Kitchens

80 photos

Catharine Beecher's design for kitchen efficiency started with ergonomics to make storage and retrieval easier.

This early photo shows the inner workings of the stoves, which evolved quite a bit around this time.

This 1925 photo shows what the typical kitchen in a middle class or upper-middle class home looked like.

A view of a model Koehler kitchen from the 1920s

A display for a modern Efficiency Kitchen in 1917

The need for efficiency housing during war-time created super-simple kitchens. Here we see a defense worker coming home to her efficiency kitchen

A woman shows off her designer kitchen setup in 1910

Another image from Craftsman Magazine showing a model kitchen in 1906

Another view inside a typical kitchen setup around 1900

Lena Horne shoes off her new gas stove, which revolutionized efficiency in the kitchen

This illustration showed the aspirational view of a 1930's kitchen

Doris Day in her Malibu Kitchen in 1966

Something more typical of the 1970s

Bring on the colors in the mid 1950s

Interior of kitchen at 54 Main Street, residence of James Ballantyne

Kitchen in home of Sam Lontine, miner. Puritan Camp, Erie, Colorado.

Modern magazines began to promote more colorfully-trimmed kitchens after the war.

Community in 1945

Mrs. Temis Sullivan, coal miner's wife, in kitchen of her home in company housing project. Inland Steel Company, Wheelwright, #1 & 2 Mines, Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky.