Cooking 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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

Pioneer woman cooking outside a log cabin on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania. 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

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Border settlers in Ohio building a log cabin. 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

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

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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

Brazilian native village, 1800s
Native houses in a jungle of Brazil, 1800s. 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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Grits cooked in kettles to feed Continental Army reenactors, Yorktown Battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

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

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

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Farm woman paring apples to make dumplings. 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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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