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War workers' nursery. Catherine Simmons plays Red Cross nurse at the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California

War workers' nursery. Catherine Simmons plays Red Cross nurse at the B...

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

War workers. Social activities. Government girls at Scotts' Hotel, Washington, D.C., dance with their Army officer friends in the hotel auditorium

War workers. Social activities. Government girls at Scotts' Hotel, Wa...

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

Washington, D.C. Miss Cynthia Chasan, of Brooklyn, New York, head of the Correspondence Unit of the Photographic Section of the Office of War Information, is a member of the Hospitality Committee of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. Miss Cynthia Chasan, of Brooklyn, New York, head of t...

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

War workers' nursery. Playing waitress is an envied job at the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California, where a complete and nourishing luncheon is served daily in addition to midmorning cod liver oil and tomato juice and afternoon milk and crackers

War workers' nursery. Playing waitress is an envied job at the Bella V...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Mrs. J.G. Frain, of Charleston, South Carolina, who is employed at the Office of Scientific Research and Development, is chairman of the Hospitality Committee of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Mrs. J.G. Frain, of Charleston, South C...

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

War workers' nursery. Children of war-working mothers find plenty to do in modern nursery schools. Painting with water colors is popular with young children

War workers' nursery. Children of war-working mothers find plenty to d...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant. War workers "punching in" for their job of helping to "punch" the axis

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant....

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

De Sota bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. War workers checking out at the end of a shift

De Sota bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. War workers checking out at t...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, shows a fifteen-passenger war workers' coach that his company made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. The six-foot central section was made largely of wood and other non-critical materials

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of th...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

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

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

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

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Betty Murphy, of Newton, Ohio, who is a stenographer in the War Department, is chairman of the kitchen committee of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Betty Murphy, of Newton, Ohio, who...

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

War workers' nursery. A young supervisor at the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California, eats luncheon with the smallest to prevent dawdling over food

War workers' nursery. A young supervisor at the Bella Vista Nursery Sc...

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War workers. Social activities. Sailor artist John Carey sketches a government girl in the art room of a Washington, D.C. United Service Organization (USO) center while sailor sculptor George Goepper (extreme left) models a caricature

War workers. Social activities. Sailor artist John Carey sketches a g...

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

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

Title and date from LC-USW3-028293-C. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More... More

War workers need homes. Posters prepared by the Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management for use of Homes Registration Offices organized by the OEM Division of Defense Housing in 255 communities throughout the United States. The first 500 posters have been distributed in the District of Columbia, where an intensive campaign for registration of vacant rooms, apartment and homes is now being conducted. It is expected that other communities will follow with similar campaigns

War workers need homes. Posters prepared by the Division of Informatio...

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

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production. The Board for Individual Awards, composed of engineers and technical experts who contribute their time to evaluating production ideas, is shown at a Washington session. Left to right: Charles B. Francis, Carnegie, Illinois Steel Corporation; Dr. J.L. Bray, Purdue University; Paul H. Stanley, Pitcairn Auto-Gyro Company; L.A. Poole of War Production Drive's Awards Field Operations Branch; Whiting Williams of Cleveland, Ohio; James B. Gent, United Steel Workers (USW) and William P. Hill, Bethlehem Steel

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

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

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

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

War workers' nursery. Mrs. Arlene Corbin, time checker in a Richmond, California shipyard brings two-and-a-half-year-old Arlene to a nursery school every morning before going home to sleep. Mrs. Corbin works on the midnight to 7:30 a.m. shift and relies upon the school to keep her daughter busy and happy during the day

War workers' nursery. Mrs. Arlene Corbin, time checker in a Richmond, ...

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

Wartime food demonstration. Following a wartime recipe step-by-step, wives of war workers in Alexandria, Virginia, learn best ways of wartime cookery in one of the nation's many wartime food demonstration meetings

Wartime food demonstration. Following a wartime recipe step-by-step, w...

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

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

A black and white photo of three children sitting at a table. Office o...

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

War workers' ideas that saves man-hours and critical materials are evaluated by a board of experts, whose chairman is Ray Millholland of Indianapolis, engineer and author, here shown examining working models submitted by War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. Twelve engineers and technical experts comprise the Board for Individual Awards which decides upon the grade of national honor that "Thinkers for Victory" in American factories will receive for their suggestions

War workers' ideas that saves man-hours and critical materials are eva...

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

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Homes built by the TVA for war workers. These houses are prefabricated and demountable

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Homes built by ...

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

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations. At Wake and Midway Halls, she was greeted by Samuel Plato, building contractor, who had just turned the buildings over to the government. Mr. Plato is shown with Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss W. Gertrude Brown, resident manager of Wake Hall. The two buildings, opened last month for more than 800 Negro women war workers, were formally dedicated by Mrs. Roosevelt

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven seats(twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer, built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven fixed seats (twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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

Washington, D.C. A few of the guests and entertainers attending the kitchen shower of the Walsh Club for war workers. Left to right: Mrs. Marion McGregor, in charge of publicity for music for the services; Brigadier General Stuart Godfrey; engineer officer with the Airborne Aviation Engineers; Mrs. Stuart Godfrey, chairman of music for the services; Sergeant Jack Knuppel; Corporal Charles Jackson; Corporal Leham Cheshire; and Sergeant Bob Shortmeyer

Washington, D.C. A few of the guests and entertainers attending the ki...

