Kitchen Collection

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

Old Knickerbocker family around the tea table, New York Colony, 1700s. 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

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

Family storyteller
Old woman telling folklore to young girls in a cottage kitchen, England. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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

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

Colonial family in New York
Dutch family at home in colonial New York. 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

Dutch family having dinner in New Amsterdam, 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by E.A. Abbey

African-American boy reading to his family of former slaves, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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

Frontier father reading to his children by firelight, 1800s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Kitchen chores, about 1900
Woman cleaning pots and pans in her kitchen, circa 1900. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a Jessie Willcox Smith 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

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

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

Charity kitchen for the poor in Philadelphia, 1870s
Beggars club in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Monticellos kitchen
Kitchen at Monticello, Thomas Jeffersons home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph

Holiday guests toasting the New Year in New Amsterdam, 1640. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Spinning-wheel beside a colonial kitchen fireplace. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Visiting pastor having dinner with an African-American family, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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