Anon03/13/26, 19:57No.21929785
>Gemini, where can you find the united states navy cookbook from 1940 online? I doubt it's copyrighted. Surely it's available in some sort of freely accessible us.gov database?
>As you suspected, the 1940 United States Navy Cook Book is in the public domain and widely available through several archives. Because it was produced by the U.S. Navy Department's Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, it is a work of the U.S. Federal Government and was never subject to copyright. You can find the literal text and page images through the following authoritative digital repositories:-HathiTrust Digital Library, Search for: Catalog Record: 001046675. That gave this link: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001046675. The link to the University of Michigan on that page leads to the 1932 edition. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006282794 is at the University of California.
-Ibiblio (HyperWar Project) (1944 edition in link): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/CookBook/index.html
-Maritime.org (San Francisco Maritime National Park Association - 1945 edition): https://maritime.org/doc/cookbook1945/Just write a polite e-mail to the US Navy department or the University of California. The before and after versions are publicly available with a simple search, this one won't be any different (unless it involves war crimes).