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Poland's tribute to America. These little flag bearers, whose banners carries the name of their school, are among the 20,000 Polish children who marched on July 4 in honor of the American Independence Day. Unable to buy American flags in the stores, their ingenuity came to the front and hundreds of red, white and blue paper flags like those in the picture were produced. When the Star Spangled Banner was played, the hundreds of waving paper flags rustled like the leaves of a great forest

Poland's tribute to America. These little flag bearers, whose banners ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Motion pictures. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

The "East Side" of Pocahontas Country. The Aldrich home, - Buckeye, near Marlinton, West Virginia. This is one of the worst homes in the county. Note the duck-coop, made out of an old trunk, - in front yard. Mother said "The colt kicked the winders out." She is a no-'count mountaineer from Kentucky and her husband is a shiftless farmer who has let this farm run down to worthlessness. His father ran a prosperous farm here and owned hundreds of acres but the son has run thro[ugh] it all. Typical of worst conditions in the country. Oct 6, 1921. Location: Pocahontas County--Marlinton, West Virginia / Photo by L.W. Hine.

The "East Side" of Pocahontas Country. The Aldrich home, - Buckeye, ne...

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Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, lithography, sculpture, etching, metal craft, photography, costume illustration [at] Harlem Community Art Center.

Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, li...

Poster for Federal Art Project sponsored art classes at the Harlem Community Center, 290 Lenox Ave, New York City. Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Counting of returns from unemployment questionnaire gets under way. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Tabulation of the returns from the millions of unemployment questionnaires mailed out last week was started today when final instructions were issued by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Director, to the hundreds of clerks employed to accomplish the huge task. Left to right: Director John D. Biggers; William L. Austin, Director of the Census; and Frederick A. Gosnell, representing the Lost Census Bureau at the Unemployment Census Tabulating, 11/24/37

Counting of returns from unemployment questionnaire gets under way. Wa...

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Chicago, Illinois. At the reservation bureau of the Union Station, hundreds of wires are received daily asking for reservations

Chicago, Illinois. At the reservation bureau of the Union Station, hun...

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Some of the hundreds of wild horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary south of the little town of Shingletown, east of Redding, California

Some of the hundreds of wild horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary south ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Rather than allow 80 wild horses living on public land to be destroyed, the founders of the Wild Horse Sanctuary decided to rescue these unwanted horses a... More

A suggestion The national labor union is composed of hundreds of thousands of American citizens, joined in every State in organized associations, and holding their meetings at stated periods under rule ... [Washington, D. C. n. d.].

A suggestion The national labor union is composed of hundreds of thous...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 210, Folder 19.

Mr. Carpenter visits an old church in Transylvania with the wife and daughter of our American minister to Bucharest. Inside this edifice are hundreds of valuable Turkish prayer rugs reminders of the days when the Crescent rode high over Central and Eastern Europe to the gates of Vienna A Roumanian rig. N.G. ; Roumanian schoolgirls want to know about "flappers". They too are feeling the wave of feminine emancipation that has captured even that man's stronghold---Constantinople.

Mr. Carpenter visits an old church in Transylvania with the wife and d...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: Mr. Carpenter and family of American minister to Romania, Peter Augustus Jay, in front of a church door in Transylvania; a horse-drawn carriage and a group of scho... More

"Duster" plane spraying insecticide over a field of beans. The mechanic in the foreground indicates the outside limit of the last "swath" which has settled by the time the plane returns. Note how low the plane flies. Beanfields like this, hundreds of acres in extent, are plowed, planted cultivated and even harvested by tractors. Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, and Vineland, New Jersey

"Duster" plane spraying insecticide over a field of beans. The mechani...

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Airplane seat production. Airplane pilot seats, manufactured in a large Midwest rubber company now converted to production of many necessities, demands hundreds of rivets in each section of seat construction. Here a workman is cold pressing rivets into a back tie plate with a specially designed air hammer

Airplane seat production. Airplane pilot seats, manufactured in a larg...

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Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in Malaya have burnt thousands of bales of rubber, destroyed rubber factories and smashed machinery. Towering clouds of pungent smoke rise hundreds of feet in the air as a rubber factory is destroyed by the British forces.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

Photograph shows black smoke from a fire set by British forces in Malaya.

