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A black and white photo of a baby in a hospital bed. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people standing around a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A nurse holding a baby in her arms. Office of War Information Photograph

Nurse training. Nurses as well as teachers are needed in the hospital schoolroom where convalescing youngsters keep up with their school work

Nurse training. Care of infants is part of every student nurse's training

Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescence in children, as in adults, is hastened by the encouragement of interest in normal activities. Thus, a nurse's duties in a children's hospital takes on many of the aspects of the nursery school teacher or playground director, as youngsters improve in health

Nurse training. Nurses as well as teachers are needed in the hospital schoolroom where convalescing youngsters keep up with their school work

A woman in a nurse's uniform sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A nurse is feeding a baby in a crib. Office of War Information Photograph

Nurse training. The utmost skill is required of nurses who care for children in the orthopedic ward

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Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942
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Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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A corridor in the Amer. Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, which is supported by the A.R.C. Member of A.R.C. Home Communication Service writing a letter for an Amer. Soldier

Graduate register nurse, above, receives instruction in technique of anesthesia from doctor. There is a great demand for more well qualified anesthetists at present

Conversion. Toy factory. Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manemeit, have turned their skill from peacetime production of toy trains to the assembly of parachute flare casings for the armies of democracy. Along with other workers in this Eastern plant, they have turned their skill to the vital needs of the day, and in many cases have seen to it that the machinery they used to use does Uncle Sam's most important work today. Here, they are assembling parachute flare casings, using the same electric screwdrivers they formerly used to assemble the locomotives of toy trains. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

[Uncle Sam (as "Public Opinion") embracing nurse ("American womanhood"), saying: "If you are good enough for war you are good enough to vote"]

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Resident doctor and nurse attending a patient

Nurse training. A student regulates the oxygen flow into this tiny oxygen box where a premature infant "lives"

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

Nurse training. A student nurse, acting as physical therapist, points to the picture book, thus encouraging this toddler to learn to use his crutches

Vitliano Scambis is an Italian from New York. He has only taken out his first papers, but he is a real American and proud of it, despite the fact that his shoulder has been pretty well shot to pieces, his arm damaged and one of his eyes shot away, he greets everybody with a bright smile and says: "I gotta it very bad from those Huns. But if I had lost my life I would have been glad to give it for my country." Describing his brief stay in France to a Red Cross visitor, he said "I feel vera bad that I gotta it so soon, because I wanta to be out there a fighting. When I saw the poor French people and their cities all smashed, it broke my heart!" On another occasion he said, "American is my country. I want to go back to Italy and see my fodder and mudder for a few days after the war. Then I wantta go home to America!"

Sophia Volkovia in American Red Cross. Nurse's costume. Omsk Hospital, Western Siberia

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, patient Tom Kano, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Bridge game, Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi, Nurse Chiye Yamanaki, Miss Catherine Yamaguchi, Miss Kazoko Nagahama, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

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