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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 17, 2015
Caption: Commissary
Additional Description: Built by the U.S. Army in 1862, the commissary storehouse housed the garrison's food stuffs and supplies. A typical army meal on the frontier included hardtack, salt pork, rice, coffee, beans, and brown sugar. To supplement their army diet soldiers could purchase food items from the post sutler and grow vegetables from small gardens.
Submitted: December 19, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p342429
File Size: 3.640 Megabytes

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