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Home Economics Department Exhibit

Date: 05 1918
Description: An exhibit inside a building displaying examples of how to make meals for "a patriot's table," as well as the relative value of different foods. A handmade...
Poster

Women's Institute Canning and Preserving, Let Nothing Go to Waste

Date: 1917
Description: Text poster (typed and handwritten) reads: "Women's Institute Canning and Preserving. Let Nothing Go to Waste. Save Vegetables, Fruits and Left-Overs. Subj...
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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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Field Kitchen

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Description: German and Austrian soldiers at a field kitchen.
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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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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.
Poster

Food — don't waste it

Date: 1917
Description: Poster reads: "Food-don't waste it. 1= use less wheat and meat. 2= buy local foods. 3= serve just enough. 4= use what is left. United States Food Administr...
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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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Midday Meal in the Desert

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Description: The midday meal is being prepared in the desert.
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Cooking on the Front

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Description: Preparing roast mutton.
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Cooking on the Front

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Description: Preparing roast mutton.
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Eating on the Front

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Description: German caption reads "Everything in one bowl."
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Everything in One Bowl

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Description: Turkish soldiers eating out of a common bowl.

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