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. Gears for guns-for-victory. Hundreds of these precision cut gears roll off specially designed gear-cutters daily in the Bofors plant of a large rubber factory. When assembled, they'll be part of the Bofors forty- millimeter anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages, some of the war essentials now manufactured in a plant whose sole product used to be tires for the family sedan

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. Gears for guns-for-victory. Hundreds o...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, of Daytona, is typical of the hundreds of Volusia County youngsters who are preparing to take their places on Florida's production front. Enrolled in the Daytona Beach Vocational School, he's learning the watchmaker's precision necessary to keep army airplane engines ready for combat

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Ken Kirkpatrick, eighteen, ...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious sacks of cotton prior to shipment to the ginning mills. Because of the U.S. agricultural labor shortage hundreds of these Good Neighbors gave farmers of Corpus Christi, Texas a hand in the harvesting of this vital war crop

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious s...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chryler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Side by side and end to end, hundreds of Dodge Army trucks, produced daily, stand in the yards waiting for the final touches that make them effective fighting vehicles

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chryler Corporation Dodge truck plant. S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

From National Youth Administration to Washington navy yard. Under the direction of Cicil M. Coles, NYA foreman, Miss Juanita E. Gray learns to operate a lathe machine at the Washington, D.C. National Youth Adminstration War Production and Training Center. This former domestic worker is one of the hundreds of Negro women trained at this center

From National Youth Administration to Washington navy yard. Under the ...

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Hundreds of tons of critically needed metal have been saved for the war effort by means of these substantially paperboard boxes which give perfect protection to both fresh and frozen fish fillets, which are an important item during the war

Hundreds of tons of critically needed metal have been saved for the wa...

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Some of the hundreds of wild horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary south of the little town of Shingletown, east of Redding, California

Some of the hundreds of wild horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary south ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Rather than allow 80 wild horses living on public land to be destroyed, the founders of the Wild Horse Sanctuary decided to rescue these unwanted horses a... More

[Rice terraces carved out of the hillsides hundreds of years ago by Ifuago farmers, Philippine Islands]

[Rice terraces carved out of the hillsides hundreds of years ago by If...

Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Bodies of a few of those killed in Wall Street bomb outrage ... a bomb is said to have been exploded in the office of J.P. Morgan & Co. at Broad and Wall Streets killing at least 15 and injuring hundreds ... / / Underwood & Underwood.

Bodies of a few of those killed in Wall Street bomb outrage ... a bomb...

Photograph shows covered corpses lying on the street. No. S-289208-11. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1971:022 c1 f5

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to relatives off to the Land of Opportunity, the U.S.A. The port of Genoa with the city climbing the hillsides to low forts built by Napoleon ; On the S.S. Conte Verde a new luxurious Italian express steamer of the Lloyd Sabaudo Co. two extra propeller blades are carried. This is one.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...

Photographs the port of Genoa, Italy, and two boys standing next to propeller blades on the S.S. Conte Verde. On page: no. 1565 (top left image), no. 1566 (top right image), no. 1567 (bottom left image) and no... More

India in the war. Bridge in the nurses' mess. Hundreds of Indian nurses have volunteered and are seeing active service alongside Indian doctors in the Middle East

India in the war. Bridge in the nurses' mess. Hundreds of Indian nurse...

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Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is going on for the tire we have followed through the plant, it is also going on simultaneously for hundreds of other tires in production. This view shows one corridor in the curing room where fifty tires are being cured at once. Additional molds flank this group on both sides of long corridor such as this one. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is go...

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Pennzoil Refinery, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Tank cars such as this are constantly moving in, filling up and moving out again with hundreds of barrels of high-grade lubricants for our military machine, ships and planes

Pennzoil Refinery, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Tank cars such as this are ...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for replacement uniforms for American soldiers and nurses, thus saving valuable shipping space for carrying munitions and supplies from the United States. They fill two roles in the war effort as hundreds of thousands of pounds of Australian mutton are served annually in the American soldiers' mess

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for re...

