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Great Depression Apple Seller
Photo Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. An unemployed man selling apples in a wooden crate for five cents during the Great Depression.
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Finding Relatives in Sicily, 1943
Photo Credit: Nick Parrino/Library of Congress Vincent J. Orivello of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an American soldier, found some relatives in Sicily. Here is is seen eating ice-cream at a sidewalk cafe in...
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Filling Ice Cream Cartons, 1939
Photo Credit: Russell Lee/Library of Congress Filling cartons with ice cream mix at a creamery in San Angelo, Texas in November 1939.
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Red Cross Canteen, 1917-1918
Photo Credit: National Archives American soldiers getting their bowls of chocolate and rolls in the American Red Cross canteen at Toulouse, France, ca. 1917-1918.
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Blackwelder Family Working for Victory, 1942
Photo Credit: National Archives American workers give up holiday to speed Victory. The Blackwelder family celebrated Thanksgiving at their benches in a Glenn Martin Company plant: ca. 11/1942
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Eating Ice Cream at Fort Bragg, 1942
Photo Credit: Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress Sergeant Williams eating ice cream with a friend in the service club at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in March 1942.
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Farmer Co Defense Garden Catalog, 1942
Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture Seed catalog for World War II home defense gardens. It would assist even the novice gardener as to the best practices and vegetables for plentiful...
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Picnic at the Midsummer Day Festival, 1911
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Photograph shows girls from the Washington Irving High Schools, New York City, having a picnic at the Midsummer Day Festival which was held at Pelham Bay Park in the...
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Nathan’s Food Counter on Coney Island, 1947
Photo Credit: Al Aumuller/Library of Congress A hungry crowd eating and drinking at Nathan’s food counter with hot dogs and rolls cooking on the grill on Coney Island, July 17, 1947.
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Cowboy Breakfast, 1905
Photo Credit: F. M. Steele/Library of Congress Cowboys having breakfast next to a chuck wagon, ca. 1905.
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First Lady Coolidge Eating a Girl Scout Cookie, 1923
Photo Credit: Library of Congress First Lady Grace Coolidge eating cookies presented by officials of the New York Girl Scout troop on October 17, 1923.
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Carving Pumpkins, 1917
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Three boys on porch steps cutting faces in pumpkins for Halloween, ca. 1917.
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Enjoying a Thanksgiving Dinner while Recovering, 1952
Photo Credit: Navy Medicine Cpl. Richard R. Hollander, USMC, is enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner while recovering from injuries sustained during the Korean War aboard the USS Repose. He is assisted...
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Ready for the Turkey!, 1943
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Men and women of the armed forces stationed in and around Los Angeles joined with the home folks on November 25, 1943, in the annual assault on the bird of the...
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Coast Guard SPARs’ Thanksgiving, 1943
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Members of SPAR – women’s reserve of the Coast Guard – gathered around a festive table to celebrate Thanksgiving on November 25, 1943. Earlier in the week,...
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“Thanksgiving Story” told by a 7-year-old, 1961
Photo Credit: George Brich/Los Angeles Public Library Joni French, 7, holds a sign that says, “On Thanksgiving the turkeys are afraid. But if I were a turkey I would walk behind a man so he would not...
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Making Chocolate Easter Bunnies, 1957
Photo Credit: Orange County Archives Myrtle Carroll makes Easter bunnies in the candy kitchen of Knott’s Berry Farm, 1957.
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Teddy Roosevelt carved in butter, 1905
Photo Credit: C.L. Wasson/Library of Congress “The Man on Horseback” – Equestrian statue of President Theodore Roosevelt modeled in butter at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.
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Free meal at Ellis Island
Photo Credit: Edwin Levick/New York Public Library Immigrants being served a free meal at Ellis Island.
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Inspecting Kellogg cereal, 1934
Photo Credit: National Archives Women inspecting filled boxes of cereal at the Kellogg Company before the boxes go to sealer on August, 22, 1934.
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