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Souvenir Program The Firebird - Public domain music sheet scan

Souvenir Program The Firebird - Public domain music sheet scan

Souvenir program for the premiere of The Firebird, June 1910. Contains set and costume designs for The Firebird; set designs for Giselle and Schéhérazade; program information for Le Carnaval; The Firebird; and ... More

Congressional leaders confer with President on Neutrality Bill. Washington, D.C., July 5. President Roosevelt today called in majority leaders of the House and Senate to urge them to throw out the arms embargo clause of the Neutrality Bill which passed the House last week. The president's new proposal for a 3 billion lending program was also discussed. Leaving the White House and talking to reporters are Rep. Sam Rayburn, majority leader of the House, and Senator Alben Barkley, majority leader of the Senate

Congressional leaders confer with President on Neutrality Bill. Washin...

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Pres. Coolidge signing the final veterans Bu. Hospital Bldg. bill at the W.H. [i.e., White House] during the garden party to the wounded soldiers. The bill provides for $6,800,000 for completing the hospital program. Center group, left to rt.: General Pershing, Mrs. Coolidge, Commander Andrews, Col. C.O. Sherrill, and Brig. General Frank T. Hines

Pres. Coolidge signing the final veterans Bu. Hospital Bldg. bill at t...

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British stateswoman talks housing with Ickes. Honorable Ellen Wilkinson, former Labour Member of British Parliament from Middleboro, discusses slum clearence with Secretary Harold Ickes. The British Stateswoman is an advocate of a national building program to establish comfortable living quarters for those now in slums. She was in Washington in connection with the National Housing Conference, 1/19/35

British stateswoman talks housing with Ickes. Honorable Ellen Wilkinso...

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New deal for Old Dobbin. Rep. Percy L. Gassaway (cowboy and D. of Okla) isn't letting the Wash. heat wave deter him from getting ready to promote his own scheme for bringing back prosperity. He is giving Congress a week from Monday to perfect a plan. If Congress falls down, Cowboy Gassaway is going to work on a multi-ramified program which in general specifies the return of the horse and fewer automobiles. In one hour his week on a D.C. street is counted 1800 cars. "That's whats wrong!" he suggests. People will buy a gallon of gas when they have no "bread" or likker in the house." Gassaway is enjoying his electric fan while he dictates to his secretary, 7/6/35

New deal for Old Dobbin. Rep. Percy L. Gassaway (cowboy and D. of Okla...

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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Home of Emil Kimball who will participate in tenant purchase program. Note lack of windows and crude fencing. Morganza, Louisiana

Home of Emil Kimball who will participate in tenant purchase program. ...

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3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace, speaking over the Farm and Home Hour today, todays broadcast marks the 3,000th hour on the air and makes it the world oldest radio program from the standpoint of hours on the air, 6/27/38

3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agric...

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Plane with cruising radius of 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour plan of Glenn Martin. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore airplane manufacturer, today told amazed members of the House Naval Affairs Committee when he told he is studying plans for a new super ship capable of cruising 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour with 4,000 pounds of bombs. The ship he is planning to build will dwarf even the biggest planes now in use, Martin added. Martin was testifying on President Roosevelt's billion- dollar Naval Expansion Program, 2/28/38

Plane with cruising radius of 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour plan ...

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Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've got time to raise somp'n to eat." The program to eliminate the risk and uncertainty of a one-crop system meets the approval of this sharecropper. She sits on the porch and sorts tobacco

Near Douglas, Georgia. "You don't have to worriate so much and you've ...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Ellis Adkins and her youngest child. The family are rehabilitation borrowers. There are seven children and this is their first year on the program. Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Ellis Adkins and her youngest child. The family are rehabilitatio...

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Farm families receive adequate medical care under the FSA (Farm Security Administration) medical health program. Saint Charles County, Missouri

Farm families receive adequate medical care under the FSA (Farm Securi...

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Group on steps of community auditorium with county doctor, project manager and nurse on May Day-Health Day program. Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Group on steps of community auditorium with county doctor, project man...

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Farmers during Great Depression: A couple of men working in a field.

Farmers during Great Depression: A couple of men working in a field.

