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Sanding the cranberry marsh in the winter - one of the aids towards securing the fine "stand" of vines shown in 3765. Owner - Mr. Andrew Searles. Photo through the courtesy of Mr. Searles. Location: Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.

Sanding the cranberry marsh in the winter - one of the aids towards se...

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

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Woman working in kitchen. Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Trades & occupations Plate 6.

Oil painting "Government Aids to Harbor Navigation" located on west wall of lobby, U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oil painting "Government Aids to Harbor Navigation" located on west wa...

Artist: George Harding, 1938. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Carol M. Highsmith - AIDS quilt, Washington, D.C.

Carol M. Highsmith - AIDS quilt, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in... More

Prang's aids for object teaching. The farm yard

Prang's aids for object teaching. The farm yard

E14008 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: L. Prang & Co.

Prang's aids for object teaching. Trades & occupations - Plate 9. Haymaking

Prang's aids for object teaching. Trades & occupations - Plate 9. Haym...

F1160 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist and PAGA catalog cards. Copyright 1875 & pub. by L. Prang & Co. Associated name on shelflist card: L. Prang & Co. PAGA card t... More

Pictorial aids to Sunday School blackboard excercises. The ladder and pillar

Pictorial aids to Sunday School blackboard excercises. The ladder and ...

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. This clever poster tells Don how the lone rider aids our enemies and tells him where to go to get transportation with another employee blessed with better tires

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. This clever poster tells Don how the lon...

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

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Bagging finished meat scrap at a fat rendering plant. This material, made from cracklings produced in the rendering of waste household fats, is used as animal food. It contains fifty percent of proteins, free fatty acids, some grease and waste ash. It is important in that it aids directly in the raising of animals used for human food

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Bagging finished meat scrap a...

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.

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is helping more than five hundred fifty thousand needy farm families to gain a greater degree of security. It aids them in adopting the most modern and efficient farm practices. Typical of the practical farm methods the FSA encourages these families to adopt is that of milk testing. Black Hawk County, Iowa

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is helping more than five hundr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of chicken, poultry, agriculture, farm animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wendover Air Force Base, Navigational Aids Shop, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Navigational Aids Shop, South of Interstate 8...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-AB Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Wendover Air Force Base, Navigational Aids Shop, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Navigational Aids Shop, South of Interstate 8...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-AB Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Development of Radio Aids for the Civil Airways

Development of Radio Aids for the Civil Airways

Public domain photograph of cabinet, bureau, office, 1920s - 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prize-winning poster aids war manpower effort. The War Manpower Commission is using as its seal a prize-winning poster designed by Jewell Phelps, eighteen, of Pittsburgh. Phelps displays a photograph of the seal sent to him along with a letter complimenting him for his "broad conception of the Commission's work." His drawing shows three arms holding implements of labor, industry and agriculture

Prize-winning poster aids war manpower effort. The War Manpower Commis...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aids Army and Navy typewriter drive. Cortez W. Peters, world's champion portable typist, recently turned in ten late model standard size typewriters which he turned over to the government to aid the drive for 600,000 machines for the Army and Navy. Mr. Peters operates three business schools in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois

Aids Army and Navy typewriter drive. Cortez W. Peters, world's champio...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are shell ejectors for naval guns, a far cry from the peacetime product of the plant where they were turned out. This plant in New York state formerly made merry-go-rounds and other thrill rides, today it aids in the war effort, protecting the right of Americans to enjoy the thrill rides it formerly turned out. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are shell ejectors for naval g...

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

Paralysis victim aids fight against menace. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Melvin C. Hazen, President of the Board of District of Columbia City Commissioners visited Georgetown Children's House today. Little Hazel Reigle, 5 years old, me the Commissioner at the door and handed him her bank full of pennies to aid the fight to stamp out the disease which struck her--infantile paralysis, 1/19/39

Paralysis victim aids fight against menace. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19....

An old black and white photo of a man and a little girl. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prang's aids for object eaching. Gardening

Prang's aids for object eaching. Gardening

E14007 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: L. Prang & Co.

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Woman working in kitchen. Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Trades & occupations Plate 6.

Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor

Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor

People working in tailor shop. Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Trades & occupations - Plate 3. Exhibited: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860-1960, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, 2005-2006.