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Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was bigger, but this is a fair-sized catch for Uncle Sam's scrap drive. From the depths of a small lake near Zachow, Wisconsin hundreds of ancient jalopies are being resurrected by a Zachow auto dealer, who had been dumping cars into the lake for 20 years. A grappling hook, operated from a cable-way system, brings in the old chassis shown here

Salvage. Backwoods auto graveyard. Maybe the one that got away was big...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Hundreds of deft operations are required to assemble and finish the long lines of Dodge Army truck bodies that move daily to final production lines

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what he can to shoot up the Axis - not with a gun but with the radial drill on which he makes parts for medium tanks. One of many hundreds of loyal, foreign-born Americans who work in this large Midwest tank plant, Sackwar is proud of his role in the war. "Maybe I'm too old to fight," he says, "but I'm giving our soldiers something to fight with." Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40 or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it. Civilization advances into the inner sanctums of the medicine men, and penetrates the Dark Continent, which for hundreds of years held to tribal masks passed down from generation to generation. Supplanting it with the stronger ju-ju of the white man, the medicine men construct these planes, complete with antenna and the U.S. star, and descend on the tribe in flying echelon, as the evil spirits of the Nazis are driven out of the black man's territory

Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and ...

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Production. Aircraft engines. Using multi-colored pins to mark residences of its employees, a Midwest aircraft factory innovates its car-pooling system. Like hundreds of other U.S. factories, this plant encourages workers to utilize all available car space, thereby sparing tires, saving gasoline, and lessening the load on public transportation vehicles. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Using multi-colored pins to mark residen...

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Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, who until recently did line welding on electric refrigerator condensors, is now working on the assembly of eight million candlepower, sixty-inch anti-aircraft searchlights being made for the U.S. Army. O'Rourke is one of the hundreds of refrigerator employees transferred to war work when the last civilian refregerator came off the lines

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, who until recently did lin...

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

Food in England. A squadron leader and a corporal look over some of the hundreds of chickens and ducks raised on an Royal Air Force station farm in Southern England. Managed by the corporal and five men, the farm supplies the flyers with almost all of their food

Food in England. A squadron leader and a corporal look over some of th...

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Food in Britain. At an Royal Air Force station in southern England which runs its own farm, a corporal feeds the farm's smallest pig while the commander looks on. The farm practically feeds the whole station, little being bought outside. A corporal and five men look after eight cows and litters, hundreds of chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys and eighteen acres of potatoes

Food in Britain. At an Royal Air Force station in southern England whi...

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Japanese enlistment. Official announcement recently of formation of a combat regiment to be made up of 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry was the signal for hundreds of loyal citizens in Hawaii to go to their draft boards and sign up. Here, a group of 110, many of them married and fathers, are smilingly waiting their turn to fill out their voluntary induction applications

Japanese enlistment. Official announcement recently of formation of a ...

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Press tent and Roosevelt-Dupont wedding. Wilmington, Del., July 1. The press tent outside Owl's Nest, home of the Duponts, where hundreds of news writers filed their stories on the Roosevelt Dupont wedding

Press tent and Roosevelt-Dupont wedding. Wilmington, Del., July 1. The...

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Tabulation of unemployment census returns begun in capital. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Counting of the returns from the millions of unemployed census questionnaires sent out last week was begun today in a specifically rented warehouse by hundreds of clerks employed for the task. This is a general view of the first floor of the warehouse. 11/24/37

Tabulation of unemployment census returns begun in capital. Washington...

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Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hundreds of families pouring in for jobs. Texas

Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hund...

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"Duster" (plane spraying insecticide) over a field of beans. The mechanic in the foreground indicates the outside limit of the last "swath" which has settled by the time the plane returns. Note how low the plane flies. Bean fields like this, hundreds of acres in extent, are plowed, planted, cultivated, and even harvested by tractors. Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey

"Duster" (plane spraying insecticide) over a field of beans. The mecha...

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"Duster" plane spraying insecticide over a field of beans. The mechanic in the foreground indicates the outside limit of the last "swath" which has settled by the time the plane returns. Note how low the plane flies. Beanfields like this, hundreds of acres in extent, are plowed, planted cultivated and even harvested by tractors. Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, and Vineland, New Jersey

"Duster" plane spraying insecticide over a field of beans. The mechani...