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

FIRST LADY ASSISTS SALVATION ARMY. WASHINGTON, D.C. DECEMBER 23. AS PART OF HER PROGRAM OF SPREADING CHRISTMAS CHEER, MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ASSISTED THE SALVATION ARMY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF XMAS FOOD BASKETS TO THE NEEDY OF WASHINGTON. IN THE PICTURE, L TO R: MRS. CHARLES H. DODD; MRS. FANNIE COOK AND HER DAUGHTER, DOLORES, AGED 9; MRS. ROOSEVELT; AND MAJOR CHARLES H. DODD, DIVISIONAL COMMANDER OF THE SALVATION ARMY

FIRST LADY ASSISTS SALVATION ARMY. WASHINGTON, D.C. DECEMBER 23. AS PA...

A group of people standing around a christmas tree. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting of colored people in neighborhood land use planning program committee. Caswell County, North Carolina

Meeting of colored people in neighborhood land use planning program co...

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.

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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The evening program after the barrel rolling contest consisted of dancing in the street (plenty of jitterbugging). Presque Isle, Maine

The evening program after the barrel rolling contest consisted of danc...

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) truck enroute to market with chickens raised through the "Food for Defense" program. Coffee County, Alabama

FSA (Farm Security Administration) truck enroute to market with chicke...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. The top carriage of a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage receives the final assembly operations. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The top carriage of a thirty-seven millimet...

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.

James Drigger feeds his chickens. Coffee County, Alabama (FSA (Farm Security Administration) "Food for Defense" program")

James Drigger feeds his chickens. Coffee County, Alabama (FSA (Farm Se...

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Josh and Eulia Smart receive a check for their chickens sold to the Craig Field, Southeastern Air Training Center, from Mr. Oveltin, co-op specialist. Coffee County, Alabama (FSA (Farm Security Administration) Food for Defense Program)

Josh and Eulia Smart receive a check for their chickens sold to the Cr...

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

Coffee County lad with calves bought under the Food For Defense program. Coffee County, Alabama

Coffee County lad with calves bought under the Food For Defense progra...

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Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relation Section of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relat...

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

Josh and Eulia Smart place a second batch of chicks in their brooder, to raise more chickens for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) "Food for Defense" program. Coffee County, Alabama. FSA superintendent Mr. McArthur in background

Josh and Eulia Smart place a second batch of chicks in their brooder, ...

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

Conservation of used material bears heavily on the progress of the defense program. From Western Electric's distributing houses used wire and cable is shipped to the Nassau Smelting and Refining Company, where its components are preserved and cast into ingots and billets that find their way back to industry again. At the Atlanta distributing house, a new battery-driven lift and dumptruck speeds the local conservation program

Conservation of used material bears heavily on the progress of the def...

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Library of Congress contribution to the scrap metal conservation program

Library of Congress contribution to the scrap metal conservation progr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Truck loaded with scrap metal is weighed on platform scale before being unloaded in wholesale junkyard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Truck loaded...

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

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Bales of pressed scrap paper being unloaded from hydraulic press in District retail paper company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Bales of pressed scra...

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Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. McCarl, Greenbelt dentist, as chairman of the American Legion committee for the Memorial Day ceremonies, opening the program

Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. McCarl, Greenbelt dentist, as chairman of the...

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Mammoth weight of drop forger. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Navy yard, one of eleven arsenals which have stepped up production to top speed for the war program

Mammoth weight of drop forger. Forging part of a large gun in an easte...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of brass and copper metal are loaded into a freight car and shipped to factories where it is fabricated into thousands of metal parts needed for our war program, or to our airplane submarine, or ship-building industries to become parts of their production. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of brass and copper met...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs going through paces in calisthenics as part of the program for building up their bodies. Fort Des Moines, Iowa

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs going through paces in calisthenic...

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For the ramparts. A series of medium caliber guns nears completion in an eastern arsenal. Men shown are engaged in the exterior inspection of liners on guns for the war production program

For the ramparts. A series of medium caliber guns nears completion in ...

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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles of the War Production Program. Here in the women's department of the Dante Electric Company, three workers of the Dante family help in the production of electrical parts for submarines. Mr. Dante just made a slight adjustment on the mechanical screw driver operated by Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. In the center, Mr. Artie Shaw is working on a similar machine. Bertha Kreig, of nearby Harwinton, is working at the right rear

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small sho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tons of big guns for the Navy. Getting ready to finish the last of this row of big guns at an eastern Navy yard. The guns have to be shifted by overhead pulleys. This is part of the Navy's war program to provide a two-ocean Navy.

