Explore Historic Domestic Furnishings and Technology
(Two women seated in a kitchen interior, 1918)
See if you can answer the
following questions by "reading" the photograph shown
above.
1. What types of furniture can you identify in this picture?
2. Are there any pieces of furniture that would not be found in
kitchens today? Any that would?
3. Are there any kitchen technologies found in kitchens today
that are absent from this kitchen?
Any that are present?
4. What do you think the women are doing?
5. What do you think someone 100 years from now would learn by
seeing a picture of your kitchen?