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4-H club girl examining canned foods as part of a 4-H food preservation program: In this black and white photograph a young woman in a dress with a 4-H patch over the breast is admiring a jar of preserved pears. Behind her is an entire cupboard filled with canning jar of other preserved foods.; Format: image/photograph

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity: U.S. Government poster from World War II, announcing the rationing of meat. Poster reads: Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity. To meet the needs of our armed forces and fighting allies, a Government order limits the amount of meat...; Format: image/poster

Blackcurrant: The blackcurrant is one of the three edible species of currant; the others are redcurrant and whitecurrant. Blackcurrants grow on a small shrub, Ribes nigrum, and are native to central and northern Europe and northern Asia.; Format: image/photograph

Can all you can: World War II poster asks Americans to "Can all you can -- it's a real war job!"; Format: image/poster

Canning demonstration photo: A woman's hand, protected by a towel, removes the ring from a sealed home-canned jar of peaches. From an instructional book on home canning, produced by the U.S. Office of War Information. "Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board,...; Format: image/photograph

Canning for country and community: In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies); By Melissa Thibault.

Chestnut: Close-up photograph of a sweet chestnut lying on the ground amidst twigs and roots. The chestnut is the nut of the chestnut tree (genus Castanea), native to temperate regions in the Northern Hemisphere.; Format: image/photograph

Colonial cooking: This photograph shows how a typical cooking fire might have looked in the colonial era. A kettle hangs over the fire, and a chicken hangs nearby from a string, cooking slowly. The string allowed the chicken to spin, causing it to cook evenly without having...; Format: image/photograph

Colonial cooking and foodways: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.15; A reenactor demonstrates cooking over an open fire.; Format: video

Colonial cooking fire: Close-up: Photograph of a re-creation of a colonial-era cooking fire. A kettle hangs over the fire, a few pieces of fish are tied to a board facing the flames, and a chicken hangs nearby from a string, cooking slowly. The string allowed the chicken to spin, causing...; Format: image/photograph

Colonial food items: This photograph from the Alamance Battleground Historic Site in Alamance County, N.C. shows colonial-era tools for food preparation and articles of food that were important in the colonial era. These include a bowl of coffee beans, a wooden and metal hand-mill,...; Format: image/photograph

The Columbian Exchange: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.1; When Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived in the New World, two biologically distinct worlds were brought into contact. The animal, plant, and bacterial life of these two worlds began to mix in a process called the Columbian Exchange. The results of this exchange recast the biology of both regions and altered the history of the world.; Format: article; By J.R. McNeill.

Cooking on an open fire: A reenactor demonstrates eighteenth-century methods of cooking and talks about colonial foods and foodways.; Format: video/video

Damsons: Damsons are oval-shaped stone fruits related to plums. Because damson skin is more acidic than plum skin, damsons tend to be more sour than plums.; Format: image/photograph

Figs: Close-up of two figs growing on a Ficus tree—the darker, larger fig is ripe. There are hundreds of species of trees, shrubs, and vines in the genus Ficus. The most common is a tree that grows in warm climates...; Format: image/photograph

Food Helped Make the Difference: These x-rays from the 1920s demonstrate the differences between children developing normally and those who develop rickets. The title of the black and white image is “Food Helped to Make the Difference.” There are four x-rays. The top set shows...; Format: image/article

Food Helped Make The Difference - Undernourished children: A 1920s, black and white poster, depicting images of children showing poor development due to poor nutrition, is entitled, “Food helped make the difference. Poor physique and low vitality are cruel handicaps.” The poster shows three photographs....; Format: image/photograph

Food makes a difference: This black and white photograph is of a poster showing how a good diet of nutritious foods makes a difference in children's growing bodies. On the left of the poster is picture of a boy who is naked except for a towel wrapped around his waist. On the right...; Format: image/article

The forest people: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.3; Paleoindian culture died out across North America by 8000 BC. Archaeologists say this was bound to happen. The Ice Age had ended, the megafauna were extinct, and the boreal forests faded as deciduous ones spread across the East in the warmer climate. Faced with significant environmental changes, the Native Americans adapted. Archaeologists call their way of life and the time in which they lived Archaic.

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