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1983.10.516.5
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Electric stove in the Times Model Home, circa 1925
Order an ImageAround 1925, the Seattle Times sponsored a model house at 1400 Terry Street. The furnished, Tudor-style cottage gave visitors a chance to see the latest ideas in home building and home decoration. This photo shows the latest in electric stoves in the kitchen of the Seattle Times Model Home in about 1925.
Sears Roebuck's Seattle catalog first started advertising electric kitchen stoves in the mid-1920s. Earlier kitchen stoves used wood, gas, oil, or coal. Food cooked on an electric stove was said to taste better because the there were no fuel odors.In 1926, an electric stove of this type would have cost around $70.00 at Sears.
Webster & Stevens number: 112073
Sears Roebuck's Seattle catalog first started advertising electric kitchen stoves in the mid-1920s. Earlier kitchen stoves used wood, gas, oil, or coal. Food cooked on an electric stove was said to taste better because the there were no fuel odors.In 1926, an electric stove of this type would have cost around $70.00 at Sears.
Webster & Stevens number: 112073
ID Number: 1983.10.516.5
Date: Circa 1925
Creator(s):
Webster & Stevens, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 negative : nitrate, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Credit: MOHAI, PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, 1983.10.516.5
Copyright: No Known Copyright
Subjects:
Homes and Housing
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