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 1182 items.
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[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 (Sally Levitt)
- Creator
- The Doughnut Magazine
- Local number
- AC0439-0000049.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 (Sally Levitt)
- 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
Always use pure Vermont Maple [recipe]
- Summary
- Recipes illustrated with reproductions of color and black-and-white photographs
- Cite as
- Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1940
- 1960
- Undated
- 1900-1950
- collector
- Steinberg, Sally L (Sally Levitt)
- Local number
- AC0439-0000055.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Call out the Donuteers * [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 (Sally Levitt)
- advertiser
- Doughnut Corporation of America
- Subject
- Mayflower Doughnuts
- Local number
- AC0439-0000053.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Baxter Laboratories, Inc.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Wallerstein Company, division of Baxter Laboratories, Inc.
- Company Name
- Baxter Laboratories, Inc.
- Related companies
- Wallerstein Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_118
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Beech-Nut Packing Co.]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Beech-Nut Packing Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_6936
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- No Image Available
[Trade catalogs from Ludwig Baer]
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Ludwig Baer
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_6940
- Data source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
