Cooking Collection

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

Maple syrup on homemade pancakes
Pancakes and strawberries with homemade maple syrup for breakfast. Photograph

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

Grinding stones of the Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloans
Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloan metates y manos, Betatakin cliff dwelling, Arizona. Photograph

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

Santa Fe Trail pioneers around a campfire on their way southwest. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Syrian immigrants in New York City, 1890s
Syrian neighborhood on Washington Street, New York City, 1890s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction 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

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

Outdoor ovens, Rancho de las Golondrinas, New Mexico
Adobe ovens at Rancho de las Golondrinas, a Spanish colonial homestead near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Digital photograph

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

Coffee-making machine, 1800s
Napiers coffee-distilling apparatus, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of an 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

Georgia Cracker family tending their cookpot, 1890s
Cracker women cooking outside their poor, rural cabin in Georgia, late 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut 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

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

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

Lonely covered wagon camp on the prairie
Man and his dogs camped by their covered wagon on the Great Plains. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Riverside camp of voyageurs, or French fur traders. 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

Brazilian native village, 1800s
Native houses in a jungle of Brazil, 1800s. 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

Grits cooked in kettles to feed Continental Army reenactors, Yorktown Battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Spices of historical significance: nutmeg, green cardamon pods, coriander, and allspice (counterclockwise from front left). Digital photograph

Spices of historical significance: green cardamom pods, coriander, allspice, and nutmeg (counterclockwise from front left). Digital photograph

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

Colonial oven, Charleston, South Carolina
Outdoor oven, Charles Towne Landing Historic Site, reconstructed settlement, South Carolina. Digital photograph

Outdoor oven, Rancho de las Golondrinas, New Mexico
Adobe oven at Rancho de las Golondrinas, a Spanish colonial homestead near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Digital photograph

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

Cookpot of Virginia natives, 1500s
Native American cookpot, Virginia Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut of a 16th-century John White drawing

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

Homemade jam, pickles, and canned tomatoes
Traditional homemade pickles, tomatoes, and fruit jam. Photograph

Homemade pickles and canned tomatoes
Traditional home-preserved pickles and tomatoes. Photograph

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

Mother and baby in a slave cabin
African-American mother rocking and singing to her child in a cabin. Photo of a slave cabin combined with a hand-colored halftone illustration

John Smith a captive among Native Americans of Virginia Colony, 1600s 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

Chuck wagon serving cowboys their midday meal. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century Frederic Remington illustration

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

Covered wagon pioneers camp at a water hole in an arid section of trail. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Family living quarters in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, 1800s 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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