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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. William Howell, aircraft worker in a large Eastern plant, is inserting bearings in a surface control of a medium bomber. Howell got his job after completing a war training course. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. William Howell, aircraft worker ...

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Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the many old-timers speeding ship production in an Eastern navy yard. He operates a pneumatic chipper on the giant propellers which send American ships to all ports of the world

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the man...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower from various races for the war production drive. This skilled Negro worker is grinding profile and radius on the leading edge of a blade in a large Eastern propeller factory. Even the slightest mistake in this operation may ruin the entire blade. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower...

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Manpower, junior size. "After this old tire's been done over, it will make twelve gas masks. Just think! You'll save the lives of twelve soldiers!" These fifth graders in the Gainsboro Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia had been gathering scrap on their own, even before the junior commandos were organized there. Eagerly, they listen to teacher Nettie Traynham tell them that now--along with thirty-million other young Americans--they are part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our fighting men

Manpower, junior size. "After this old tire's been done over, it will ...

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Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines which will power a fifty-foot steel ramp boat to be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and equipment on enemy shores. The large Southern boatyard doing the work is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph ser...

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

Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Gold braid and official titles decorated the training field at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, when Army, Navy, and civilian officers reviewed the Victory Corps maneuvers. Left to right: Merwin M. Peake, Chief, Pre-Induction Training Section, Civilian Personnel Division, Services of Supply, U.S.; John Lund, Executive Director, U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission; John W. Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education; Lieutenant Colonel Junius R. Smith, Executive Officer of Manpower Branch, Civilian Personnel Division, War Department; Lieutenant Colonel Harley B. West, member High School Victory Corps National Policy Committee; Major Harold W. Kent, Bureau of Public Relations, War Department; Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl, Assistant Air Attache, British Embassy; Squadron Leader Ben Travers, Royal Air Force; Commander Harry Blaine Miller, U.S. Navy; Major Francis Parkman, member High School Victory Corps National Policy Committee

Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Gold braid and official ti...

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Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups, Bureau of Placement, War Manpower Commission, until February 1944, when he went to Chicago to become codirector of the mayor's interracial committee, set up on racial relations following the Detroit riots. Shown with a secretary, Miss Mary Pipes of the War Manpower Commission, Bureau of Placement

Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups...

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Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Shoemaker has worked at this same vertical boring mill for the past fifty-four years. The boring mill, built in 1865, made pump parts in the last year of the Civil War and worked through the Spanish-American War and World War I. In this war, it is kept busy seventy-six hours a week. The machine can handle castings up to eleven feet square

Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Sho...

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Manpower conference, 9/18/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Manpower conference, 9/18/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Manpower bores a shallow well if the soil is soft. Ridge well project, St. Mary's County, Maryland

Manpower bores a shallow well if the soil is soft. Ridge well project,...

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Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more important game. This Roanoke, Virginia youngster is one of America's thousands of school age boys and girls who are self-appointed scrap collectors for the duration

Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more impor...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing the nose door of a consolidated transport plane, one of the last assembly line operations at a Western aircraft plant. Here womanpower and manpower work together or various sections of the plane. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing the nose door...

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

Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia! Ensign Andrew Blair, U.S. Navy Reserves extends congratulations to the youngsters at their scrap rally for their whole-hearted efforts to collect material for Uncle Sam's armed forces

Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Vi...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial groups contribute their skills to war production. This Negro worker is checking the size and shape of a propeller blade in a large Eastern airplane propeller factory. Reading the blade with a template requires keen eyes and high precision. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial gro...

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Manpower. Former actress now aircraft worker. From central casting to aircraft casting! Erstwhile child star of the silent picture days, auburn-haired Dorothy Langdon now inspects airplane engine parts in a Detroit war plant. Known as "Baby Dorothy Phelps" of the silents, and heart interest of western thrillers in the middle thirties, Miss Langdon joined America's army of women war workers early this year. With a husband in the Army, the twenty-six-year-old beauty finds her new role in life eminently satisfying. "I'm really doing something," she says. "I got tired of just playing at doing something." In addition to her forty-eight hour work week at the inspection table, Miss Langdon still finds time to study drafting at night

Manpower. Former actress now aircraft worker. From central casting to ...

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Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School drum and bugle corps in Roanoke, Virginia started the junior commando rally with a fanfare and a drum roll. Outside of the auditorium, the "military band" prepared to enter the hall where Roanoke school children awaited the opening of the rally that was to number them as part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our armed forces

Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School dr...

