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Farm woman standing by well. West Virginia

Farm woman standing by well. West Virginia

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

Mexican woman cooking tortillas. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican woman cooking tortillas. San Antonio, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of cooking, kitchen, food preparation, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Mexican women separating meat from shells. Pecan shelling plant. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican women separating meat from shells. Pecan shelling plant. San A...

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

Farm woman putting "barnyard lignite" in kitchen stove. McIntosh County, North Dakota

Farm woman putting "barnyard lignite" in kitchen stove. McIntosh Count...

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

Mrs. Schroeder, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, with daughter. Cavalier County, North Dakota

Mrs. Schroeder, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, w...

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. Sauer packing lunches for children before school. Cavalier County, North Dakota

Mrs. Sauer packing lunches for children before school. Cavalier County...

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

Farm woman holding one of her children in submarginal farm area of Rumsey Hill, near Erin, New York

Farm woman holding one of her children in submarginal farm area of Rum...

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

A black and white photo of two women sitting at a table. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two women sitting at a table. Great Depress...

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

Dinner on ranch of rehabilitation borrower during goat shearing and kidding season. Kimble County, Texas. The man is a neighboring rancher who has been hired to help out with the work at this particular time. The woman is his wife who is helping out in the house

Dinner on ranch of rehabilitation borrower during goat shearing and ki...

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

Mrs. Jones, wife of tenant farmer, dropping tobacco plants in places scooped out for them. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina

Mrs. Jones, wife of tenant farmer, dropping tobacco plants in places s...

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

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

Mrs. D'Achioli and her sister. They run a truck farm and are FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients. There are fourteen in the family, some of whom help out by working in the mills. Johnston, Rhode Island

Mrs. D'Achioli and her sister. They run a truck farm and are FSA (Farm...

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.

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

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPM), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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

Spanish-American women making plaster of straw and mud to replaster house. Chamisal, New Mexico

Spanish-American women making plaster of straw and mud to replaster ho...

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

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one-room cabins. Rent one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Bettenhausen with bread she is baking. McIntosh County, North Dakota

Mrs. Bettenhausen with bread she is baking. McIntosh County, North Dak...

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

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Men and women from all walks of life, like the members of this riveting team, contribute their skills to the production of B-17F heavy bombers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Men and women from all walks of life,...

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

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.

Safe clothes for woman war workers

Safe clothes for woman war workers

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Large plane parts are formed on a special hydraulic press in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation. Two women employees keep it in constant operation during their shift. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Large plane parts are forme...

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

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Women at work on a wing section for a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Women at work on a wing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hydraulic press department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, at Inglewood, California, places a sheet metal part on a Masonite die prior to moving it under the press. The 3,000 ton press takes only about ten seconds to do the actual forming. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hyd...

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

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and skilled winding of coils for distribution transformers; for this reason, women are often preferred for the job. Production of these coils has been stepped up enormously due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and ski...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women work side by side with men in the engineering department of the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. The young woman pictured traces complicated drawings of the thousands of parts that go into a modern fighting plane. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women work side by side wit...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman worker rivets a nacelle door in the sheet metal sub-assembly department of the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman worker rivets a nac...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. In the engineering department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, at Inglewood, California, women are replacing men on the tracing tables. Here, a girl employee traces an original drawing for a blue print. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. In the engineering departme...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which this warship of the air is built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. Th...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. Setting rivets in a frame member for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Setting rivets in a frame member for a B-25 ...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Detroit, Michigan. The Briggs school for training women aluminum workers

Detroit, Michigan. The Briggs school for training women aluminum worke...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Epping, North Dakota. Coffee and pie served by ladies of the WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) after meeting held in the high school to promote sale of defense stamps and bonds

Epping, North Dakota. Coffee and pie served by ladies of the WCTU (Wom...

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

Washington, D.C. Woman worker in a wartime machine shop using a chair designed to rest her back and be manufactured with a minimum use of metal

Washington, D.C. Woman worker in a wartime machine shop using a chair ...

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

Meat rationing preview. Reporters make their own news. Washington correspondents get preview of meat rationing in operation with Office of Price Administration officials behind counter. In left foreground is Mrs. Philip Crowlie, OPA's "typical housewife," explaining the system to a woman reporter, while Harold Rowe, food rationing chief, figures point values on the scale

Meat rationing preview. Reporters make their own news. Washington corr...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Women attending a training class

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Women attending a ...