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MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HELPS SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER. WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 23. CONTINUING A PRECEDENT BEGUN BY THE LATE MRS. WARREN G. HARDING WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ASSISTED IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF XMAS BAGS TO HUNDREDS OF NEEDY CHILDREN THIS MORNING AT THE ANNUAL PARTY OF THE CENTRAL UNION MISSION AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE. SANTA CLAUS WAS PLAYED BY HOMER RODEHEAVER OF NEWYORK CITY. L TO R: SANTA CLAUS HOMER RODEHEAVER; BOBBY CARTER, 4; JOAN CARTER, 6; MARY ELLEN CARTER, 5; AND MRS. ROOSEVELT

MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HELPS SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER. WASHINGTON, D...

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Secretary of Agriculture presents Meyer medal to veteran government plant explorer. Washington, D.C., July 24. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, right, presenting the Meyer Medal for distinguished services in plant introduction to David Fairchild, Veteran Plant Explorer of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Secretary made the award on behalf of the American Genetic Association, the Trustees of the Medal. Following the presentation, Secretary Wallace out-lined the distinguished services of Dr. Fairchild during his 50 year's association with the department of Agriculture. Dr. Fairchild has introduced many hundreds of new plants into America. Others in the picture are Mrs. Fairchild and P.H. Dorsett, retired plant explorer, 7/24-39

Secretary of Agriculture presents Meyer medal to veteran government pl...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are enga...

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Aluminum casting. Hundreds of delicate operations are required before aluminum parts for Uncle Sam's Army and Air Corps can be acquired. Here excess aluminum alloy is poured into a holding pot. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Hundreds of delicate operations are required before ...

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

Production. Aircraft engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the expert hands of Dorothy Miller and Sylvia Dreiser during their eight-hour working day in a large Midwest aircraft plant. Inspection of these vital cogs in America's war machine is a delicate task and one which requires infinite patience and precision. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the exper...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Hundreds of office workers are needed in the production of Dodge Army trucks

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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

Hardwick, Vermont. A few of the hundreds of items being donated and sold at the Victory Store, the money from which goes into a local war fund

Hardwick, Vermont. A few of the hundreds of items being donated and so...

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Turks have great respect for the dead and for this reason their cemeteries are placed in the most beautiful spot to be found Although crowded and irregular the great number of trees and shrubbery makes them places of beauty. This ancient cemetery lying on the shores of the Bosphorus is one of the oldest in Constantinople. Hundreds of soldiers and prominent people of the Turkish Empire are buried within its walls.

Turks have great respect for the dead and for this reason their cemete...

Filed in: Turkey General. No. RC-2809. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds of letters asking for jobs

Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds ...

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In Memphis, Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near the bridge every morning at daylight in hopes of work chopping cotton on a plantation. They are hauled to and from work on trucks. Reduced cotton acreage has made employment scarce for this class of seasonal labor in all towns. "You can't live the commonest way on six bits a day. Not alone nor no way. A man like me can't get no foothold. It's a mighty tough old go. The people here in the morning are hungry, raggedy, but they don't make no hungry march"

In Memphis, Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near th...

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Small part for Navy gun. Drop forging a part for one of the smaller guns being turned out in an eastern Navy yard. This is part of the war program calling for the completion of hundreds of new warships

Small part for Navy gun. Drop forging a part for one of the smaller gu...

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

A black and white photo of a lot of old trucks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a lot of old trucks. Office of War Informat...

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Women aircraft workers. One of the hundreds of young women employed in a West Coast aircraft factory applies identifying marking tape to plumbing sub-assemblies. Vega

Women aircraft workers. One of the hundreds of young women employed in...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign displayed in "Shapiro's Bargain Stand," one of New York's East Side marketplaces, shows that the Shapiros, like hundreds of others in the market, are cooperating with the Office of Price Administration in posting prices where their customers can see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign di...

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Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. The Australian Commonwealth has decorated hundreds of New Guinea natives for their invaluable services to the Allied cause. General Vassey is shown at a ceremony at which medals were presented to a large group of stretcher and supply carriers

Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. The Australian Commonw...

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One of hundreds of one-story, modernist-style homes in Palm Springs, California

One of hundreds of one-story, modernist-style homes in Palm Springs, C...

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Old frame house on Fair Oaks battlefield, pierced by hundreds of bullets, and used as a hospital by Hooker's Division

Old frame house on Fair Oaks battlefield, pierced by hundreds of bulle...

