Check out the first photo with at least 3 different kinds of turn-of-the-century stoves… The Paynesville Area Historical Museum is in Paynesville, Minnesota.
From the category archives:
1933-1965
Sisters cooking together made the work more fun…particularly with their loved-ones waiting for the results of their cooking! Note: Linoleum floor, packaged flour, low kitchen table being used as a work table.
Old country kitchens still exist in the backwoods throughout the United States. Notice the wood-burning Atlantic stove, made in Portland, Maine circa 1920 with the attached hot-water heater.
Flickr has some great kitchen photos…I’ve sorted through to find the best kitchen scenes. Right click on link to “Open in New Window.”
Vintage Reinactments
- Trying to Remember
- Vintage style apron
- Domino Sugar
- Mixed Reinactment
- 1950s Reinactment
- Whiskey Down
- Vintage Smoking
- Neighbors
- 1960s Reinactment
- Tea Shoppe Waitresses
- Present-day Fun Retro
- Thrift Store China
- 1957 Kitchen in [now defunct] ‘57 Heaven Museum
Good Old Days
- Cardwell-Electric House kitchen, circa 1957-59
- Vintage homemaker Ester
- 1954 kitchen
- Electric Ave house kitchen, circa 1957
- 1940s Housewife
- In the Kitchen
- 1940s housewife
- Amish Kitchen
- Mid-century modern kitchens – 15 pages
Tradition Lives On…
- Volunteer Kitchen I
- Volunteer Kitchen II
- International Housewife
- Her Child’s View of Thanksgiving
- Pearl Earrings & Canned Beans
- Cappelletti-making
- Measuring
- Pearls and Apron
- Betty Homemaker
- New Apron
- Cake for Breakfast, Eggs for Dinner
- Russian Turkey
- Domesticity
- Friends
- Good Brunch Hostess
- Hand Wash
- Husband’s View
- Thanksgiving Prep
- Topping Valentine Cupcakes
- Time for Thoughtfulness
- Taking a Joke
- Ms Christmas
- Time to Eat
- Cooking Teacher
- Clean Dishes
- At the Helm
- A Bright Day
- Rich Inheritance
- Complementary
- First Turkey
- Club-bearing
- Daily Life
- Easter
- The Stovetop is my nemesis
- Guilty Bowl
- Annas kitchen
- Loving What Is
- Outdoor Cooking
- Cookie Decorating
- Lightly flouring the surface
- Husband in his office, wife in her office
- Coaxing
- In the old kitchen
- Pizza Dough
- Working Quickly
- Crockpot
- Cutting onion
- Baking Cupcakes
- Concentration in the Kitchen
- Mother and Daughter
- Circa 1950s stove with center griddle
- Still Life with Percolator
Acadian 1950s kitchen from the Pelletier-Marquis House Museum in St. Agatha, near Canada in upstate Maine
