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A group of women sitting around a wooden table. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people sitting around a table playing a game. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

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A group of women sitting around a wooden table. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by infantile paralysis, pretty Mary Elizabeth Conway, twenty-one, does a war job for Uncle Sam, and loves it. She's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on a contract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, is one of Uncle Sam's disabled war workers. With both legs afflicted by infantile paralysis, he's nevertheless an expert lathe operator and assistant foreman in a Baltimore factory. He's shown here turning the inside radius of spacers, which are part of an airplane motor's supercharger. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Erstwhile sewer of fine seams, Minnie Rost, crippled by infantile paralysis, has a new job which is vital to America's war effort. She's hand-burring Y's for aiplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower. Handicapped workers. With no previous industrial experience, Thelma Lilly learned to operate this burring machine three months ago and today is working full-time on Y's for America's battleships of the air. Despite crippling effects of arrested tuberculosis of the spine, Miss Lilly is one of America's invaluable women "behind the men behind the guns." She's one of a group of physically handicapped women at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Two women in a factory making glass bottles. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive paralysis, is still able to do a good job for Uncle Sam. With twenty-five-year-old Henriette Furley, she's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, where this work is done under subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. Henriette is badly crippled by arthritis and must work standing because of the arthritic condition from which she suffers. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

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01/01/1942
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Rosener, Ann, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Baltimore (Md.) ,  39.29028, -76.61222
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Exhibition at Architectural League. East wall

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Production. Copper. A thickener at a large copper concentrator of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Washington American League Baseball Club

A black and white photo of a mountain. Office of War Information Photograph

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense, which includes child care and training. At the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, pre-school guidance as well as free play activities are provided. Miss L.C. Randolph is principal and Mrs. Vivian T. Turner, instructor in the child care and training classes

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]

Washington, D.C. Information is given to young women's Army Auxiliary Corps by Lieutenant Harriet West and Lieutenant Mildred Osby

Production. Copper (refining). Pouring copper ingots at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

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maryland baltimore nitrate negatives baltimore md manpower workers handicaps women work uncle sam uncle sam war effort war effort league maryland league children airplane engines airplane engines company white 1940 s women farm security administration 1940 s history of baltimore maryland united states history library of congress