This album page from a U.S. Army Quartermaster depot in postwar Germany documents the kitchen serving the installation's 'civilian mess' - likely local labor employed at the depot. Large steam-jacketed kettles, still a mainstay of institutional cooking, line the room alongside pressure gauges and venting equipment. Such photographs, mounted with hand-lettered ribbon captions, were common in soldiers' personal scrapbooks documenting daily depot operations during the occupation period, circa 1945. Project: 218575