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"We made good money in the cherries this year. From then on we made just beans." Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. Woman in mobile unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

"We made good money in the cherries this year. From then on we made ju...

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.

Oregon. Polk County, near Independence. Head of young woman, migratory hop picker. General caption number 45-1

Oregon. Polk County, near Independence. Head of young woman, migratory...

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

Farm woman cutting pieces of pie for supper. Meeker County, Minnesota

Farm woman cutting pieces of pie for supper. Meeker County, Minnesota

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

Box Elder County, Utah. Mormon women tacking a quilt to be used by a sheepherder

Box Elder County, Utah. Mormon women tacking a quilt to be used by a s...

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

Mrs. M.C. Ray from Mangum, Louisiana. Wife of construction worker at Camp Livingston who had been farming but came out here to make more money. The whole family has had flu. When they first arrived they had to sell their car so they can't get to Alexandria too often to get milk for the children and other supplies. She said that all her grocery bills here were twice as much for the same amount of food as they were in Mangum and the eggs were also at least twice as high

Mrs. M.C. Ray from Mangum, Louisiana. Wife of construction worker at C...

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

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers. Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers. Sain...

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.

At the women's extension club meeting. Pie Town, New Mexico

At the women's extension club meeting. Pie Town, New Mexico

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

Tenant farm woman in northern Greene County, Georgia

Tenant farm woman in northern Greene County, Georgia

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.

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are doing the final finishing work on bullet-sealing fuel tanks, a new development vitally important to the safety of military aviators. Goodrich

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

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.

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs are shown answering call to assembly. Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 1942

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs are shown answering call to assemb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The sculptor's art plays an important part in making dies for the production of modern airplanes. An old master at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated works with plaster mixed to the proper consistency by a young woman assistant. From his plaster models will be made the metal dies with which plane parts are formed in hydraulic presses. 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. The sculptor's art plays a...

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

Woman riveter at work on the fuselage of a bomber at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Woman riveter at work on the fuselage of a bomber at the Vultee Aircra...

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 with a flower in her hair. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman with a flower in her hair. Office o...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Portrait of a woman training to operate buses and taxicabs

Portrait of a woman training to operate buses and taxicabs

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 in industry. Tool production. Two of nearly 1,000 women who "keep 'em rolling" in a large Midwest drill and tool plant, these young workers are skilled lathe operators putting taper shanks on twist drills which are used in all war production. Republic Drill and Tool Company

Women in industry. Tool production. Two of nearly 1,000 women who "ke...

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.

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Typical woman war worker reaching for a time card

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Typical woman war worker reac...

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

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Minnie Saugstad, a member of the Home Makers' club

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Minnie Saugstad, a member of the Home M...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Production. C-47 transport planes. Teams of men and women work efficiently to prepare a C-47 transport plane for riveting operations at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Teams of men and women work efficie...

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Swedish-American woman at the SKF roller bearing factory

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Swedish-American woman at the SKF roller b...

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-25 bombers. Soldering an end fitting to a flexible conduit that will carry some of the complicated electrical wiring of 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 bombers. Soldering an end fitting to a flexible condu...

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

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense and at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, courses in home-making and the preservation of foods are now taught all young women. Photo shows Miss Valeria Wingfield giving carrots the "cold dip" preparatory to removing the skin, cutting into strips and packing into sterilized jars for cooking

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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

Arlington, Virginia. The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 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.

Arlington, Virginia. Ordering clothes from a mail order house at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work for the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Ordering clothes from a mail order house at Idaho...

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.

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be g...

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.

Washington, D.C. A group of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), just off a train, freshen up in the powder room at the United Nations service center

Washington, D.C. A group of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emerge...

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

Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project for the Glen L. Martin aircraft workers. Woman crocheting

Middle River, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing pro...

