Howard’s Catering Service in Minneapolis, building exterior, ca. 1960s. Photo by Marvin Makler Photography. Oscar C. Howard papers, 1945–1990, Cafeteria and Industrial Catering Business, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Restaurant trade-show booth for Howard’s Industrial Catering, displaying patented heated food carriers and advertising the Operation Leap Frog feeding program, ca. 1960s. Oscar C. Howard papers, 1945–1990, Cafeteria and Industrial Catering Business, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Restaurant trade-show booth for Howard’s Industrial Catering displaying patented heated food carriers, ca. 1960s. Photo by H. M. Schwang Photo Company. Oscar C. Howard papers, 1945–1990, Cafeteria and Industrial Catering Business, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Drawing to accompany application for United States Patent 3,129,317, awarded to Oscar Curtis Howard on April 14, 1964, for Heated Dinner Transport Apparatus. Oscar C. Howard papers, 1945–1990, Cafeteria and Industrial Catering Business, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Tri-folded catering menu used in the late 1950s by Oscar Howard’s Catering Service.

Twin Cities Arsenal cafeteria section head Oscar C. Howard and cafeteria employees, 1957. Industrial Relations Photographs, Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant files, box 143.E.17.2F., Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Oscar C. Howard with his first car, purchased in the 1940s while he was in college. It later served as the delivery vehicle for his catering business in Minneapolis. From the Oscar C. Howard papers (P1842), Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Oscar C. Howard with his first car, purchased in the 1940s while he was in college. It later served as the delivery vehicle for his catering business in Minneapolis. From the Oscar C. Howard papers (P1842), Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

The abandoned Whitesocks School near Rochelle, Georgia, ca. 1970s. Black students were segregated from white ones in the 1920s, when Oscar Howard attended. From the Oscar C. Howard papers (P1842), Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.

Oscar C. Howard with pecan pies, ca. 1950s. From “Cafeteria and Industrial Catering Business” in the Oscar C. Howard papers (P1842), Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.