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 179 items.
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The Original Mexicans [cookbook]
- Summary
- Cookbook of typical Mexican recipes, with information about the original Native American tribe of Mexico
- Date
- 1972
- advertiser
- Heublein Inc
- Local number
- 040396101.tif (AC Scan No. for p.16)
- 040396106.tif (AC Scan No. for p.37)
- 040396105.tif (AC Scan No. for p.35)
- 040396104.tif (AC Scan No. for p.32)
- 040396103.tif (AC Scan No. for p.29)
- 040396102.tif (AC Scan No. for p.22)
- 040396111.tif (AC Scan No. for p.13)
- 040396110.tif (AC Scan No. for p.9)
- 040396109.tif (AC Scan No. for p.5)
- 040396108.tif (AC Scan No. for p.2-3)
- 040396107.tif (AC Scan No. for front cover)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
The Original Mexicans [illustration from product cookbook]
- Summary
- "The original desserts", various desserts with glass rooster in back, p. 37
- Date
- 1972
- advertiser
- Heublein Inc
- Local number
- 040396106.tif (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Southern Hospitality, Free Lunch for All, G.A.R. Encampment, Louisville, Ky. U.S.A. Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. [on negative.] [Active no. 20609 : half-stereo photonegative,] 1895
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.1.49 [84]
- Date
- 1895
- 1890-1900
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Strohmeyer & Wyman
- Subject
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Local number
- RSN 15999
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Couple pounding grain in home yard.] 26062 photonegative
- Notes
- Company catalog card included
- Currently stored in box 3.1.62 [73]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 17290
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Children.] Interpositive
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.2.17 [4], moved from [17]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- Creator
- ed 129
- publisher
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 8355
- Video number 07519
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Cunard [menu]
- Summary
- Menu for a meal on a cruise, July 17 1969. Illustration showing a large English woman with boat on her head being led by a much smaller marching black man
- Date
- 1969
- advertiser
- R.M.S. Mauretania
- Local number
- 040060173.tif (AC Scan No. front and back cover)
- 040060174.tif (AC Scan No. inside menu)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Don't / wait until the last minute... [trade card]
- Summary
- Illustration: woman talking to a tiny Chinese man, standing on a table before her. He has a long queue and holds a fan. Text on verso advertises raisins, currants, nuts, figs, dates, etc
- Date
- 1890
- 1900
- advertiser
- Finley Acker & Co. (Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000110.tif (AC Scan, obverse)
- AC0060-0000111.tif (AC Scan, verso)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[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
Reception at Liberian Embassy, Oct[ober] 1963 [cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- Posed group of men standing behind a table laid with food. One of the men wear traditional African dress. There is a cabinet and two windows with closed drapes behind them. No ink on negative. Ink on envelope: caption and "2 of ea glossy". "KODAK - SAFETY -- FILM" edge imprint. Retouching on faces with New Coccine
- Cite as
- Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1963
- October 1963
- 1960-1970
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Liberia Embassy (U.S.)
- Local number
- Box 618.04.109
- AC0618.004.0001644.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Children's World Restaurant [menu]
- Summary
- Approx. a dozen pairs of non-American children entering a restaurant and being greeted by three American children at the door
- advertiser
- Childrens World Restaurant
- Local number
- 040060171.tif (AC Scan No. front and back cover)
- 040060172.tif (AC Scan No. inside menu)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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