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Collection: 00075 - Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00427
Title: Children having lunch in their school lunchroom, Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: Circa 1940
Creator: Tribune Company (Bismarck, N.D.)--pbl
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0075-427, and "Tribune" in red.
Summary: Pipes run along the ceiling of this basement school lunchroom in Bismarck (N.D.). Long tables fill the pine-paneled space, and the tables themselves are filled with evidence of the children's' lunches. Recess must follow immediately as the children appear to be wearing winter coats, hats, and scarves even while they are eating. Mittens, cups, plates, paper bags, and tin lunch pails are on the cloth covered tabletops.
Red ID: PH_I_144984 Image ID: 106018 Image Notes: 00075-00427

Collection: 00075 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Historical Data Project Photograph Collection
Date: 1896-1942

Summary: Includes WPA buildings, road construction projects, images of drought, farming, irrigation projects, coal mining, 4-H activities, agriculture students in the National Youth Administration program, and North Dakota pioneers.

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