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 2024 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
Druse women at the village oven, Dalieh, Mt. Carmel. [Active no. 3157 : stereo photonegative.]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.1.28 [115], moved from [128]
- Date
- 1900
- 1910
- 1890-1920
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 14038
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Military scene in Port Arthur.] 4391 Photonegative 1904
- Notes
- Frames in separate envelopes
- Currently stored in box 3.1.28 [115], moved from [128]
- Date
- 1904
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 14075
- Video number 13349
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
"Pot Luck" with the "boys"--President Roosevelt's cowboy breakfast, Hugo, Colorado. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood." on negative. No. 23004 : photonegative, 1903
- Notes
- 4945; 6064
- Currently stored in box 3.1.55 [77]
- Date
- 1903
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Subject
- Roosevelt, Theodore President 1858-1919
- Local number
- RSN 16600
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Plaza.] [Active no. 267: stereo interpositive]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 1.2.17 [4]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- H.C. White Co
- Local number
- RSN 8402
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Group of soldiers outdoors waiting for food.] Active no. 11838 : stereo interpositive
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.2.40 [32]
- Date
- 1917
- 1918
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 24798
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Women mixing dough before very primitive baking oven in primitive setting.] interpositive
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.2.46 [54], moved from [74]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 26129
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[Four ladies chatting as they are sitting around a table.] [Active no.7080 : Interpositive.]
- Notes
- Currently stored in box 3.2.17 [218]
- Date
- 1900-1910
- publisher
- Underwood & Underwood
- Local number
- RSN 21600
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Retirement luncheon for Dr. Freeman, Feb[ruary] 1964 [cellulose acetate photonegative]
- Summary
- Group of men seated and standing around a dining table. The table is laid with bowls of soup. No ink on negative. Ink on envelope: caption, "1 glossy of ea, 3 dw of big group, 1 dw of small group" and "2 glass [?] transfer [?] Dr. Thomas". "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
- 1930
- 1960
- February 1964
- 1960-1970
- photographers
- Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
- film manufacturer
- Eastman Kodak Co
- Subject
- Freeman Dr
- Local number
- Box 618.04.110
- AC0618.004.0001675.tif (scan number)
- No Scurlock number
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
[The entrance to the Doughnut Hut at the World's Fair]: [black-and-white photoprint]
- Summary
- Photographer unidentified
- Cite as
- Sally L. Steinberg Collection of Doughnut Ephemera, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1939
- 1930-1940
- collector
- Steinberg, Sally L
- Subject
- Salvation Army
- Local number
- AC0439-0000010.tif (AC Scan)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
