Cook Collection

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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

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

Oregon Trail wagons camping for the night
Pioneers camp at sunset along the Oregon Trail, 1850s. 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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dutch family at home in New Netherland. 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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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