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Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home

Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home
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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 fourteen 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.
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Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home
Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home
Title
Mulberry Health Center Album -- Dietician in Home
Date
circa 1917
Item Number
285
Photograph Number
3099
Format
photographs
Corporate Designation
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Annotation on Back
From: Mulberry Health Center Album
Places
New York (N.Y.)
Topics
Women; Stoves; Interiors; Mothers; Kitchens; House furnishings; Dietitians; Clocks and watches; Children--Health and hygiene; Children
Box and Folder Number
298: 10
CSS Description
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 fourteen 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.