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 at the Stanley plant searching for defective bullet jackets

New Britain, Connecticut. Women at the Stanley plant searching for def...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. She'd pass for a choir singer. A Vultee woman employee shown making a labor distribution check. She is standing under the engine nucleus of the "Vengeance" dive bomber manufcatured at Vultee's Nashville Division. 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. She'd pass for a choir si...

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. Employees eating their lunch in a shed. In the foreground is Mrs. Daisy Perkins, trimmer. Others, from left to right, Norma Webber, "pit woman"; Mrs. Violet Storey, "take-away"; Mrs. Elizabeth Esty and Florence Drouin, "pond-woman"; Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, "slip woman"; Ruth De Roche, "pit woman"; Barbara Webber, "edger"; and Mrs. Lucy De Greenia, "take away"

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

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

Trampas, New Mexico. Spanish-American woman

Trampas, New Mexico. Spanish-American woman

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.

Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Women's Volunteer Service unit at Glendale, California does a good turn for Corporal Hugh B. Helm of Lexington, Kentucky. Members of the American Women's Volunteer Service "Button Brigade" meet at least twice weekly at the Army Air Force barracks in Glendale to do minor tailor work

Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Wom...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Women workers at the Landers, Frary and Clark Company making bomb parts

New Britain, Connecticut. Women workers at the Landers, Frary and Clar...

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

Arlington, Virginia. Service shop in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war. These shops, one in each residence hall sells cosmetics, drugs, sandwiches, cokes, etc.

Arlington, Virginia. Service shop in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a re...

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

A black and white photo of a woman in a suit. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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

A black and white photo of a woman holding a steering wheel. Great Dep...

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 field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, New Jersey. Farm Securi...

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

Farm woman at farm auction, New Carlisle, Ohio

Farm woman at farm auction, New Carlisle, Ohio

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

A group of people sitting around a table, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A group of people sitting around a table, Louisiana. Farmers during Gr...

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.

Spanish-American woman weaving a rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving a rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Admini...

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

Mrs. M.C. Ray from Mangum, Louisiana. Wife of construction worker at Camp Livingston who had been farming but came out here to make more money. The whole family has had flu. When they first arrived they had to sell their cars so they can't get to Alexandria too often to get milk for the children and other supplies. She said that all her grocery bills here were twice as much for the same amount of food as they were in Mangum and eggs were also at least twice as high. Louisiana

Mrs. M.C. Ray from Mangum, Louisiana. Wife of construction worker at C...

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

Mr. and Mrs. Colson and one of their children. Tobacco farmers, Suffield, Connecticut

Mr. and Mrs. Colson and one of their children. Tobacco farmers, Suffie...

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

A woman riding on the back of a horse next to a man, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A woman riding on the back of a horse next to a man, Kenntucky. Farm 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.

St. Andrew's Church. Mrs. McRae[?] in garden

St. Andrew's Church. Mrs. McRae[?] in garden

Picryl description: Public domain image of a garden, gardening, agriculture, plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miss Genoeffa Mizzardini. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Genoeffa Mizzardini. Field representative, Consumer Division, Off...

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

Mrs. Jack Whinery working in kitchen of her dugout. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Jack Whinery working in kitchen of her dugout. Pie Town, New Mexi...

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.

Woman waiting for bus on a rainy day in Norwich, Connecticut

Woman waiting for bus on a rainy day in Norwich, Connecticut

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

Mrs. James Narbone, her daughter, Gloria, and her son, Salvatore, as they were checked in today at the first unit of the new Vladeck City Houses / World-Telegram photo by Ravenna.

Mrs. James Narbone, her daughter, Gloria, and her son, Salvatore, as t...

NYWT&S staff photograph by Al Ravenna. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Willie George King, Winnfield, Louisiana], 1940s

[Willie George King, Winnfield, Louisiana], 1940s

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. No print found. Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicians in the Lomax Collection.

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

A black and white photo of a woman, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogra...

