Kane Residence Interior Showing Kitchen and Children at the Breakfast Nook, Seattle, 1965
Handwritten on sleeve: HOMES, Seattle, Wash., PSL, William F. Kane.
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Photographer: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Staff Photographer
Image Date: 1965
Image Number: 1986.5.4240.1
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This week, we’re going to showcase a variety of kitchen gadgets that changed how we make syllabub, seeded raisins and molded our pudding. And also included is an early pressure cooker, which looks like a piece of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab.
Perhaps it is simply that I am a vegetarian, or that I’m a little squeamish in general, but this week’s Hidden Treasure makes me feel not-so-good. Continue reading »
Making food for one’s family can be hard work. You could argue that one of the biggest markets for goods in the 20th century has been gadgets, utensils and appliances that take some of the drudgery out of the daily grind of planning the meal, going to market and then preparing the food. And while a fair amount of those appliances might get pushed to the back of the cabinet and later sold off in garage sales (yep, your Ronco “set it and forget it” rotisserie) some do get daily use (for me, my Senseo coffee machine.) Continue reading »
Handwritten on sleeve: Standard Furniture Co. - Bungalow Ints.
Photographer: Webster & Stevens
Image Date: ca. 1926
Image Number: 1983.10.3409.1
Thursday Hidden Treasure
Since March is Women’s History Month, we thought it would be appropriate to feature these artifacts that represented what was thought of as ‘women’s work’ in the 1940s,at least to the maker and purchaser of the towels. Frankly, I think that the Sunday towel should be used everyday. Enjoy! Continue reading »