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[Suffragette posed in police uniform to illustrate woman police concept, Cincinnati, Ohio]

[Suffragette posed in police uniform to illustrate woman police concep...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Bonus division where the many clerks figure the amount of the bonus each veteran is entitled to / National Phot.

The Bonus division where the many clerks figure the amount of the bonu...

Employees, primarily female, working at machines in the Computing Division of the Treasury(?) Department.

[Men working on road in the Washington, D.C. area(?)]

[Men working on road in the Washington, D.C. area(?)]

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Weighing machine - A black and white photo of men working in a factory

The Weighing machine - A black and white photo of men working in a fac...

Eight Chinese men working at machine with cans of salmon in background, probably in Washington or Oregon. J186300 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1385. Copyright by J.A. McCormick.

Largest group in the world, Buick Employe's [sic]

Largest group in the world, Buick Employe's [sic]

J187394 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. E. Fuller; November 19, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44687. Copyright claimant's address: 5th floor, Eberly Bldg., Col., Ohio. Probably Buick Motor Company.

[Women assembling cartridges, in Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridges Co., Inc., Bridgeport, Conn.]

[Women assembling cartridges, in Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartrid...

U.S. Army. Signal Corps photo. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plant of the Vegetarian Food and Nut Co. at 1339-41 South Capitol Street, Washington, D.C.

Plant of the Vegetarian Food and Nut Co. at 1339-41 South Capitol Stre...

Three women working. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Pro patria! Join Army for period of war / / Welsh.

Pro patria! Join Army for period of war / / Welsh.

U.S. Army recruiting poster showing two soldiers on horseback, carrying an American flag and the flag of the Army.

Group of Negroes picking cotton

Group of Negroes picking cotton

Photograph shows overseer on horseback watching African Americans picking cotton. Title based on note from National Archives through Dept. of Agriculture 6/8/28.

National Service Women's Land Army. "God speed the plough and the woman who drives it" / H.G. Gawthorn ; D.A. & S. Ld. London.

National Service Women's Land Army. "God speed the plough and the woma...

Poster showing a woman using a plow pulled by a horse. "Apply for enrolment forms at your nearest post office or employment exchange". Series W9.

Indian stenographers, Native Americans

Indian stenographers, Native Americans

Five women seated at typewriters and man standing. Copyright by Harris & Ewing.

Earn while you learn Wanted machinists [...].

Earn while you learn Wanted machinists [...].

U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps recruiting poster showing a man working in a machine shop, also lists several occupations with their current salaries.

The superintendent of the nursing bureau Miss Clara D. Noyes, who is talking to a Red Cross nurse in regulation uniform, formerly was superintendent of the Bellevue Training School for Nurses. She serves under Miss Delano, the organizer of a splendid corps of over 7,000 graduate enrolled Red Cross nurses

The superintendent of the nursing bureau Miss Clara D. Noyes, who is t...

Photograph shows two women conversing at Red Cross camp. Filed in: Red Cross Personnel Groups. No. RC-5724. On mount: U.S. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Three young women at work in an unidentified Washington, D.C. office. The girl at the left is operating an addressograph]

[Three young women at work in an unidentified Washington, D.C. office....

National Photo Company Collection. LC-F82-6952 (b&w glass neg.)

Preparing bottles of olive oil for shipment, near San Diego, California

Preparing bottles of olive oil for shipment, near San Diego, Californi...

Photograph shows women packing bottles of Old Mission Olive Oil. J261805 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Philip Brigandi, Los Angeles, Cal. Series: The California Missions and the State of Californ... More

Women's Industrial Conference, New National Museum, Washington, D.C., Jan. 18 to 21, 1926

Women's Industrial Conference, New National Museum, Washington, D.C., ...

Photographer's address: 1304 F Street, Wash., DC. Forms part of National Women's Trade Union League of America collection. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1952.

Rehabilitation hearing. The House Committee on Education met today in the House Caucus room to consider a bill presented by Mr. Reed of New York to provide ]à] the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and then returned to civil employment. Several crippled boys were present with some of their handiwork. Left to right, standing: Representatives D.D. Glover of Arkansas, W.P. Lamberton of Kansas, La Fayette L. Patterson of Alabama, Paul J. Kvale of Minnesota, Daniel A. Reed of New York

Rehabilitation hearing. The House Committee on Education met today in ...

