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School Children Holding Cabbage Raised in a War Garden

  • ca. 1918

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The original caption for this photograph reads: School children holding one of the large heads of cabbage raised in the War garden of Public School 88, Borough of Queens, New York City. The garden covers a tract of 1< acres and yielded over $500 worth of produce.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs.

National Archives Identifier: 533646

Full Citation: Photograph 165-WW-172(1); School children holding one of the large heads of cabbage raised in the War garden of Public School 88; ca. 1918; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 – 1918; Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, Record Group 165; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/school-children-cabbage/, May 13, 2026]

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