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- Horse Cookie Cutter - Tin-plated iron, commonly called "tin," was the dominant material for utilitarian items in 19th-century America. Local tinsmiths produced an almost endless range of goods. But as more durable and lower maintenance materials emerged, handmade tinware came to be considered a folk art or heritage craft. This 20th-century example was produced in the Greenfield Village tin shop using historical tinsmithing tools and techniques.
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Horse Cookie Cutter
Tin-plated iron, commonly called "tin," was the dominant material for utilitarian items in 19th-century America. Local tinsmiths produced an almost endless range of goods. But as more durable and lower maintenance materials emerged, handmade tinware came to be considered a folk art or heritage craft. This 20th-century example was produced in the Greenfield Village tin shop using historical tinsmithing tools and techniques.
- Cookie Jar, 2006 - Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- 2006
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Cookie Jar, 2006
Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- Christmas Cookie Cutter Set, circa 1970 -
- circa 1970
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Christmas Cookie Cutter Set, circa 1970
- Cookie Sheet, 1950-1960 -
- 1950-1960
- Collections - Artifact
Cookie Sheet, 1950-1960
- Label for Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate 7 oz. Economy Size, 1940-1945 - In the late 1930s, Ruth Wakefield "invented" the chocolate chip cookie--chopping up a Nestle's semisweet chocolate bar and adding the pieces to her cookie batter. The cookies were hugely popular, leading Nestle to score its chocolate bar and include a small chopper for easy cutting. Soon, Nestle began mass producing morsels. Nestle included the cookie recipe on all its semisweet chocolate.
- 1940-1945
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Label for Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate 7 oz. Economy Size, 1940-1945
In the late 1930s, Ruth Wakefield "invented" the chocolate chip cookie--chopping up a Nestle's semisweet chocolate bar and adding the pieces to her cookie batter. The cookies were hugely popular, leading Nestle to score its chocolate bar and include a small chopper for easy cutting. Soon, Nestle began mass producing morsels. Nestle included the cookie recipe on all its semisweet chocolate.
- Deer Cookie Cutter - Tin-plated iron, commonly called "tin," was the dominant material for utilitarian items in 19th-century America. Local tinsmiths produced an almost endless range of goods. But as more durable and lower maintenance materials emerged, handmade tinware came to be considered a folk art or heritage craft. This 20th-century example was produced in the Greenfield Village tin shop using historical tinsmithing tools and techniques.
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Deer Cookie Cutter
Tin-plated iron, commonly called "tin," was the dominant material for utilitarian items in 19th-century America. Local tinsmiths produced an almost endless range of goods. But as more durable and lower maintenance materials emerged, handmade tinware came to be considered a folk art or heritage craft. This 20th-century example was produced in the Greenfield Village tin shop using historical tinsmithing tools and techniques.
- Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes - Ruth Wakefield shared her Toll House Inn restaurant's recipes for entrees, side dishes, and desserts in a best-selling cookbook, <em>Toll House Tried and True Recipes</em>. The book would go through 39 printings. The 1938 edition was the first to include the recipe for her famous cookie "invention"--the chocolate chip, which she called the "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie."
- 1946
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Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes
Ruth Wakefield shared her Toll House Inn restaurant's recipes for entrees, side dishes, and desserts in a best-selling cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes. The book would go through 39 printings. The 1938 edition was the first to include the recipe for her famous cookie "invention"--the chocolate chip, which she called the "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie."
- Cookie Cutter Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama -
- 1940-1949
- Collections - Artifact
Cookie Cutter Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
- Heart Cookie Cutter -
- Collections - Artifact
Heart Cookie Cutter
- Mirro Aluminum Cooky-Pastry Press, 1965-1970 -
- 1965-1970
- Collections - Artifact
Mirro Aluminum Cooky-Pastry Press, 1965-1970