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
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Campbell Soup Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project, Archives Center, National Museum of American History 1904-1989
- Notes
- This collection is the result of a year-long study of advertising of Campbell's "Red and White" Soups, supported in part by a grant from the Campbell Soup Company. Thirty-one oral history interviews were conducted by Dr. Barbara Griffith for the project, and a variety of related materials were gathered by the Center for Advertising History staff. The objective of the project was to create a collection that provides documentation, in print and electronic media, of the history and development of advertising for Campbell's Red and White Soups in the decades following World War II
- Summary
- Includes oral history interviews; print, radio and television commercials; promotional items, company publications, market research
- Cite as
- Campbell Soup Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1904
- 1904-1989
- 20th century
- 1980-1990
- creator
- Archives Center, NMAH, SI
- interviewee
- Haber, Bernie
- Mercer, Richard
- Murphy, W.B
- Bair, Dean
- Bergin, John F
- Shaub, Harold
- Meyers, Peter H
- Coulson, Zoe
- Jones, Caroline Robinson (advertising executive) 1941-2001
- Gearon, Dan
- Adams, Anthony
- Weir, Chris
- Rombach, Scott
- McGovern, R. Gordon
- Prior, Joseph
- Goerke, Donald E
- White, Richard
- Baum, Herbert M
- Rindlaub, Jean
- Cronin, Betty
- Mulcahy, Paul
- Welsh, Dick
- McNutt, James
- Jordan, James
- Conill, Rafael
- Conlon, Robert
- Conill, Alicia
- Meehan, Vincenta
- Norris, E. E
- Holmes, Martha
- Norris, Alice
- interviewer
- Griffith, Barbara S. Dr
- creator
- Campbell Soup Company
- Subject
- Backer Spiel Vogel Bates?
- Connill Advertising
- advertising agency
- Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn
- Local number
- 1990.3037 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Kraft Television Theatre Oral History Project, 1947-1992
- Notes
- The Kraft Television Theatre Oral History Project is the result of a year-long study undertaken by the Center for Advertising History. The objective of the project was to create a collection that provides documentation, in the form of oral history interviews, of the history and development of Kraft Television Theater, especially the relationship between advertising and the origins of commercial sponsorship in the early days of television programming. Interviews were conducted for the Archives Center by Tom Wiener in 1992
- Summary
- Oral history interviews with fourteen former Kraft and J. Walter Thompson executives chart the evolution of Kraft's approach to television, from its pioneering efforts in the medium's infancy to the search to maintain identity in an increasingly competitive and fragmented media landscape. Casting, directing, and production of the live dramas and the commercials are discussed at length. Kraft's philosophy of advertising, its relationship with J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and NBC, and consumer outreach are also featured
- The persons interviewed are: Jim Blocki, Ed Herlihy, George Roy Hill, Fran Holland, Fielder Cook, Marion Dougherty, Farlan Myers, Tad Jeffrey, Richard Courtice, Chester Green, Lee Pratt, Al Durante, Dorothy Holland, and Bob Powell
- Cite as
- Kraft Television Theatre Oral History Project, 1947-1992, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1947
- 1947-1992
- donor
- Kraft General Foods, Inc
- interviewee
- Blocki, Jim
- Herlihy, Ed
- Hill, George Roy
- Holland, Fran
- Cook, Fielder
- Dougherty, Marion
- Myers, Farlan
- Jeffrey, Tad
- Courtice, Richard
- Green, Chester
- Pratt, Lee
- Durante, Al
- Holland, Dorothy
- Powell, Bob
- interviewer
- Wiener, Tom
- Subject
- National Broadcasting Company, Inc
- Thompson, J. Walter (advertising agency)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH