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Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls of many of America's activities these days. Like many other farm wives whose husbands are engaged in war work, Mrs. William Wood manages a 120 acre farm in Colona, Michigan, with little male assistance. With a crop of corn, tomatoes and rasberries to harvest, she still finds time to care for her own Victory garden and to attend a first-aid class. And for the scrap drive Mrs. Wood salvaged 1,600 pounds of outworn metal and rubber articles from the farm, and contributed them to her local collection agency

Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

From paper to performance. One of thousands of blueprints is consulted in a check on assembly operations of a 16-inch gun, barbette carriage. The gun is being rushed for war work in an eastern arsenal

From paper to performance. One of thousands of blueprints is consulted...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information P...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Inspectors instructed. Student inspectors learn the ins and outs of their trade at an eastern arsenal. The mechanism under discussion is that of a 37 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage, M-3, one of the army being turned out for war work

Inspectors instructed. Student inspectors learn the ins and outs of th...

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

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of De Land, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to train workers for the war plant

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow ...

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

Washington, D.C. A day nursery for pre-school children of mothers engaged in war work, operated under the supervision of the District of Columbia Health Department by Mrs. Leroy Bonbrest at her home at 1144 Branch Avenue, S.E. Mrs. Two little girls learning a little about orderliness

Washington, D.C. A day nursery for pre-school children of mothers enga...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Windows, Christmas '43

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Windows, Christmas '43

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offered to women by New York University under United States Government sponsorship. Women learning to use an electric drill. One was a teacher; the other a private secretary

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offered to women ...

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

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. General veiw, from above

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. General veiw, from above

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. Exhibit IV

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. Exhibit IV

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Back the attack

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. Exhibit VIII

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. Exhibit VIII

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Better care means less repair

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

All-American news. 1945-01, no. 2

All-American news. 1945-01, no. 2

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More

Miscellaneous subjects. Montage of crowd with text Malnutrition

Miscellaneous subjects. Montage of crowd with text Malnutrition

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Window on conservation II

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Window on conservation II

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler Hotel with Paint fights for health and rehabilitation display

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler ...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler Hotel with Paint fights in the skies display

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler ...

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied by apprentices in an eastern arsenal. Instructors explain the operation of a radical drill

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied ...

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

Typewriters for war work - Public domain dedication image

Typewriters for war work - Public domain dedication image

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from general caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washingto... More

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, great-grandmother of the family, does the cooking for the La Roe production group at Eustis, Florida to give other members of the family more time for war work in their garage machine shop. The La Roe family forms an important unit in the De Land, Florida industrial pool.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, gr...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Geneva Grishan installs a part on an ammunition box for a new consolidated transport plane. Before she went into war work at a western war plant she attended radio school. The plane she helps to make will carry one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It has the greatest speed of any American bomber except its consolidated B-24 counterpart

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Geneva Grishan installs ...

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

A black and white photo of a man wearing goggles. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man wearing goggles. Office of War Inform...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Tennessee Valley Authority photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informat... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The stamp of approval goes on these sections of naval shell extractors before they are shipped from this New York state plant doing war work on subcontract. The plant formerly turned out merry-go-rounds. The naval inspector is at the left. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The stamp of approval goes on these ...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Home service daily radio show VI

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offering to women by New York University under United States Government sponsorship. Former housewife learning to measure objects to a thousandth of an inch with precision instruments

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offering to women...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Home service daily radio show VII

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Window, conservation of electricity

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Window, conservation of electrici...

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. Exhibit II

Bulova Watch Co., Exhibit, Waldorf Astoria. Exhibit II

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Red Cross II

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Judd & Detweiler, Inc. Award ceremony with certificate of merit II

Judd & Detweiler, Inc. Award ceremony with certificate of merit II

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Merritt, Christiana
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; Undated
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Miscellany; 2 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Western College, Macon, Mo
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Olive
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Clark, Ella
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1859
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Robert
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1891
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Supply lists and disbursements
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Elizabeth
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, W. W
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1867
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1898
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Pensions; Bickerdyke, Mary Ann, 1886-1901
"Anti-loafin' blues" - Public domain World War One sheet music

"Anti-loafin' blues" - Public domain World War One sheet music

by Maceo Pinkard. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Manuscript in ink; accompanied by a lyric sheet. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical for... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Olive
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Woodcock, Eliza
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1896
Uncle Sam's junior army - Public domain World War One sheet music

Uncle Sam's junior army - Public domain World War One sheet music

For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Girl scouts - Public domain World War One sheet music

Girl scouts - Public domain World War One sheet music

by Ayres-Hadfield. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Kōgun o imon shite, Japanese Censorship Collection

Kōgun o imon shite, Japanese Censorship Collection

Cover title. Record of lecture given November 4, 1942, at Sanshi Kaikan. "MOJ 75-A 245" : intended for microfilm. LC copy from Naimushō Keihokyoku censorship collection; not classified. LC copy brittle; placed... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Miscellany; 2 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Joseph
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Chicago Home for the Friendless, Chicago, Ill
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Robert
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, James; From Hiram Bickerdyke (brother)
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1893
Are you helping the "boys over there"?

Are you helping the "boys over there"?

words and music E.M. Sheetz. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Manuscript in ink. "Dedicated to the American Red Cross." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (add... More

We couldn't have heroes "over there"

We couldn't have heroes "over there"

For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, 1899-1900
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Pensions; Soldiers
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Charles R
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Chicago Home for the Friendless, Chicago, Ill
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Cochran, Asenath
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1887-1888
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Printed matter; Railroad passes, 1865-1885, 1898
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1899
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Miscellany; 2 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Cook, James H.; 2 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, James; General
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1899
Kōgun o imon shite, Japanese Censorship Collection

Kōgun o imon shite, Japanese Censorship Collection

Cover title. Record of lecture given November 4, 1942, at Sanshi Kaikan. "MOJ 75-A 245" : intended for microfilm. LC copy from Naimushō Keihokyoku censorship collection; not classified. LC copy brittle; placed... More

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Bickerdyke, Hiram
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Wainright, Mary E
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Ball, Elizabeth E
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Cook, James H.; 1 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Kansas grasshopper plague, 1874-1875
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1876-1884
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1893
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1895
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; Undated
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Printed matter; 1855, 1865-1899
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Clark, George W
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1868
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1876-1884
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1890
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1895
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Printed matter; Railroad passes, 1865-1885, 1898
Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 13, 1898

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, June 13, 1898

Available text: Transcription Public domain scan of manuscript related to Massachusetts, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Subject file; Civil War activities; Miscellany; 1 of 2
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Financial papers; Cook, James H
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1867
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1868
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1874
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; 1899
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: General correspondence; Undated
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Miscellany; Biographical papers
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: Family correspondence; Clark, George W
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