Cook stands with a ladle in the kitchen of a cooperative located at 21st and Santee St. in Los Angeles. Many self-sustaining communities like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Friday Morning Club members: Mrs. Paul Harper, Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs. James E. Wilson, Willa A. Prindle and Ann Chase pose behind a prep table while cooking for a Christmas luncheon. The butcher block preparation table stretches across the foreground on an angle back to the right. The women stand in a row on the far side of the table, posing behind mixing bowls. Pots and pans hang from a large rack above them. The kitchen's back wall stretches across the background.
Two cooks remove a pan from an oven in the Los Angeles County General Hospital's kitchen while an administrator watches. A cook at left holds onto a peel while standing behind a table. Behind and to the right of him, an administrator stands beside the wall oven and peers towards a tray of food. The oven is inset into the wall at center. Another cook stands to the right of the oven and guides the pan of food out of the oven and onto the peel. Behind him, at right, several pans of food sit on a shelving unit. Subway tiles surround the oven and line its wall.
Cooks and other kitchen staff at the Los Angeles County General Hospital pose beside a food delivery cart in the hospital's kitchen. They are viewed from a slightly elevated angle. The cart faces camera and sits off-center to the right. Plates and other dining utensils line its open shelves. Five kitchen staff stand around the cart. The kitchen stretches across the background. Employees stand around the carts that sit in rows in the background at left.
Three butchers prepare animal carcasses in the Los Angeles County General Hospital kitchen. One of the butchers stands at the butcher block table at left and prepares a shank. Behind him, another butcher begins to carve into one of the several animal carcasses hanging from hooks on an elevated track. The line of carcasses stretches across the image towards the right. The third butcher stands at right and holds his knives as he assesses the carcasses.
A cook pours liquid from a saucepan into a bucket while standing beside a large vat in the Los Angeles County General Hospital's kitchen. The large, metal vat sits at left with its lid flapped open. In front of it at right, several buckets sit atop a metal table. The cook stands behind the table and to the right of the vat. He appears to stand propped on an unseen stool. In one hand he holds a bucket, which catches the liquid he pours from a saucepan he holds in his other hand. Other kitchen cooks are visible in the background at right.
Possibly related to the article, "Hospital Set For Rites: County Edifice Opens Today New Institution, Amazing in Magnitude, Cost $13,000,000 Structure, Largest of Kind, Called Best Equipped in Nation," Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 1934: 11.
The camera pans down towards a seated Mrs. Valerie Lyon basting a turkey while children watch. Mrs. Lyon sits at right and in profile, facing left. In front of her at left, turkeys lie in a large roasting pan. Valerie Lyon holds onto the pan with one hand and bastes the turkeys with the other. Behind the roasting pan, 4 children stand together in a small group. They all point towards the turkey. The child nearest to camera looks directly at Mrs. Lyon. To the left of them, the kitchen's ranges stretch into the distance. A butcher block preparation table extends behind them at right.