Library Research Guides: HIST 320: The Hand that Feeds: A History of American Food: Websites

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The NY Food Museum is an online museum with an absolutely fascinating website about "How New Yorkers Ate 100 Years Ago." Sections cover the different boroughs, food production and consumption, markets, commodities, and the restaurants.

Key Sites

Food Timeline
includes links to detailed history of many foods, researched by a librarian :)
New York Food Museum
featuring "How New York Ate 100 Years Ago"
Slow Food USA
What's on the Menu?
Huge collection of historical menus from the NY Public Library's vast collection.
1850s & 1860s Hotel & Restaurant Menus
University of Houston digital collection
Food: Transforming the American Table, 1950-2000
Smithsonian Institution
Lunch Hour NYC
virtual exhibit from the New York Public Library

Find Images

Our guide to Media for use in course projects
Adland.com's Commercial Archive
Our guide to Images - see especially Using Images
Advertising and Consumer Culture Digital Collection - Duke University
- scroll down page to get to this collection
- includes Ad*Access (print ads, 1911-1955) and adViews (TV commercials 1950s-1980s) and much more!

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