Food
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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Trade catalogs from Highbee's
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Highbee's
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_42655
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Photograph of Sanchez Children
- Description
- Pictured are Abundio and Concepción “Concha” Sanchez’s children, Refugio, Soledad, Guadalupe, Arnulfo, and Maria, around 1919. They opened a grocery store, The Mexican Mercantile in Fillmore, California about 1921.
- Concha Sanchez and her family followed the path of many Mexican immigrants who turned their traditional foodways into a staple of community life. Concha and Abundio Sanchez migrated from Mexico in 1912 at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Through the 1920s, they worked in Kansas, in Texas, and in the produce fields of California, eventually opening a grocery store. When that failed in the Great Depression, Concha supported her family by creating a tortilleria, making and selling tortillas in her Ventura County neighborhood. Instead of making them by hand, as Mexican women had done for centuries, she used the new electric and gas-fired equipment bought by her son to produce tortillas and tamales for sale.
- date made
- ca 1920
- ID Number
- 2006.0236.05
- catalog number
- 2006.0236.05
- accession number
- 2006.0236
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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bowl
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1985-1990
- ID Number
- 2015.0286.06d
- accession number
- 2015.0286
- catalog number
- 2015.0286.06d
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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photograph
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2015.0320.74
- accession number
- 2015.0320
- catalog number
- 2015.0320.74
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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To the health of the bride
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1902
- maker
- H. C. White Co.
- ID Number
- 2016.0066.257
- accession number
- 2016.0066
- catalog number
- 2016.0066.0257
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Toast to the Bride
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1905
- ID Number
- 2016.0066.270
- accession number
- 2016.0066
- catalog number
- 2016.0066.0270
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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White House Kitchen Garden - Cucumber Soup
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 2009 - 2017
- Associated Name
- White House, The
- Obama, Michelle
- ID Number
- 2018.0242.027
- catalog number
- 2018.0242.027
- accession number
- 2018.0242
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Trade catalogs from Standard Separator Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Standard Separator Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_22181
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from LeFiell Mfg. Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- LeFiell Mfg. Co.
- Related companies
- Le Fiell Mfg. Co. ; Le Fiell Co. (San Francisco, CA) .
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_26325
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Calgon Corp.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Calgon Corp.
- Related companies
- Merck & Co., Inc.; Water Management Div.; Food Products Dept.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_9125
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Corfield-Sigg, Ltd.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Corfield-Sigg, Ltd.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_11469
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Peabody Welles
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Peabody Welles
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_29433
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Chicago Die Casting Mfg. Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Established 1918
- Company Name
- Chicago Die Casting Mfg. Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_10736
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Church & Dwight Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Piscataway, NJ
- Company Name
- Church & Dwight Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_11188
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from National Biscuit Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Variant company name
- Incorporated 1898
- Company Name
- National Biscuit Co.
- Related companies
- New York Biscuit Co. ; American Biscuit & Mfg. Co. ; United States Baking Co. ; National Baking Co. ; National Bread Co. ; National Milling Co. (Toronto, Canada) ; Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd. (Canada) ; Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. (CA, OR, WA) ; Bishop and Co., Inc. (CA) ; Holland Rusk Co. (Holland, MI) ; T. A. Huston & Co. (Portland, ME) ; Wheatsworth, Inc. (New York, NY) ; Shredded Wheat (Niagara Falls, NY)
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_31641
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Fuller & Warren Co.
- Date range
- 1800s-1900s
- Company Name
- Fuller & Warren Co.
- Related companies
- Fuller-Warren Co., Milwaukee, WI; F. & W. Co.; Clinton Stove Works ;
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_15266
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Thomas M Royal & Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Thomas M Royal & Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_15285
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from James F. Burns
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- James F. Burns
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_9449
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Empire Stove Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Empire Stove Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_15830
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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Trade catalogs from Reliance Oil Burner Co.
- Date
- 1900s
- Company Name
- Reliance Oil Burner Co.
- Record ID
- SILNMAHTL_10458
- Data source
- Smithsonian Libraries
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