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Sharecropper woman worker, Southeast Missouri Farms

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.

Woman picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey

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

Negro woman, almost blind, near Beaufort, South Carolina

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

Wife and husband and child. Note condition of woman's teeth. Living on outskirts of Jefferson, Texas

Wife and husband and child. Note condition of woman's teeth. Living on...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed...

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.

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., A...

Photograph shows woman ironing. Public domain reproduction of art deco poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She buoys up feminine morale in her department by arranging suitable living conditions for out-of-state employees and by helping them with their personal problems

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior ...

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

Middle East forces play Gilbert and Sullivan in Cairo Opera House

Middle East forces play Gilbert and Sullivan in Cairo Opera House

Photograph shows four females in military uniforms. Public domain photograph - portrait of an officer in military uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant women at work in packing plant. Berrien County, Michigan

Migrant women at work in packing plant. Berrien County, Michigan

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting of women's club. Granger Homesteads, Iowa

Meeting of women's club. Granger Homesteads, Iowa

Public domain photograph of office, auditorium, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FIRST LADY EATS FIVE CENT MEAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 14. CLIMAXING A CONFERENCE OF 'DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN DEPRESSION,' MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND OTHER PROMINENT WOMEN TONIGHT ATE A FIVE CENT 'RELIEF' DINNER. THE FIVE CENT MEAL WAS BASED ON THE ACTUAL PER- MEAL PER-PERSON FOOD BUDGET OF THE AVERAGE WOMAN WORKING ON WPA. IT EXCEEDS BY 2 CENTS THE AVERAGE FOR RELIEF FAMILIES. SHOWN IN THE PICTURE, L TO R: MRS. HUGH EASLEY, ST. LOUIS, MO, TYPICAL MOTHER ON RELIEF; LITTLE ...BASLEY, 3 YEARS OLD; AND MRS. ROOSEVELT

FIRST LADY EATS FIVE CENT MEAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 14. CLIMAXING A C...

A group of people sitting at a table with plates of food. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Women and men working in optical department, Frankford Arsenal, Frankford, Pennsylvania]

[Women and men working in optical department, Frankford Arsenal, Frank...

No. 35748. Photo from U.S. Army. Industrial service section. Women's branch.

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

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

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently arrived war worker from Cleveland, Ohio, was lucky. The 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall had just been opened for Negro women war workers, and the War Housing desk at the United States Informational Service referred her as a possible tenant. There she met W. Spurgeon Burke, managing director

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently ar...

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

New York, New York. Gypsy woman who is habitue of Marconi's Restaurant on Mulberry Street. She dropped in for a bite to eat New Year's Eve, and did a spontaneous dance to entertain the Di Costanzos family party

New York, New York. Gypsy woman who is habitue of Marconi's Restaurant...

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.

New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Testing a new anti-aircraft gun. This girl's job is to inspect guns and their mounts

New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at the Landers, Frary and Cla...

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

Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed and given an eye test, Mabel Goodwin, forty-five, is examined by a woman doctor at the employment office of the Bell Aircraft plant. She worked in a factory in the last war, and has since been a housewife, and has two children over fourteen

Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed and given an eye test, Mabe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Women knitting at the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East Fifty-ninth Street

New York, New York. Women knitting at the Lighthouse, an institution f...

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

[Portrait of Josephine Baker, Paris]

[Portrait of Josephine Baker, Paris]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV HH 10. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

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

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., p...

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

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

The raising of the siege of Jerusalem. Scene in the courtyard of a poo...

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

Home and family of oil field roustabout. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. During periods of unemployment the woman takes in washing and ironing

Home and family of oil field roustabout. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Duri...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Wort...

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

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc.

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, ...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane

Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembli...

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

WILSON, ROBERT WHITELOW, MRS. PORTRAIT

WILSON, ROBERT WHITELOW, MRS. PORTRAIT

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

Mrs. Bill Stagg exhibiting a quilt made from tobacco sacks which she ripped up, dyed, and pierced. Nothing is wasted on these homesteading farms. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Bill Stagg exhibiting a quilt made from tobacco sacks which she r...

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

FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor Miss Horton helping one of borrower's families cut pattern and make their own clothes. Caswell County, North Carolina

FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor Miss Horton helping...

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.

