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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. Washing up for lunch

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Jane Elizabeth Machmer, twenty-six year-old director

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The dietician baking cookies

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. Children painting and coloring

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Sorting used metal tubes at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Tubes made of different metals are segregated into separate bins

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Sorting used met...

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

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Checking the flow of tin, reclaimed from empty collapsible tubes, into melting pot at the reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant receives millions of collapsible tubes turned in by consumers under the tube-for-tube exchange plan

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Checking the flo...

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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Sorting used metal tubes at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Tubes made of different metals are segregated into separate bins

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Sorting used met...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenuity transformed the basement of this appliance shop at 2622 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, into a war industry, smiles. Dockas today was packaging the last of 150 radio control devices manufactured for the U.S. Army Signal Ccorps, while W.R. Stephens, left, Minnesota manager of the War Production Board (WPB) contract distributions branch, and H.C. Timberlake, former manager who helped Dockas get his contract, look on

Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farmers, vendors, store, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War workers' nursery. Knowing her five-year-old will be well cared for while she works in war industry, Mrs. J.E. Schroeder leaves her son Bryan at his nursery school and starts off to work. With the youngster's safety off her mind, she'll be able to concentrate fully upon her job

War workers' nursery. Knowing her five-year-old will be well cared for...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. "Milk time" at the center

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942 for thirty children, ages two through five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Machmer and the dietician checking the amount of food used during the month and making a general inventory of all supplies on hand

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers train young girls in the high school Victory Corps to become valuable members of the vast womanpower army. Sally Brown, who is learning to rivet airplane parts at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, will be ready for skilled work in the war industry when her course in riveting is completed

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers tr...

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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Recovery of tin from squeezed-out toothpaste and other collapsible metal tubes begins at drug and other stored where the critical metal is collected under the tube-for-tube exchange plan. Millions of tubes are collected in this way for recovery of tin at government controlled salvage plant in New Jersey

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Recovery of tin ...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, aged two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Children having lunch with a trained assistant

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pigs of practically pure tin reclaimed from old tooth paste and other tubes in the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Each pig, which is approximately ninety-five percent tin, weighs ninety-seven to one hundred pounds

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pigs of practica...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. "Story hour"

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a month while training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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

War industry needs water Protect production : Use it wisely.

War industry needs water Protect production : Use it wisely.

Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). ... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. Washing up for lunch

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. For daily indoor play the children have dolls, blocks and climbing apparatus; they do clay work, painting, coloring, music and rhythmic exercise, and listening to stories

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Playtime in the child care center

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The director, Miss Jane Machmer, cleaning a child's dirty face before lunch time

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The dietician baking cookies

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Jane Machmer and some of the children whose mothers are press operators, stenographers, drill operators, inspectors, etc.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Three housewives with husbands in the service sort empty metal tubes that will be melted down at the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. These workers separate tin and lead tubes from containers made of other materials. In addition to recovery of tin, a substantial volume of lead is reclaimed for use in war industries

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Three housewives...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. Miss Jane Machmer, twenty-six year-old director

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A group of children sitting at a table eating. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of children sitting at a table eating. Office of War Informati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Joseph Schoot, age 18, tends a remelting furnace at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tooth paste and other metal tubes each month. Note the small stream of tin flowing from the furnace into the channel

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Joseph Schoot, a...

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.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942 for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Rest period

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a baby laying on a bed. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a baby laying on a bed. Office of War Infor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, aged two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Children having lunch with a trained assistant

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of women standing next to each other in a store. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other in a store. Office of Wa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Production. Minesweepers. W.S. Neal, age seventy, came out of retirement to work in the blacksmith shop of an Eastern shipyard. He is shown forging a part to be used in the construction of a Navy minesweeper. Mr. Neal has three granddaughters and a son in war industry. "Why should I sit by at the age of seventy when there's work to do?" he asks. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. W.S. Neal, age seventy, came out of retireme...

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.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. "Story hour"

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Three housewives with husbands in the service sort empty metal tubes that will be melted down at the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. These workers separate tin and lead tubes from containers made of other materials. In addition to recovery of tin, a substantial volume of lead is reclaimed for use in war industries

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Three housewives...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. In their daily outdoor play, children have wheel toys to ride and pull, climbing, digging and swinging apparatus

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table with children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table with children. O...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. In their daily outdoor play, children have wheel toys to ride and pull, climbing, digging and swinging apparatus

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Buffalo, New York. Advertisement of the United States Employment Service, effective in the recruitment of women for work in war industry

Buffalo, New York. Advertisement of the United States Employment Servi...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942 for thirty children, ages two through five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Machmer and the dietician checking the amount of food used during the month and making a general inventory of all supplies on hand

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table with children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table with children. O...

Photograph shows children eating in room with wall illustrations of insects (butterflies). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Div... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Squeezed-out metal tubes, donated by patriotic Americans, are sorted in the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Tin and lead are separated from containers made of aluminum and other metals. James Butler, age 18, is waiting for his call to the service, brings up another batch, which will be expertly sorted by Mrs. Martha Brawn

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Squeezed-out met...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Mrs. Madge Lewis, widow and ex-sales lady, tests old tooth paste and other tubes for metal content in the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This test on an electric iron helps to identify tin and lead tubes from containers made of other metals

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Mrs. Madge Lewis...