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

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant. This woman is forty-five, and worked in a factory in the last war; has since been a housewife, and has two children over fourteen

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment ...

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

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.

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling rivet holes in the side panel of the aft monocoque. Using a hand drill, the young woman in this scene is drilling rivet holes in the side panel of the aft monocoque, a step in the fabrication process of manufacturing Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) 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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling rivet holes in t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, 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. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the teletype room of the OWI. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Esther V. Myers is shown at a receiving machine in the teletype room of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics while Miss Shirley K. Conway dispatches news on an ASR machine

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

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

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, 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

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

Aged Cajun woman using crude mortar and pestle in process of hulling r...

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

Negro woman living on farm near Jefferson, Texas, preparing dinner

Negro woman living on farm near Jefferson, Texas, preparing dinner

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, 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

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

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

Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahoma. The man and his wife had farmed in this vicinity for many years. However, they had always been renters. They have found it increasingly difficult to find land and house for rent. They had moved to the river bottom where they were camping out while working in the nearby fields. The mosquitoes were bad. They had to move to higher ground by the roadside. The entire family--mother, father and six children--had malaria. When the man was asked if there was much malaria among the people, he replied, "Yes, they have always started chillin' and they'll keep achillin' till frost, them that don't die." The father and two children were chopping cotton for a dollar a day. The father said "that as soon as they got a few dollars ahead it came a rain and they spent their money before it was dry enough to work again." They had a car and were going on to California as soon as they had enough money. The woman's sister is living in Bakersfield, California, and they want to get out there. "They ain't doing much, but he's making a living and I ain't making it here."

Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahom...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miss Chappelle, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor, instructing Mrs. Handy, FSA borrower, in use of pressure cooker. Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Miss Chappelle, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor, in...

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. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Even women are used in the complex job of installing engines in "Valiant" basic trainers at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Even women are used in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish-American woman stirring pan of cooking beans. Small boy is roasting sweet corn on top of the stove. Chamisal, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman stirring pan of cooking beans. Small boy is roa...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Kenntucky. Farm Security...

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 of Spanish extraction picking over chili peppers before she hangs them up to dry. Concho, Arizona. Chili peppers are one of the main cash crops

Woman of Spanish extraction picking over chili peppers before she hang...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, 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.

Mrs. Clarence N. Pace canning English peas in her pressure cooker with Miss Louise Martin, the home management supervisor, helping. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

Mrs. Clarence N. Pace canning English peas in her pressure cooker with...

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. Marie R. Turner, and David Donoho at a pie and box supper. Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand school, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Mrs. Marie R. Turner, and David Donoho at a pie and box supper. Many p...

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

Mrs. Carey and Mrs. Pheobe Watrons [i.e., Miss Phebe Watrous,] seventy-four [sic] and eighty-three years old respectively. Old residents of Ledyard, Connecticut

Mrs. Carey and Mrs. Pheobe Watrons [i.e., Miss Phebe Watrous,] seventy...

Photo shows Miss Phebe Watrous (at left) and Miss Caroline Watrous, who was 11 years younger. They never married, and both died in 1945. (Source: Family member, 2011.)

Negro woman still living in the Hinesville Army camp area who has not yet found a place to move. Near Hinesville, Georgia

Negro woman still living in the Hinesville Army camp area who has not ...

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

Women who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room for women at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) duration dormitories. Bremerton, Washington

Women who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room for women 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.

Women aircraft workers. Uncle Sam's fighting men can thank the girls they left behind for the great job they're doing on America's production line. These two young women are working on the control column of a giant bomber at one of the West Coast's aricraft factories. Vega

Women aircraft workers. Uncle Sam's fighting men can thank the girls t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women who are welders discuss the production of motor mounts and welded parts in their department

Women who are welders discuss the production of motor mounts and welde...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At a Three Kings' eve party in the home of a farm laborer's family. The woman is serving "pastellas," a tamale-like dish made with plantain

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At a Three Kings' eve party in the ho...

