| Balanced diet for the expectant mother (LOC) |
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The Library of Congress
Balanced diet for the expectant mother
[New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]
1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Notes:
Date stamped on verso: Feb 2 1939.
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Prenatal care--New York (State)--1930-1940.
Women--Health & welfare--New York (State)--1930-1940.
Fruit--1930-1940.
Format: Posters--1930-1940.
Screen prints--Color--1930-1940.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
More information about the WPA Posters is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.wpapos
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05309
Call Number: POS - WPA - NY .01 .B34, no. 1
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| Dimensions of the Littering Problem Are Suggested by This Heap of Cold Drink Cans, Salvaged by Girl Scouts at Islamorada in the Central Florida Keys. |
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The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Dimensions of the Littering Problem Are Suggested by This Heap of Cold Drink Cans, Salvaged by Girl Scouts at Islamorada in the Central Florida Keys.
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6268
Photographer: Schulke, Flip, 1930-2008
Subjects:
Islamorada (Upper Matecumbe Key, Florida Keys, Monroe county, Florida, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=548755
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
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Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
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| Border Baker, Stanthorpe, 1872 |
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State Library of Queensland, Australia
Photographer: William Boag
Location: Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Description: This was one of seven bakeries in early Stanthorpe. Bread was a staple of the miner's diet and the wheaten loaf or damper, made when brewer's yeast could not be procured, went well with black tea, salted meat and potatoes. Ground maize, boiled rice and other things were added to the bread which was later stamped with its maker's initials. A two pound loaf sold in Stanthorpe for about 6 pence in 1873. (Description supplied with photograph.)
About this photograph
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/ |
| Four lively children eating at a table on the deck over the home economics ... |
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Cornell University Library
Collection: Human Ecology Historical Photographs
Title: Four lively children eating at a table on the deck over the home economics cafeteria. Caption reads: ''Junior project workers learn the value of milk in the diet especially for children.'' Used in Bulletin J-7, p.78, Fig. 25. Date is May 1920.
Collection #23-2-749, item PR-JE-06
Div. Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5w29
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. |
| Serving out the stew in a front line trench |
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National Library of Scotland
Serving food in the trenches, during World War I. A group of uniformed men stand around a cooking pot or 'Dixie.'] One man ladles the contents into smaller containers for each man. According to the original caption, the contents of the Dixie is stew. Whilst the staple diet in the trenches was bully beef (tinned beef), bread and biscuits, the men were also at times fed watery stews or soups consisting of local vegetables and, occasionally, lumps of meat.
'Tommy entered into general usage after the Rudyard Kipling poems, 'Tommy and 'To Thomas Atkins (1892), which pay homage to the sturdy character of the average British soldier. By the time food reached the men in the trenches, from the field kitchens set up behind the front line, it was invariably cold and stale.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE WESTERN FRONT. HOW TOMMY IS FED. Serving out the stew in a front line trench.']
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| Kitchens in a trench |
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National Library of Scotland
This image of a soldier cooking at a stove while standing in a trench might seem rather unusual, but this trench would certainly not be in the immediate front line as the smoke from such a stove would have attracted the enemys attention.
In general, British soldiers diet consisted of bully beef (i.e. corned beef), bread and biscuits. The soldiers repeatedly complained that their 'hot' meals had turned cold by the time they reached the front line trenches. The armys response - as shown here - was to move the field kitchens ever closer to the front line. Though the army claimed that the troops were receiving the 3,547 calories that they needed each day, the soldiers pointed out that this was the absolute minimum and was not suitable for fighting men.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. Kitchens in a trench.']
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| [Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946] (LOC) |
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The Library of Congress
Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.
[Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946]
1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Caption from Down Beat: These are the things that make up Louis Armstrong, as reflected in the mirror by Bill Gottlieb, staff lensman, in the third of his intimate studies of musical celebs in their dressing rooms. Here are his throat spray and other medications (Louie vocalizes as much as he plays trumpet, you know), the inevitable stack of handkerchiefs (he uses them by the dozen), and copies of the diet by which he lost 60 poinds in one year, distributed gratis to all over-weight friends and acquaintances.
Notes:
Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 011
Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
Purchase William P. Gottlieb
Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
In: "Through the looking glass," Down Beat, v. 13, no. 15 (July 15, 1946), p. 21.
Subjects:
Armstrong, Louis, 1900-1971
Jazz musicians--1940-1950.
Trumpet players--1940-1950.
Aquarium
Format: Portrait photographs--1940-1950.
Film negatives--1940-1950.
Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig...
Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
(reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, loc.gov/rr/perform/
Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005
General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.00251
Call Number: LC-GLB13- 0025
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| Your Ration Book |
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The National Archives UK
Description: Sample Child's Ration Book. Throughout the 1940s (and for nine years after the end of the war) every man woman and child in Britain owned ration books of coupons for food and clothing. The Ministry of Food's carefully formulated diet is generally believed to have improved the nation's health.
Date: World War Two
Our Document Reference: BT 131/40
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| Selector and his family in the Beenleigh district, ca.1872 |
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State Library of Queensland, Australia
Photographer: William Boag
Location: Beenleigh District, South-East Queensland, Australia
Description: The difficulties faced by settlers in the bush included poor roads, an unreliable mail service and dense, vine-matted scrub. Many selectors also subsisted on a staple diet of salted meat ('salt horse') and pumpkins. A woman and her children might be alone in their stringy bark hut for several months while a husband went off to split shingles or to earn extra money on a cattle station. Then she would be left to protect the crop against marauding birds, bandicoots, and scrub paddymelons.
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/
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| Fowl house in the trenches just behind the front line |
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National Library of Scotland
British soldiers collecting eggs from hens in a rear line trench, in France, during World War I. With their 'Dixie's (cooking pots) full of eggs, three British soldiers are shown handling a hen and rabbit outside a fowl house in a trench behind the front line. It is not known if the rabbit shown here is the regimental mascot, or not. It is certainly rather unusual to find such a domestic - almost pastoral - scene in an underworld setting like this, though it should be remembered that these soldiers would have been resting at a billet.
In general, British soldiers on the Western Front were extremely critical of the food that they were given. As the main part of their daily diet was bully beef, bread and biscuits, fresh eggs - and rabbit stew - would have been a luxury. It could be that these eggs have been requisitioned by the officers, rather than the men. When the army claimed that the men always received two hot meals a day, they received over 200,000 letters from fuming soldiers, who said that the army was not telling the truth.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A fowl house in the trenches just behind the front line. They get fresh eggs from them every day.']
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