Massachusetts, 1953

Massachusetts, 1953

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Title:
Massachusetts, 1953
Description:
Improvising utensils at Northeast emergency mass feeding course
Creator:
Federal Civil Defense Administration. Region I. 1951-1958
Name on Item:
S.F.C. Earl Grathwohl, Post Photo Lab., Fort Devens, Mass.
Date:
August 25, 1953
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
National Archives at Boston
Box ID: 01 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
Series:
Civil Defense Photographs, 1951-1961
Subjects:
Equipment
Civil defense
Places:
Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > Fort Devens
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; 8.5 x 11 in.
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Notes:
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Text from item: Improvising utensils at Northeast emergency mass feeding course. CD officials, food specialists, and representatives of national organizations learn how to make dishes and cups from tin cans and coat-hangers, and spoons from shingles, at training course jointly sponsored by FCDA and Department of Defense August 25 to 27 1953, at Fort Devens, Mass. Left to right: J.J. Zahab, Instructor, Canadian Federal CD College, Ottawa, Ontario; Raymond A. Dougherty, Senior Field Representative, Defense Welfare Services, New Jersey CD Office; James M. Brennan (seated), Deputy Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare, and Deputy Director, Civilian War Aid Division, Massachusetts CD Agency; Mrs. Marion E. Dakin (head showing), former Extension Nutritionist, University of Connecticut; James G. Young of Vermont Department of Social Welfare, Welfare Consultant, Vermont CD Office; Mrs. Dorothy Cole (right foreground), Field Consultant, American National Red Cross, and Recruitment and Training Officer, Defense Welfare Services, New Jersey CD Office; and Mrs. Margaret Bonnlander (far right), Coordinator of Vermont CD District 8 and Welfare Adviser, Vermont CD Office.
Notes (date):
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Accession #:
824935
Identifier:
0135