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

Children in tent home of construction workers. Ten men, two women and two children live here. Near Alexandria, Louisiana

Children in tent home of construction workers. Ten men, two women and ...

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

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

A black and white photo of a woman riding a horse. Great Depression FF...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse, animal husbandry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women selling provisions at Tortolla wharf, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

Women selling provisions at Tortolla wharf, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

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.

Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by women who work at the Navy shipyards. Bremerton, Washington

Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by wom...

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

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Old woman who was working in a tobacco field

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Old woman who was working in a t...

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.

This young woman and her family moved from the area taken over by the Army to a prefabricated house built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) to take care of some of the farmers who had to move. Milford, Caroline County, Virginia

This young woman and her family moved from the area taken over by the ...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. The nose of a C-47 transport plane takes shape under the expert hands of men and women workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. The nose of a C-47 transport plane ...

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

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Women assembling a wing

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Instrument panels--the "brains" of a modern combat ship--are mounted ready to install in the airplane by this woman employee at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. 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. Instrument panels--the "bra...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting 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

High school Victory Corps. Women as well as men must be in top physical condition to give their best to the war effort. At Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, the girls' physical education department is placing more emphasis on calisthenics and similar methods of body development than on the usual athletic games

High school Victory Corps. Women as well as men must be in top physica...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, for Fern Evans's husband was one of America's fighting men who died in action on December 7. Since February, Mrs. Evans has worked for victory at a huge West Coast aircraft plant and is shown here operating a rivet squeezer

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, fo...

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

Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industry. This North American employee assembles stringers in the sheet metal sub-assembly department

Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industr...

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.

Young women on the nation's myriad filing lines, plow their efficient way through the miles of additional clerical work which the war has brought to government agencies in Washington and throughout the United States of America

Young women on the nation's myriad filing lines, plow their efficient ...

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

Two women "swing shift" employees at North American "talk over" the day's events as they eat lunch at their benches. The company broadcasts news and music throughout the plant during lunch periods

Two women "swing shift" employees at North American "talk over" the da...

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

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Conservation of materials at Vultee's Downey, California plant. Women sort bolts, nuts, rivets, etc. 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. Conservation of materia...

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

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swellin...

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

Safe clothes for women war workers

Safe clothes for women war workers

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

Training women to operate buses and taxicabs

Training women to operate buses and taxicabs

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 in industry. Tool production. Two of nearly 1,000 women who "keep 'em rolling" in a large Midwest drill and tool plant, these young workers are skilled lathe operators putting taper shanks on twist drills which are used in all war production. Republic Drill and Tool Company

Women in industry. Tool production. Two of nearly 1,000 women who "ke...

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.

In the sub-assembly department, this woman employee assembles parts for North American B-25 bombers and P-51 Mustang fighters. Engine control rods

In the sub-assembly department, this woman employee assembles parts fo...

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

Epping, North Dakota. Pie and coffee served by the ladies of the WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) at meeting of women to promote the sale of defense stamps and bonds

Epping, North Dakota. Pie and coffee served by the ladies of the WCTU ...

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 in industry. Tool production. Eyes averted from the white shower of sparks, this young employee of a drill and tool plant touches the button that welds drills to their shanks. She's one of nearly 1,000 women who have replaced men at the production machines of this Midwest factory. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Eyes averted from the white showe...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The District Red Cross is collecting, as part of the war conservation program, scraps of wool from tailors, manufacturers, and individuals. Here a group of volunteer women are sorting them and cutting off the threads to prepare the wool for reprocessing. There is a nationwide drive to eliminate trouser cuffs and other unnecessary parts of garments

Washington, D.C. The District Red Cross is collecting, as part of the ...

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

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Helen Joyce, one of the many women now working for the Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Company. She has one child and her husband is a seaman first class in the U.S. Navy

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Helen Joyce, one of the many women now w...

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

Beaumont, Texas. Woman welder at the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Woman welder at the Pennsylvania shipyards

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.

