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Children of Italian migratory workers who have come from Delaware to work in the onion fields near Cedarville, New Jersey

Yauco, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum areas

The Sounders i.e. Saunders family playing trains with Martin Brown (in soldier suit), a neighbor's child. Chicago, Illinois

The Sounders family playing trains with Martin Brown (in soldier suit), a neighbor's child. Chicago, Illinois

Buffalo Hill, Aroostook County, Maine. Younger members of the congregation eat cookies, flavorade and homemade wild strawberry ice cream, refreshments served in the social period following a Congregational church service held in a one-room rural school house

Buffalo Hill, Aroostook County, Maine. Younger members of the congregation eat cookies, flavorade and homemade wild strawberry ice cream, refreshments served in the social period following a Congregational church service held in a one-room rural school house

A black and white photo of three children, possibly related to: Children of resettlement farmer, Skyline Farms, Alabama

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of three children.

A black and white photo of a group of children. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war plants call for their children at a war nursery in the Chalkstone Avenue School in Providence. This Chalkstone Avenue war nursery is one of thirty-five in Rhode Island for pre-school children whose mothers are employed in war work

War workers' nursery. Two or three hours of rest every afternoon is part of a modern day nursery's schedule. These children of war-working mothers are settling down for naps after a morning of indoor and outdoor play

Children working under the direction of a sister in the Garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur, near Paris. Before the war the Sisters of the convent cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood teaching them housework, etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came the sisters fooered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room, and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the American Red Cross which now contribute the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, blankets, etc

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 and at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, courses in home-making and the preservation of foods are now taught all young women. Photo shows Miss Laura Russell removing a can of string beans from pressure cooker

Children working under the direction of a sister in the garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur near Paris. Before the war the sisters cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood, teaching them house work etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came, the sisters offered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the AMERICAN RED CROSS which now contributes the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, etc

Children are taught good eating habits at nursery established by the Health for Victory Club in a new project of the club's nutrition program at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, at Mansfield, Ohio. Under the direction of a paid kindergarten teacher, the children are taught fundamentals of food and health, while their mothers, who are wives of war workers at the plant, study new points of nutrition under war-time conditions. The Health for Victory Club at the Mansfield plant has developed a program of safeguarding workers' health by buying and serving the foods that make up well-balanced meals that is now used by 640 war plants throughout the country. The Mansfield plant has a labor-management committee formed by representatives of the management and the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers of America

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 and at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, courses in home-making and the preservation of foods are now taught all young women. Photo shows Miss Elizabeth Wood blanching carrots to loosen skin for removal

Kindergarten work at Grandbourg par Evry-Petit-Bourg (Seine & Oise) Colony France-American. Kindergarten work at Grandbourg, (Seine & Oise). This is a colony of 100 little refugee girls established by the Comite Franco-American for la protection des enfants de la frontiere. The children are under the care of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion and a member of the Jardin d'Enfants Unit of the AMERICAN RED CROSS has been assigned to aid with the younger children certain days of the week

An old photo of a woman and a child. Office of War Information Photograph

Public nurseries for U.S. war workers' children After a warm meal at noontime, these American children take off their shoes for their nap in their public nursery, one of forty-one servicing an industrial area of thirty miles on the western U.S. coast. Their parents are working in a shipyard and their nursery school was established through funds appropriated by the U.S. Congress for the benefit of war workers' children. The nursery is open from six a.m. to six p.m.

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Portrait of America, no. 22.

Neg. no. LC-USW4-16579.

Forms part of the Portrait of America collection.

Transfer; U.S. Office of War Information.

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

A black and white photo of a room filled with beds. Office of War Information Photograph

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

A black and white photo of a man standing in the snow. Office of War Information Photograph

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at Wake and Midway Halls, latest addition to the housing for war workers in Washington, D.C. The new buildings will house 1,000 Negro women war workers and is being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor

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

Queens, New York. Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. Nursery workers singing with the children

War workers. Social activities. A sailor enjoys table tennis at the USO (United Service Organization) center in Washington, D.C.

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

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A noontime rest for a full- fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

War workers' nursery. Every youngster who attends the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California must be inspected by Mrs. Elsie Curran, supervisor, before mingling with the other children. Here, five-year-old Ronnie Gold has her chest inspected

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background

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children day care nursery schools world war social aspects photographic prints public nurseries public nurseries workers war workers noontime american american children shoes nap forty one area thirty miles thirty miles coast parents shipyard school nursery school funds congress benefit six p 1940 s 40 s lot 4055 photo nursery ultra high resolution high resolution architecture library of congress wwii wwii photographs