Group photograph of women in a cooking class. Visible on the counters are burners, bowls, teapots, a pitcher, a scale, and a rolling pin. Handwritten on verso of photograph: "A Normal cooking class. Please return." "See Normal Year Book 1913." Stamped on verso of photograph: "Manual Arts Library, State Normal School, San Jose, California." and "Jno. O. Tucker, Photographic Studio, San Jose, Cal." Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
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