[Display of home-canned food] (LOC)

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[Display of home-canned food]

[between 1941 and 1945]

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
 Current, corrected title devised by Library staff from information provided by the source: Flickr Commons project, 2008.
Original title from FSA or OWI agency caption: Unidentified stacks of home-canned food.
Photo shows jars of yellow squash, peas, beets, and other vegetables. For notes identifying individual jars, see the copy of the photo in Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179131683/
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 World War, 1939-1945
Canning & preserving
Vegetables
United States

Format: Transparencies--Color

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

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-70 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35476

Call Number: LC-USW36-949

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  1. Sarah Jayne Anderson 39 months ago | reply

    My grandparents canned so many things and stored them in their basement for the winter. Most items were actually grown in their garden. Now, even though I love to cook, I can't even really make jam. A dying art.

  2. DanVoglesong 39 months ago | reply

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  9. nssel 38 months ago | reply

    Good work!

  10. jacobhamiltonsmith 38 months ago | reply

    lets se

  11. H.Tilbe [deleted] 38 months ago | reply

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  12. kansas photos by chris mccullough 38 months ago | reply

    wow love the simplest thing something you see in grandmas cabinets and yet its so so very kewl. love this one

  13. M1254 37 months ago | reply

    And I'm ready for dinner. My mom used to can. We had a fairly large garden. This just looks so natural and like "real food." lol Now I try to buy organics when I can afford it to get something closer to real food. I still can't find a tomato that tastes like a fresh tomato out of the garden 50 years ago, though.mmmm I wish I had one of those, just biting into it with the juice dripping down my face. I was 10. Juice dripping down your face is cute when you are 10 :D

  14. Thewhat? 37 months ago | reply

    Cool picture, but it'd be a hell of a lot cooler if there were body parts in there.

  15. alternatelife 36 months ago | reply

    Those are Kilner jars aren't they? A letter 'K' is visible on the box below. My mother (and my grandmother) used to preserve a whole range of fruit and vegetables from the garden. Also blackberries, picked in the countryside by the whole family, and apple slices, to make our favourite blackberry and apple pie!

  16. harlanov 36 months ago | reply

    honey
    honey

  17. pavicolors 36 months ago | reply

    good one

  18. autumnpoem(out for a while) 35 months ago | reply

    this looks really good!

  19. KarenWise 30 months ago | reply

    Love this image!
    Please consider entering it in my food photography on film group:
    www.flickr.com/groups/1429725@N25/

  20. lottenewlin 21 months ago | reply

    Can u imagine canning all those vegs? What a job!

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