Noling, A.W. Hurty-Peck Collection of Beverage Literature
Collection Information
Size of the Collection
About 6,000 volumes and/or titles.
History of this Collection
The collection was received as a donation from the family of A.W. Noling, an Indiana businessman who built a successful beverage flavoring firm, the Hurty-Peck Company, which was subsequently taken over by Universal Foods Corporation.
Overview/Highlights of Collection
Subjects include bottling, beverage manufacturing, flavors, and chemistry. Strengths in the collection include chocolate, tea, coffee, colas, and beer. A.W. Noling’s Beverage Literature: A Bibliography (Methuen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1971) is considered to be the most comprehensive bibliography on this subject to date, and was based in large part on this collection.
Items in the collection may be located through the library catalog by searching:
A.W. Noling Hurty-Peck Collection of Beverage Literature
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