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Paul V. McNutt, issuing his statement at April 20, 1942 press conference, upon his appointment as chairman of the War Manpower Commission

Paul V. McNutt, issuing his statement at April 20, 1942 press conferen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Virginia. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves--no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns, ships, and ammunition they need to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a nei...

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Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Shoemaker points to the only change ever made in the seventy-seven-year-old vertical boring mill on which he has worked for the past fifty-four years. The groove was cut to accomodate huge castings of lighthouse settings many years ago. The old machine was serving during the Civil and Spanish-American wars and World War I. It works seventy-six hours a week in this war, boring castings up to eleven feet square

Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Sho...

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Niagara Falls, New York. Meeting of the Niagara Frontier regional committee of the United States War Manpower Commssion. After luncheon at the Lafayette Hotel, representatives of labor, industry and government are discussing problems of manpower and womanpower recruiting

Niagara Falls, New York. Meeting of the Niagara Frontier regional comm...

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Manpower, junior size. This gingham-clad member of the nation's junior army, in Roanoke, Virginia, would rather rummage through a musty attic for scrap rubber and metal than play hopscotch-- when her country needs all the scrap that she and thirty-million other school children can collect

Manpower, junior size. This gingham-clad member of the nation's junior...

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A veteran sheet metal worker from World War I, Andy Bracken has returned to his old trade to turn out ship parts for Navy use. Behind the wheel of the forming machine is W.C. Fraser, former store clerk who is a helper in a Southern Navy yard

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A veteran sheet metal worker from...

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Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. First meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission held on October 1, 1942. The committee is to aid in mobilizing women workers for the war effort. Standing, left to right: Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, Mrs. Beatrice Gould, Mrs. Dorothy Bellanca, Miss Bess Bloodworth, Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, Miss Sara Southall, Miss Thelma McKelvey. Seat, left to right: Miss Margaret A. Hickey, chairman; Mrs. Lowell Hobart, Mrs. Gladys Talbott Edwards, Miss Ruth Allen, Mrs. Maudelle Bousfield, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, Miss Jenny Matyas, Mrs. Blanche M. Ralston

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. First meeting...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, from the white and the Negro come the skills which will make America impregnable. A veteran employee in an Eastern navy yard instructs an apprentice machinist in the operation of an important machine

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, fro...

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

Manpower. Young farm workers. With the nation's manpower rapidly being recruited into the armed forces, youngsters like this future farmer of Ohio will take an increasingly important part in America's agricultural activities

Manpower. Young farm workers. With the nation's manpower rapidly being...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

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Manpower. Americans all. Men of the melting pot work to maintain the freedom that drew them to America. Born in Sweden, Gunnar Svenson operates a layout cupola in a large Midwest factory, helping to build medium tanks for America's fighting forces. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Men of the melting pot work to maintain the f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, chariot, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's small-fries, but to these youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia, it's fat collection day. As part of their junior commando activities, these boys and girls collect all fats and greases from local housewives during the week, and turn it over to school authorities on Saturday. From here, the fats are sent to a rendering plant where precious glycerin will be derived from it

Manpower, junior size. Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's s...

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

Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more important game. This Roanoke, Virginia youngster is one of America's thousands of school age boys and girls who are self-appointed scrap collectors for the duration

Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more impor...

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High school Victory Corps. When this high school senior finishes his semester course in welding at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, he will be qualified to help fill the need for manpower in our war industries

High school Victory Corps. When this high school senior finishes his s...

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.

Manpower, junior size. "Helping Uncle Sam is the best possible work for you," Mrs. Bertha Traynham, an evangelist, tells her grandchildren, junior commandos in Roanoke, Virginia. The children have brought her leaflets explaining the necessity of the scrap collection drive

Manpower, junior size. "Helping Uncle Sam is the best possible work fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. This Negro boring mill operator performs an important function in the record-breaking production program of a large Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all...

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McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Administrator and recently-appointed chairman of the Manpower Commission, registers under the Selective Service Act at the Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., April 25. Assisting him is Dr. William A. Killgore, draft registrar

McNutt registers for draft. Paul V. McNutt, (FSA) Federal Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in a shop where high school boys help the workers after school hours to relieve the manpower shortage

Scene in a shop where high school boys help the workers after school h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. New skills are developed in a Southern Navy plant where experienced workers train young men for technical work. These boys are learning to make ship parts for U.S. Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. New skills are developed in a Sou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Standing, left to right: the Honorable William A.M. Burden, Special Aviation Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce; Willard E. Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association; John W. Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education. Seated, left to right: the Honorable Ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission (WMC); Robert P. Patterson, the Undersecretary of War

Standing, left to right: the Honorable William A.M. Burden, Special Av...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. This navy yard machinist is one of the many skilled Negro workers now speeding ship construction in a large Eastern yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all...

