Food in Wartime

Coffee was among both Union and Confederate soldiers' mess kits. Unlike other edibles in the kit, soldiers always looked forward to coffee. Although Union soldiers were issued green coffee beans, they…

Commercially cast iron pot for cooking food and making coffee. Donated to Crockett Tavern Museum in Morristown, Tenn. by Mrs. Lillard Howell.

Printed on border: "From a sketch made at the time.

2 pieces of hardtack brought home at the end of the Civil War by Pvt. Milo G. Stone, Co. B, 143 Pa. Inf., USA. One piece has letters embossed into it.

Currently stored in box 3.2.50 [106]. SPANISH AMERICAN WAR--Army Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History : Archives Center. P.O. Box 37012, Suite 1100, MRC 601, Constitution Ave.…

Original negatives are nitrate; only digital images available. Title supplied by cataloger.

Interior view of kitchen with oversized ovens, cooking vats, preparation tables and equipment.

Photographic portrait of veterans "Teddy's Terrors" at a Santa Ana banquet, ca.1904. Spanish-American War veterans in suits and army uniforms are seated along three long tables with food (including wh…

Photograph of soldiers waiting in line outside of a mess tent. The soldiers are wearing hats and military uniforms. 1 photograph : b 5 x 7 in.

Six black-and-white photographs of Navy rations and food transportation. Text: "Sea fighters must have A-1 stuff and the American Navy is the best fed in the world. Before taken on board ship, every o…

poster

Image of a distressed young woman dressed as lady liberty with both arms outstretched in a pleading stance. Text from item: Be patriotic. Sign your country's pledge to save the food. U. S. Food Admini…

Text encourages readers to plant food crops to support the war effort. Excerpt: "Your country is now engaged in the Great World War. Food and economic resources are as important as men and guns." Name…

1919

Photograph of an interior view of a grocery store showing a food ration line during World War Two, ca.1941-1945. Two uniformed women are standing at a counter at center, calculating the price of groce…

Lines to eat at Tanforan Race Track, a relocation center in California. Many of the Japanese-Americans at Tanforan would be relocated to Topaz Relocation Center.

June Mellinger and Margaret Mason receive for the Philadelphia General Hospital some of the fruits and vegetables exhibited at the Victory Garden Harvest Show. Title from clipping caption

Print

Men work along a production line constructing and filling food donation boxes for prisoners of war. The contents of which are assembled by the Red Cross.

Poster, 41 x 57 cm

Photograph of men gathering sweet potatoes from Austin's Victory Garden. Baskets of sweet potatoes are visible in the foreground and cars are parked along the road in the background. Image was used in…

Lang: "U. S. Government Printing Office : 1943--O-523387"

Title from item or from accompanying material. Date from item or from accompanying material. G.T.

Six unidentified African American women and one unidentified African American man stand posed holding jars of preserves. The slogan Food for Victory (seen on the sign in the bottom right corner) was u…

This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of the food closet. A number of cups are hanging from the wall, and a pitcher is on the floor. Mitchener writes, "As you enter the r…

Lang: 1 print: circular in 33 cm diameter

Front and back of a World War II era War Food Administration Achievement Award presentation card with an Achievement Award pin attached. The War Food Administration, a federal agency within the Depart…

Unsigned application from Manitowoc, Wisconsin resident Martha Weber requesting a special mileage ration that would enable her to purchase extra gasoline in order to drive from Manitowoc to cultivate…

Soldiers go down the line to be served food at Basic Training Center 10.

Williams captured this moment that appears to show two staff sergeants with the U.S. Army passing food through a barbed wire fence to Korean children begging at the perimeter of a military camp. compl…

Title supplied by cataloger. Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.

Optical sound. Title supplied by cataloger. Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.

Title supplied by cataloger. Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.

As a part of the Operation Thanks campaign for Thanksgiving 1965, Pepperdine College students shop for food to donate to US troops serving in Vietnam.

no.24

Clark AB, R.P.: Capt. Kevin McManus (top), Babylon, Tex., appears to be more interested in the cafeteria worker than the food as goes through the line for his first American meal since his capture Jun…

Title from item or from accompanying material. Date from item or from accompanying material. AJM

Title from item or from accompanying material. On item sleeve: FEL MRE heating bag white background - for b+w negitive. Date from item or from accompanying material. G.T.

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Khartoum Country: Sudan (SDN) Scene Camera Operator: TECH. SGT. James R. Pearson Release Status: Released to Public

Title from item or from accompanying material. On item sleeve: Food lab, shelf stable pizza MRE. Date from item or from accompanying material. G.T.

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Freetown Country: Sierra Leone (SLE) Scene Camera Operator: SGT Marvin Preston Release Status: Released to Public

Title from item or from accompanying material. On item sleeve: Food lab. Date from item or from accompanying material. G.T.

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE PROMISE Base: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez Rele…