Great find, Bill. Some of those pix are a bit weird. I wonder if it was just regular people not accustomed to cameras or the shots were staged or something else.
Anyway, I spent a few minutes looking through some old family photos to see if I could find anybody in a kitchen. Just one, Grandma Eva, chicken shears in hand, cutting up a roast bird. And, not a kitchen exactly, but a photo of my Grandpa Dave serving from his WWI chuck wagon.