Mid-Century Kitchens

On a lark, I decided to show off a few pictures from kitchens from the 1930s-50s. Enjoy!

Kitchen utensils, 1941-5, by Library of Congress

Dog run and kitchen, 1935-6, by Library of Congress

Mrs. Missouri Thomas' kitchen, 1939, by the New York Public Library

Home-canned food, 1941-5, by Library of Congress

Domestic Servant, 1939, by New York Public Library

Dinette Set, 1954, by the Library of Virginia

Florence Austral at home, 1953, by State Library of New South Wales collection

I’ve written about the New York Public Library digital galleries before. The following are some more mid-century kitchen photographs, but regardless of what you’re researching, you should check out the over 700,000 images they’ve digitized from their collection.

19 East 72nd Street - Madison ... Digital ID: 1558320. New York Public Library

Electric Utilities - Electrifi... Digital ID: 1669771. New York Public Library

Flickr, as always, remains a great resource for old photographs and scanned images. Here are a few highlights:

• The Mid Century Kitchen::Design Ideas from the 1940’s and 1950’s
• Kitchen Kitsch
• Vintage Interiors – There are a few categories you can look in here, so I just linked to the entire collection.

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