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Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of 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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trudy Ederle & sister - Public domain image related to music prformance, photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se More

Mrs. W.D. Mowry - Public domain portrait photograph

A woman sitting at a table with a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Carroll Miller - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a crowd. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Helen Clark, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Helen Clark, New York-born contralto opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain More

Water nymphs - A group of women standing on top of a rock in the water

3 girls wearing bathing suits standing on rock in water; center girl standing straight up and holding hands of girls on either side, who are leaning backwards.

Portrait photo of Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G401-4750 (several images); 1925 July

Portrait photo of Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G401-4750 (several images); 1925 July

[Elizabeth Hughes, half-length portrait, facing front]

Married W.T. Gossett. Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

McNEIR, ELINOR. PORTRAIT - Public domain photograph, glass negative

A black and white photo of a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman smiling. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Substitute fuels tested. Conducting an experiment to determine whether engine wear is increased by the use of fuel substitutes, Emmet L. Reed of Washington, D.C. makes an identification mark on the cylinder of an automobile engine. The rate of the mark's disappearance will determine the degree of wear. This is part of the "ersatz" fuel experiments which are being conducted at the U.S. Bureau of Standards

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of Angevine Shaffer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Woman who lives in row house. Baltimore, Maryland

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New York, New York. 1938(?) A woman and girls at the back of an apartment house on East 63rd Street

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A black and white photo of a woman holding a bunch of flowers, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman cotton picker dragging bag of cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

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Negro women hoeing, Picayune, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women selling ice cream to parade watchers, Cincinnati, Ohio

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Woman picking carrots, Camden County, New Jersey

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm woman beside her barn door. Tulare County, California. No more horseshoes!

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women decorating float. National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of Negro women at revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shenandoah(?), Pennsylvania. Two women on a street corner, near a Protestant church, on Sunday morning

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Woman and son downtown at the parade, Cincinnati, Ohio

Public domain image of coupe, engagement, family, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monument, memorial, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a burial, cemetery, funeral, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman decorating family burial vaults in cemetery at New Roads, Louisiana on All Saints' Day

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[Fiddling Bill Hensley, playing fiddle and unidentified woman, at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina]

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during the Asheville Mountain Music Festival. Handwritten on back: "Asheville, N.C."; "Fiddling Bill Hensle More

Negro woman, almost blind, near Beaufort, South Carolina

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Women picking carrots. These women come from the Italian section of Philadelphia to work on the large truck farms in Camden County, New Jersey

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing around a table with food, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

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.

Man and woman looking at display of cheap jewelry, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Large group, mostly men, surrounds couples jitterbug dancing on a dance floor, with a photographer in the foreground and the audience in raised seating on the left] / photo by Alan Fisher.

NYWT&S staff photo. Date stamped on verso: Jun 13 1938. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Woman being weighed, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

PRESS WOMEN FETE MRS. ROOSEVELT ON 54TH BIRTHDAY. WASHINGTON, D.C.OCTOBER 11. CELEBRATING HER 54TH BIRTHDAY TODAY, MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WAS ENTERTAINED AT A SPECIAL LUNCHEON IN HER HONOR BY MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB. THE FIRST LADY IS PICTURED CUTTING HER BIRTHDAY CAKE, WHICH INCIDENTLY CONTAINEDONLY 21 CANDLES. MISS HOPE RIDINGS MILLER, PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB, IS ON THE LEFT

A woman cutting a cake with candles on it. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a woman in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cajun woman patching in corner of living room. Near Crowley, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women examining stock of goods. Co-op store. Southeast Missouri farms, Missouri

Public domain photograph of pharmacy, convenience store, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman living in shack at Tin Town, Caruthersville, Missouri, in front of shelf used as kitchen cabinet. Note ceiling and dirt floor

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the first sheet of equal rights seals.]

Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Mary Pickford, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a suit and hat, and holding a sheet of Equal Rights seals. Title derived by Library of Congres More

Shenandoah(?), Pennsylvania. Two women talking outside a house at the end of a street, watching some neighbors and the unloading of a truck on a drab-looking side street

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Some men and a woman at Filipek's bar

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Women watching accomplishments of vegetable shredder at display, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of catering, dinner table arrangement, caterer, restaurant, food, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm woman. Stockton, California. Tenant Purchase applicant

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of a woman in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two women standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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.

