This is a list of the images that were published in the June 1917 issue of The National Geographic Magazine (volume 31 ). Links are provided to the Wikisource articles where the images can be found.
Charles Martin and David Fairchild A CHILD SLICING SWISS-CHARD LEAVES PREPARATORY TO DRYING THEM ON THE STOVE OR SUN DRIER
Great caution must be exercised in the use of any form of slicer, for it will cut fingers as mercilessly as it does vegetables.
Charles Martin and David Fairchild THE SLICING MACHINE AT WORK
Showing how it cuts potatoes into thin slices and, by putting these slices through again, cuts them into narrow strips, or “shoestrings.”
Charles Martin THREE LONG, NARROW TRAYS MADE OF FLY SCREEN AND LATHS AND HUNG UP IN A CHEAP SLING OF LATHS AND FENCE WIRE TO THE HOOD OF A KITCHEN STOVE
It is out of the way of the cook's head and utilizes waste heat, and the vegetables put this distance from the top of the stove do not get too hot.
Charles Martin A TRAY OF DRIED SWISS CHARD TAKEN FROM THE HANGING STOVE DRIER
These, when soaked in water, swell and make excellent greens for soups and stews many months after drying.
Charles Martin and David Fairchild AN INEXPENSIVE SUN DRIER MADE OF ONE WINDOW SASH, A FEW LATHS, AND SOME METAL FLY SCREEN
By removing one pane of glass a simple ventilator can be made of lath and screen and fitted into place, or, if electricity is available, the drying can be accelerated by keeping a gentle current of air blowing over the fruits or vegetables. Protection from showers is obtained by such a drier and especially delicate fruits can be handled in small quantities under it; larger amounts require more space.
Charles Martin and David Fairchild SLICING BEETS
The trays are filled with Swiss chard and sliced beets. Both trays and drier itself are made of lath and wire netting.
Charles Martin and David Fairchild THE HANGING STOVE DRIER SWUNG OVER THE KITCHEN STOVE AFTER THE MEAL HAS BEEN PREPARED
It utilizes heat which otherwise would be wasted. When the stove is required for cooking purposes, the drier can be swung back out of the way by means of the wooden bracket made of lath and attached to the wall by a bent nail and piece of fence wire. An electric fan can be trained on the drier to hasten the drying process. It can be kept running at night when the kitchen stove is cold.
Charles Martin and David Fairchild THE WATER-TANK DRIER
This has a false bottom and under it water, which is kept hot by the contact of the drier with the back of the stove. In it are leaves of the Chinese cabbage, which are easily and quickly dried on this type of drier. Unless watched, delicate leaves will scorch.
Charles Martin ONCE DRIED, THE VEGETABLES CAN BE STORED IN PAPER BAGS OR CARTONS
One form of these cartons made of paraffin paper is closed by means of a special instrument, which is heated and spreads the cap into place, thus hermetically sealing the carton.
Paintings by Mary E. Eaton
Albert Schlechten A CLOVER FIELD IN MONTANA
Although thirty-eight of the States have in one way or another expressed their preferences and chosen their flower queens, this is the first attempt that has been made to assemble in a single publication color paintings and descriptions of all the State flowers.
Arkansas and Michigan APPLE and BLOSSOMMalus sylvestris Mill.
Minnesota PINK MOCCASIN FLOWERCypripedium acaule Ait.
California GOLDEN POPPYEschscholtzia californica Cham.
Colorado BLUE COLUMBINEAquilegia coerulea James
Connecticut MOUNTAIN LAURELKalmis latifolia L.
Nevada SAGEBRUSHArtemisia tridentata Nutt.
Florida ORANGE BLOSSOMCitrus sinensis Osbeck
Montana BITTER ROOTLewisia rediviva Pursh
Illinois, Rhode Island and Wisconsin THE VIOLETViola
Idaho LEWIS' SYRINGAPhiladelphus lewisii Pursh
Iowa LOW or PASTURE ROSERosa carolina L. (Rosa humilis Marsh.)
Louisiana and Mississippi MAGNOLIAMagnolia grandiflora L.
Delaware (left) and Ohio (right) PEACH BLOSSOMAmygdalus persica L.
RED CARNATIONDianthus caryophyllus L.
Kansas COMMON SUNFLOWERHelianthus annuus L.
Kentucky TRUMPET VINEBignonia radicans L.
Indiana PINK CARNATIONDianthus caryophyllus L.
Maine WHITE PINEPinus strobus L.
Nebraska FIELD GOLDENRODSolidago nemoralis Ait.
Utah SEGO or MARIPOSA LILYCalochortus nuttallii Torr. & Gr.
North Carolina COMMON or OX-EYE DAISYChrysanthemum cucanthemum L.
Texas BLUEBONNETLupinus texensis Hook
Arizona SAHUARO or GIANT CACTUSCarnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose
New Mexico CACTUSEchinocereus fendleri (Engelm.) Ruempl.
South Dakota PASQUE FLOWERPulsatilla patens (L.) Mill.
Oklahoma AMERICAN MISTLETOEPhoradendron flavescens (Pursh) Nutt
Wyoming NARROW-LEAVED INDIAN PAINTBRUSHCastilleja linariaefolia Benth.
Oregon OREGON GRAPEBerberis aquifolium Pursh
Vermont RED CLOVERTrifolium pratense L.
West Virginia MOUNTAIN AMERICAN RHODODENDRONRhododendron maximum Michx.
International Film Service A MADONNA OF SORROW AT HER SON'S GRAVE
If the sympathy of the civilized world cannot still the anguish of the moment, the ages to come will venerate such heroic women who taught their sons the highest bravery, the finest courtesy, the loftiest honor—and who gave their all for France.
