Nutritionist Takes Mother to Market

 

Name
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (Issuing body)
Community Service Society of New York (Issuing body,Former owner)
Title
Nutritionist Takes Mother to Market
Abstract
#7015 Unknown Photographer In a 33 page, 11 x 11 pamphlet entitled, "ON FOUR FRONTS - AICP Fights Poverty by (l) Restoring Families to Self-Support, (2) Building Health, (3) Giving the Kids a Break, (4) Caring for the Aged." At bottom of title page: 1843-1937.(The 1937 is the only Indication of when this pamphlet was published. There is no other date on it.) Picture facing p, 15. Caption: When your income is small, every penny spent for food must yield the utmost in nourishment. But often mothers don't know how. Result, malnutrition, forerunner of serious Illness. AICP nutritionists teach the necessity of a health-protective diet - give menus for appetizing meals at surprisingly low cost, prevent a vast amount of illness and suffering. Last year AICP Nutrition Bureau reached many families through classes at AICP health centers and through instruction in the home, also through educational work in public and parochial schools. (This caption is also used for #7017 following.)
Collection Name
Community Service Society records
Shelf Location
Box no. 300, Folder no. 74, Item no. 697, Photograph no. 7015
Subjects
Women; Vegetables; Scales (Weighing instruments); Nutritionists; Farm produce; Children--Nutrition; Child rearing; New York (N.Y.)
Format
photographs
Genre
photographs
Date
circa 1937
Note
Photographer unknown.
Annotation on back: A nutritionist (left) of the Community Service Society takes a mother to an outdoor market in New York City to tell her how to select fresh vegetables for her family. This was apparently used again for a CSS publication. Haven't fo und it as yet. Now 8/16/71
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/9vek-fg27