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Boy Feeding Chickens

Date: 1914
Description: A boy is feeding a flock of chickens near a fence and a barn. Two horses are standing inside the open doorway of the barn.
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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School Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: An autumn exhibit and fair has been set up in the Centerville School. A post supports streamers which extend to the walls, and examples of needlework and c...
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Soldiers on Serbian Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Preparing mid-day meals for troops on a Serbian farmstead.
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French PoW's Receiving Meals

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Description: French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup.
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Flour Sacks Being Unloaded

Date: 1915
Description: Unloading sacks of flour from train cars for an Austrian divisional field bakery.
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Field Bakery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian divisional field bakery.
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Sewing up a Soldier's Pants

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Description: "A rip in the trousers is quickly repaired."
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Handing Out Soup

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Description: Cooks handing out soup to soldiers on a cold day at the front.
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Field Kitchen

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Description: German and Austrian soldiers at a field kitchen.
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Cooking Tinned Meat

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Description: Pressure kettles being used to cook tinned meat. In the background a kettle is being unloaded.
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Meat to be Fed to Poor Civilians

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Description: Cooked tins are transferred to a hot room kept at 30 degrees (86 degree Fahrenheit). Here they are cleaned and sorted. Any tins with bulges are separated s...
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Tins Loaded for Shipping

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Description: Tins in trays that are being loaded for shipping.
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Soldiers Pack Tins for Shipment

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Description: Soldiers packing tins for shipment.
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Opening of the National Warriors Home

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Description: The opening of the National Warrior's Home. The National Women's' Service has opened a home for wounded soldiers in Wilmersdorf (Berlin). Wounded soldiers ...
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De-Boning Meat

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Description: De-boning meat for goulash in the kitchen for the soldiers to consume.
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Sealing Tins of Meat for the Front

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Description: Preparing and sealing tins of meat to be provided to soldiers on the front.
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Large Shipment of Flour

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Description: Arrival of a large shipment of flour being unloaded by Russian prisoners who defected to the Germans.
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Hungry Children in Lodz

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Description: Hungry children receiving Zwieback (crisp bread) from a warm-hearted Red Cross in Lodz, in order to partially relieve their hunger.
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Covering Flour Supplies

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Description: Covering up flour supplies in the desert.

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