Helen Veit on the history of children's food

Dr. Helen Veit discusses her research into children's food in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, and her use of materials from the Ernest Dichter papers in the Hagley Library for his project.

Dr. Veit is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University.

Banner image: Advertising card for Naphey's Philadelphia Leaf Lard from the Carter Litchfield Collection on the History of Fatty Materials, Hagley Digital Archives.