pantry

Wow, imagine the planning that went into that kitchen ! They look ready for business.

I wish food today came in glass cans!!

I don't have a garden to produce vegetables for canning, but I do can chicken stock or beef stock. Home canning is not as widespread as it used to be, but it's still common enough that my local large drugstore carries canning supplies.

Great collection!!

My mom and dad used to stay up very late at night canning food from our garden. This was after a full days work. They used an old pressure cooker to seal the jars. The results were delicious.

This looks like a normal stack of preserves from my Georgia Grand parents basement shelves in the 1950's (but they had more Peaches and watermelon)

NYT of Feb 6, 1915 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D03EFD6143EE033A... in column 4 includes a piece on the newly opened Varick House, a modern hotel for working women. The sewing room is mentioned. Also part of the 6-storey 8-room facility were a gymnasium with running track and a yard and basketball court.

The boarding house, located in the heart of what was then the factory district, was intended to provide wholesome, home-like lodging for "factory girls". It was built in memory of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church's late pastor in a charitable effort led by Wm. Sloane Coffin (wealthy father of theologian Wm. Sloane Coffin, Jr,) ., and two others..
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2091EF73F5A15738...
. By the late 20's it was an NYU men's dormitory. In 1937, it became the Salvation Army's Evangeline House, providing housing again for women of limited means, and later its Women's Lodge. It was demolished in the mid-70's. The Trump SoHo tower now stands on the site.
wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8466&page=50
The Spring Street church, now demolished also , was part of the same block, north of Varick House. The Trump SoHo tower covers the entire block formerly occupied by the church and its affiliated buildings.