SMELLS IN HISTORY · IN SOURCES PUBLISHED 1926
1926
SmellBook holds 2 checked passages from sources published in 1926. The passages state no time of their own, so 1926 is only the latest time they can describe; they may describe an earlier time. Each passage records what one source wrote, not what everything smelled like.
SmellBook records: In her 1926 memoir Adobe Days, Sarah Bixby Smith names the smell of snow in the air among the odours she learned on childhood visits to Maine, together with pine trees in winter, a woodshed and barn and a long-lived-in old house.
Claim: The smell of snow in a 1926 memoir · Adobe Days (book), p. 35. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes.
SmellBook records: In Adobe Days (1926), Sarah Bixby Smith writes that on childhood visits to Maine she came to know the smell of a cellar holding apples, butter, vegetables and preserves, and remembers that it was cold and damp.
Claim: A Maine cellar remembered in a 1926 memoir · Adobe Days (book), p. 35. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes.
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A period is the time a checked historical passage describes, kept at the precision the evidence gives: a century (only when the passage states one), a year, a month or a day; when a passage states no time, its publication date is used as the latest time it can describe. A smell is linked to it only through a VERIFIED claim on a historical source. Each link records what one source wrote, which may be later than the time it describes; it does not describe a whole city or era, it says nothing about the smell today, and it is not evidence that a smell has changed or disappeared. Decades and centuries only group these records for browsing.
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Permanent identifier smellbook:period:1926 · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). 1926 (period). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-10-25. smellbook:period:1926. https://smellbook.com/periods/1926
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-19.