Tons of big guns for the Navy. Getting ready to finish the last of thi...

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

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Admini...

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Portsmouth, Ohio. Chairman of medical service committee under civilian defense program addressing group of doctors who have met to discuss organization

Portsmouth, Ohio. Chairman of medical service committee under civilian...

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

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The special mold containing the tank is being lowered into position in the tire vulcanizing unit. When it is in place, the huge cover of the unit will be lowered into position and closed. The heat will then be turned on to cure the raw rubber of the gas tank

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal skelton of an old car which has been burned in order to get rid of useless materials after being stripped of saleable parts at the wholesale junkyard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal skelto...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Recovering buried trolley track to provide scrap for the war effort is an operation handily performed by such devices as the one shown here. Pulled by a tractor, the apparatus disengages the track from the pavement and slides it back on the iron sawhorses. This photo shows the breaking up of the pavement as the old track is unearthed

Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Recovering buried t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India

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Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. These children are working on their garden after the regular school day is over, waiting for their parents to finish work and call for them

Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. Thes...

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense which includes military drill for both high school boys and girls as part of the physical fitness course

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense which inludes conserving of materials and wearing apparel. Members of the art and crafts class at Armstrong High School have made jewelry and many other articles from scrap and discarded materials. Girls are taught to wear proper color combinations and the right kind of accessories for each dress. Photo shows (left to right): Misses Helen G. Weaver, Yvonne Colvin and Audrey V. Minor in an exhibit of the art and crafts class

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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Reciprocal aid. Two gentlemen from Ohio who pilot Spitfire planes in Britain. Lieutenant E.S. Schofield of Belleville, wearing a British flying kit, and R.F. Sargent of Youngstown, wearing a British Irvin jacket, give evidence of the cooperation between British and American air forces. Important equipment and supplies including airdromes, barracks and ammunition, are provided American fighting forces under the British Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. Two gentlemen from Ohio who pilot Spitfire planes in B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. A Royal Air Force pilot awaits the mechanic's final check before taking off in his lend-lease Mohawk fighter

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. A Royal Air Force...

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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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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Lend-lease Hudson bomber under repair "somewhere in India." Repair crews consist of English, Chinese, and Indians. A large crew of workmen are put on job of reconditioning lend-lease Hudson bomber which was damaged in raid on Jap-occupied territiry in order ot get it back into the fight at the earliest possible moment

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Lend-lease Hudson...

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New York, New York. A fifteen-year-old expert on model airplanes who formerly spent all day Saturdays at the movies, now devoting his time to the instruction of younger boys enrolled in the day care program at Greenwich House, a community center

New York, New York. A fifteen-year-old expert on model airplanes who f...

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Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (Théatre National de L'Opéra), Mai-Juin 1922

Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (T...

Contains list of season's repertory and list of season's artists; set designs for Le Renard and Mavra; costume design for Le Renard, Aurora's Wedding, and Mavra; photographs of Bronislava Nijinska, Igor Stravin... More

Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (Théatre National de L'Opéra), Mai-Juin 1922

Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (T...

Contains list of season's repertory and list of season's artists; set designs for Le Renard and Mavra; costume design for Le Renard, Aurora's Wedding, and Mavra; photographs of Bronislava Nijinska, Igor Stravin... More

Programme Officiel, Théatre de Monte-Carlo [program for 1923-1924 season]

Programme Officiel, Théatre de Monte-Carlo [program for 1923-1924 seas...

Contains drawings by Juan Gris, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Claude Manet; curtain design for Les Tentations de la Bergère; sets and costume designs for the operas Le Médecin Malgré Lui and La Colombe and... More

Washburn's last sensation, the moral show of the age embracing performances of every clime ... four complete exhibitions ... six genuine wild indians [in] Sacred dances ... historical scene ... grand scalping scene

Washburn's last sensation, the moral show of the age embracing perform...

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[The  Danny Kaye Show, Carter Barron Amphitheater, July 17th thru July 30th, 1961]

[The Danny Kaye Show, Carter Barron Amphitheater, July 17th thru July...

