History of School Lunch
History of School Lunch

The History of School Lunch

by Tori Avey on Sep 3, 2015

Lunchtime

School children breaking for lunch at a local café in Floyd County, Kentucky, September 1946. Photographer: Russell Lee. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in aid and other means, in providing an adequate supply of food and other facilities for the establishment, maintenance, operation and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs."

— - Sec. 2 The National School Lunch Act, 1946
Childs Restaurant in Philadelphia

Postcard from Childs Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA c. 1908 Source: Wikimedia Commons

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