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.

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia, but they are "scrappers for victory." The little sisters of our fighting men back up their big brothers at the front by joining America's junior army. These fifth graders receive final instructions from their teacher on the scrap collection drive

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower shortage, which threatened the United States' summer cotton crops, Mexican workers were recently asked to assist farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, during the cotton harvest season

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower...

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

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A keen eye and a steady hand guide Olie R. Cawethon in hobbing gears for ships of the United Nations. Cawethon, a former diesel engineer, answered the Navy's call for skilled workers, and is today operating a milling machine in a Southern Navy yard

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A keen eye and a steady hand guid...

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Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a Midwest tank plant, Michael is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans whose sole purpose during working hours is to get as many tanks as possible off the lines and ready for shipment to the fighting fronts. Michael's grandparents, with whom he lives, cling to the Slavic language and to many "old country" customs, but Michael and his brothers and sisters are as American as the Smiths and Joneses. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra go...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swellin...

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

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This arc welder, an American of Chinese origin, is one of many efficient workers making steel ramp boats at a large Southern boatyard. Some of these ramp boats may be used in the invasion of areas where our sailors and Marines will fight shoulder to shoulder with Chinese fighters. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This arc welder, an American of Chinese or...

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.

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This operator of a portable power grinder is one of many efficient workers producing steel ramp boats which will be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on enemy shores. The yard is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This operator of a portable power grinder ...

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Manpower, junior size. The third front--unified, enthusiastic, patriotic--banded together where there are no sides but "our side." School children in Roanoke, Virginia listened eagerly as speakers explained to them the work of the junior commandos

Manpower, junior size. The third front--unified, enthusiastic, patriot...

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Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? Junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile. When the truck appears, every youngster in the neighborhood pitches in to help load it

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. This man went from Nashville to Ohio to get a defense job. Though manpower was being eagerly sought, he was told he must wait sixty days before going to work, so not being able to afford it, he is returning to Nashville. He said he didn't think he had left a defense job. He was a street cleaner in Nashville

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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

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

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War Manpower Commission poster. Farm labor poster distributed to Department of Agriculture. War boards for display in small town post offices, community centers and other public buildings. The original, size 28 1/2 inches by 40 inches, is printed in yellow and black on white and is from a photograph by Carola Gregor who specializes in outdoor photography of children and youth. Copies of the poster may be obtained by writing to the War Manpower Commission, Washington, D.C.

War Manpower Commission poster. Farm labor poster distributed to Depar...

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Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

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Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old country" and European customs are maintained in his home, Michael Kassalo is as American as pork and beans. Michael's job as a vertical turret lathe operator in one of the Midwest's largest medium-tank plants gives him the satisfaction of producing weapons to defeat the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old coun...

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. R.W. Hollamon works at gap shears in his wartime job at a Southern Navy yard. In peacetime he was a farmer, but he has converted his skill to turning out ship parts for the U.S. Navy for the duration

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. R.W. Hollamon works at gap shears...

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.

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Virginia. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves--no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters, who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns, ships, and ammunition they need to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a nei...

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A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirteen years, C.R. Summers now is a sheet metal worker in a Southern Navy yard. Following a short training course in this work, he became adept at the job shown here, brazing on the sleeves that join lengths of copper tubing for Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirt...

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Fort Benning. Tank forces. Double trouble for the Axis -- American manpower and American production ability. The smart soldier ready to alight from a medium (M-3) tank with Tommy gun and side arms is nearing graduation from the armored forces's training school at Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Benning. Tank forces. Double trouble for the Axis -- American man...

