[Housewife preparing dinner in compact kitchen in Greenbelt, Maryland] – Antique Wall Art
![[Housewife preparing dinner in compact kitchen in Greenbelt, Maryland], [between 1940 and 1944] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fe93dc114723-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Housewife preparing dinner in compact kitchen in Greenbelt, Maryland]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Housewife preparing dinner in compact kitchen in Greenbelt, Maryland]
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A housewife prepares dinner in a compact kitchen in Greenbelt, Maryland, one of the planned communities the federal government began building in 1937 under the Resettlement Administration. The houses were designed with efficiency in mind, and kitchens like this one put the stove, sink, and work surface within a few steps of each other. The Office of War Information, which took over many federal photography files in 1942, documented ordinary home life during the early years of the war, when the nation's attention was turning to the home front. The picture shows how daily domestic routine became part of the historical record.
| Created / published | [between 1940 and 1944] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Photoprints by U.S. Office of War Information. No. 22329-FO. |
| Subjects | Cookery--Maryland--Greenbelt--1940-1950. Women--Domestic life--Maryland--Greenbelt--1940-1950. Kitchens--Maryland--Greenbelt--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,126 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165104 |
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