Photograph shows the old frame house, center, with soldiers and tents nearby in Fair Oaks, Virginia. The old frame house was used by Union General Joseph Hooker's Division as a hospital. Brady's Album Gallery,... More

Single men. Hundreds of thousands of married men have left their homes to fight for king and country. Show your appreciation by following their noble example / printed by the Abbey Press, 32 & 34 Gt. Peter St., Westminster, S.W.

Single men. Hundreds of thousands of married men have left their homes...

Poster showing two small scenes, of a woman and children at a meal at home, above, and of men shooting rifles, below.

Hundreds of tall towers rise form Roumania's plains marking the oil fields of the country

Hundreds of tall towers rise form Roumania's plains marking the oil fi...

Oil field.

A group of women walking down a street. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A group of women walking down a street. Great Depression FSA photogpra...

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Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what he can to shoot up the Axis - not with a gun but with the radial drill on which he makes parts for medium tanks. One of many hundreds of loyal, foreign-born Americans who work in this large Midwest tank plant, Sackwar is proud of his role in the war. "Maybe I'm too old to fight," he says, "but I'm giving our soldiers something to fight with." Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what...

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Washington, D.C. Tire moulds which are handmade and cost hundreds of dollars and tires with recaps glued in place

Washington, D.C. Tire moulds which are handmade and cost hundreds of d...

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Grinding bullet dies. Here, in the shop of a small manufacturer of saws and knives in downtown New York City, a workman grinds bullet dies to close tolerances on a special surface grinding machine. This fully converted shop is carrying out heat treating, straightening and surface grinding work on hundreds of small ordnance, aircraft and other parts, on a subcontract basis

Grinding bullet dies. Here, in the shop of a small manufacturer of saw...

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One of the hundreds of brief stops on President Roosevelt's long western [...]

One of the hundreds of brief stops on President Roosevelt's long weste...

H33567 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Argonne Embroidery. The Argonne forest bids fair to become as famous for its embroidery as for its battles. Under the guidance of the Society of Friends of Philadelphia and the American Red Cross, hundreds of women and girls are supporting themselves by making a new embroidery. This unique welfare organization is directed by Miss Louise Baker, seen in one of the pictures and has enrolled hundreds of women. Cloth and thread are furnished by the organization and the workers are paid from 40 to 50 centimes an hour for their services

Argonne Embroidery. The Argonne forest bids fair to become as famous f...

Lunch cloths, waists and frocks made by them have found a ready sale throughout the cities of France. Tourists are especially anxious to obtain this new material, and calls are being received from all sides for... More

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to relatives off to the Land of Opportunity, the U.S.A. On the S.S. Conte Verde a new luxurious Italian express steamer of the Lloyd Sabaudo Co. two extra propeller blades are carried. This one [text missing] ; Showing the height of the propeller blade on the S.S. Conte Verde. Mr. Carpenter in the picture.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...

On page: no. 1568 (top image), no. 1570 (bottom left image) and no. 1571 (bottom right image) Text under image no. 1568: "Same as 1565". Text under image no. 1570: "Same as 1569". In album: European pictures (... More

Tourists getting aboard the "Steel Pier" on their return trip to Boston. During the season two boats arrive daily at two, leave about four, bringing and taking hundreds. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Tourists getting aboard the "Steel Pier" on their return trip to Bosto...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This worker is operating an eight-inch spindle machine designed for drilling and finish reaming of the show track and plates of an M-3 tank. Hundreds of specially designed machine tools are used in production of these twenty-eight ton steel giants, at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal, in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This worker is operating an eight-inch sp...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are enga...

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The four freedoms. In the sky the distant rumble of attacking planes come closer and closer. European civilians have heard this rumble hundreds of times, and they know what it means. Here in America we have not heard it, but because we know what it means we are arming to the teeth to defend our people. Strong national defense means freedom from fear for our people

The four freedoms. In the sky the distant rumble of attacking planes c...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Surrounded by the soft white cotton blossoms whose harvesting is essential to America's war effort, this Mexican girl takes a moment's rest from her strenuous picking job. She's one of hundreds of Good Neighbors who gave a helping hand to the farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, by harvesting the summer cotton crop

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Surrounded by the soft white cot...

