular even before her
arrival in Washington DC. One of the first
political wives to become a public figure
before she became First Lady (a term first
used to refer to her), she had become
known to the public during visits to the
Civil War camps of her husband’s
company, the 23rd Ohio Volunteer
Infantry. Later, when he served as
Governor of Ohio she went with him on
his tours to state reform schools, prisons
and asylums. Her experience in these semipublic roles positioned her as a confident
and capable hostess when she entered the
White House.
There was no Inaugural Ball when
Hayes was elected. Hayes lost the popular
vote to Samuel Tilden, but many of the
election returns were contested so the
results were turned over to an Election
Commission and the commission favored
Hayes by one vote. The result was not
settled until three days before Hayes took
the oath of office. One of Lucy’s most
elaborate parties was a celebration of the
Hayes’ silver wedding anniversary that
same year. The couple repeated their
wedding vows at a White House ceremony
before many of the same guests who had
attended the wedding in Cincinnati
twenty-five years before.
Dinners during the Grant
Administration which immediately
preceded that of Hayes, were multi-course
affairs. When the Grants held a dinner for
36 guests to celebrate and honor Hayes,
the incoming president, the dining room
was garlanded with ropes of roses from the
ceiling to the table. A blooming pink azalea
ten feet high stood behind Lucy’s chair and
a twenty course dinner was served. It
included “Consomme, Bisque, Woodcock
Patties, Salmon, Roman Punch (an
alcoholic sorbet palate cleanser), Filet of
Beef, Crawfish Pudding, Breast of
Pheasant, Goose Livers, Artichokes,
Turkey, Canvasback Duck and Warm
Sweet Dish.”1
What the Hayes’ table lacked in liquor
(water flowed like champagne at their
dinners according to one diplomat) they
made up for in fine cuisine, and Lucy
became one of the best loved hostesses to
preside over the
White House. She
brought her own cook,
Winnie Monroe, to
Lucy Webb Hayes 1831-1889,
wife of Rutherford B. Hayes,
19th President of the United
States. Portrate by C.T.
Webber in 1873.
the White House, who must have been
very skilled, as one guest said the White
House table “groaned with delicacies which
called forth admiration.”2 But at 10:00 p.m.
the Marine Band played “Home Sweet
Home” and everyone departed
immediately.
Lucy instituted the annual Easter egg
roll on the White House lawn, possibly
inspired by her religious convictions as the
practice was originally thought to
memorialize rolling the stones from
Christ’s tomb. But there were no card
parties, dances or balls at the White House
during the Hayes’ tenure. Widely praised
for her family virtues, more than one
historian has suggested that she was the
dominant figure in the Hayes’ household.
Only five of her eight children lived to
adulthood. Her second child, James Webb
Cook Hayes, known as
Webb, was born before
the Civil War and died
during the depression. He
served as his father’s
secretary when Hayes was
Reception gown worn by Lucy Webb Hayes, at the White House ion
New year’s day 1878. On display at the Hayes Museum, Fremont, Ohio.
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governor of Ohio, and again when Hayes
became President. This son was a true over
achiever, he co-founded the company
which ultimately became Union Carbide,
and he was awarded the Medal of Honor
for valor during the Spanish American
War. Webb was the moving force behind
formation of the Hayes Presidential
Library, which was the first of its kind.
Visiting the home and library, Spiegal
Grove in Fremont, Ohio, one gets the
impression that no one in the family ever
threw anything out. All to our benefit, the
family artifacts on display create an
immediate feel for the time in which they
lived.
Hayes retired after the end of his term
in 1881. They moved to Speigel Grove and
Lucy happily remained there until her
death from a stroke in 1889 at the age of
57.
Large mahogany sideboard from the private dining room
of the White House, exhibiting the Haviland state china
of the Hayes Administration.
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Recipes
dish was Lime an
Orange Baskets:
d Orange Sherbe
Soak ½ package
t in
gelatin in a little
Add 2 pounds su
water to soften.
gar to 2 quarts bo
iling water. Stir
and add the gelatin
vigorously
. Allow to cool.
Cut 6 oranges in
out the insides w
half, scoop
ith a
completely. Squee sharp knife, taking care to clean
them out
ze the juice from
the orange pulp.
orange juice, alon
Add the
g with the juice fr
om 5 limes to th
mixture. Beat 4
e ge
egg whites fo a fr
oth and add them latin
gradually. Freeze
to the gelatin
. At serving time,
serve in the oran
How lovely they
ge
halves.
must have looked
on Lucy’s dessert
plates.3
Punch
President Grant’s Roman
4 Lemons
6 Oranges
1 Gallon water
champagne)
1 Quart whiskey (or 1 bottle
8 Egg whites
Sugar to taste
juice
and 6 oranges. Squeeze the
Grate the rinds of 4 lemons
ttle
and 1 quart whiskey or 1 bo
and add it to 1 gallon water
to a
ted rinds. Beat 8 egg whites
champagne, along with the gra
serve.
taste. Freeze until ready to
froth and add. Add sugar to
a palate
g finale for a dinner party or
Makes a delicious, refreshin
4
cleanser between courses.