Teheran, Iran. Polish woman and her grandchildren shown in an American Red Cross evacuation camp as they await evacuation to new homes

Teheran, Iran. Polish woman and her grandchildren shown in an American...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, slip woman, doesn't find her job hard after years of housework. Mrs. De Greenia's husband, Raymond, is a sawyer at Turkey Pond. They have a son in the United States Army somewhere in Australia

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

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive to utilize all available women for industrial and defense plants when the labor shortage became acute due to manpower being drafted into the Army

New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive ...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Manifold line installation. A Vultee woman worker shown adjusting the manifold line on a "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville Division. 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. Manifold line installatio...

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

Columbus, Ohio. A cleaning woman employed at the Greyhound garage

Columbus, Ohio. A cleaning woman employed at the Greyhound garage

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

[Portrait of Philippa Duke Schuyler]

[Portrait of Philippa Duke Schuyler]

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

[Portrait of Katherine Dunham] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Katherine Dunham] - Public domain portrait print

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

A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old [Russell] Senate Office Building behind them, Washington, D.C.

A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old [Russell] Senate Office ...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman and her son with greens which they feed to their rabbits near Taos, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman and her son with greens which they feed to thei...

Photo shows at left, Rupert Martiniano Sandoval, age 1 1/2, at right,Ofelia Trujillo Sandoval, age 39 (source: Rupert Martiniano Sandoval, 2005).

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 Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At a meeting of the Clark Hill Club, conducted by Miss Velma Patterson, vocational field worker from Elba, at the home of FSA (Farm Security Administration) project family, J.A. Veasy. The women discuss materials for clothing and curtains. Coffee County, Alabama

At a meeting of the Clark Hill Club, conducted by Miss Velma Patterson...

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Mrs. Lister Hill [Titanic Memorial, Washington, D.C.]

Mrs. Lister Hill [Titanic Memorial, Washington, D.C.]

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

Miss Harriet Elliot, associate administrator of the Office of Price Ad...

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Women in the mill town of Ashton, Rhode Island

Women in the mill town of Ashton, Rhode Island

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Mrs. Lloyd Young weaving a rug at Plum Bayou Project, Arkansas (see general caption)

Mrs. Lloyd Young weaving a rug at Plum Bayou Project, Arkansas (see ge...

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Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of Ordnance U.S. Army, and head of the Design Division of the U.S. War Department is now touring Ministry of Supply Munition Factories. General Barnes taking keen interest in the work of Miss Joan Leanoy, who is gauging 25 pdr. gun barrels

Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of...

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A black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a door, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a door, Kenntu...

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.

Old woman living in slum house in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania

Old woman living in slum house in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Amish women attending farm auction

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Amish women attending farm auction

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. Blood transfusion bottles. Transfusion bottles containing intravenous solution, are given another inspection after being taken from the sterilizer. Women workers are taking over important jobs at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, where plasma containers are prepared for blood banks

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Transfusion bottles containing ...

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Escambia Farms, Florida. Elena McLelland in the corn patch on a Sunday

Escambia Farms, Florida. Elena McLelland in the corn patch on a Sunday

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Women in defense. This Middlewestern plant has converted not only its machinery but also its skilled labor force from the peacetime production of electric fans and motors to the war production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters. Here a veteran employee of the plant's experimental division teaches a former farmerette the operation of a Haskins drilling machine, which drill holes in a twenty-millimeter shell booster part

Women in defense. This Middlewestern plant has converted not only its ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Three shifts of girl operators keep this huge toggle press producing plane parts in the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation Incorporated. The young woman is removing one of the thousands of sheet metal parts for United Nations war planes. 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. Three shifts of girl operat...

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Women aircraft workers. Women work on both sides of the counter at this West Coast aircraft factory. A drill press operator here swaps a tool check for a drill which is given to her by one of the tool crib keepers. Lockhead

Women aircraft workers. Women work on both sides of the counter at thi...

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