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Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in war plants, but it's serious business here, for these two are among the hundreds of young people employed in a West Coast aircraft plant. He's a leadman and is instructing her in the use of a power rivet-squeezing machine

Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in ...

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Production. Aircraft. Here's one good reason why refrigerator freezing trays and other aluminum gadgets are out for the duration. On trays in the background are hundreds of aluminum castings going into Lockheed bombers and fighters. Every prime casting is "explored" in a huge X-ray camera like the one seen here. On X-ray film, flaws that might cause failure of these vital parts show up plainly to the expert eye, and the part is discarded

Production. Aircraft. Here's one good reason why refrigerator freezing...

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Some of the hundreds of wild horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary south of the little town of Shingletown, east of Redding, California

Some of the hundreds of wild horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary south ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Rather than allow 80 wild horses living on public land to be destroyed, the founders of the Wild Horse Sanctuary decided to rescue these unwanted horses a... More

One of the hundreds of brief stops on President Roosevelt's long western trip, Woonsocket, S.D.

One of the hundreds of brief stops on President Roosevelt's long west...

H33567 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fortifications on left of Bermuda Hundreds Lines near Point of Rocks, Virginia

Fortifications on left of Bermuda Hundreds Lines near Point of Rocks, ...

No. B593. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Chow time in Turkey. Meal time is always popular on the island of Proti, not far from Constantinople, where the American Red Cross is caring for a colony of more than a thousand Russian refugees rescued from Black Sea ports. Hundreds of these people left their homes without enough funds to purchase another meal and are entirely dependent upon the Americans for support. To care for these refugees the Red Cross has erected a large kitchen from which hundreds of meals are served every day

Chow time in Turkey. Meal time is always popular on the island of Prot...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Red Cross bulletin. Group title: Refugees. Russia. Gift; Amer... More

A Roumanian beauty out for a stroll in Sinaia. Tall, dark with jet black hair and eyes, they account for the Roumanian man's distaste for work and desire for pleasure, which makes Bucharest famous as the "gay Paris of the East" "I do." Making out an application for a trip to the land of advertised golden bricks. A Roumanian emigrant at the American Consulate in Bucharest. Daily hundreds are turned away because of the oversubscribed quota.

A Roumanian beauty out for a stroll in Sinaia. Tall, dark with jet bla...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including a young woman walking in a street, Bucharest and a Romanian man filling out an application to come to the United States. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C2... More

Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea above which hundreds of seagulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel,...

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Tourists getting aboard the "Steel Pier" on their return trip to Boston. During the season, two boats arrive daily at two, leave about four, bringing and taking hundreds. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Tourists getting aboard the "Steel Pier" on their return trip to Bosto...

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It was workers such as these Chinese peasants who finally seem to have convinced the Janpaese that aerial bombing alone will never halt traffic over the Bruma Road. As soon as a bomb falls, or as soon as a cloudburst washes out a section of this miraculous road, hundreds of Chinese peasants are somehow immediately on hand to repair the damage and keep the vital supplies moving on to the Chinese armies and guerrilla forces, which have been bearing the weight of the fight against fascism for years longer than any European nation

It was workers such as these Chinese peasants who finally seem to have...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This huge brake in the Inglewood, California, sheet metal department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, forms hundreds of metal parts daily for bombers and fighters. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This huge brake in the Ingl...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Bundles of various sizes brass, copper, and bronze rod in the shipping room of a brass and copper mill. These will be manufactured into shafting for boats, or sawed into short lengths and machined to make fuse components or any of hundreds of solid brass parts for guns, ammunition, instrument vehicles or vessels. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Bundles of various sizes bras...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious sacks of cotton prior to shipment to the ginning mills. Because of the U.S. agricultural labor shortage hundreds of these Good Neighbors gave farmers of Corpus Christi, Texas a hand in the harvesting of this vital war crop

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious s...

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A section of "barber's row" Enterprising refugees among the hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Armenians who fled from Asia Minor to Greece have set up stools, boxes, chairs and everything that can be sat on in a long row on the quay in Piraeus, the seaport of Athens, and shave and cut the hair of customers.

A section of "barber's row" Enterprising refugees among the hundreds o...

