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

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

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

A group of women sitting around a wooden table. 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

A woman is working on a piece of wood. 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. 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

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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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Milk truckers do not! pick up milk at farms where there are cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, spinal meningitis, smallpox, typhoid Report all cases on your route to .... Food and Drug Administration [sic].

Liebe macht kurzen Prozess. Libretto. Libretto. German

San Juan, Puerto Rico. In the huge slum area known as "El Fangitto." The concrete causeway is the sewer line from the Eleanor Roosevelt housing project in Rio Piedras

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Pouring whiskey into a sewer, National Photo Company, Washington DC

FIRST LADY CUTS PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 30. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CUTS THE OFFICIAL PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE AT WARDMAN PARK HOTEL TONIGHT TO COMPLETE A ROUND OF THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS IN THE CAPITAL. THE FIRST LADY THEN RETURNED TO THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE SHE LISTENED TO THE PRESIDENT IN A RADIO ADDRESS EXPRESS HIS APPRECIATION TO THE COUNTRY FOR ATTENDING THE BALLS, FUNDS FROM WHICH WILL GO TOWARD THE FIGHT AGAINST INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Inspecting threaded parts

Liebe macht kurzen Prozess. Libretto. Libretto. German

Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. Collecting garbage from an open sewer

Laura Minnie Lee Tengle - Public domain portrait print

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association, Inc. Hilly house painting job at 319 Wolfe St., Alexandria, Virginia V

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. This man went from Nashville to Ohio to get a defense job. Though manpower was being eagerly sought, he was told he must wait sixty days before going to work, so not being able to afford it, he is returning to Nashville. He said he didn't think he had left a defense job. He was a street cleaner in Nashville

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