Mrs. Marinus Hansen, wife of a Box Elder County, Utah, Farm Security Admistration rehabilitation client, proudly surveys part of the home-canned fruits and vegetables she has put up as part of her home management plan. Most of these orchard and garden products were homegrown as well as home-preserved. Mrs. Hansen cans at least five hundred quarts yearly

Mrs. Marinus Hansen, wife of a Box Elder County, Utah, Farm Security A...

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

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle complete assembly and fitting operations on the interior of a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. About half of the workers at the Boeing plant are women. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers...

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.

A young woman employee in North American Aviation's plaster forms department mixes plaster of paris for master plaster formers from which metal (kirksite) dies are formed

A young woman employee in North American Aviation's plaster forms depa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-sized job. Before she came to work at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, Lorena was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under Civil Service

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. With a woman's determination, L...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

From National Youth Administration (NYA) to Washington navy yard. Beginning as a helper at $4.56 a day in the Washington navy yard, Miss Juanita E. Gray graduate trainee of the National Youth Adminstration War Production and Training Center now earns $45 a week. More than 300 NYA trained Negro women are now working in the Washington navy yard and scores are being added monthly

From National Youth Administration (NYA) to Washington navy yard. Begi...

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

Washington, D.C. Mary McLeod Bethune at Phyllis Wheatley YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) on Rhode Island Avenue

Washington, D.C. Mary McLeod Bethune at Phyllis Wheatley YWCA (Young W...

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

Buffalo, New York. Women workers washing up for lunch in a round sink in their newly-installed washroom at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy

Buffalo, New York. Women workers washing up for lunch in a round sink ...

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

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offering to women by New York University under United States Government sponsorship. Former housewife learning to measure objects to a thousandth of an inch with precision instruments

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offering to women...

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

IAGER, THELMA. PORTRAIT - Public domain photograph, glass negative

IAGER, THELMA. PORTRAIT - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

WOLBERG, MARION E., MISS. PORTRAIT

WOLBERG, MARION E., MISS. PORTRAIT

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

WOLBERG, MARION E., MISS. PORTRAIT

WOLBERG, MARION E., MISS. PORTRAIT

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

[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]

[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]

Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 20 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Farm women of the "Helping Hand" club display a pieced quilt which they are making for the benefit of one of their numbers. Near West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. General caption number 58-11

Farm women of the "Helping Hand" club display a pieced quilt which the...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...

Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in th...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, 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

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

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

A couple of people standing at a counter, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of people standing at a counter, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...

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.

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Dept. of the Naval Air Base, talking with one of the men, Corpus Christi, Texas

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs De...

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

FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor Miss Harton helping one of borrowers' families cut patterns and make their own clothes. Caswell County, North Carolina

FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor Miss Harton helping...

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.

WILSON, ROBERT WHITELOW, MRS. PORTRAIT

WILSON, ROBERT WHITELOW, MRS. PORTRAIT

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

An old woman sitting in a rocking chair. Office of War Information Photograph

An old woman sitting in a rocking chair. Office of War Information Pho...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a woman employee operates a turret lathe under the close supervision of a skilled machinist in North American's modern machine shop

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a wom...

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

Safe clothes for woman war workers

Safe clothes for woman war workers

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Women aircraft workers. Hollywood missed a good bet when they overlooked this attractive aircraft worker, who is shown checking electrical sub-assemblies in a large West Coast aircraft factory. Vega

Women aircraft workers. Hollywood missed a good bet when they overlook...

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

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Men and women work together to complete a fuselage framework for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. About half of the workers in this plant are women. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Men and women work together to complete...

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.

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Women riveters at the Boeing plant in Seattle work at assembly and fitting operations in the fuselage of a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Women riveters at the Boeing plant in S...

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.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, serves the Interceptor Command as a spotter. Use of binoculars is restricted to identification of planes; actual spotting is done with the naked eyes

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

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

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, slip woman, rolling the logs off the slip to the rack which holds them until the sawer is ready for them

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

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.

Kansas City, Missouri. Mildred Williams, one of several women freight handlers employed at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe freight depot

Kansas City, Missouri. Mildred Williams, one of several women freight ...

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.

Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training school for war workers

Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training sch...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Mildred L. Bunel, Long Island Railroad woman trainmen consulting a timetable for a passenger

Miss Mildred L. Bunel, Long Island Railroad woman trainmen consulting ...

