SRC-ADOBEDAYS-1926 · PRIMARY
Sarah Bixby Smith · Torch Press
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The smell of snow in a 1926 memoir ↗
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.
A memoir published in 1926 recalling the author's childhood; it records her memory, not a measurement, and does not say what the smell is.A Maine cellar remembered in a 1926 memoir ↗
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.
A cellar remembered in a memoir published in 1926; it may differ from a modern basement.Permanent identifier smellbook:source:bixby-smith-adobe-days-1926 · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.