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- Child's Table, 1956 - Children's furniture often reflected up-to-date fashion trends found in full-sized adult versions. Parents in the 1950s could purchase this modern child-sized table with a Formica top as part of a set with patterned vinyl-covered chairs. Children could sit comfortably around this fashionable playset and pretend to be mom and dad, who probably were sitting around a similar adult-sized version in the kitchen.
- 1956
- Collections - Artifact
Child's Table, 1956
Children's furniture often reflected up-to-date fashion trends found in full-sized adult versions. Parents in the 1950s could purchase this modern child-sized table with a Formica top as part of a set with patterned vinyl-covered chairs. Children could sit comfortably around this fashionable playset and pretend to be mom and dad, who probably were sitting around a similar adult-sized version in the kitchen.
- The Ladies' Home Journal for November 1901 -
- November 01, 1901
- Collections - Artifact
The Ladies' Home Journal for November 1901
- Sullivan Jackson and Jimmy Patterson in the Jackson Home Kitchen, Selma, Alabama, 1959 -
- June 01, 1959
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Sullivan Jackson and Jimmy Patterson in the Jackson Home Kitchen, Selma, Alabama, 1959
- Kitchen Table Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama - In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- circa 1955
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Kitchen Table Used by the Jackson Family, Selma, Alabama
In 2023, The Henry Ford acquired the Selma, Alabama, home of Dr. Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, where Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights marches. The Jackson Home opened in Greenfield Village in 2026. The home and its contents not only document the voting rights struggle but also shed light on 20th-century Black American middle-class life.
- Advertisement for Daystrom Kitchen Dining Furniture, "Daystrom Puts the Fun in Functional Furniture," May 1952 -
- May 01, 1952
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Advertisement for Daystrom Kitchen Dining Furniture, "Daystrom Puts the Fun in Functional Furniture," May 1952
- "Dream Kitchen" Toy Table, 1963 - Kids love to play grown-up. In the early 1960s, the Deluxe Reading Corporation produced a miniature set of "Dream Kitchen" appliances -- refrigerator, stove, sink, and dishwasher (and a table and chairs). The complete set included plastic dishes and replica food and product boxes that little hands could place in and around the appliances, pretending to be just like mom or dad.
- 1963
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"Dream Kitchen" Toy Table, 1963
Kids love to play grown-up. In the early 1960s, the Deluxe Reading Corporation produced a miniature set of "Dream Kitchen" appliances -- refrigerator, stove, sink, and dishwasher (and a table and chairs). The complete set included plastic dishes and replica food and product boxes that little hands could place in and around the appliances, pretending to be just like mom or dad.