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operator, blonde Marjorie Karwaske finds that the dear dead days of bobby pins and curler clamps have left her with skillful, speedy fingers and a natural tendency to eliminate wasteful hand movement. These are invaluable aids to her job at a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to the production of gas masks. Those skillful fingers fasten eye pieces to the bodies of gas masks. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operato...

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

Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor

Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor

People working in tailor shop. Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Trades & occupations - Plate 3. Exhibited: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860-1960, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, 2005-2006.

Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea & aids - Public domain photograph

Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea & aids - Public domain photograph

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

Another champ aids Army and Navy. Cortez W. Peters, world's champion portable typist, is shown with ten late model standard size typewriters which he turned over to the government to aid the drive for 600,000 machines for the Army and Navy. The typewriters were taken from three business schools which Mr. Peters operates in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois

Another champ aids Army and Navy. Cortez W. Peters, world's champion p...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prang's aids for object teaching. Baker

Prang's aids for object teaching. Baker

G232 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: L. Prang & Co.

Prang's aids for object teaching. Tinsmith

Prang's aids for object teaching. Tinsmith

G233 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: L. Prang & Co.

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Woman working in kitchen. Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Trades & occupations Plate 6.

Long haired band aids war gift fund The band of the "House of David", from the strange Michigan religious colony where hair cuts and shaves are forbidden, is seen playing in New York to aid the fund drive for America's gift to France ... [New York City theater district].

Long haired band aids war gift fund The band of the "House of David", ...

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hold everything. Strain above on a worker's face as he aids his mate to splice wire cable in the rigging loft at an eastern Navy yard. Miles of stout cable are needed for Uncle Sam's fleet

Hold everything. Strain above on a worker's face as he aids his mate t...

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

WPA Head urges expansion of Federal Works Program. Washington, D.C., April 8. In urging an expansion of the Federal Works Program and Social Security Aids, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins told the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today that about 18,000,000 men, women, and children in 6,000,000 households were receiving public assistance at present as compared to a peak of 27,000,000 persons on the winter of 1933-34. For the reason that some un-employment will always be with us, Hopkins told the committee that the country must plan a permanent security program, 4/8/38

WPA Head urges expansion of Federal Works Program. Washington, D.C., A...

A man sitting at a table with a cigarette in his hand. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration exhibit. (Co-op Veterinary Service Aids FSA Borrowers). First part

Farm Security Administration exhibit. (Co-op Veterinary Service Aids F...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

World War 2 in the North Sea area / Training Aids.

World War 2 in the North Sea area / Training Aids.

Covers northwestern Europe (North Sea region) including Iceland, northern Russia, Germany, northern France, and intervening land and sea areas. Shows aircraft invasion routes from U.S./U.K., German invasion rou... More

Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea & aids i.e., aides

Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea & aids i.e., aides

Photograph shows Mrs. Nina Larry Duryea (1874-1951), founder of Duryea War Relief during World War I, seated with aides. Mrs Duryea is seated at the center. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from dat... More

Prang's aids for object teaching. Shoemaker

Prang's aids for object teaching. Shoemaker

E14002 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: L. Prang & Co.

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists

Anne Fitzhugh Miller secures appoint with Speaker Wadsworth, her cousin, in which he suggested procedural strategies to bring the suffrage amendment before the full assembly by discharging the committee.

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists; page 2

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists; page 2

Anne Fitzhugh Miller secures appoint with Speaker Wadsworth, her cousin, in which he suggested procedural strategies to bring the suffrage amendment before the full assembly by discharging the committee.

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists; page 2

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists; page 2

Anne Fitzhugh Miller secures appoint with Speaker Wadsworth, her cousin, in which he suggested procedural strategies to bring the suffrage amendment before the full assembly by discharging the committee.

Aids recovery of wounded soldiers. William R. Carter, government pharmacist for forty years, has an important war job on the home front. As laboratory side in the Food and Drug Administration of the Federal Security Agency, he is entrusted with the job of preparing media for testing the sterility of bandage material. This work is vital to wounded soldiers because they are not only dependent for their recovery upon the skill of physicians, nurses and hospital attendants, but also upon the reliability of drugs and bandages

Aids recovery of wounded soldiers. William R. Carter, government pharm...

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

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists

Speaker Wadsworth Aids Suffragists

Anne Fitzhugh Miller secures appoint with Speaker Wadsworth, her cousin, in which he suggested procedural strategies to bring the suffrage amendment before the full assembly by discharging the committee.