Days Gone By

Myra Albert Wiggins, Hunger is the Best Cook, carbon print, 1898.

Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Girls eating in the mess hall of Griffith Park Girl’s Camp, Los Angeles, California, ca. 1920.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Actress Angela Lansbury clad in costume for role in the movie “The Court Jester,” eating a hamburger with actor Basil Rathbone while sitting at lunch in the large Paramount Studio commissary during a day of filming, Hollywood, California, December 1954.

A Spanish farm family squatting on dirt floor of their kitchen and eating from a communal pot. Photograph by W. Eugene Smith. Deleitosa, Spain, 1950.

Photograph by John Dominis. Vietnam, July 1961.

William Vandivert, A young Russian child getting something to eat in a Displaced Persons Camp during World War II, Germany, April 1945.

Impoverished children eating a plate of beans and bread. Photograph by John Dominis. Missouri, USA, February 1954.

Russian children having a meal of molasses bread and coffee in a Displaced Persons Camp during World War II. Photograph by William Vandivert. Germany, April 1945.

A man drinking wine and eating a sandwich on a public bench. Paris, 1932.

The traveling Falck Family Circus eating in a tent before a show. Photograph by Loomis Dean. France, 1952.