Free to Use and Reuse: Kitchens & Baths
Where do you like to cook or wash? This set covers many different settings for these daily activities from the 1500s through the present day. The pictures are from the Prints & Photographs Division collections unless otherwise noted.
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Steinhardt House, Birmingham, Michigan. Kitchen and bar seating. Photo by Balthazar Korab, 2001 -
Kitchen scene in Spanish-American home near Taos, New Mexico, Taos County. Making tortillas. Photo by Russell Lee, 1939 -
Army kitchen. Photo by National Photo Co., 1918-1928 -
An outhouse, or outdoor privy, displayed at the Louisiana State Cotton Museum. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2020 -
Sketch for bathroom for typical U.S. home, about 1927 -
Kitchen, New White House. Photo by Barnett Clinedienst, 1902 -
Kaiserin's Hospital Train – kitchen. Photo by Bain News Service, 1914 or 1915 -
An Alaska Native kitchen outdoors, Nome, Alaska. Photo by Lomen Bros., 1916 -
St. John's Guild. Bathroom on floating hospital, New York City. Photo by Bain News Service, around 1911 -
Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2010 -
Kitchen in the Stephen T. Mather House, Darien, Connecticut, initially built in 1778. Photo by Jack Boucher, 1964 -
Kitchen, 1734 N Street, Washington, DC. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1920s -
Bathrooms at Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, California. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2013 -
Frank Phillips's bathroom, including a barber chair, at the Phillips Home in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2020 -
Jane Phillips's bathroom at the Frank Phillips Home in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2020 -
Kitchen scene. Illustration in Opera di m. Bartolomeo Scappi, 1574. Rare Book & Special Collections Division -
A row in a city kitchen. Cartoon by John Leech, 1840s -
Camp kitchen during the Civil War. Photo in Brady Handy Collection, 1861-1865 -
Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen. Print by L. Prang & Co., 1874 -
Nursery bathroom in mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Architectural drawing by Richard Morris Hunt, about 1880 -
Bathroom wall decoration in mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Architectural drawing by Richard Morris Hunt, about 1880 -
Kitchen in the ancient castle at Salzburg, Austria. Photo by J.F. Jarvis, 1898 -
In a Japanese kitchen. Photo by Griffith & Griffith, 1900 -
The kitchen, Seroco Restaurant. Photo by Sears Roebuck Co., 1900-1910 -
A portable kitchen, Java. Photo, 1904 -
A kitchen nymph. Print, 1905 -
Kitchen. Photo by National Photo Co., 1910-1920 -
Kitchen appliance. Photo by National Photo Co., 1910-1920 -
The bath. Photo by Harry Whittier Frees, 1914 -
Lucy Gates in kitchen. Photo by Bain News Service, 1915-1920 -
Kitchen. Photo by United States Extension Service, 1925-1930. -
A Tsuutʼina kitchen, Alberta, Canada. Photo by Edward Curtis, 1927 -
Bathroom with penguin decoration. John N. Conyngham, Hayfield Farm, residence in Lehman Township, Pennsylvania. Photo by Samuel Gottscho, 1934 -
Tenement kitchen, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Photo by Carl Mydans, 1935 -
Kitchen. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1936 -
Bathrooms are scarce. Farm of ex mill-worker. Bonner County, Idaho. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1939 -
Toothbrush corner in the home of Mr. Robert McWhorter, Negro tenant purchase FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Woodville, Greene County, Georgia. Photo by Jack Delano, 1941 -
Bathroom in house which rents for sixteen dollars a month. Norfolk, Virginia. Photo by John Vachon, 1941 -
Every man, a poster at Camp Hood. Photo of a poster, 1943 -
Bathrooms in National Homes Corporation. Experimental house "B" utility core. Architectural drawing by Charles M. Goodman Associates, 1953 or 1954 -
H.F. Fischbach, residence at Hampshire House. Tile bathroom. Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner, 1954 -
A kitchen is a feminine thing. Movie by General Motors, 1960 -
Zane and Reinhold "Tex" Bonnet in their Kitchen, Nevada. Photo by Howard Marshall, 1979. American Folklife Center -
Kitchen, Recanzone Ranch, Nevada. Photo by Carl Fleischhauer, 1980. American Folklife Center -
Carrie Severt in kitchen, Allegheny County, North Carolina. Photo by Terry Eiler, around 1980. American Folklife Center -
The door to the bathroom in the old Ellis Island Hospital, Jersey City, New Jersey. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, around 2000 -
Kitchen at Shakertown, near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, about 2000 -
Kitchen at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, about 2000 -
Cell and crude "bathroom" fixtures inside the old Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016 -
Kitchen of the Frank Phillips Home in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2020