Victory Garden Harvest Show
Due to food rationing during World War II many people grew a "Victory Garden." The photo appears to show the "cream of the crop." Note all the old fruit jars.
posted by Ookpik at 1:06 AM
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Due to food rationing during World War II many people grew a "Victory Garden." The photo appears to show the "cream of the crop." Note all the old fruit jars.
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I began my interest in vernacular photography by a chance acquisition of over 10,000 negatives dating from the late 1920's through the early 1970's. Luckily, I knew what I had was something more than "someone's old pictures." This cache of old images became the impetus for me to create two Photoblogs: Ookpik’s Negativity and Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes. Ookpik’s Negativity contains photos that I would like to know more about while Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes features photos of ships that I am trying to identify.
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4 Comments:
They weren't old at the time. ;-)
Good observation! :)
I used to live in this small house on a large plot of land (my future wife's grandmother's half-block, which had 4 houses on it all sharing a backyard) and it had a root cellar no one seemed to want to go into. I went down there and found canned pears, pickles, cherries, and who knows what else from probably the 1950's. Grandma had preserved stuff while she lived in the house and never got around to using them, then moved into the larger house to the left. Some lids had rusted through, some contents had dried to dust, but there were some that were still intact... such as they were.
40-year-old dill pickles aren't as crunchy, if you wondered.
Ooooo. I don't recommend eating 40 year old home canned goods. In fact I believe that the modern day recommendation is a one year shelf life. I try to use mine up within the year.
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