Cook Collection

Woodsman dancing to a fiddle in a logging camp at night, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Bakers at their trade in the late Middle Ages
Bakers of York, showing their guild ordinances, England, 1590s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

Italian cooks preparing a meal, 1500s
Cooks preparing food in an Italian kitchen, 1500s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

French-Canadian woman baking bread in an outdoor oven, circa 1900. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a turn-of-the-century illustration

Country life in medieval Europe
Country life in France in the late Middle Ages. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 1517 edition of Virgil published in Lyons

Oregon Trail wagons camping for the night
Pioneers camp at sunset along the Oregon Trail, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer girl spinning
Pioneer woman at her spinning-wheel by the fireside. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Brazilian cannibalism, 1500s
Natives eating and cooking human flesh, northern Brazil, circa 1500. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

Outdoor kitchen in a Jamaica town, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Camp cookpots at a Continental Army reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Plum pudding served for a frontier familys Christmas dinner, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by A.B. Frost

Brennan Society picnic, New York City, 1800s
Ox-roasting at the Brennan Societys picnic, Lion Park, New York City, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Family waiting for roast pig and a pot of food cooking for Christmas dinner. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Scots housewife preparing haggis, 1800s
Chopping the ingredients for haggis in Scotland, 1800s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century E. A. Abbey illustration

Lumberjacks having dinner, 1800s
Dinner in a logging camp in the Northwest, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Mexican women making tortillas, 1800s. Color lithograph reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Confederate camp dinner, Civil War
Tired and hungry Confederate soldiers cooking supper after a hard march. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Union soldiers at Camp Cameron, Civil War
Soldiers of the Seventh New York Regiment around a campfire at Camp Cameron, Washington DC. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Prehistoric cave-dwellers
Primitive people finding shelter in caves in prehistoric times. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Mother and children doing chores near their log cabin in a clearing, early 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Families camped beside their covered wagons on the prairie. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneers building a log cabin, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer woman cooking outside a log cabin on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Border settlers in Ohio building a log cabin. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Paleo-Indian caribou hunters. Photograph of a Maine State Museum diorama

Pioneer mother cooking with a bake-kettle in the fireplace. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dutch family at home in New Netherland. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Teapot at a Continental Army camp reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Cooking over an open fire at a Continental Army camp reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Cooking over an open fire at a Continental Army camp reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Farm woman paring apples to make dumplings. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Household servants sharing a laugh, 1900
Servants imitating the lady of the house, circa 1900. Hand-colored woodcut of a Charles Dana Gibson illustration

Family preparing Thanksgiving dinner, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cornbread cooking in a Confederate camp, reenactment
Cornbread and coffee on a campfire, Confederate living history demonstration, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. Digital photograph

Women preparing Thanksgiving dinner in a big kitchen, circa 1890. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Woman stirring a cook-pot hanging in a fireplace. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Arab bakers at their bread oven in Cairo, Egypt, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Young girl peeling apples for her mother. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Native American way of cooking fish, Virginia Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut reproducgtion of a John White illustration

Food baking at a Continental Army camp reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Food baking at a Continental Army camp reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Camp coffeepot at a Continental Army reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Rabbit chased for food in a Confederate camp
Hungry Confederates chasing a rabbit running through their camp, US Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Union soldiers in camp, Civil War
Soldiers cooking over an open campfire during the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Mississippi regiment throwing the bowie knife, Civil War
Confederate soldiers practicing with the bowie knife in camp. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Buffalo soldiers around a campfire, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Frederic Remington

California migrants last camp on the plains before heading over the Rockies, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Seminole village of thatched shelters in the Everglades, 1800s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Making soap
Woman making soft soap by hand with an outdoor kettle to render lard. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Women rendering lard in a kettle to make soap the old-fashioned way. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Campfire cooking at a Confederate encampment living history demonstration, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. Digital photograph of a living history demonstration on the Shiloh battlefield

Camp cookpots at a Continental Army reenactment, Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Interior of a poor Irish familys mud cabin in County Kildare, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Boy keeping warm in a slave cabin
Young black boy in his bare slave cabin, US South. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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