Food

Staff Sergeant Sophia J. Holloway in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) Mess Hall in North Africa

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Staff Sergeant Sophia J. Holloway with a large drum of cauliflower as she works in the Mess Hall of the Women's Army Corps (WACs) stationed in North Africa. Sophia had worked for 8 years at Black Hotel Coffee Shop in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as a waitress and Cashier prior to joining the WAC.

W. Averell Harriman During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

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Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the right. The other man is unidentified. Exact location not given but Harriman may have been having a meal (breakfast?) while in the eastern part of the Soviet Union, perhaps in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

W. Averell Harriman During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

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Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the right. The other man in view is not identified. Exact location not given but Harriman may have been having a meal (breakfast?) while in the eastern part of the Soviet Union, perhaps in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Breadline in Berlin; U.S. Reparations Mission

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Breadline in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

First Televised Speech from the White House

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Preparations for the first televised address at the White House, Sunday, October 5, 1947. President Harry S. Truman (left, behind lectern) urged viewers to save food for Europe. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, stands next to the president. A cameraman looks through a large television camera at right. From: Charles Ross Papers, 12x18 Metal Album.

South Korean civilians with oxen and carts carrying rice

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Civilians with oxen and carts carrying rice for South Korean Army troops near Pusan, Korea.

Charles Luckman, Chairman of the President's Citizen's Food Committee

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Charles Luckman, Chairman of the President's Citizen's Food Committee, displays the new food saving poster at his first press conference at the White House. From: Beth Gore

President Truman and Charles Luckman reported to the nation on television about the food situation

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President Truman reported to the nation tonight on the food situation, as did Charles Luckman, right, head of the Citizen's Food Committee. It marked the first time that television has entered the White House to televise a broadcast, as photographed here. From: Beth Gore

Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee

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In line with President Truman's appeal to the public to save 100 million bushels of grain in the next nine months, the committee appointed by the President called on Americans to adopt a five-point food conservation program. Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee, is shown with many of the posters to be used in the conservation campaign. From: Beth Gore

Unidentified people stand outside a TWA airplane receiving packages for Margaret Truman's food relief program

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Unidentified people stand outside a TWA airplane receiving packages for Margaret Truman's food relief program. From: A leather bound album of ten 8 x 10 photos showing Margaret Truman participating in a brief program in which a token shipment of relief food was placed aboard a TWA Constellation bound for Paris, France.

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