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

[Woman wearing tennis outfit, seated on wall, with one leg on top of wall, looking at the mountains behind her]

[Woman wearing tennis outfit, seated on wall, with one leg on top of w...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 22. Published in: Harpers Bazaar. [New York : Hearst Corp., etc.] (1... More

[An African American woman and several children sitting on a bed in an apartment]

[An African American woman and several children sitting on a bed in an...

Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft...

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

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

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

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 group of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, Great Depress...

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

[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.

[Large group, mostly men, surrounds couples jitterbug dancing on a dan...

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).

Negro woman, almost blind, near Beaufort, South Carolina

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

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

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, ...

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

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Ir...

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

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman wo...

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

Woman living in camp near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her husband has been denied work relief. He is a world war veteran

Woman living in camp near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her hu...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children

Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after ...

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

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table. Great Depressio...

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.

An Italian farm woman near Providence, Rhode Island preparing spaghetti

An Italian farm woman near Providence, Rhode Island preparing spaghett...

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

Mrs. George Hutton putting the food on the table for dinner. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. George Hutton putting the food on the table for dinner. Pie Town,...

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

Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. Jones, tenant farmer, with armful of tobacco plants. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina

Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. Jones, tenant farmer, with armful of tobacco p...

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

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Housewives in war work "for the duration." Employed by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, these women workers are shown banding bottles used by the armed forces for blood transfusions, plasma, and serum. Evelyn Kohl (left) and Olive Western (right) each have two children; Gladys Eldert (right foreground) has a husband and brother in the Army

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Housewives in war work "for the...

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

[Japanese American woman making a screen print; man standing next to her holding up print]

[Japanese American woman making a screen print; man standing next to h...

War Relocation Authority. No. I-371. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Woman worker seen through a gas mask

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Woman worker seen throu...

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

As in the sub-assembly departments, men and women work together in the final assembly of North American P-51 Mustang fighters

As in the sub-assembly departments, men and women work together in the...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This woman employee mixes plaster to the right consistency as a master at plaster forming makes a mould for a new die

This woman employee mixes plaster to the right consistency as a master...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, women of a large West Coast aircraft factory are speeding the installation of electrical units contolling the engine. The leadman, center, goes from team to team, checking work, lending advice and assistance when necessary. Women are gradually replacing or augmenting men on the assmbly line itself, doing important and highly critical work -- and doing it well

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, wo...

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

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. A break in the work comes every once in a while when equipment needs minor repairs or adjustments. Left to right, Barbara and Norma Webber, and Ruth De Roche

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by U....

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.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer. She is the only woman welder in the plant. This is her first job outside her house

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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

Verona, New Jersey. Italian-American woman, with two sons in the Army, at the Annin Flag Company trimming threads from a finished flag for the government

Verona, New Jersey. Italian-American woman, with two sons in the Army,...

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

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Norma Webber, pit woman, throwing a board on its pile. Boards are heavy but the mill is laid out with a conveyor system so that lifting and carrying is kept at a minimum

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Jewish worker in the N.M. dress shop which is now making blouses for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). [S]he is a member of local 89 of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union

New York, New York. Jewish worker in the N.M. dress shop which is now ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a jacket, costume accessory, fashion design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FRANCES, JANET K. PORTRAIT - Public domain photograph, glass negative

FRANCES, JANET K. 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

Filipino Woman's Club, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Mrs. Solomon V. Arnaldo, wife of research director of Philippine Commonwealth and Miss Maren Ugarte, a secretary in commonwealth

Filipino Woman's Club, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Mrs. Solomon V....

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

Women assembled at Wheeley's Church near Gordonton, North Carolina, to clean up church and grounds on annual cleaning up day

Women assembled at Wheeley's Church near Gordonton, North Carolina, to...

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Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of...

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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa

Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in the...

Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right.

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas ...

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Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training met...

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Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Spanish-American woman rolling out tortillas near Taos, New Mexico. Taos County

Spanish-American woman rolling out tortillas near Taos, New Mexico. Ta...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...

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Migrant woman drinking coffee from saucer while camped near Prague, Oklahoma

Migrant woman drinking coffee from saucer while camped near Prague, Ok...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice she will be eligible for a civil service job in the capacity for which she has been trained

"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Co...

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Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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