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Cleaned up version at Shorpy: www.shorpy.com/node/642 www.shorpy.com/node/642?size=_original#caption

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This photo was printed in the New York Times for August 26, 1917 to illustrate a story on the effort to supply cooks for the Army and the classes for Army cooks at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E6DC123FE4...

Art Siegel: Thanks for pointing us to the more complete story here. We will include the new information next time we update.

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Emma Hanks is actually Emma Hanko, see comment under

New-York tribune., May 26, 1917, Page 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-05-26/ed-... has a picture of Emma Hanks teaching other soldiers to make potato soup.

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Another photo of Gladys Kierstead, assistant steward of Pratt Institute is in bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55286595/

Emma Hanks is actually Emma Hanko, as identified in the newspaper links in the comments above and in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle article from August 20, 1917: bklyn.newspapers.com/image/55286686/?terms=emma%2Bhanko She was active in lecturing about home economics until at least the mid-30's. bklyn.newspapers.com/image/58336388/?terms=emma%2Bhanko

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Which was used in a New York Times story.

Emma Hanks is actually Emma Hanko. see comment under