Der Vereinigten Kunstanst. A.-G. A MADONNA OF THE MOUNTAINS
In the whirlpool of Europe, Switzerland's political neutrality has kept its balance, and peace of a sort exists within the little democracy's borders. But it is a peace strained by the evidences of war and shot through with thoughts of another little state which had no friendly Alps to guard it—only a treaty and the honor of nations. Mother hearts cannot forget that there are no such idyls as this in Belgium today.
A MADONNA OF SACRIFICE
Wordless reverence is the most fitting tribute to the Mothers of Belgium. May her sole remaining treasure, in the liberated and peace-blessed world of the future, live to realize that in the terrible vision of the present his eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Garrigues A BEDOUIN MOTHER AND CHILD
The father of this little nomad may be a warlike bandit with a cloudy notion of property rights and other details of the civilized code; his mother a simple daughter of the desert with a childish curiosity and fondness for gaudy trinkets, but her babe has the divine heritage of mother love as truly as the most fortunate child of our own land.
Eliza R. Scidmore A MOTHER OF WARRIORS: JAPAN
Stoicism is more than a tenet with the Japanese; it is almost a religion, and the mother of these babes, if the hand of death were laid upon them, could with calm fortitude relate her loss to a stranger without the display of grief, for it is a cardinal principle of her politeness that she should never burden another with her woes. But beneath this cross-barred cradle of cloth there beats the universal mother heart—universal in its high hopes for her children's future and in its eager joy at personal sacrifice for their happiness.
A MADONNA OF THE GREAT PLAINS
The Indian race, in general, has offered resistance to the American “melting pot,” but Indian metal, after proper contact with civilized customs and industries, has gone into the making of many examples of splendid citizenship.
THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CHINA
Borg Mesch WARM HEARTS OF THE NORTH
The Lapland father may measure his wealth in herds of reindeer, in hides and pelts, but the Lapland mother knows that her bright-eyed, smiling baby and her sturdy two-year-old are the treasures beyond price.
A. B. Lewis A NEW GUINEA WOMAN AND BABY
This device is at a disadvantage when compared with an American cradle, but it is a touching evidence of maternal inventiveness and industry at work for baby's safety even in the South Seas.
Mrs. Charles K. Moser YOUNG SOMALI MOTHER AND BABE: ADEN
Even the primitive heart of a Somali woman is instinct with a sense of protection for the innocence and helplessness of a child.
S. J. Spooner A PATIENT MEXICAN MOTHER
When war for the peace of the world and “for the principles that gave her birth,” is welding the great heart of America into high-purposed unity, she must needs feel a deep pity for the mothers and children of distracted Mexico, and a just indignation that their burden of poverty and distress has been increased by selfish Prussian intrigue.
Hon. Belisario Porras INDIAN MOTHER AND BABE: PANAMA
The Cuna-Cuna, or Tule Indians of the San Blas coast of Panama, are of the purest aboriginal strain. For hundreds of years they have resisted amalgamation, and woe to the Cuna-Cuna belle who looks with favor upon a “foreign” lover. They are an intelligent race and are not savages by any means—even though nose rings are a part of the adornment of all members of the gentler sex, who wear them from the time they begin to walk.
Alexander Graham Bell MOTHER AND CHILD IN CEYLON
ln spite of the white man's improvements, the climate of Ceylon is not merciful to baby dwellers in “the Half-way House of the East”; but the little brown natives are merry and bright-eyed, nevertheless. Life is sweet; although, of course, much sweeter when one has a bit of palm sugar to suck.
Harriet Chalmers Adams MOTHERHOOD IN THE PHILIPPINES
He doesn't know that, after his mother, Uncle Sam is his best friend. Had he belonged to an earlier generation his childhood would have been spent at work in the fields until he was old enough to join father in head-hunting. Under American direction, the future probably holds for him an education and a respectable career as a farmer or as a member of the native police. At present he is just a healthy little Ifugao; mother's back is a warm and comfortable reality—and “Who is Uncle Sam, anyway?”
D. W. Iddings A HUNGARIAN GYPSY MOTHER AND CHILD—AT HOME
Neither the poets who have celebrated the gypsy passion for freedom and the open road, nor the ethnologists who have studied the mysterious origin of the race have offered an explanation of the Romany's lack of that almost universal quality—a love for home.
George R. King AN ESKIMO FAMILY
Tenderness and responsibility in their treatment of children is a virtue of the Eskimo which binds them closer to the brotherhood of civilized peoples than their skill at carving or with the needle.
Underwood & Underwood MARSHAL JOFFRE UNVEILS THE MEMORIAL TO LAFAYETTE IN PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN
Americans, as long as the United States endures, will reverence the name of Lafayette, who, though inheriting immense wealth and, as head of one of the oldest and most distinguished families, assured of an influential career in France, deliberately abandoned the advantages of birth to fight in our country for the liberation of mankind.
Photographs by Charles Martin and Ethel M. Bagg
ROLLING AND PASTING RATION HEATERS AT HOME
CUTTING THE NEWSPAPER ROLLS AND MELTING THE CANDLE ENDS
A SOLDIER BOILING HIS RATION OVER THE HOME-MADE RATION HEATERS
Three of these little rolls of paper, no larger than a spool of silk, saturated with hot paraffin and allowed to cool, will burn without smoke, which in the presence of the enemy is dangerous, and will boil a pint of soup in about ten minutes and keep lighted for twenty minutes or half an hour. By supporting the can of soup on pieces of rock and protecting the flames from the wind an ideal individual camp meal can be made.