Filed in: Greece Industries & Occupations. No. RC-33863. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Greece. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Hundreds pack Tugwell hearing room. A general view of the Senate hearing room as Rexford Tugwell appeared before the Sen. Comm. to testify as to his fitness to be Under Secretary of Agriculture. Tugwell can be seen in center with microphone. 6/11/34

Hundreds pack Tugwell hearing room. A general view of the Senate heari...

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Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting, and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea, above which hundreds of sea gulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel,...

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Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 21. Howard Hughes, speaking at the National Press Club today, before hundreds of government officials and representatives of foreign governments. Hughes today envisioned a future in aviation when giant flying boats, almost as large as modern ocean liners, will fly the Atlantic under conditions in which the element of luck will play no part, speaking at the luncheon in his honor, he described in detail the type of flying craft and equipment he believes the future will see but which is now nothing more than an aeronautical engineers dream, 7/21/38

Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 2...

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A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois Many residences in southern Illinois coal towns were built with money borrowed from building and loan associations. During the depression building and loan associations almost all went into receivership. Their mortgages were sold for whatever they would bring, and the purchasers demolished houses by the hundreds in order to salvage the scrap lumber. The result is a serious overcrowding and high rents in all the coal towns. A number of people can find no houses to rent, and are living in tents and shanties on the fringes of the town

A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illino...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These men are putting in some of the hundreds of thousands of rivets on the huge 70 milion dollar battleship U.S.S. Alabama, under construction at the Norfolk Yard. The ship is scheduled for launching in February 1942

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These men are putting in some of the...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are enga...

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As fuselage center sections for B-25 bombers move down a long overhead conveyer, hundreds of North American women employees assemble the thousands of parts that go into a modern combat plane

As fuselage center sections for B-25 bombers move down a long overhead...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good looks deceive you, these two young workers are actually full-fledged government inspectors who are employed in a converted Midwest vacuum cleaner plant to test gas masks. Every one of the hundreds of rubber masks that move along the assembly belt each day must be thoroughly tested by young women inspectors who put the masks through many different tests. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good...

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Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled from the assembly lines of a large eastern manufacturer, meant a new job for Gertie Saurborn. Formerly, her work was silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators destined for American homes. Now transferred to war work, along with hundreds of other former refrigerator employees, she is doing her part toward protecting those home by testing regulators being produced for U.S. Army and Navy bombers

Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled f...

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Hundreds of black waiters marched in with each course in military order

Hundreds of black waiters marched in with each course in military orde...

(DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Hotel Guest" by Harrison Rhodes, Harper's magazine, 138:760 (May 1919).

The Mormon Problem Solved [Cartoon of Brigham Young telling Pres. Grant "I must submit to your laws - but what shall I do with these" (hundreds of wives and children); Grant replies: "Do as I do - give them offices"]

The Mormon Problem Solved [Cartoon of Brigham Young telling Pres. Gran...

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For centuries Kairouan has been the most sacred burying ground of this part of Africa, and people dying hundreds of miles away were sent here for burial

For centuries Kairouan has been the most sacred burying ground of this...

People in cemetery, Qayrawān, Tunisia. Caption continues: It is owing to the bequests of past generations that Kairouan has been enabled to keep in repair its superb mosques and zaouias. No. 6.

Crowd after Wall Street bomb outrage today ... one of the mobs which pushed everywhere trying to get word of friends or relatives following the bomb explosion in the office of J.P. Morgan & Co. at Broad and Wall Streets which killed at least 15 and injured hundreds ... / / Underwood & Underwood.

Crowd after Wall Street bomb outrage today ... one of the mobs which p...

Photograph shows crowd of men and police officers. No. 28920. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1971:022 c1 f5

Two Athenian boys (foreground) sit down to gaze at the ruins of the old Acropolis, which was the center of civilization many hundreds of years ago

Two Athenian boys (foreground) sit down to gaze at the ruins of the ol...

Filed in: Greece Buildings, monuments & scenic views. No. 09465. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Coal strike brings hundreds of telegrams to Atty. General Daughterty and Asst. Atty. General Guy D. Goff, L. to R.: Asst. Atty. General Goff, Atty. General Daughterty, Warren F. Martin, Special Asst., and K.M. Carroll, Secy. and Asst. to the Atty. General

Coal strike brings hundreds of telegrams to Atty. General Daughterty a...

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