Cooking Gallery

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

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1500s, 16th Century, Apple, Apple Tree, Art, Axe, Chop Wood, Chore, Cook, Cooking, Cookpot, Country Side, Deer, Dine, Dining, Dinner, Drink, Eat, Eating, Europe, European, Farm, Farmer, Fire, Fire Place, Food, France, French, Historic Heritage Vintage Traditional Old Fashioned, History, Hog, Home, House, Hunt, Hunter, Illustration, Kitchen, Live Stock, Meal, Medieval, Middle Ages, Peasant, Pig, Pot, Rural, Rural Life, Table, Wine

Slave family in colonial New York

Slave family making music in their cellar room of the Knickerbocker mansion, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1700s, 18th Century, African American, American, Art, Colonial, Colonial Life, Colonist, Colony, Cooking, Cookpot, Daily Life, Dance, Dancing, Domestic, Estate, Fiddle, Fire Place, Hearth, Heritage, Historic, History, Home, House, House Hold, Illustration, Kettle, Knickerbocker, Music, New York, North, North America, Northern, Servant, Sing, Singing, Slave, Slavery, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Violin

Pioneer woman cooking outside a log cabin

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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1700s, 1800s, 18th Century, 19th Century, American, Art, Cabin, Camp Fire, Chore, Cook, Cooking, Family, Female, Fire, Forest, Frontier, Historic, History, Home, House, Illustration, Log Cabin, North America, Open Fire, Outdoor, Pennsylvania, Pioneer, River, Settler, Susquehanna, Susquehanna River, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Woman