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

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations]

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of fede...

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[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations]

[First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of fede...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying defense plants. It's the new, oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premiere on April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons and was designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Inspecting the new oversize bus trailer, made almost entirely of non-critical materials, are two of the men who were instrumental in its construction, Joseph B. Eastman (left), director of the Office of Defense Transportation and Frank H. Shepard (right) of the Office of Defense Transportation, Division of Local Transport. This oversize bus, with capacity of 141 persons, may solve the problem of tranpsorting defense workers to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Inspecting the new oversize bus ...

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

De Sota bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. War workers checking out at the end of a shift

De Sota bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. War workers checking out at 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

War workers. Social activities. The south building of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

War workers. Social activities. The south building of the Department ...

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

War workers. Social activities. Three government girls at Scott's Hotel, Washington, D.C., a government hotel for women war workers, place their bids in the "date box" for a serviceman's dance

War workers. Social activities. Three government girls at Scott's Hot...

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

War workers' nursery. Two or three hours of rest every afternoon is part of a modern day nursery's schedule. These children of war-working mothers are settling down for naps after a morning of indoor and outdoor play

War workers' nursery. Two or three hours of rest every afternoon is pa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war workers attach cylinder barrels to one of the "green" engines in a huge Midwest aircraft plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

GOVERNMENT HOTELS. BUILT BY U.S. HOUSING CORP. FOR WAR WORKERS. PERSONNEL GROUP. MISSES MARY E. RUST; DORIS BURCHARD; MARY LINDSLEY; HARLEAN JAMES; OLIVE DAVIS

GOVERNMENT HOTELS. BUILT BY U.S. HOUSING CORP. FOR WAR WORKERS. PERSON...

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public nurseries for U.S. war workers' children After a warm meal at noontime, these American children take off their shoes for their nap in their public nursery, one of forty-one servicing an industrial area of thirty miles on the western U.S. coast. Their parents are working in a shipyard and their nursery school was established through funds appropriated by the U.S. Congress for the benefit of war workers' children. The nursery is open from six a.m. to six p.m.

Public nurseries for U.S. war workers' children After a warm meal at n...

Portrait of America, no. 22. Neg. no. LC-USW4-16579. Forms part of the Portrait of America collection. Transfer; U.S. Office of War Information.

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at Wake and Midway Halls, latest addition to the housing for war workers in Washington, D.C. The new buildings will house 1,000 Negro women war workers and is being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at ...

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

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Another skilled worker "enlists" for the duration. When the Kentucky watch case factory for whom she has worked twenty years converted to war production, this lady was ready to join the procession of war workers. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Another skilled worker "enl...

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.

Putting them together. A corner of the assembly room at an armory, where war workers are putting together the parts which make up a Garand rifle

Putting them together. A corner of the assembly room at an armory, whe...

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

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles is backed into place at a Lompoc, California project. The long, long lines of trailers are homes for war workers' families. Wooden horses are used to support the trailers and save tires for use on other trailers

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer made by Wester...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Gilbert Parks, employed by the War Production Board, is chairman of the entertainment committee of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. Gilbert Parks, employed by the War Production Board, ...

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

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbor, New York, a newswriter in the petroleum research section of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), who is chairman of publicity of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbo...

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

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. Left to right: Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, which made the vehicle; Mr. Eastman; Frank H. Shepard, Special Assistant in the Office of Defense Transportation's Local Transportation Division; Guy A. Richardson, Director of the Local Transportation Division

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

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

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Well-equipped machine shops and competent teachers help make competent war workers at this WPAd vocational training school in Washington, D.C. A large percentage of the students of this school are absorbed by war industries immediately after completing the course

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Well-e...

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

A black and white photo of a snow covered street. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a snow covered street. Office of War Inform...

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

An old black and white photo of two women. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of two women. 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

Washington, D.C. Enlisted personnel Bolling Field after their performance at the kitchen shower of the Walsh Club for war workers with members of the club and Mrs. Stuart Godfrey, chairman of music for the services. Left to right: Corporal Virgil Fox, noted organist and pianist; Corporal Don Benjamin, director of the show; Mrs. Marion McGregor, in charge of publicity for music for the services; Miss Betty Baum, concert singer; Sergeant Bob Shortmeyer; Miss Hedy Miller, member of the club; Mrs. Stuart

Washington, D.C. Enlisted personnel Bolling Field after their performa...

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

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...

Public domain photograph of a nursery, agriculture, garden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Niagara Falls, New York. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse entertaining a friend

Niagara Falls, New York. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannega...

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

War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of Midway meet at the Capitol to join in Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. Lieutenant Mary Lohr, Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, recently awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon for gallant service at Bataan, and Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway, will speak to war workers in about 1800 war plants on December 7. They were selected by the War Production Drive Headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB) to participate with Honorable Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, in personal messages for transcription as a feature of Pearl Harbor Day observance, which is being held under auspices of war production Labor-Management Committees

War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Conversion. Auto body plant. He used to be an automobile worker, but he's one of Uncle Sam's war workers these days, with the conversion of his company to the production of airplane parts. In the picture above he's driving rivets in an airplane tail section. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. He used to be an automobile worker, but h...