FIRST LADY BREAKS PRECEDENT IN SPEAKING TO MEMBERS OF NATION PRESS CLUB. WASHINGTON, D.C. SEPTEMBER 28. ADDRESSING MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB AT A LUNCHEON MEETING TODAY, MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT BROKE A RULE OF MANY YEAR'S STANDING. SHE IS THE FIRST WOMAN TO HAVE ADDRESSED THE NEWSMEN AT A REGULAR LUNCHEON MEETING SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CLUB IN 1905. SHE SPOKE ON RESETTLEMENT BUT THE TALK WAS OFF-THE-RECORD

A woman standing in front of a table full of food. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman pushing a baby in a stroller, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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.

[Woman with large topaz crystal from Brazil, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman posing with the Tucson Ring meteorite at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of women working along railroad tracks hoeing and burning cut grass, Picayune, Mississippi

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women and children waiting to see the doctor, who visits the project once a week. Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"TRIBUTE TO MARIE CURIE." WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 11. A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF MARIE CURIE "A GREAT SCIENTIST AND A GREAT WOMAN" WAS PAID TODAY BY A GROUP OF DISTINGUISHED WOMEN, REPRESENTING THE 100,000 MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S FIELD ARMY OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE CONTROL OF CANCER, WHO PRESENTED A SPECIALLY BOUND EDITION OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF MADAME CURIE, TO JULE HENRY, MINISTER PLENTIPOTENTIARY OF FRANCE, MARJORIE B. ILLIG, ONSET, MASS. NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE WOMEN'S FIELD ARMY MAKES THE PRESENTATION WHILE MRS. ROOSEVELT, WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT, LOOKS ON

A group of people standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm woman, Halifax County, North Carolina

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women with baby carriage, L Street, Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women packing apricots in large open sheds adjoining the orchards. Brentwood, California

Public domain photograph of worker, people working, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women at Sunday school picnic, Jere, West Virginia

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.

The raising of the siege of Jerusalem. Scene in the courtyard of a poor Moslem [i.e., Muslim] Home, showing Mrs. F. Vester, president of the American Colony Aid Association, handing out a loaf of bread to the veiled Moslem woman & her 2 little boys

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aged Cajun woman using crude mortar and pestle in process of hulling rice. Near Crowley, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm woman standing by well. West Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sharecropper woman worker, Southeast Missouri Farms

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro woman, almost blind, near Beaufort, South Carolina

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of women, wives of members of Southeast Missouri Farms, at a meeting when Dr. Alexander visited this project

Public domain photograph - 20th century group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Royal Swedish feminist lays wreath at Capitol. Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 1938. Baroness Ebba Nordenfelt, left, member of the recently organized World Women's Party, laying wreath before the Statue of the Equal Rights Pioneers located in the Capitol. The Baroness is here to make plans for Sweden's participation in the World Woman's Party meeting at its new headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Mrs. Annerika Fries, also of Sweden, is shown with the Baroness

A black and white photo of a woman standing next to a statue. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women playing bingo, a very popular game at state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Ukrainian women at a political meeting

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daughter and son of Indian woman near Pembroke. Maxton, North Carolina

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Woman with child in front of store during National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mexican women buying pottery from street peddler, San Antonio

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro woman dipping snuff while watching them make sorghum syrup at Cane Mill, on Wes Chris' property near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939

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Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ordnance plant

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman migrant packinghouse worker and her oldest child fixing supper. She has three other children. Belle Glade, Florida

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant woman from Arkansas living in contractor's camp near Westley, California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

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.

Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes

Public domain photograph of theatrical or movie production, scene, actors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tobacco stand keeper talking with woman. Streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican woman flattening and shaping tortillas between two boards hinged together, San Antonio, Texas

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman sitting in a chair, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of an old woman. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

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.

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, California

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mexican woman preparing spinach. San Antonio, Texas. The spinach was a part of her relief commodities

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Negro women cleaning up damaged bales of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

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WHITE HOUSE TEA GIVEN FOR WOMEN LEADERS IN THE 'FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS' CAMPAIGN, WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 11. FOLLOWING A TEA AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, MRS. ROOSEVELT AND PROMINENT WOMEN LEADERS IN THE 'FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS' CAMPAIGN BROADCAST OVER A COAST-TO-COAST NETWORK THE URGENT NEED FOR MORE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS PATIENTS IN THIS COUNTRY. L TO R: MARGARET McBRIDE, KNOWN AS MARTHA DEAN OF THE RADIO; MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT, MRS. HARRY WOODRING; REP. EDITH NOURSE ROGERS; AND CATHREEN CARRICO, OF CLINTON, MD, WHO CONTRACTED INFANTILE PARALYSIS WHEN A SMALL CHILD AND WHO STAGED A REMARKABLE RECOVERY. SHE NOW SINGS OVER THE RADIO

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.