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Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. (See Hine report.) Location: Eastport, Maine

A group of women sitting around a wooden table - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad as car repairmen helpers, earning seventy-two cents per hour. They reside in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and carpool with fellow workers. Dismantling sides of the old hopper cars

San Bernardino, California. Women "suppliers" who work at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse. Their job is replacing lamps and oil cans on incoming locomotives. Left to right: Trinidad Gutierrez and Molly Alcanto. Mrs. Gutierrez has four children. Her husband is in the hospital after an injury at the Kaiser Fontana steel mill. Miss Alcanto's boyfriend is in the army

"Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Phoenix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Employees eating their lunch in a shed. In the foreground is Mrs. Daisy Perkins, trimmer. Others, from left to right, Norma Webber, "pit woman"; Mrs. Violet Storey, "take-away"; Mrs. Elizabeth Esty and Florence Drouin, "pond-woman"; Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, "slip woman"; Ruth De Roche, "pit woman"; Barbara Webber, "edger"; and Mrs. Lucy De Greenia, "take away"

Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "Dinner-toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to the machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's [?] Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Market day in Siberian city. This little town on the Trans-Siberian railroad is one of the distrubuting centers for the American Red Cross medical relief in Siberia. Peasant women flock to town on market day bringing small quantities of food stuffs; a mere handful compared to the amounts that were forthcoming in the old days before the war. In lieu of money, they ask for manufactured articles when they sell food now. The little "Victoria-like" carriages in the foreground are the well-known Droshkys; the "taxis" of Holy Russia

A black and white photo of a woman in a warehouse. Office of War Information Photograph

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Emma Dougherty who does a man's work for a man's pay, cleaning out her end-grinding machine

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Left to right: Bertha Carlotta, twenty-nine, a machinist testing axles; Anna Plecenik, twenty-four, a machinist's helper, working a drill press; Mary Stefanski, thirty-seven, a blacksmith's helper; Cecelia Wadkowski, thirty-five, a machinist operating a turret lathe; and Susan Topolosky, thirty-two, a machinist's helper operating a radial dial press

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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pennsylvania allegheny county pitcairn nitrate negatives lunch hour lunch hour women locker yards railroad pennsylvania railroad bertha carlotta bertha carlotta twenty nine machinist axles anna plecenik anna plecenik twenty four helper drill press drill press mary stefanski mary stefanski thirty seven blacksmith cecelia wadkowski cecelia wadkowski thirty five turret lathe turret lathe susan topolosky susan topolosky thirty two farm security administration united states history library of congress
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Good men, good machines, good materials mean good gears for the rear axles of halftrac scout cars now being produced for our Army in an Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

A man sitting on top of a pile of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Lunch hour for the workmen in a big Midwest plant where old tires are transformed

President Coolidge presents Congressional Medal of Honor to sailor Hero. William Russel Huber, Machinist Mate, First Class, United States Navy, receiving from President Coolidge today the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to him for an act of outstanding heroism. After a boiler explosion on the U.S.S. Bruce last June 11, Huber rescued shipmates and then succeed in closing off the steampipes at the risk of his own life. In the picture at extreme left is Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, while on the right is Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Paint Locker, Northwest corner of Davis Avenue & Ellsberg Drive, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

A couple of men sitting on top of a wooden bench. Office of War Information Photograph

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Girls placing lard, spice and onions in cans before the pork is added. Left to right: Bonnie Williams, age twenty-one, used to work in shirt factory, has a husband in the U.S. Army; Elta Wininger, age twenty-nine, ex-housewife, has a brother in North Africa

Clifford Beason examining a sample of corn raised in 1936. The corn in this crib represents total crop from two hundred thirty acres of corn in five hundred twenty acre farm. His estimate of the crop is thirty-five bushels. Iowa

Lunch hour at the Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California

[Woman working turret lathe in training school, Lincoln Motor Co., Detroit, Mi., during World War I]

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, and her helper, milking cows. She sells from eight to ten pounds of butter each week. Coffee County, Alabama

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pennsylvania allegheny county pitcairn nitrate negatives lunch hour lunch hour women locker yards railroad pennsylvania railroad bertha carlotta bertha carlotta twenty nine machinist axles anna plecenik anna plecenik twenty four helper drill press drill press mary stefanski mary stefanski thirty seven blacksmith cecelia wadkowski cecelia wadkowski thirty five turret lathe turret lathe susan topolosky susan topolosky thirty two farm security administration united states history library of congress