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Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, calls the first meeting of the Commission on May 6, 1942. The committee members seated from left to right are: Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board (WPB); Claude R. Wickard, Agriculture Department; V. McNutt, Federal Security Agency; Francis Perkins, Labor Department; James V. Forrestal, Navy Department. Standing: Wendell Lund, Labor Production Division; Golwaite H. Dorr, War Department; Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service System; Arthur J. Altmeyer, Executive Officer; Arthur S. Fleming, Civil Commission; Fowler V. Harper, Deputy Chairman

Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, calls the fir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Father and son working together for victory. Clyde Bryant and son William worked on a farm before the war. Now they fit copper tubing for Navy vessels at a Southern shipyard

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Father and son working together f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the many old-timers speeding ship production in an Eastern navy yard. He operates a pneumatic chipper on the giant propellers which send American ships to all ports of the world

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the man...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

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Women airport workers. In airports as well as airplane factories, women are now contributing to the nation's manpower needs. Here at Washington National Airport, Mattie Marks scoots from plane to baggage room in her "gas buggy," transporting passengers' suitcases and overnight bags. Miss Marks was formerly a seamstress in a laundry

Women airport workers. In airports as well as airplane factories, wome...

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Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher asks. Willing hands shoot up and eager voices cry "Yes!" Everyone in this Roanoke, Virginia class wants to be one of the thirty-million children banding together throughout the United States to form America's junior army, young fighters to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. "Who wants to be a junior commando?" teacher as...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. American manpower draws its skills from various racial groups. This youthful Negro worker, graduate of a war training course, makes fuel tanks for medium bombers in a large Eastern aircraft plant. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. American manpower draws its skil...

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War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Seven of the twelve members of the Women's Advisory Committee, WMC, are shown at a meeting in Washington, D.C., March 18, 1943. Reading from left to right, they are: Mrs. Beatrice Gould, editor, Ladies' Home Journal; Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, vice-president, National League of Women Voters; Miss Bess Bloodworth, vice-president in charge of personnel, the Namm Store, Brooklyn, New York; Miss Margaret A. Hickey, lawyer and business executive of Saint Louis, Missouri, chairman; Mrs. Maudelle Bousfield, principal, Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Blanche M. Ralston, former Works Progress Administration (WPA) regional director, Coahoma, Mississippi; and Miss Jennie Matyas, International Ladies' Garment Union, San Francisco, California

War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Seven of the twelv...

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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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Paul V. McNutt, issuing his statement at April 20, 1942 press conference, upon his appointment as chairman of the War Manpower Commission

Paul V. McNutt, issuing his statement at April 20, 1942 press conferen...

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Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swellin...

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Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. At the first meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission on October 1, 1942, three members get acquainted. They are, left to right: Maudelle Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman; and Sara Southall. The committee was formed to aid in mobilizing women workers for the war effort

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. At the first ...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. A batch of propeller blades is rushed from one operation to another by one of the many Negro workers in a large Eastern airplane propeller plant. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. A batch of propeller blade...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial groups provide manpower for war industries. These youths, employees in a large Eastern bomber plant, are assembling bomb indicators. Both are graduates of government war training courses. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial grou...

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Manpower, junior size. These hardy determined young fighters of the Jamison Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia, are bent upon doing their best as members of Uncle Sam's newest home front fighting team, the junior army. Their teacher is explaining the seriousness of Uncle Sam's scrap metal, rubber, and fats shortage and how they are to be mobilized to collect this vital scrap

Manpower, junior size. These hardy determined young fighters of the Ja...

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Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives, who, like Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many chores. With one of her youngsters to help, she's tending the chicken feeder

Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower i...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Erstwhile sewer of fine seams, Minnie Rost, crippled by infantile paralysis, has a new job which is vital to America's war effort. She's hand-burring Y's for aiplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Erstwhile sewer of fine seams, Minnie R...

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Manpower, junior size. Two barefoot junior commandos in Roanoke, Virginia, wriggle their toes with delight as they study their instructions for collecting scrap for Uncle Sam's great army. Directions for the scrap collection were given to the children at the huge star-spangled rally that launched the campaign

Manpower, junior size. Two barefoot junior commandos in Roanoke, Virgi...

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Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army visit a scrap yard in Roanoke, Virginia to see for themselves what happens to the scrap they collect for our war industries. One of the workers explains to the children how the acetylene torch he holds cuts heavy metal into the shapes required for melting by the steel mills

Manpower, junior size. Proud young fighters in Uncle Sam's junior army...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive paralysis, is still able to do a good job for Uncle Sam. With twenty-five-year-old Henriette Furley, she's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, where this work is done under subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. Henriette is badly crippled by arthritis and must work standing because of the arthritic condition from which she suffers. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Bel...

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Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups, Bureau of Placement, War Manpower Commission, until February 1944, when he went to Chicago to become codirector of the mayor's interracial committee, set up on racial relations following the Detroit riots

Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Final assembly of the pilot's compartment is being made by these Negro workers in a large Eastern aircraft factory. These youths went directly from a war training course to their jobs in this plant. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Final assembly of the pilot's co...

