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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant embodies the reasons for this change of heart. With no previous industrial experience, she mastered the operation of this compressed-air machine in record time, and is now polishing airplane motor parts with speed and skill
A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph
U.S. Steel Homestead Works, 48" Plate Mill, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA
A group of men standing around a pile of chairs. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.
Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Brass discs are conveyed to a cupping press that forms them into the brass cups from which cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are drawn. They look harmless enough but each one will be a potential headache for Axis fliers by the time it comes off the production line
Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Grapes going into the hopper for crushing
Tying springs and upholstering chair at mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas
Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Brass discs are conveyed to a cupping press that forms them into the brass cups from which cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are drawn. They look harmless enough but each one will be a potential headache for Axis fliers by the time it comes off the production line
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A black and white photo of workers in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph
A black and white photo of workers in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph
A black and white photo of workers in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph
Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives
Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives
An old black and white photo of a street. Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives
Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives
Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives
A black and white photo of workers in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph
Summary
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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Russell grew up in Ottawa, Illinois and went to the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He gave up a position as a chemist to become a painter and used photography as a precursor to his painting, but soon became interested in photography as media. His earliest subjects were Pennsylvanian bootleg mining and the Father Divine cult. In the fall of 1936, during the Great Depression, Lee was hired for the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographic documentation project of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. He joined a team assembled under Roy Stryker, along with Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein and Walker Evans. Lee created some of the iconic images produced by the FSA, including photographic studies of San Augustine, Texas in 1939, and Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940. Over the spring and summer of 1942, Lee was one of several government photographers to document the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, producing over 600 images of families waiting to be removed and their later life in various detention facilities.