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

Employment agency on Sixth Avenue, New York, New York

Employment agency on Sixth Avenue, New York, New York

Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Employment agency on Howard Street. San Francisco, California

Employment agency on Howard Street. San Francisco, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Mary Agnes Shanley, New York City detective, full-length portrait, facing slightly right]

[Mary Agnes Shanley, New York City detective, full-length portrait, fa...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Date stamped on verso: Jun 10 1937. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

A group of men standing in front of a store. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of men standing in front of a store. Great Depression FSA phot...

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

[Female employees of Woolworth's holding sign indicating they are striking for a 40 hour work week]

[Female employees of Woolworth's holding sign indicating they are stri...

World-Telegram staff photograph. Photograph is reversed. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Appears before Senate Military Affairs Committee. Washiington, D.C., April 5. Prof. Bradley Stoughton, of Lehigh Univ. prepresenting the Independent Steel and Iron Producers Committee on Scrap, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee today that he favored the passage of the Schwellanbach Bill to permit scrap iron expports only on presidential license, he argued that scrap export not only drains the country of one raw material but depletes the nation of other raw materials, such as iron ore, and lessens employment here, 4/5/38

Appears before Senate Military Affairs Committee. Washiington, D.C., A...

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

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

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

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a hel...

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.

Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn.

Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company M...

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

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashvill...

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

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

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

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

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

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the rou...

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

Homestead, Fla. Negro tomatoe [sic] pickers resting during lunch hour

Homestead, Fla. Negro tomatoe [sic] pickers resting during lunch hour

Corresponding negative no. LC-USF33-50633-E. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1597.

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 ...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, carries one of the greatest human and cargo loads of any plane now in mass production

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft...

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

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the service

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5...

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

Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of...

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

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...

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

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Ai...

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

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

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. employment office advised John Jones to enroll in a defense training course in his own community. There were vocational courses in local schools to choose from or opportunites for training right on the job through the Office of Production Management's (OPM) training within industry program. Training within industry has been installed in nearly 2000 defense plants employing over 2,000,000 workers

Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. emplo...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The General Electric Company at Erie, Pennsylvania, employs approximately 8000 workers. It anticipates additional employment of some 4000 by next year. Only some twenty-five percent of these have to be imported, for local labor is being trained for these jobs at government vocational training schools. This will prevent the disruption of the community's economic life which would be caused by an over-large immigration of labor

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The General Electric Company at E...

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

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service office to open in the morning, Yakima, Washington

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

High school Victory Corps. Bill Brady is one of many students at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland who are helping to relieve the manpower shortage in his community. He attends school in the morning, works at a local machine shop in the afternoon. His employment is part of the school directed program originally designed to provide work experience for the students

High school Victory Corps. Bill Brady is one of many students at Montg...

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.

Best Coat and Apron Mfg. Company : Attaching trouser buttons with automatic button-fastening machine / / OEM photo by Gruber.

Best Coat and Apron Mfg. Company : Attaching trouser buttons with auto...

Photograph shows employee of Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company working with a sewing machine to produce trousers for a uniform. No. D10785. Corresponding negative: LC-USE6-D-010785. Forms part of the F... More

Richwood, West Virginia. A family talking over the prospects of work with the United States employment service

Richwood, West Virginia. A family talking over the prospects of work w...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. From there they were hired as a group by a local white farmer. They will be allowed to remain on this farm for the duration of the war. When such an arrangement is made the U.S. Employment Service must inspect and approve housing facilities and wage standards

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

[Jamaican agricultural laborers standing in a line at a Farm Security Administration camp]

[Jamaican agricultural laborers standing in a line at a Farm Security ...

U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28697. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man making notes while working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade]

[Unidentified man making notes while working the floor at the Chicago ...

Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Men working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade]

[Men working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade]

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

What's wrong with this picture?

What's wrong with this picture?

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

If you want it done right, hire a woman

If you want it done right, hire a woman

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In this we trust : the women of the world are serving notice! : we want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault ..

In this we trust : the women of the world are serving notice! : we wan...

Information that poster was issued at the time of the American Bicentennial, 1976, from artist, August 24, 2017. Artist's name and birth date from artist's son, John Caldwell, August 7, 2017. Gift; Gary Yanker... More

Strassenbilder / bei F.G. Schulz in Stuttgart.

Strassenbilder / bei F.G. Schulz in Stuttgart.

Print shows six scenes of people engaged in various occupations: a milk maid; a fishmonger; figurine seller; a coachman with coach; an organ grinder; and a fruit seller. Captions under the images are in English... More

Getting working papers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Getting working papers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 16-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

[Women working in Welding Department, Lincoln Motor Co., Detroit, Mich.]