Roman Punch No. 1
The White House Cookbook has this recip
e for Roman
Punch No. 1:
Grate the yellow rind of four lemons and
two oranges upon
two pounds of loaf sugar. Squeeze the juice
of the lemons and
oranges; cover the juice and let it stand unti
l the next day. Strain
it through a sieve, mix with the sugar; add
a bottle of champagne
and the whites of eight eggs beaten to the
stiff froth. It may be
frozen or not, as desired. For winter use snow
instead of ice.5
1. The President’s Cookbook, (1968) at p.294
2. Id. at p. 296
3. Id. at p. 301
4. Id. at p. 291
5. The White House Cookbook, (1887) at p. 415
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Celebrity
Orange Sherbe
t in Orange Bas
kets
A favored Hayes
Haviland Quarterly Spring 2012
Meadow Visitors Go
Events consipired to form the first
circus in the United States, it wasn’t
planned. In approximately 1808,
Hachaliah (pronounced heck-a-LIE-uh)
Bailey, a farmer in Somers, New York,
bought an elephant at a tavern in New
York City for $1,000 to work on his
farm. He named the elephant Old Bet
(for Betsy). Soon nearby townspeople
started coming to see the animal. Their
visits were so disruptive of work on the
farm that Hachaliah began to charge
them to view the elephant. He soon
learned that he could make more profit
by charging people to view the elephant
than he could make from the elephant’s
labors on the farm.
Shortly thereafter he began touring
the neighboring counties with the
elephant. He had a wagon full of hay, a
horse, and the elephant. He traveled at
night so people would not get a free look
at the elephant. He charged 25 cents to
see her. Before long he was touring as far
away as Georgia. Meanwhile his
neighbors back home in Somers were
acquiring exotic animals of their own
and developing menageries. Old Bet is
believed to have been only the second
elephant to have entered the United
States. Mr. Bailey sold shares in Old Bet
which enabled the shareholders to
display her too. Finally, in 1816, an irate
farmer shot and killed Old Bet because
he felt poor people should not be
spending their money to see her. Bailey
promptly bought another elephant.
He also built a hotel in Somers and
named it the Elephant Hotel. It is now
the Town Hall and a museum dedicated
to the Early American Circus. Hachaliah
became wealthy and in about 1837 he
sold the Elephant Hotel and moved to
Fairfax County, Virginia. He bought a
tract of land in a place which became
known as Bailey’s Crossroads. His son
Corner
by Sharon Green
to the Circus with the Baileys (Barnum & Bailey Circus)
and daughter-in-law operated an inn there
for many years in the house that Hacaliah
built, known as the Moray Mansion. After
ten years in Virgina, Hachaliah returned to
Somers, while he was there he was kicked
by a horse and died. Being located on the
Dinner plate
Close up of Meadow Visitors
Leesburg Pike, Bailey’s Crossroads was the
site of much turmoil during the Civil War.
Hachaliah’s circus work was carried on by
a nephew, Fred Harrison Bailey, whose
adopted son, James A. Bailey, succeeded
him, and later merged the Bailey circus with
P.T. Barnum’s Circus. Hacaliah’s third wife,
Mary Purdy, with whom he had eight
children, died in New York City in 1871.
The Meadow Visitors set was in her estate,
and remained in the Bailey family until
2011. I
Relish Dish
Butter Basket
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Pudding
Bowls
Blank 2 Pudding Bowl and liner
by Sharon Green
Here we have a Theodore Haviland pudding bowl, and examples of
Ranson, Marseilles and Blank No. 2 pudding bowls. The inner bowl has an
unglazed bottom and is usually undecorated. When we find decorated baking
bowls they are usually Theodore Haviland examples or those painted by
amateur china painters.
The inner bowl was used for baking, its unglazed bottom permitted
expansion in the heat of the cook’s oven. When the dish was ready to be
served, the baking bowl was inserted into the serving bowl, placed on the
underplate and the server sallied forth to the dining table.
We find them in almost all of the Haviland blanks. Did our grandparents
really eat that much pudding? The answer is yes, but the term pudding
covered a much broader range of foods at the turn of the century than it does
in common usage today. Puddings included meat puddings which we would
call casserole dishes. The term also included both savory and sweet souffles.
Rice pudding and bread pudding, all of which are baked, have retained their
popularity. I
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Theodore Haviland Pudding Bowl & liner
Marseilles Pudding Bowl, Liner & Underplate
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Marseilles Pudding Bowl, Liner & Underplate
Haviland Quarterly Spring 2012
Patterns of
the Quarter
Wonderful Things
From the time I started editing the Quarterly I have
photographed pieces of Haviland that might be used for future
articles. These inspiring and unusual pieces are so worthy of
publication that I wish to present them here as the Patterns of
the Quarter. I hope you enjoy them. I
Hair Receiver on Blank 2
Ash tray and match box holder. This was an advertising specialty given out by the
Haviland Company.
Banana dish
Smoking set
Tiffany cup and saucer
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