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Title: Employee handbook (undated)
Date(s): 1944
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Item is undated, but is estimated to have been created in the mid-1940s, based on executive staff listings (possibly between 1943 and 1945).
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_012_021_01
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: George Batten Company - As It Was in the Beginning, 1897-1957
Date(s): 1957
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator), George Batten Company (contributor), Batten, George, 1854-1918 (contributor)
Description: Includes short history and development of advertising agencies as a business and history of George Batten Company. The history of company was pulled from Batten's Wedge, the company's newsletter, and the beginnings as written by Batten, himself. Highlights early secretaries, office moves, Robley Feland, recollections from employees, merger between George Batten Company and Barton, Durstine and Osborn, and clients.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_001_030
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Rita Kupka at mixer, BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph, taken after 1955.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_014
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_005
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Vinnie Meehan in the BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph of Vinnie Meehan, the director of the Test Kitchen following Alice Cronk and Rita Kupka in the newly repainted and wallpapered Test Kitchen.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_010
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Alice Cronk in the BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1960
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph, taken after 1955, of Alice Cronk, the new Test Kitchen director (replacing Grace Manney), with Laura Vinta and Marguerite Connolly.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_009
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph, taken before 1955, of director Grace Manney with Anne McKenna, Agnes Bishop, and Augusta Simmons in the BBDO Test Kitchen.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_004
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_008
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph of Vinnie Meehan, Rita Kupka, and Laura Vinta with publicist Marie Hamm.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_012
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Jean Rindlaub in the BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator), General Mills, Inc. (associated name)
Description: Undated photograph, taken before 1955, of Jean Rindlaub, one of the first women to become a major adveritising executive and the founder of the BBDO Test Kitchen, with Mabel Martin, a home economist from General Mills, in the BBDO Test Kitchen.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_006
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: 'What Goes On Here' employee handbook (1954)
Date(s): 1954
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_012_021_02
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: 'Welcome to BBDO' employee handbook (1969)
Date(s): 1969-12
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_012_021_03
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO by Candid Camera
Date(s): 1934
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_016_018
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: 75th anniversary edition newsletter
Date(s): 1966-02
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_005_019
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Grace White in the original BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1929
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph taken around 1929 or 1930 of Test Kitchen director Grace White in the original BBDO Test Kitchen.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_001
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen, 1954
Date(s): 1954
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator), Interstate Photographers (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_007
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Vinnie Meehan, BBDO Test Kitchen director
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph, taken after 1955.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_015
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator), Sharin, Jack (photographer)
Description: Undated photograph, taken after 1955, of Vinnie Meehan with publicist Nancy Webb and a a person believed to be a visiting food editor.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_011
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen, ca. 1945
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph, taken around 1945 or 1946, showing the BBDO Test Kitchen not long after it was first moved to a new location on the 11th floor.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_002
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Description: Undated photograph, taken after 1955, of Vinnie Meehan, Rita Kupka, and Laura (last name not given) in the BBDO Test Kitchen
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_013
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: Grace Manney in the BBDO Test Kitchen
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator), A. E. French Photography (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Description: Undated photograph, taken before 1955, of Grace Manney, the Test Kitchen director following Grace White.
Collection ID: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records (Accession 2752)
Hagley ID: MSS_2752_050_013_003
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records

Title: The First 100 Years
Date(s): 1991
Contributor(s): Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. (originator)
Collection ID: f HF6181.B32 B38 1991
Hagley ID: PC_fHF6181B32B381991
Collection: Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. records