Preserves Collection

Department Of Agriculture, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Department Of Agriculture, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Department Of Agriculture, 1917. First World War, USA: young people with badges reading Boys & Girls Achievement Work Club, preserving fruit and vegetables

Fruit Bottling, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Fruit Bottling, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Child of sharecropper, near Gaffney, South Carolina, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Child of sharecropper. Near Gaffney, South Carolina

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm

Rural rehabilitation under farm plan of the FSA supervisor, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Rural rehabilitation under farm plan of the Farm Security Administration supervisor. This family produces much of their own food. They were formerly on relief. Tulare County, California

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937

Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land, Greene County, Georgia, 1937
Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia

House in which cotton farmer has lived for fifty years, Macon County, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
House in which cotton farmer has lived for fifty years. Macon County, Georgia

Preparing Fruit for Jam-Making, September 1941, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Preparing Fruit for Jam-Making, September 1941, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

A Canning Demonstration at a Women's Institute Meeting, 1943. Creator: Unknown
A Canning Demonstration at a Women's Institute Meeting, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

The Wardlow family in their dugout basement home, Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Wardlow family in their dugout basement home. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Mrs. Wardlow bakes her own bread in her dugout house, Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939
Mrs. Wardlow bakes her own bread in her dugout house. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Mrs. Grangers storeroom, Yamhill farms, Yamhill County, Williamette Valley, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mrs. Grangers storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. " You never know what may happen." Yamhill farms. (FSA - Farm Security Administration)

Mrs. Wardlow has 500 quarts of food in her dugout cellar, Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon
Mrs. Wardlow has 500 quarts of food in her dugout cellar. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Mrs. Botner arranging her storage cellar, Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mrs. Botner arranging her storage cellar. Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon

Interior of Mrs. Botners storage cellar, Nyssa Heights, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Interior of Mrs. Botners storage cellar. 800 quarts of " food for the winter." " I miss my chickens so, but we re just not fixed for chickens or hogs yet." Nyssa Heights

Preserve Jar, c. 1939. Creator: Alfred Parys
Preserve Jar, c. 1939

Red Glazed Preserve Jar, c. 1938. Creator: Alfred Parys
Red Glazed Preserve Jar, c. 1938

Two Handled Preserve Crock, 1936. Creator: Jerome Hoxie
Two Handled Preserve Crock, 1936

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