Food - Overview
Part of a nation's history lies in what people eat. Artifacts at the Museum document the history of food in the United States from farm machinery to diet fads.
More than 1,300 pieces of stoneware and earthenware show how Americans have stored, prepared, and served food for centuries. Ovens, cookie cutters, kettles, aprons, and ice-cream-making machines are part of the collections, along with home canning jars and winemaking equipment. More than 1,000 objects recently came to the Museum when author and cooking show host Julia Child donated her entire kitchen, from appliances to cookbooks.
Advertising and business records of several food companies—such as Hills Brothers Coffee, Pepsi Cola, and Campbell's Soup—represent the commercial side of the subject
"Food - Overview" showing 1187 items.
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[Contact sheet with 27 images of product packaging for Goya Foods, Inc. : black-and-white photoprint: contact sheet]
- Notes
- In Box 36, Folder 5
- Summary
- Photographer unidentified
- Publications
- Used April 27, 2010, on the Smithsonian Photographic Initiative web site, "click! photography changes everything" (http://click.si.edu) to accompany contributor Jeremy Wolfe's (a professor at Harvard School of Medicine who investigates visual attention) story, which reflects on how photography changes what and how much we remember
- Cite as
- Goya Foods, Inc., Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1970
- 1990
- Ca. 1970-1990
- 1970-1990
- advertiser
- Goya Foods, Inc
- Local number
- 03069443.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Woman with baguettes (French bread), France : color slide (phototransparency).]
- Notes
- Series 5: box 171, sheet 25
- Date
- 1951
- 1981
- 20th century
- photographer
- Sultner-Welles, Donald H (Sultner, Donald Harvey) 1914-1981
- Local number
- AC0145-0000048.tif (AC scan no.)
- 53496 Videodisc frame
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Around the World with Doughnuts [magazine page]
- Summary
- Page 8 from The Doughnut Magazine, containing reproductions of photographs and drawings depicting the production, sale, and consumption of doughnnuts in England, South Africa, the Arctic, Genoa, and China
- Cite as
- Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1940
- 1950
- Undated
- 20th century
- 1940-1950
- collector
- Steinberg, Sally L
- Creator
- The Doughnut Magazine
- Local number
- AC0439-0000049.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Goya / Ripe Plantains / Platanos Maduros [color cardboard packaging]
- Notes
- In Box 49, Folder 15
- Summary
- Cardboard packaging with reproduced color photograph of cooked plantains; photographer unidentified
- Cite as
- Goya Foods, Inc. Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1980
- 1990
- Ca. 1980-1990
- 1980-1990
- advertiser
- Goya Foods, Inc
- Local number
- 02069405.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Dunkin' Doughnut Degree [certificate]
- Summary
- Blank certificate from "Dunkin' Donuts University" for successful completion of a course in shop management and donut production. A faint photographic image of a doughnut, coffee cup, and spoon is visible behind the text
- Cite as
- Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1950
- 1999
- Undated
- 1950-2000
- 20th century
- collector
- Steinberg, Sally L
- creator
- Dunkin' Donuts, Inc
- Local number
- AC0439-0000052.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Frances S. Baker Product Cookbooks, ca. 1900-1993
- Summary
- Small cookbooks, primarily in pamphlet form, produced either by the manufacturer of one of the ingredients or by the manufacturer of appliances used in preparing the recipe. These cookbooks also advertise the products represented. Collection includes pamphlets on canning, canning labels, recipes from newspapers, and several regional cookbooks, including Canada and the Pacific Northwest
- Cite as
- Frances S. Baker Product Cookbooks, 1900-1990, Archives Center,National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- 1990
- ca 1900-1993
- 1900-1990
- 20th century
- collector
- Baker, Frances S. 1911-1999
- Local number
- Pending (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Goya Foods, Inc. Collection, 1960-2000
- Notes
- Prudencio Unanue emigrated to Puerto Rico from northern Spain in 1902, but moved his family to New York in 1916. They opened Unanue, Inc., in 1936 to supply local bodegas. Over the next 30 years the business grew tremendously and eventually began its own food processing, canning, and packaging. In 1961 the company assumed the name Goya Foods, Inc., although it had used Goya as a product name since 1936. By sponsoring music festivals, sports teams, parades, and other activities, Goya Foods supported the cultural life of various communities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The company's current headquarters is in Secaucus, New Jersey
- Summary
- Photographs, calendars, sales promotional materials, cookbooks, packaging, and news clippings. Photographs depict primarily company sponsored events, but a few are family pictures
- Cite as
- Goya Foods, Inc. Collection, ca. 1960-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1960
- 1960-2000
- 1950-2000
- 20th century
- donor
- Goya Foods, Inc
- creators
- Unanue family
- author
- Unanue, Prudencio
- Local number
- 1999.3017 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Bowls of brightly dyed Easter eggs : chromogenic color phototransparency.]
- Summary
- Four bowls, containing blue, red, green, and yellow eggs. "Agfachrome CT18" edge imprint on film
- Date
- 1951
- 1950-1980
- 1960-1990
- photographer
- Sultner-Welles, Donald H (Sultner, Donald Harvey) 1914-1981
- Local number
- AC0145-0000049.tif (AC scan no.)
- 53482 Videodisc frame
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Call out the Dounuteers * [sic] [advertisement]
- Summary
- Advertisement consists of cartoon panels indicating how doughnuts helped boost morale during World War II, both on the warfront and home front
- Cite as
- Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1941
- 1945
- Item undated
- 20th century
- 1900-1950
- donor
- Steinberg, Sally L
- advertiser
- Doughnut Corporation of America
- Subject
- Mayflower Doughnuts
- Local number
- AC0439-0000053.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Virginia Mericle Menu Collection, ca. 1960s-1990s
- Notes
- A collector of restaurant menus, Mericle compiled the collection by writing to restaurateurs asking for copies of menus
- Summary
- A collection of menus from restaurants all over America, and a few in Europe
- Cite as
- Virginia Mericle Menu Collection, ca. 1960s-1990s, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1960
- 1960-1999
- ca 1960s-1990s
- collector
- Mericle, Virginia
- donor
- Henderson, Vanessa
- Local number
- 2010.3081 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
