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 4 items.
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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
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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
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Pillsbury Company Bake-Off Collection, 1949-1999
- Summary
- Material documenting Pillsbury's Bake-Off from its inception in 1949 through its 50th anniversary in 1999. Papers include primarily cookbooks issued after Bake-Offs, biographies of contestants and VHS videos of five Bake-Offs
- Cite as
- Pillsbury Bake-Off Collection, 1949-1999, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1949
- 1999
- 1949-1999
- 1940-2000
- collector
- Pillsbury Company
- collection specialist
- Strange, Susan
- Local number
- Not accessioned
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Product Cookbooks Collection, ca. 1874-2007
- Notes
- Initial donor was a Smithsonian Institution librarian
- Summary
- These items are termed cookbooks though most are pamphlets or booklets containing recipes.. They were produced either by a manufacturer of the ingredients of foods or by the manufacturer of appliances for which certain recipes or ways of cooking were particularly appropriate, so they also advertise the products represented
- 2012 addendum includes recipe books issued by electric utilities in the state of Wisconsin and the city of Madison. Some of them feature the Reddy Kilowatt character
- Cite as
- Product Cookbooks Collection, 1874-2007, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1874
- 1874-2007
- ca 1874-2007
- 1870-1990
- donor
- Wells, Ellen B
- Collector, Mary Lou
- Boldt, O.C
- Boldt, Pat
- Cherkasky, Shirley E
- Ravnitzky, Michael
- Neuner, Tillman
- Subject
- Madison Gas and Electric Co. (Madison, Wis.)
- Reddy Kilowatt (Cartoon figure)
- Wisconsin Power and Light Company
- Local number
- 1990.3236 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2007.3013 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2010.3007 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3023 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3021 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3019 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2013.3007 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2013.3033 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH