Agriculture Committee hearings
In an effort to regulate the national food supply, the House Agriculture Committee held hearings in the spring and summer of 1906 on the Pure Food and Drug Act and...
Applying for exemption
Many Southern whites believed the Confederate draft favored the rich. The “twenty Negro law,” for example, exempted planters with 20 or more slaves. In February...
Chicago cattle pens
The British Army, a consumer of American canned meat, conducted its own inspection of American meatpacking facilities. This photograph was taken during that inspection.
Drying out dinner?
This photograph of a Native American drying food near a tent was taken on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation in central South Dakota in 1932. The reservation...
Farm family in field
This undated photograph showing a farm family relaxing in a field is part of the vast photographic record of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), established in 1953....
Feed The Allies!
The newly created United States Food Administration, headed by Herbert Hoover during World War I, regulated the supply, distribution, and conservation of food during...
Finding appalling conditions
Labor Commissioner Charles Neill and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury James Reynolds were commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt to conduct an inspection of...