Public domain scan of theatrical program brochure, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye was an Am... More

[Cort Theatre program for Drinkwater's play entitled, Abraham Lincoln.]

[Cort Theatre program for Drinkwater's play entitled, Abraham Lincoln....

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At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs students, part of a cadre in the center's visiting residential program for young people, about the Anasazi, the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. The center conducts digs and other archaeological research, education and preservation programs, and partnerships with American Indians in the artifact-rich valleys and mesa tops of Montezuma County in the southwest corner of Colorado

At the Crow Canyon Archeological Center, an instructor informs student...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

At farm conference. Washington D.C. Opening a conference with more than 50 Farm leaders to frame a long-term federal farm program, Secretary of Agriculture is shown with Congressional Agricultural leaders, Senator Ellison D. Smith, Democrat of South Carolina, and Rep. Marvin Jones, Democrat of Texas. (right)

At farm conference. Washington D.C. Opening a conference with more tha...

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New public works program will not interfere with private industry, Senate Committee told. Washington, D.C., July 13. The new Federal Works Administrator, John M. Carmody, today promised the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the new $350,000,000 public works program would not interfere with private industry. He pointed out that President Roosevelt's program made no specific provisions for federal loans to municipalities for acquisition of private utilities

New public works program will not interfere with private industry, Sen...

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Who's going to pitch? Washington, D.C., April 21. Like old line fans that they are, the nation's no.1 baseball fans look over the program first thing upon taking their seats. Senators Charles L. McNary of Oregon, and Carter Glass of Virginia, look over the line-up with Vice President John Garner before the beginning of today's game between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees

Who's going to pitch? Washington, D.C., April 21. Like old line fans t...

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Advisory Council on social security issues. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21. Important changes in the Government's vast social security program received consideration today by two groups of officials and laymen. The advisory counsel, created at request of a Senate Committee, heard reports from experts who have surveyed the possible extension of old age benefits to agricultural workers, domestic servants and employees of religious and charitable institutions, snapped while attending the meeting were left to right: T.L. Norton, economist professor at the University of Buffalo, N.A.H. Mowbrey, University of Calif. and George E. Biggers, Member of the Social Security Board, 10/21/38

Advisory Council on social security issues. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21....

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Diplomatic children broadcast Xmas greeting. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Christmas greetings in all tongues were broadcast all over the world today by the tiny sons and daughters of foreign diplomats participating in Annual International Children's Christmas Program staged by the National Broadcasting Co. For the first time two American children. Marcus and Melissa Woodring, son and daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry Woodring, took part in the broadcast. Left to right, can be seen: Charles Lombard, son of the French Military Attache and Mme. Lombard; Nicolaii Machado, son of Maj. and Mme. Bin Machado of the Brazilian Embassy; Marcus and Melissa Woodring; and Saschiko Jimbo, daughter of the Japanese Embassy Secretary, Shuzo Jimbo, 12/20/38

Diplomatic children broadcast Xmas greeting. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20...

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Mrs. Shoenfeldt, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, Sheridan County, Kansas. Chickens are an important part of live at home program for this family

Mrs. Shoenfeldt, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, Sh...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Milk-testing is one way of gauging the value of different feeding practices. As the milk tester for the Triple B Association stays overnight with each family, he has time to go carefully into the farmer's feed program with him and work out the best method. Black Hawk County, Iowa

Milk-testing is one way of gauging the value of different feeding prac...

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Dentist participating in FSA (Farm Security Administration) health program treats rehabilitation client. Saint Charles County, Missouri

Dentist participating in FSA (Farm Security Administration) health pro...

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Explaining the REA program to farm women, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa

Explaining the REA program to farm women, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, ...

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Big Rock school, built since Mrs. Marie R. Turner has been county superintendent. She is trying to consolidate all the schools and build them of stone since so many of the mountain schools have been burned down several times. She has been encouraging an activity program emphasizing creative arts and crafts using their native clay, wood and other materials. Breathitt County, Kentucky

Big Rock school, built since Mrs. Marie R. Turner has been county supe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children group portrait, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The evening program after the Barrel Rolling Contest consisted of dancing in the street (plenty of jitterbugging). Presque Isle, Maine

The evening program after the Barrel Rolling Contest consisted of danc...

