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 3 items.
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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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Frito Company Records, 1924-1961
- Notes
- The Fritos snack food was developed in 1932 when Charles Elmer Doolin of San Antonio, Texas, bought a corn chip recipe and began delivering the chips to local stores. He later moved the enterprise to Dallas, hired sales people and delivery trucks, and started advertising. In 1961, Doolin's company merged with potato chip manufacuter H.W. Lay and Company, creating Frito-Lay
- Summary
- Archival materials documenting Charles Elmer Doolin and the Doolin Family, their development of the Fritos snack food, and the Fritos Company. The papers include books, correspondence, business and financial papers, a print, product packaging, photographs and photograph albums, scrapbooks, printed materials including company newsletters, clippings, recipes, letters, an address book, and miscellaneous other papers
- Cite as
- Frito Company Records, 1924-1961, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1924
- 1924-1961
- 20th century
- creator
- Frito Company
- Doolin, Charles Elmer 1903-1959
- donor
- Doolin, Kaleta
- creators
- Doolin Family
- Subject
- Frito-Lay, Inc
- Local number
- 2012.3048 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2012.3049 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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El Chico Restaurants Collection, 1908-2006
- Notes
- Texas-based restaurant chain, and its products, that grew out of a cafe started in the 1920s by Adelaida Cuellar
- Summary
- The collection documents the history of the El Chico chain of Mexican restaurants in Texas, and includes photographs, menus, product packaging and labels, place mats, newspaper and magazine articles, newsletters, brochures, and annual reports
- Cite as
- El Chico Restaurants Collection, 1908-2006, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1908
- 1908-2006
- 20th century
- creator
- El Chico Restaurants
- donor
- Benson, Fifi Caballero
- Summers, Carmen
- Cueller, John A
- Subject
- Cuellear, Adelaida
- Local number
- 2011.3061 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2011.3062 (NMAH Acc.)
- 2011.3063 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH