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[Elizabeth Blackwell, medical doctor and activist for women in the medical profession at 67, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Elizabeth Blackwell, medical doctor and activist for women in the med...

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U.S. Nurse wins international award. Admiral C. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, as he [...] Florence Nightingale medal, the highest award that may be [...] any member of the nursing profession, to Miss Ida F. Rutherford, Conn. Miss Mabel Boardman, Secretary of the American Red Cross, at right. Miss Butler is the fifteenth American nurse to receive the award, which is made biennially

U.S. Nurse wins international award. Admiral C. Grayson, chairman of t...

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Another profession open to honest industry

Another profession open to honest industry

"Wanted, a janitor. Salary (& tips) $17,000.00" on sign. Variant title on verso: A new and lucrative profession discovered. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congre... More

Production. Parachute making. Two of her brothers are in the Army, two brothers are World War I veterans. Perhaps that's why Bonnie Bonness finds attaching shroud cords to parachute straps in this Eastern factory more important than her former profession: dancing in New York's Greenwich Village nightclubs. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Two of her brothers are in the Army, two...

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Migrant laborer from Ohio, picking beans. He said "This is some profession for a man isn't it? Freud and Adler should come around here and study living conditions and they'd have a lot more to say about the reasons for human beings' behavior. Four of us guys live in a palace in these Glades." Near Homestead, Florida

Migrant laborer from Ohio, picking beans. He said "This is some profes...

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Carving birds from is hobby of Washingtonian. Washington, D.C., June 25. Using only a common jackknife as a tool, Ellis Miller, has become an expert at whittling birds from wood. Mr. Miller, a mechanic by profession, acquired his hobby through the game of Monopoly. Trying his hand at the game, he liked it and decided to own a set, but determinied at the same time, that his would be home-made. Carving the tokens from wood, Mr. Miller's first creations were images of a tea kettle, flat iron, locomotive, hat, and shoe. He finally carved a duck. In creating new feathered specied, he found his duty as a craftsman to check the authenticity of cono[...] he consulted the pictures of the audubon bird and this was the start of Mr. Miller's hobby

Carving birds from is hobby of Washingtonian. Washington, D.C., June 2...

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Senate Committee told medical profession ignored in development of public health programs. Washington, D.C., May 26. Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and opponent of federal grants in aid to the states for public health programs embodied in the Wagner Bill, today complained that the advice and help of the medical profession had been completely ignored in development of the scheme. He was testifying before a Senate and Labor Subcommittee

Senate Committee told medical profession ignored in development of pub...

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Caught in the act., Washington, D.C. Aug. 14. William E. Raymond has been cracking safes most of his life but has never served a sentence in jail. He works for a safe and lock company and has made safe cracking his life profession. He is known all over the country as a master with finger tips, drills, or Acotylone torches. Time and again Raymond has proved a [à] to Washington bankers and businessmen when they have locked their safes and forgotten the combination. He refuses to divulge the exact technique of getting into safes without tools for fear of safe breakers operating outside the law might pick up a point or two

Caught in the act., Washington, D.C. Aug. 14. William E. Raymond has b...

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Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit. Mr. James is by profession a musician--organist and conductor. At his suggestion a mechanism was incorporated into the torch whereby the oxygen and acetylene mixtures could be varied to create the desired flame

Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tu...

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Senate Committee told medical profession ignored in development of public health programs. Washington, D.C., May 26. Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and opponent of federal grants in aid to the states for public health programs embodied in the Wagner Bill, today complained that the advice and help of the medical profession had been completely ignored in development of the scheme. He was testifying before a Senate and Labor Subcommittee

Senate Committee told medical profession ignored in development of pub...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gene... More

Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker, living in Ledyard, Connecticut, finishing up his Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Crouch is a stonemason by profession and lives on his farm where a little farming is done

Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker, living in Ledyard, Connect...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dutch Gross, ex world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man, friend of "Spike" Conner, the famous blood donner, and the only man to fall out of an airplane at 2000 feet and live (he fell on high tension wire)  Better known as "the Flying Dutchman," he has made a profession of operating businesses in one defense "boom" area after another. Now runs a small lunch room and grocery store at Kymulga, near Childersburg, Alabama

Dutch Gross, ex world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man,...

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