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Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy. Workers ramming in the bottom of a new thirty-five ton electric melting furnace which two days later was placed in operation to produce steel alloys from scrap iron and steel. This plant is being expanded at record speed to keep up with the even increasing needs of the national defense production program. Allegheny Ludlum, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy....

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

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long distances over poor roads and up creek beds that they bring their lunches in pails. Mrs. Marie R. Turner, the county superintendent is trying to institute a hot lunch program in all the schools to give them a more well-balanced diet and improve health conditions

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long dist...

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Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the program by which America's farm women plan to help win the war. Graham Patterson, publisher of Farm journal and farmer's wife, national farm magazine, is seen here presenting the "War Platform" which twenty-eight leading farm women, speaking for the rural homemakers of America, drew up in a recent Chicago conference sponsored by this magazine. Several sections of the platform were addressed directly to Mr. Nelson's board and other goverment agencies. It contains thirty-one practical ways in which farm women declare they can help

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the progr...

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

High school girls at Americanization program. Eufaula, Oklahoma

High school girls at Americanization program. Eufaula, Oklahoma

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Veterinary explaining where to look for bot fly eggs in sanitation program for horses. Fremont County, Idaho

Veterinary explaining where to look for bot fly eggs in sanitation pro...

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Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. Class work is part of their training to be expert tool and die makers

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Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

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Children watching their schoolmates in program at end of school term. FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

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Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relation Section of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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Buildings for new sanitary privies constructed in central yard for environmental sanitation program in Minnesota

Buildings for new sanitary privies constructed in central yard for env...

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Farm worker's wife and young daughter at the school program at the end of the term

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Assembling the foot firing mechanism on a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. The gunner requires both hands to follow his swiftly moving target, and must get in as many shots as he can while the target is still within range. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Old Ironsides" is written on this stove found in warehouse of wholesale junk dealer

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Guns--plenty of 'em. Masses of gun barrels in the process of manufacture for the war program

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. General view of the machine shop where tools used in turret construction are made on machines imported under the lend lease program

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Denver, Colorado. A scene in the interior of a ship-building plant, one of eight engaged in a 56 million dollar program. Ship parts from this land-locked plant in Denver will be sent 1,300 miles to Mare Island for assembly

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Electro-magnet loads metal scrap onto freight car in wholesale junkyard

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Car headlights glare up among objects in wholesale junkyard

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She's still connecting lines--this former telephone operator who is learning how to solder iron wires. Jo Ann Whitington is being trained through an National Youth Administration (NYA) program for a civil service job in the assembly and repairs department of the naval air base at Corpus Christi, Texas. She will be a helper in electrical overhauling work

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. After saleable parts are removed from old cars, the cars are burned in order to strip them of useless materials and to obtain metal skeleton for scrap

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. Workmen operating an automatic tool machine. Ninety-five per cent of the machinery in this plant was imported under the lend lease program

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Wholesale junkyard beside siding in rear background. Truck in right foreground is being weighed on platform scale before unloading

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New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. High school girls singing a song in Spanish during a radio program broadcast to Latin America under the auspices of the United States Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

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Beltsville, Maryland. Employees of the United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm demonstrating the care and repair of farm machinery for posters to be used in a "Share and Repair" conservation program

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Opening up hydraulic press showing paper ready for baling

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Lend-lease equipment is unloaded from a Libery ship at an Indian port

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workman, using an American welder which was supplied under lend-lease, welds an armor plate on a nearly completed combat car

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Southfields, New York. Interracial activities at camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. Instructions being given to the campers by Milton Reiner, program director

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Lend-lease Mohawk fighters are readied for a take-off at an Indian air base. Mohawk fighter being made ready for flight. These ships were furnished to the French, taken over by the English. Consensus of pilots: "Best plane made for use against the Japs"

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Reciprocal aid. Australian shipbuilding at work on a naval corvette. The hammering insures against scales adhering to joints to be welded. Many new shipyards have been established in Australia for an enlarged naval ship program

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Chinese technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training program at a conference with C.L. Moffatt (at extreme right, dark suit, handkerchief in breast pocket) , discuss flood control as a problem of industrial rehabilitation

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