[Women working in Welding Department, Lincoln Motor Co., Detroit, Mic...

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. No. 35754. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: making fibre powder containers for 3" Stokes gun - women crimping top on fibre containers at W.C. Ritchie & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: making fibre powder c...

Photograph shows two women sitting at a long bench, crimping the tops onto fibre powder containers for a 3" Stokes gun, at the W.C. Ritchie & Co. facility in Chicago, Illinois, during World War I. Inscribed on... More

Help! The Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division, State House, Trenton / C.D. Gibson ; Greenwich Litho. Co., N.Y.

Help! The Woman's Land Army of America, New Jersey Division, State Hou...

Poster showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a woman holding a hoe. Caption: Until the boys come back. Copyright by LIFE Pub. Co. Reprinted from LIFE of May 23, 1918. No. 4045. Exhibited: American Treasures of ... More

Applying for Working Certificates. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Applying for Working Certificates. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4227. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

The girl on the land serves the nation's need Apply Y.W.C.A. Land Service Committee / / Edward Penfield.

The girl on the land serves the nation's need Apply Y.W.C.A. Land Serv...

Poster showing four young women carrying tools and a basket of produce, and leading a team of horses.

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Al...

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

Join the Air Service Learn - earn.

Join the Air Service Learn - earn.

Poster showing soldiers, airplanes, and airships around star insignia. Public domain photograph related to army, military forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

I'm proud ... my husband wants me to do my part See your U.S. Employment Service / / John Newton Howitt.

I'm proud ... my husband wants me to do my part See your U.S. Employme...

Husband, in suit, and wife in working clothes, standing in front of U.S. flag. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1944. No. 0-592572.

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. ...

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

Work promotes confidence - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Work promotes confidence - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congr...

Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to gain confidence from their work, showing stylized man holding hammer. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Poste... More

[Nurse and baby Bill, no. 2] - Public domain portrait print

[Nurse and baby Bill, no. 2] - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, three-quarter length, facing left, seated, holding an infant against her chest.

Leander - Drawing. Public domain image.

Leander - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1934:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Old National Pike," Harper's magazine, 59:809 (Nov. 1879).

[Gardener kneeling to tend floral border, posed to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's poem The Glory of the Garden]

[Gardener kneeling to tend floral border, posed to illustrate Rudyard ...

Title and date information provided by Sam Watters, 2012. No. 1107. Frances Benjamin Johnston posed gardeners performing gardening jobs to illustrate the popular poem, The Glory of the Garden, by Rudyard Kiplin... More

Work pays America! Prosperity. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Work pays America! Prosperity. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of...

Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to work for America, showing a farmer and a laborer. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Chri... More

Boiling cocoons to loosen fibre ends in Syria's largest silk reeling plant, Mt. Lebanon

Boiling cocoons to loosen fibre ends in Syria's largest silk reeling p...

Overseers watching girls tending vats of boiling silkworm cocoons. J192305 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Title on recto of item. No. 11433; U-157695.

Aunt Phoebe, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley [i.e. Magnolia Gardens], Charleston, S.C.

Aunt Phoebe, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley [i.e. Magnolia Gardens], Charlesto...

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

Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama - stereocsopic card

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field. Attributed to Lakin based on image published in Stereo World, March/April 2012, p. 7 Gift; G.W. Richmond; Nov. 1927 (DLC/PP-1927:47158)

Jewish market. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Jewish market. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Cf. CAI - Rogers, no. 82 (A size). Date from original backing (removed). Handwritten title on mat: The candle merchant. Later version published in "A Friday Night in the Jewish Quarter," Harper's weekly, 34:296... More

To the right hon'able the Earl of Moira, this plate, taken on the spot in the County of Downe, representing spinning, reeling with the clock reel, and boiling the yarn; is most respectfully dedicated by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, del. et sculp.

To the right hon'able the Earl of Moira, this plate, taken on the spot...

Print shows an interior view of a dwelling where four women are engaged in spinning, reeling, and boiling yarn. Plate VI. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Nisi Dominus Frustra." First published 1782.

Arnold Genthe - The First Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - The First Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San...

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Applicants for working papers at Department of Education Building. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Applicants for working papers at Department of Education Building. Lo...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Best man for the job... may be a woman!

The Best man for the job... may be a woman!

Posters are variants. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Women reaping in cultivated land near Krasno i arsk]

[Women reaping in cultivated land near Krasno i arsk]

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Girls working in Tampa, Fla., Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and girls. Has had reputation for employment of youngsters but work is slack now. Jan. 28, 1909. Location: Tampa, Florida.

