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Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1960-1975

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High School Students with Lunch Trays and Milk.
Lenox School - Washington, D.C.
Lenox School - Washington, D.C. - June 1965
Mary Elizabeth Artis leaves her home here for school March 9, 1965. On this day, she did not carry a lunch to school nor did she have money to buy a lunch at school. Her school does not participate in the National School Lunch Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Consumer and Marketing Service. Macclesfield, North Carolina.
SCHOOL LUNCH, Serving United States Department of Agriculture Office of Information USDA's Food and Nutrition Service has worked with the Catholic Arch Diosese [sic] of Philadelphia to bring about this in flight type hot lunch being served here at Sr. Anthony de Padua parochial school. Here volunteer mother serves the hot lunches to eager students.
SCHOOL LUNCH United States Department of Agriculture Office of Information Children at Lennox School in southeastern Washington, D.C., eat bag lunches June 1965, provided by the National School Lunch Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Underprivileged youngsters and children in schools without adequate lunchroom facilities enjoy nutritious noon meals under this special program. The lunches are prepared and bagged in central, well-equipped school kitchens and trucked to the "satellite" schools for eating.
SCHOOL LUNCH, Planning United States Department of Agriculture - Office of Information A member of the school lunch staff at Carmichael Elementary School here, checks out her supplies of U.S. Department of Agriculture donated foods January 1964, that help the school serve a variety of low cost, well-balanced lunches to the schoolchildren through the National School Lunch Programs. Louisville, Kentucky.
SCHOOL LUNCH, Preparation United States Department of Agriculture Office of Information A cafeteria worker at Tuckahoe Elementary School here prepares salads for the students. The school participates in the National School Lunch Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
SCHOOL LUNCH United States Department of Agriculture Office of Information A third grader takes her first bite of a hot meal just served her at Emanuel School here January 7, 1964. Emanuel is one of many eastern Kentucky schools that now provide hot noon meals, under an expanded Federal-State school lunch special assistance program.
Students at the rural, three-room Bonner School here eat lunch January 1964, under the National School Lunch Program. Because of local, State and Federal efforts and U.S. Department of Agriculture foods, schools like Bonner in eastern Kentucky can now participate in the National School Lunch Program, and thousands of children in remote Kentucky schools are being served lunch ast school for the first time. Of the 58 children attending Bonner School, only 22 were able to pay 10 cents toward their lunch on the day this picture was taken. The rest were served free. SCHOOL LUNCH United States Department of Agriculture Office of Information