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Manpower, junior size. Nobody played hookey the day teacher Doris Jordan at Jamison Elementary School explained how every pupil can help win the war. These Roanoke, Virginia youngsters, along with some thirty million other young Americans, are being mobilized into the nation's newest home front fighters, the junior army, to collect scrap for ammunition

Manpower, junior size. Nobody played hookey the day teacher Doris Jord...

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Manpower storage is so acute in Washington, D.C. that for the first time in history, Negro women are now employed as gardners in the rose garden of the Botanical Gardens--one of the beauty spots of the nation's capital

Manpower storage is so acute in Washington, D.C. that for the first ti...

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War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Miss Margaret A. Hickey, chairman of the Women's Advisory Committee, War Manpower Commission (WMC). As chairman of this committee, Miss Hickey, who is a lawyer and a business executive of Saint Louis, Missouri, heads the first wartime committee of American women which settles important policy. In private life, she is Mrs. Joseph Strubinger, wife of a Saint Louis lawyer

War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Miss Margaret A. H...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. From bottom to top, America's bombers are being produced with all the workers of the nation. This Negro worker is speeding the final assembly of the floor in the pilot's compartment of a medium bomber in one of America's largest bomber plants. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. From bottom to top, America's bo...

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Manpower. Americans all. Rejoicing in the opportunity to help free his native Greece and keep the Nazis from America's shore, William Demetrios machines parts for Uncle Sam's medium tanks in a large Midwest tank plant. He's one of many naturalized Americans who are working to rid the world of his fatherland's oppressors. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Rejoicing in the opportunity to help free his...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

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Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups, Bureau of Placement, War Manpower Commission, until February 1944, when he went to Chicago to become codirector of the mayor's interracial committee, set up on racial relations following the Detroit riots. Shown with a secretary, Miss Mary Pipes, of the War Manpower Commission, Bureau of Placement

Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups...

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Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collecting as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

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Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups, Bureau of Placement, War Manpower Commission until February 1944, when he went to Chicago to become codirector of the mayor's interracial committee, set up on racial relations following the Detroit riots. Shown with a secretary, Miss Mary Pipes of the War Manpower Commission, Bureau of Placement

Washington, D.C. Doctor Robert C. Weaver, Chief of the Minority Groups...

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Manpower, junior size. "Any scrap for Uncle Sam?" Captain Charles Wentworth, a junior commando in Roanoke, Virginia, hands Mrs. John Farr a leaflet announcing the hunt for precious metal and rubber. Units of three children to a block combed every house for scrap and brought it to their own houses where city trucks carted it away

Manpower, junior size. "Any scrap for Uncle Sam?" Captain Charles Went...

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Manpower. Boatyard workers. An electric arc welder at a large Southern boatyard examines a bead he has just run on a steel ramp which will be used in making beach landings of men, tanks, and other equipment on hostile shores. The yard is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. An electric arc welder at a large Southern...

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Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives. One of these, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many chores. With cattle, horses, and poultry to tend, there are very few minutes for repose and relaxation in Mrs. Sontag's war-conditioned life

Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower i...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Ineligible for the army because of physical handicaps, James C. Schneider (left) and John D. Arrowood are two of Uncle Sam's ablest soldiers of production. They are inspectors of airplane motor parts in a Baltimore factory. Twenty-year-old Schneider has not let infantile paralysis interfere with war work, nor has twenty-four-year-old Arrowood allowed his polio-disabled leg and curvature of the spine to prevent his making a valuable contribution to the war effort. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Ineligible for the army because of phys...

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. A hot one for Hitler. This worker heats the rivets which go into Uncle Sam's mighty warships being produced in a large Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. A hot one for Hitler. This worker he...

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Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is much more than just a job to Peter Dykzeul. Born in Holland, this employee of a Midwest tank plant knows the brutality and horror Nazi agression can bring to a freedom-loving people. And he's just one among America's many loyal, foreign-born workers who are pitching in with every ounce of strength to keep the nation free, and to lift the yoke from their native lands. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive to utilize all available women for industrial and defense plants when the labor shortage became acute due to manpower being drafted into the Army

New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive ...

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New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission, at the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production, sponsored by the Office of War Information. She is looking at a cartoon, autographed by Mayor La Guardia of New York City, who submitted the idea for this illustration

New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission...

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Niagra Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants. This program was organized by the War Manpower Commission in cooperation with local war plants who loaned nineteen women workers

Niagra Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for...

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