Oleo Gang
This prisoner, Joseph Wirth, was convicted of selling Oleomargarine, colored to look like butter, without paying the 10 cents per pound tax. He spent more than three...
Save Food!
During World War I, the U.S. Food Administration under Herbert Hoover urged Americans to conserve food. This photograph recorded one patriotic boy’s efforts to get...
Summer job
High school and college-age students, like this young waitress working in a drive in snack bar in Rifle, Colorado, in July 1973 often seek employment in the service...
Survival supplies for fallout shelter
In this 1961 photograph, a civil defense exhibit displays survival supplies for a fallout shelter. Designed to protect its inhabitants from nuclear, biological, or...
Taking CARE
With a CARE package in front of them, three East German children are enjoying their sandwiches. A typical package held items like margarine, powdered milk, meats,...
U.K. grocers want assurances
A group of grocers in the United Kingdom wrote President Theodore Roosevelt seeking assurances about the safety of American beef.
Veggies for sale!
Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, workers at public markets stocked merchandise and haggled over price with customers. Markets like this one in Washington, DC,...