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Traveling Tibetan tribe, grandmothers spinning prayer wheels

Traveling Tibetan tribe, grandmothers spinning prayer wheels

Photograph shows Tibetan refugees? men, women and children under shelter. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 1... More

Grandma and grandchildren in New Orleans, Louisiana

Grandma and grandchildren in New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This modern "spinning wheel" would astound our grandmothers, and so would the young woman who operates it. One of America's thousands of skilled women war workers, this young Midwesterner twirls the wheel that controls the drilling of holes in machine gun parts. A skilled machine operator, she formerly processed spark plugs on a similar machine, but turned her efforts to war work when the factory was converted to the manufacture of machine guns. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. This modern "spinning ...

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 Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Fl...

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

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a grim meaning in De Land, Florida these days. Here's one of its daily sessions, sewing fabric on airplane wings they hope will be flying over Germany some day soon. Nearest the camera is Joyce Newsom, instructor in De Land's vocational school, giving lessons in the new art of sewing to two grandmothers. Left is Mrs. Gussie Ryals, who has an invalid husband and five grandchildren. Right is Mrs. Ruth Klug, whose husband fought through the first World War, who has two grandchildren, and a boy in a bombing squadron in Australia. Both grandmothers soon will take their places on the assembly line of an aircraft factory

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. The ladies sewing circle has a...

Public domain photograph related to Germany in World War One, military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grandma and grandchildren in New Orleans, Louisiana

Grandma and grandchildren in New Orleans, Louisiana

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

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the pro...

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

Grandmother and children, New Orleans, Louisiana

Grandmother and children, New Orleans, Louisiana

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Florida housewives talk war work and welding like their grandmothers talked about the weekly quilting society, as they learn to take their places on a war production line in the Volusia County Vocational School. Mrs. Nancy H. Herbert, left, has a son in the Navy. Mrs. Anna E. Larrabee, right, is a grandmother who has one son in the Navy, a second in the Marines, a third in the Canal Zone as a war worker, and a fourth son who is now an aviation mechanic

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. These two Daytona Beach, Fl...

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

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of Central Florida. Orlando, FL 8 and 9 year old black females from Florida. One lives in middle class neighborhood and the other lives in ... More

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of Central Florida. Orlando, FL 8 and 9 year old black females from Florida. One lives in middle class neighborhood and the other lives in ... More

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of Central Florida. Orlando, FL 8 and 9 year old black females from Florida. One lives in middle class neighborhood and the other lives in ... More

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of Central Florida. Orlando, FL 8 and 9 year old black females from Florida. One lives in middle class neighborhood and the other lives in ... More

Grandma and the bad boys - movie film screenshot

Grandma and the bad boys - movie film screenshot

"The scene opens in the kitchen which is strewn with cooking utensils, indicating that grandma is busy preparing the Christmas pastry. Two bad boys of the red headed, freckled face type, enter. The mischievous ... More

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

My grandmothers churn - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

Conversation with 8 and 9 year old black females, Florida (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of Central Florida. Orlando, FL 8 and 9 year old black females from Florida. One lives in middle class neighborhood and the other lives in ... More