Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home

 

Name
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (Issuing body)
Community Service Society of New York (Issuing body,Former owner)
Title
Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home
Abstract
From: Mulberry Health Center Album #3099 Unknown Photographer In AICP 75th "Annual Report 1918" (1917-1918), page 17. Caption: DIETITIAN IN HOME. Three mothers from tenement homes in the same stairway have here come together in the kitchen of one of them to receive food instruction. The dietitian is giving them their first lesson in cooking cereals and in the use of a double boiler. There are fourt een children in these three families. Here in their own kitchens the mothers are taught to prepare foods that their children in turn are taught the value of by the dietitian who meets them in groups in the public schools and at the Milk Stations. (Dietitian, Mary Harper) In AICP pamphlet "Developing Child Health via Community Organization," c1919, page 16. Caption: The dietitian is giving a practical demonstration to these mothers in the preparation of the kinds of food their children need.
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 298, Folder no. 10, Item no. 285, Photograph no. 3099
Subjects
Women; Stoves; Interior architecture; Mothers; Kitchens; House furnishings; Dietitians; Clocks and watches; Children--Health and hygiene; Children; New York (N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
circa 1917
Note
Photographer unknown.
Annotation on back: From: Mulberry Health Center Album
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/xjaz-bf88