Food and Food Processing

Cramer Products Company to a prospective client

Correspondence from Cramer Products Company to a prospective client, 1947.

Charlotte Cramer Sachs was an artist, inventor, entrepreneur, food and wine enthusiast, and an early developer of prepared cake and muffin mixes. Her company Cramer Products Company pioneered the manufacture and distribution of many types of prepared food mixes under the brand Joy Prepared Mixes.

Cramer, Charlotte's recipe and ingredient notes

Recipe and ingredient notes, 1944.

Curt Teich & Company, Inc., Kirk’s Café: Home of Kirk’s Better Food, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1951

Curt Teich & Company, Inc., Kirk’s Café: Home of Kirk’s Better Food, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1951.

Cutting room, 1894

Hormel cutting room, 1894.

Dead soldiers cartoon

"The above sad, though true, picture is no exaggeration. 3500 of the best blood of our country were sacrificed in…

E. J. Brach & Company, Modern Analytical Lab, Kinzie and Kilpatrick Streets, ca. 1924

E. J. Brach & Company, Modern Analytical Lab, Kinzie and Kilpatrick Streets, ca. 1924.

E. J. Brach building, LaSalle and Illinois Street, ca. 1909

E. J. Brach, exterior, LaSalle and Illinois Street, c. 1909

Early Kroger store display

Early Kroger storefront

Early Kroger storefront. Kroger’s first store (and each one that followed) featured prominent, eye-catching displays.

Early Soda Fountain, 1872

Photograph of what is likely a Puffer soda fountain similar to the one in use at Long & Billups Pharmacy…

Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

Created By: Brenner, Joel Glenn Publisher: New York: Random House, 2009

Factory Inspectors Past and Present, 1914

Concerns about health, hygiene, and food safety, once confined to the family and left largely to women, became a matter…

Falstaff Corporation’s root beer advertisement

Prohibition-era advertisement for Falstaff Corporation’s root beer. During Prohibition, many brewers produced soft drinks and other alcohol-free beverages to survive.…

Faust, Tony portrait, n.d

Portrait of Tony Faust, n.d. Faust was a restaurateur and mutual friend of Eberhard Anheuser and Adolphus Busch. He included…

Federal Sugar Refining Co., Yonkers, early 1920s

Federal Sugar Refining Co., Yonkers, early 1920s.

Federal Sugar Refining Company building, seen from Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, 2013

Photograph of Federal Sugar Refining Company building, seen from Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers, 2013

Fighting the Sugar Trust: A Question of Liberty

Claus Spreckels’ decision to erect the world’s largest sugar refinery in Philadelphia and to fight the Sugar Trust face-to-face is…

Flour packers inside the C.H. Guenther & Son’s new brick mill constructed in 1908

Flour packers inside the company’s new brick mill constructed in 1908, six years after Guenther's death.

Fortieth Anniversary Story of the Brach Family of Candy Makers

Created By: Brach, E. J. and Sons Source/Publisher: Brach Family Album. Chicago: E. J. Brach and Sons, 1944, 7-13