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Victorian Camp Wagon pantry

An early 20th century camp wagon portable pantry is the Victorian version of the modern travel trailer and motor home. American interest in recreational camping, and

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Elm Court: Gilded Age pantry

The Gilded Age kitchen and pantry of Elm Court has been updated but retains all of its original character. At the time of this post Elm

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Overlook Hotel pantry in The Shining

The fictional Overlook Hotel has a pantry we wouldn’t want to tour in person, even if we could. We are introduced to the Overlook hotel’s pantry

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Shipshape: Battleship Pantry

Eula McClary spent ten days as a guest of the Atlantic fleet on an American battleship in 1917. She wrote about meal preparation and food storage

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Cardinal Wolsey’s 16th Century Pantry

Cardinal Wolsey’s pantry and kitchen at Cardinal College (now known as Christ Church College, Oxford) date back to 1525. They were built when he was one

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Emily Dickinson’s Pantry

Emily Dickinson’s cousin Louise Norcross describes Emily writing in the pantry. “And I know that Emily Dickinson wrote most emphatic things in the pantry, so cool

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Brambly Hedge pantries

Brambly Hedge books, written and illustrated by Jill Barklem, feature the intricate world of the Brambly Hedge mice. Rooms are carved out of tree trunks and

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Wind in the Willows pantry

Pantry descriptions from the Wind in The Willows, written by Kenneth Grahame, and published in 1908. Mole, Ratty, Mr. Toad, and Mr. Badger’s pantry descriptions are

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Cowboy Pantry

What kind of traveling pantry holds enough food and gear to travel across the American west on cattle drives? That would be a cowboy pantry, also

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Silver Lake Pantry

The pantry in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book By The Shores of Silver Lake sustained the Ingalls family during the winter of 1879-1880. Laura Ingalls Wilder and

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Wright Brothers Pantry

What did the Wright brothers cook from their extremely well-organized pantry? The Wright brothers spent months, from late August to December of 1901, 1902, and 1903,

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The Mulberry Tree’s Pantry

The most fantastic fictional farmhouse pantry is found in Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree. The pantry is key to the plot in the book, and she

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Anne of Green Gables pantry

The Green Gables pantry is almost as memorable as Anne, the heroine of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books. In the Anne of Green Gables

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Long-lost pantry cupboard

This long-lost pantry cupboard was preservation-worthy. Is it truly gone, or was it salvaged? The Kingsley-Cole house of Rome, New York, was built in the 1840’s

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Alexander & The Magic Mouse storybook pantry

Alexander and the Magic Mouse is a wonderful children’s storybook about a fabulous Victorian house, the elderly lady that lives there with an alligator, a yak,