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.
- Old Maps
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- New York Public Library Digital Galleries
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- Using Flickr for Visual Research
- Flickr, if you don’t already know, allows people to share photographs. It’s a massive website, and you can......
- Making a Fake Newspaper
- I made a few fake newspapers this past year. This is how I did it.......