Girls working in Tampa, Fla., Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and gir...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Stephen Bishop, Afro-American guide of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, half-length portrait, facing front]

[Stephen Bishop, Afro-American guide of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, half-l...

Illus. in: Mammoth Cave, by Hovey, 1882, p. 7. Reference copy in BIOG - Bishop, Stephen.

Girls wanted / Glintenkamp. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Girls wanted / Glintenkamp. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Three women standing across street from the burned-out shell of a building from which hangs the sign, "Girls wanted." A policeman stands guard in front of the ruins.

The rebound of the ball - Public domain book illustration

The rebound of the ball - Public domain book illustration

A satire on the Democrats' defeat in the fall New York state elections, here viewed as a referendum on Van Buren's independent treasury, or "Sub-treasury" system. A large ball labeled "Sub Treasury" is pushed d... More

A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America / Prepared and executed by Negro students under the direction of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., United States of America.

A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desce...

Map shows African American population distribution and circle graph shows professions of Atlanta University graduates. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sectio... More

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport i...

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

Minazuki, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Minazuki, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows four men taking a break from washing the shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Yoshiwara niwaka : Blo... More

Die Fischerei. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Die Fischerei. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a fisherman holding oars, standing on the shore next to a lobster, eel, fish, and shellfish, with a man fishing from the opposite shore, a man with net in a boat, and large fishing boats in the bac... More

Preparing for Christmas / sketched by Thomas Worth.

Preparing for Christmas / sketched by Thomas Worth.

Afro-American man about to chop off head of turkey while three children watch. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 Dec. 26, p. 829.

The great November contest. Patriotism: versus Bummerism

The great November contest. Patriotism: versus Bummerism

The strongly racist character of the Democratic presidential campaign of 1868 is displayed full-blown in this elaborate attack on Reconstruction and Republican support of Negro rights. Horses with the heads of ... More

[A woman riding in a palanquin]

[A woman riding in a palanquin]

Photograph shows a woman riding in an open palaquin or litter; also shows a porter with shoulder pole carrying small bundles. Inscribed in pencil on mount: Kango bearers. No. 2001. Illus. in: Views & costumes ... More

Making cartridges / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davis.

Making cartridges / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davis.

Print shows women and men working in a cartridge factory. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 21, no. 1085 (1877 October 13), p. 797.

The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom / F. Opper.

The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Benjamin F. Butler as a laborer standing next to a box of tools labeled "Tools for Exhibition Purposes", telling his valet, labeled "Butler's Valet" to "keep an eye on the valuables", at whos... More

Winslow Homer - [The netmenders] / Winslow Homer.

Winslow Homer - [The netmenders] / Winslow Homer.

Signed in pencil. Remarque: anchor. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Sicilian café in New York / Drawn by W.A. Rogers.

A Sicilian café in New York / Drawn by W.A. Rogers.

Illustration shows a woman serving coffee to men at a table as a small girl plays with a cat and a baby in the corner.

[Snake charmers, India] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[Snake charmers, India] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows three men, one man squatting before a cobra in a pot, holding the snake with his right hand and making a fist with his left in front of the snake's head, the second man is standing with a large snak... More

Bean-cake seller - Public domain drawing

Bean-cake seller - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows a woman purchasing bean cakes from a peddler wearing straw outer garments and hat, and kneeling between two large containers, with shoulder pole leaning against one of the containers. Watercolo... More

An embroiderer - Public domain drawing

An embroiderer - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows a male manager overseeing five young women embroidering parasols. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a waterfront scene in the upper right and a woman carrying a basket in the lower left. ... More

Cotton. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Cotton. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows African American men and boy cotton pickers in field. Taken 9/15/97, M. Z. L. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga. Myrtis Morgan Fuller.

The new girl / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.

The new girl / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a fashionably dressed young woman carrying a bag labeled "1897" arriving at the entrance of a building and being greeted by a small man with a bespectacled, globe-shaped head, as another woman carry... More

Shine Sah? - Public domain portrait print

Shine Sah? - Public domain portrait print

African American boy holding out shoe shine box. 51958 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by V.G. Schreck, Savannah, Georgia.

A look ahead; - but not so very far ahead, either! / Ehrhart.

A look ahead; - but not so very far ahead, either! / Ehrhart.

Print shows an Irish American woman labeled "Walking Delegate" displaying the "By-Laws of the Help Lady's Union" during a dinner party hosted by an elderly woman sitting at a table with her guests. Women domest... More

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