Ball Canning Literature
As you can imagine, Ball produced a lot of canning literature over many years! I
am still finding new pieces all the time. Let me know if you have something that
is not on this list.
- Ball Blue Ribbon Cookbook
- Ball Canning and Freezing Recipes,
1952
- Ball Freezer Book, 1973
- Ball Freezer Book, 1974
- Ball Freezer Book, 1976
- Ball Glass Jars, booklet (photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Ball Home Canners Giftbook,
front back
- Ball Home Canning and Freezing
Methods, green cover, undated
- Ball Home Canning and Freezing
Methods, pink cover (photo courtesy
of Jeff Harper), Jeff also makes this note: Has a printer's
code of 56, indicating 1956 I think, and this is consistent with the Blue book advertised
for 25 cents.
- Ball Jars the World Over, fold-out
sheet, undated
- Ball Ready Reference Chart, 25
cents (photo courtesy of Jeff
Harper) Jeff also makes this note: The Ball Ready Reference Charts can be dated
by the cost of the advertised Blue book (25 cents - 1949 to 1962; 35 cents - 1963
to 1971) and by the Ball Logo (which changed at the same time the Blue book went
to 35 cents). I'm not sure when they changed from Box 5 to Box 2005, but since neither
address has a ZIP code, they can be dated to before 1967 when all bulk mailers were
required to use ZIP codes, and maybe even before 1963 when ZIP codes were first
introduced.
- Ball Ready Reference Chart, 35
cents (photo courtesy of Jeff
Harper)
- Ball Serve and Preserve Cookbook,
cover
- Ball Steam Pressure Cookers - Canners Cook Book, Lakeside Aluminum Co.,
cover inside
- Ball Wax Sealing Rings, 1905, booklet,
(photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Can or Freeze with Ease,
(photo courtesy of Jeff Harper),
Undated but copyrighted by Alltrista
- Entering Our Second Century,
(photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- General Store Catalog, 1977, (photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Glass - It's Origin and Subequent Development,
1946, (photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Gold in '49,
(photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Guide to Better Selecting and
Packing, Muncie Glass Division, 1953, by William Armstrong, Supt. Packing and
Shipping
- Helpful Hints for the Fruit and Vegetable
Gardener, (photo courtesy of
Jeff Harper), ©1929, published by the Education Dept. of Ball Brothers
Company
- Home Canning Made Pure
& Simple, (photo courtesy
of Jeff Harper), ©2000 by Alltrista
- Home Canning and Freezing Methods
Sketch Book, white cover, 1958
- How to Can Fruits and Vegetables,
blue cover, undated, also has additional insert dated March 1, 1943 titled "Changes
in Home Canning Rules"
- How to Can Fruits and Vegetables,
blue and white cover, (photo courtesy
of Jeff Harper)
- How to Can Fruits and
Vegetables, green cover, undated, also has additional insert for ordering a
Ball Blue Book
- How to Can Fruits and
Vegetables, white cover, undated
- How to Can Meat Game and
Poultry, brown cover, undated, also has additional insert for ordering Ball
Blue Book
- How to Can Meat Game and Poultry,
orange cover, undated, also has additional insert for ordering Ball Blue Book or
obtaining info on Ball Pressure Cooker
- How to Can Meat Poultry Game
and Fish, multi-color, (photo
courtesy of Jeff Harper) Jeff also makes this note: Undated but shows zinc caps
and advertises a 10 cent Blue book so is probably from 1946-47 (the text seems better
edited than the yellow cover, so I'm pretty sure it is later than the yellow cover).
The same goes for How to Can Fruits and Vegetables (blue cover) - it looks to be
from around 1946-47.
- How to Can Meat Poultry
Game and Fish, yellow cover,
(photo courtesy of Jeff Harper) Jeff also makes this note: Undated but between 1943
and 1946 because of the statement "The Government granted no zinc for making
jar caps in 1943. We shall make them for you again when we are permitted to use
zinc for that purpose." It also advertises a 10 centBlue Book.
- How to Save by Home Canning,
1951
- How to Use the Foods You Can, 1924
- International Canning
Contest Newsletter, vol. 1 no. 1, 1931
- Jams & Jellies Made Pure &
Simple, (photo courtesy of Jeff
Harper), ©2000 by Alltrista
- The New Ball Steam Pressure
Cookers (Ideal and Eclipse), undated
- 101 New Uses for Ball Jars and Fittings,
1954
- The Science of Food Preservation, (photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Some Aspects of Food Preservation,
(photo courtesy of Jeff Harper)
- Start to Can Tomatoes Cookbook,
1975
- To Use Ball Tapered Can or Freez
Jars