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Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Montgomery Blair High School girls are being trained for positions in war industry. As part of the Victory Corps activities in this Silver Spring, Maryland school, Shirley Noonan learns how to weld. John Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education, watches her work. He, along with several Army, Navy, and civilian officials, reviewed Victory Corps maneuvers at the high school

Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Montgomery Blair High Scho...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. After romping in the fresh air in the morning, the children eat heartily. None has to be begged to drink his milk or clean his plate

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almost pure tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other metal tubes, is removed from a heating pot for pouring into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tubes each month

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almos...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almost pure tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other metal tubes, is removed from a heating pot for pouring into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tubes each month

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almos...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Following sorting and testing, squeezed-out tooth paste and other metal tubes are fed to a furnace at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. The metal in these tubes, assaying about ninety-five percent pure tin, will be drawn off and molded into pigs of about 100 pounds each. The plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tubes a month

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Following sortin...

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.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. Miss Jane Machmer, twenty-six year-old director

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the millions of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Frank Thomas, age 19, works at the trimming of the huge pile of squeezed-out tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the mill...

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman and children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman and children. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, aged two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Children having lunch with a trained assistant

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of children sitting around a table eating. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of children sitting around a table eating. Office of War Infor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Squeezed-out metal tubes, donated by patriotic Americans, are sorted in the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Tin and lead are separated from containers made of aluminum and other metals. James Butler, age 18, is waiting for his call to the service, brings up another batch, which will be expertly sorted by Mrs. Martha Brawn

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Squeezed-out met...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers train young girls in the high school Victory Corps to become valuable members of the vast womanpower army. Sally Brown, who is learning to rivet airplane parts at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, will be ready for skilled work in the war industry when her course in riveting is completed

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers tr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pure tin recovered from old tooth paste, shaving cream and other tubes is drawn off from a electric furnace in the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. A blow torch is used to expedite the flow of tin until the molten metal heats the channel sufficiently to permit steady flow

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pure tin recover...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. For daily indoor play the children have dolls, blocks and climbing apparatus; they do clay work, painting, coloring, music and rhythmic exercise, and listening to stories

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Portrait of child at the center

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Steel production. Iron production for war industry. There's plenty of activity in the row of boiler house stacks, in the roaring blast furnace and the stock trestle that serves them. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron production for war industry. There's plenty of ...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft workers. Workers of various races contribute their skills to war industry. To safeguard American cities against all contingencies, these workers in an Eastern arsenal are sewing hand harness tabs on gas masks, which are being turned out in mass production volume. Edgewood Arsenal. Edgwood, Maryland

Manpower. Negro aircraft workers. Workers of various races contribute ...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Portrait of child at the center

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a month while training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman putting muffins into an oven. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman putting muffins into an oven. Offic...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Jane Elizabeth Machmer, twenty-six year-old director

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a little girl washing her hands. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a little girl washing her hands. Office of ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the millions of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Frank Thomas, age 19, works at the trimming of the huge pile of squeezed-out tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the mill...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The dietician preparing milk for the lunch period

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The dietician preparing a meal

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find your favorite brand? A small section of the stockpile of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received for reclamation at the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Some 400,000 pounds of these tubes are received monthly at this plant, where they are melted down and cast into pigs of solid metal for use in war industries

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find you...

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman and children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman and children. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of kids standing next to a easel. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of kids standing next to a easel. Office of War Information P...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman making cookies. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman making cookies. Office of War Infor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman and a child. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman and a child. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find your favorite brand? A small section of the stockpile of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received for reclamation at the Newark, New Jersey plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Some 400,000 pounds of these tubes are received monthly at this plant, where they are melted down and cast into pigs of solid metal for use in war industries

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Can you find you...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other similiar metal tubes, into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Heavy demands from war industries has prompted recovery of tin from collapsible tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten t...

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.

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other similiar metal tubes, into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Heavy demands from war industries has prompted recovery of tin from collapsible tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Steel production. Iron production for war industry. There's plenty of activity in the row of boiler house stacks, in the roaring blast furnace and the stock trestle that serves them. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron production for war industry. There's plenty of ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Montgomery Blair High School girls are being trained for positions in war industry. As part of the Victory Corps activities in this Silver Spring, Maryland school, Shirley Noonan learns how to weld. John Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education, watches her work. He, along with several Army, Navy, and civilian officials, reviewed Victory Corps maneuvers at the high school

Montgomery Blair High school Victory Corps. Montgomery Blair High Scho...

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

A black and white photo of a woman making doughnuts. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman making doughnuts. Office of War Inf...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Jane Machmer and some of the cildren whose mothers are welders, press operators, stenographers, drill operators, inspectors, etc.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. "Milk time" at the center

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Playtime in the child care center

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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

A couple of women standing next to each other in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other in a kitchen. Office of ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

War industry needs water Protect production : Use it wisely.

War industry needs water Protect production : Use it wisely.

Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). ... More