Items on display in this case are on loan from the Institute of Child Nutrition’s Child Nutrition Archives.

In 2003 the United States Congress provided funds to establish the Child Nutrition Archives at the Institute of Child Nutrition located at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. The Mission of the Child Nutrition Archives is to collect, preserve, and make available to researchers, collections concerning the federally assisted child nutrition programs.

The Institute of Child Nutrition (ICN), part of the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Mississippi, is the only federally funded national center devoted to applied research, education and training, and technical assistance for child nutrition programs. The Institute was established by Congress in the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989.

In the display case:

• Southeastern School College Campus. Scrapbook of Summer Training for School Food Service, compiled by Mrs. Elizabeth Beavers, Durant, Okla., August 3-7, 1952

• Bumper sticker: “Think better with breakfast”, School Food Services. South Carolina Department of Education

• Lunchroom Tickets, 5 cents, Clermont, Fla. Public Schools
• Lunch and Milk Tokens, Public and High Schools, El Paso, Tex.

• Victory Recipes for Family Meals, School Lunches, Group Meetings. State Department of Education, Home Economics 1943, Columbia, South Carolina

• Red Beans & Rice Recipe. Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. School Food Service Association

• Recipe Cards. The Peanut Growers of Alabama & Georgia
  • Sweet Potato Supreme
  • Peanut Butter Wheat Rolls
  • Baked Chicken with Crispy Peanut Butter Coating

• Virginia School Lunchroom Conference, James Madison College, June 27, 1955 (left and right images)

• Broken vitrified plate, ice cream scoop, plastic plate

• "Enamel Wared" pitcher