Browse Items (16 total)
- Collection: Protecting the Public's Interests (C-4)
Charles Henry Alston, A Well Fed Nation is a Fighting Nation - World War II Public Health Initiative
Charles Henry Alston, A Well Fed Nation is a Fighting Nation - World War II Public Health Initiative, National Archives at College Park, 1943
Charles Alston, an African-American artist and educator, created this drawing in 1943. It shows a strong, healthy family (man, woman, and two…
Tags: African-Americans, Charles Alston, Eating, Health, War, World War II
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services., Eat the Basic Seven Everyday!
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services., Eat the Basic Seven Everyday!, National Archives, 1941-1945
In 1943, during World War II, the National Wartime Nutrition Guide was issued by the USDA. Food scarcity and wartime restrictions prompted…
Tags: Basic Seven, Dietary Guide, Eating, Food Groups, World War II
Unknown, Eleanor Roosevelt and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Unknown, Eleanor Roosevelt and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, National Archives, 1949
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the…
Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Human Rights, UDHR, United Nations
Part of the Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks, Florence Kelley, Secretary, National Consumers' League
Part of the Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks, Florence Kelley, Secretary, National Consumers' League, Library of Congress, Undated
To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.
Florence Kelley, National Consumers League…
Tags: Child Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Florence Kelley, National Consumers' League, Safety, Workers
Caroline Hunt, Food for Young Children
Caroline Hunt, Food for Young Children, National Archives and Records Administration, 1916
A page from the Food for Young Children guide (Farmers' Bulletin 717). The photo illustrates a "sensible supper for a child" which covers nearly all…
Tags: Caroline Hunt, Dietary Guide, Food for Young Children, USDA
Thayer & Co's. Lith Boston., Get Off The Track! A Song For Emancipation, Sung By The Hutchinsons
Thayer & Co's. Lith Boston., Get Off The Track! A Song For Emancipation, Sung By The Hutchinsons, Library of Congress, 1844
This music cover, published in 1844, is an advertisement for the abolitionist song, "Get Off the Track!" Composed by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr., it was…
Tags: Abolitionist, Emancipation, Hutchinsons, Slavery
United States Department of Agriculture, Hassle-Free Food Guide - U.S. Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture, Hassle-Free Food Guide - U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1979-1984
"The Hassle-Free Food Guide was used from 1979-1984. Not only does it outline the ""Basic Four"" ( Vegetables and Fruit, Bread and Cereal, Milk and…
Tags: Basic Four, Dietary Guide, Hassle-Free Food Guide, USDA
Federal Art Project, Keep your Fire Escapes Clear - New York City Residents Advisory
Federal Art Project, Keep your Fire Escapes Clear - New York City Residents Advisory, Federal Art Project, 1936 or 1937
Poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York advising that tenement house residents keep their fire escapes free of obstructions.
Tags: Fire, Fire Escape, New York, NYC, Tenements