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Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus ...

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

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer ...

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

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run

Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper off[ice] (Brockton Enterprise) ... Brockton, Massachusetts.

Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper off[ice] (Brockt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts]

[Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Natchez, Miss. - An old building with a coca cola sign on it

Natchez, Miss. - An old building with a coca cola sign on it

Photograph shows store or cafe with soft drink signs. Diamond-shaped sign: Fresh Orange-Crush"; above it: Relax and enjoy Royal Crown Cola.

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted he...

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

Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwith yard, Chicago, Ill., Santa Fe R.R. trip

Santa Fe RR freight train about to leave for the West Coast from Corwi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas

Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fa...

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

Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

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

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Picryl description: Public domain image of a market, marketplace, city center, vendors, people gathering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama

Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemen...

Public domain photograph of electric power plant, generation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the large...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Many automobiles were parked in the grove at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Many automobiles were parked in the grove at the Pie Town, New Mexico ...

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

B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas

B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being ...

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

Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma

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

Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR

Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broke...

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

Group of homesteaders in front of the bean house which was used for exhibit hall at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Group of homesteaders in front of the bean house which was used for ex...

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

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircra...

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

An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif.

An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft...

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

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians ...

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

Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bear...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Metal tubing at the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Metal tubing at the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Tex...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood [i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach], Calif.

Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 [i.e. C-47] bombe...

Photo shows a woman and man working on a Douglas Aircraft Company cockpit shell identified as a C-47 based on the window outline. Although sometimes called a 'biscuit bomber,' the plane was for transport. (Sour... More

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

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

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. 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

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombard...

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

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Airc...

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

Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base, and a school teacher before the war, is doing her part for victory along with her brother who is a flying instructor in the Army. Miss Weaver paints the American insignia on repaired Navy plane wings

Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 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

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tun...

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

Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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

Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio

Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio

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

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW ...

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

Son of Jim Norris, homesteader, tying corn into bundles, Pie Town, New Mexico

Son of Jim Norris, homesteader, tying corn into bundles, Pie Town, New...

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

This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant is now ready for drying, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Synthetic rubber made by the "ameripol" process is derived from butadiene (a petroleum derivative). In this rolling mill the crumbs of rubber are squeezed dry of excess water and pressed together into the blanket shown here

This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plan...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of sheep, lamb, farm animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraf...

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

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

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

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

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elem...

Public domain photograph of electric power plant, generation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla.

Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of poverty, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.

Photograph shows Sign on pole: Live cat fish; sign to left of door: Live fish for sale here; sign at far left: Fish for sale.

[Boy] building a model airplane [as girl watches], FSA ... camp, Robstown, Tex.

[Boy] building a model airplane [as girl watches], FSA ... camp, Robst...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Initial pin souvenirs at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Initial pin souvenirs at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, I...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

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

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Massachusetts.

Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go...

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

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA labor camp, Robstown, Tex.

Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA labor ...

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

Driving calves into the corral for roping at the rodeo of the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Driving calves into the corral for roping at the rodeo of the Pie Town...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard]

James Lynch, a roundhouse worker, C & NW RR [Proviso yard]

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

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base

Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive tr...

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

Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which t...

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

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

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

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

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

A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair Department

A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieute...

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

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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

Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah

Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big c...

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

Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packi...

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

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga.

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

Homesteader feeding his daughter at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair free barbeque

Homesteader feeding his daughter at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair free...

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

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

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

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Airc...

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

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...

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

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic at the Naval Air Base, in the Assembly and Repair Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic ...

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

Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of Defense Transportation

Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of De...

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

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla.

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still ...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Les Thomas, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

Les Thomas, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

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

Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill

Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Nort...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the ro...

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

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the de...

Public domain photograph of diesel engine, train locomotive, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N.M. Servicing of these diesel streamliners takes five minutes. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "super Chief," being serviced at the de...

Public domain photograph of diesel engine, train locomotive, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber 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

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant...

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

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office on Christmas Eve, Brockton, Mass.

Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Br...

Photo shows headlines that place the day at December 24th, Christmas Eve, when songwriter Billy Hill died and an earthquake struck in New England.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroele...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court day, Campton, Ky.

Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court day, Campton, Ky.

Photograph shows sign under porch: Post Office Compton, Ky.; sign over porch: Ale 81.

Farm Security Administration borrower cultivating his sugar cane field, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands. He lives in one of the homestead houses

Farm Security Administration borrower cultivating his sugar cane field...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexi...

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

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Rodeo at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

Photograph shows signsCraig Motor Co., Standard Oil, and Magdalena Drug Co.

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. There is no fruit grown in this section and the people depend on outside truckers to bring it in

Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. There is no fruit grown ...

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

Orchestra during intermission at square dance; notice sweated shirt of host, McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Orchestra during intermission at square dance; notice sweated shirt of...

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

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas

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

Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.

Greasing a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

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

Farm Security Administration borrower plowing his garden with one of the few plows used on the island, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Farm Security Administration borrower plowing his garden with one of t...

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

Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla.

Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla.

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

[Man, possibly a farmer or agricultural laborer]

[Man, possibly a farmer or agricultural laborer]

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

This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox is performing an important war service. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisville is needed to supplement the existing power supply. Fort Knox, Ky.

This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt el...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Round dance between squares at dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Round dance between squares at dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma

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

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattano...

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

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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