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework factory. Minimum wage is six dollars a week

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework facto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. This woman employee at the Inglewood, California, plant of the North American Aviation, assembles control cables inside the fuselage of a P-51 fighter. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. This woman employee at the ...

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

Women aircraft workers. Two Pearl Harbor widows work to defeat the Axis at a West Coast aircraft plnat. Mrs. Fern Evans, left and Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola work as a team on the riveting of radio support assemblies for bomber planes. Neither had previous mechanical experience prior to this job, but both are now successfully handling complicated mechanical jobs

Women aircraft workers. Two Pearl Harbor widows work to defeat the Axi...

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

In North American's tank department, a woman employee rivets a rib. Tanks like these with high test gasoline enable United Nations bombers to fly faster and farther

In North American's tank department, a woman employee rivets a rib. Ta...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Audience at the Armistice Day rally. The nearest woman in wearing a Mennonite bonnet

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Audience at the Armistice Day rally. The nearest...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Second Lieutenant Mildred L. Osby of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

Washington, D.C. Second Lieutenant Mildred L. Osby of the Women's Army...

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

Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in war plants, but it's serious business here, for these two are among the hundreds of young people employed in a West Coast aircraft plant. He's a leadman and is instructing her in the use of a power rivet-squeezing machine

Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in ...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. This girl is applying sealing ply material to a covered building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, b...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACS on parade ground going through the company drill. The U.S. Army men who trained these WAACS say they are better marchers than men and take a lot of pride in the way the girls have caught on, Des Moines, Iowa, 1942

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACS on parade ground going through the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Flathead Valley special area project, Montana. Mrs. Ed Line, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower

Flathead Valley special area project, Montana. Mrs. Ed Line, wife of F...

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.

Production. B-25 bombers. Riveting frame for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Riveting frame for a B-25 bomber. The Wester...

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

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C.

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. A group of young war wor...

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

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker and drums of various types of wire that are used for electrical connections throughout the bomber

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker and drums of var...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. This truckload of Florida migrants had been on the way three days and three nights. It was raining much of the time, and one woman contracted pleurisy. The trip cost each person about eight dollars. They arrived at the camp at 4:30 a.m. in a drizzle

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, becomes the home for WAVES in training. Here, midshipmen take on a heavy schedule to learn the duties of an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. G.I. textbooks are distributed to the Midshipmen

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northam...

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Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Although she spends eight hours a day preparing ammunition for America's fighting forces, Eva Smuda has plenty of energy left after work to keep the lawn in shape

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Although she spends eight hours a day prepa...

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Young defense woman. This young woman, trained in a National Youth Administration (NYA) work center, is contributing to defense as the result of skill acquired on the government project. Scene from Women in Defense, Office of War Information (OWI) motion picture which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote the commentary. In addition to industrial workers the film shows defense activities of women of science and the volunteer services

Young defense woman. This young woman, trained in a National Youth Adm...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Controls for B-25 bomber are assembled by men and women in the machine parts sub-assembly department of North American's Inglewood, California, plant. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Controls for B-25 bomber ar...

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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 ...

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New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the angle of a machined part in degrees and minutes with a five-inch sine bar and vernier height gauge, and consulting a table of constants for a five-inch sine bar

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman welder attaching pipe angles

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman welder attac...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Electrical sub-assembly. This trio of women employees at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. is working on electrical sub-assemblies for Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) 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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Electrical sub-assembly. ...

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New York, New York. Industrial training for women. Girl learning mechanical drawing

New York, New York. Industrial training for women. Girl learning mecha...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Beaumont, Texas. Woman employed at the city transit company to clean busses

Beaumont, Texas. Woman employed at the city transit company to clean b...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Drilling holes in bomb fuses

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

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Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Women employees rushing for their coats in the women's locker room at 4 p.m. They hurry in order not to have to stand on the buses

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Women employees ru...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Women at Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Processing cores to be used by the Army for making molds for meat choppers

New Britain, Connecticut. Women at Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Pro...

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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...

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[Eleanor Roosevelt talking with woman machinist during her goodwill tour of Great Britain]

[Eleanor Roosevelt talking with woman machinist during her goodwill to...

Corresponding print filed under: LOT 12446, no. 17. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 22. Published in... More

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

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

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