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April 1940. "Wife of Iowa farmer starting to make a cake. Greene County, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
My mom's old aluminum coffeepot still gets regular usage in my kitchen.
The kitchen cabinetry in our 120-year-old house also has the exact same hinges and latches. The latches in particular make a distinctive click when they’re closed, and I’m sure tterrace would recognize the sound immediately even after many decades. As for the pulls, we would need drawers to have such fancy items. (Okay, we installed some new-fangled drawers 20 years ago, but the original kitchen had no such luxuries.)
I am entranced by this domestic and culinary tableau. The spotlessness! Divine. And like other commenters, I am wild about the little drinking glass holder. I want one.
When every household had a big ol' tub of Crisco.
This looks just like my own grandmother's kitchen in 1940s Iowa: the starched curtains, the eggbeater within a bowl—pretty high-tech at the time—the apron, the wallpaper, the plants on the windowsill, and Grandma stirring up a cake. (Seems a bit late in the day for baking, though.)
I wish somebody invents kitchen island one day.
Norman Rockwell couldn't have done it better
I grew up with pulls, hinges and latches like those. (I won't say I was a better man for it, but it didn't hurt.)
Please encounter the interesting stand for the glass by the kitchen sink. The glass is in readiness to be used by the thirsty water household.
Is that drinking glass holder above the sink. Imagine that well water was nice and cold year round.
While it's piping hot because I know it will be delicious! Spotless kitchen and she's still wearing her shingle bob from 1928.
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