The caption on the back of this photograph reads: “76,606 College students and teachers will do war work this Summer in laboratories of the Nation’s Food processing plants. This photo shows technicians making bacteriological tests on tomato juice.”
Laboratory in a Food Processing Plant
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This primary source comes from the Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs.
National Archives Identifier: 196492
Full Citation: Photograph PHOCO-A-66343(26); 76,606 College students and teachers will do war work this Summer in laboratories of the Nation’s Food processing plants.; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 – 1962; Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs,; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/food-lab/, April 10, 2026]
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