ca. 1870-90s, [tintype portrait of two women sporting some delicious doughnut spectacles]From the Du

ca. 1870-90s, [tintype portrait of two women sporting some delicious doughnut spectacles]

From the Dutch “olykoeks,” to a sea captain’s doting mother, and WWI-era mechanization, the Smithsonian Magazine does a fantastic job tracing the doughnut’s storied past.

viathe National Museum of American History in the Kenneth E. Behring Center at the Smithsonian Institution