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Homes built by the TVA for war workers. These houses are prefabricated and demountable

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Homes built by ...

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War workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials are evaluated by a board of experts, whose chairman is Ray Millholland of Indianapolis, engineer and author, here shown examining working models submitted by War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. Twelve engineers and technical experts comprise the Board for Individual Awards which decides upon the grade of national honor that "Thinkers for Victory" in American factories will receive for their suggestions

War workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials are eval...

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

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

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

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Stuart Godfrey, chairman of music for the services, and members of the cast of the Bolling Field show after their performance at the kitchen shower of the Walsh Club for war workers. Left to right: Corporal Virgil Fox, noted organist and pianist; Corporal Don Benjamin, director of the show; Miss Betty Baum, concert singer; Mrs. Marion McGregor, in charge of publicity for music for the services; Sergeant Bob Shortmeyer; Mrs. Stuart Godfrey; Sergeant Jack Knuppel; Corporal

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Stuart Godfrey, chairman of music for the servic...

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

War workers' nursery. Jimmy Solavich whose mother works in a local war plant, must pass health inspection every morning at his Oakland, California nursery school. To protect all children from contagion, Mrs. Elsie Curran, school supervisor, inspects each child upon arrival

War workers' nursery. Jimmy Solavich whose mother works in a local war...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Niagara Falls, New York. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse entertaining a friend

Niagara Falls, New York. One of the war workers living at Mrs. Hannega...

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

A black and white photo of a group of children at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of children at a table. Office of W...

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

War nursery schools. Woonsocket, Rhode Island.This young lady's mother works in a war plant. The youngster passes twelve hours a day Monday through Saturday in one of the thirty-five war nurseries conducted for war workers' children

War nursery schools. Woonsocket, Rhode Island.This young lady's mother...

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 oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the...

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

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at Wake and Midway Halls, latest addition to the housing for war workers in Washington, D.C. The new buildings will house 1,000 Negro women war workers and is being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at ...

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

Transportation. War workers' coach. This fifteen-passenger coach was made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. Wood and other non-critical materials were used in making the six-foot central section, from the composition top to the ash girders used in "stretching" the frame

Transportation. War workers' coach. This fifteen-passenger coach was m...

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

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles is backed into place at a Lompoc, California project. The long, long lines of trailers are homes for war workers' families. Wooden horses are used to support the trailers and save tires for use on other trailers

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer made by Wester...

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

War workers. Social activities. A sailor enjoys table tennis at the USO (United Service Organization) center in Washington, D.C.

War workers. Social activities. A sailor enjoys table tennis at the U...

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

War workers' nursery. Every youngster who attends the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California must be inspected by Mrs. Elsie Curran, supervisor, before mingling with the other children. Here, five-year-old Ronnie Gold has her chest inspected

War workers' nursery. Every youngster who attends the Bella Vista Nurs...

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

War workers. Social activities. Government girl hostesses at a United Service Organization (USO) center in Washington, D.C., entertain servicemen with Chinese checkers

War workers. Social activities. Government girl hostesses at a United...

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

War workers' nursery. Encouraging a restful game after strenuous exercise, a nursery school supervisor helps youngsters identify animals in picture book

War workers' nursery. Encouraging a restful game after strenuous exerc...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Orange, Texas. Women studying to be electricians at a training school for war workers

Orange, Texas. Women studying to be electricians at a training school ...

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 portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnesota, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is secretary of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnes...

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Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guest playing Chinese checkers on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for war workers

Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guest playing Chinese checkers o...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Landing gear for American medium bombers, which will carry destruction to the heart of the Axis, is assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These skilled mechanics are products of the government's extensive training program for war workers. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Landing gear for American medium...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three percent increase in housing facilities in Bantam--an eighty-unit federally financed housing project about five minutes from the Warren McArthur factory. The first forty units--two to a house, were occupied in early January 4, 1942 and the second forty had already been financed pending completion. As the automobiles and tires of workers in Bantam's defense industries wear out, it is probable that additional new housing facilities will be needed

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. The war has brought approxima...

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Washington, D.C. Mrs. James M. Landis, Mrs. James Forrestal, center, with the enlisted personnel of the Navy School of Music, who performed at the kitchen shower of the Walsh Club for war workers, and other artists who contributed their talent. Left to right: Mrs. Virginia Varney, singer; Thomas Parker, Dale McConnell, Golden Smith, Mrs. James Forrestal, Frank Gambel, Mrs. John Leavell, concert pianist, and Neil Darnell

Washington, D.C. Mrs. James M. Landis, Mrs. James Forrestal, center, w...

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First lady inspects war workers homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C. on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects recently erected for Negroes. Shown greeting the First Lady at George Washington Carver Hall, residential hotel for Negro men, is Hillyard Robinson, architect who designed the building. Looking on is W. Spurgeon Burke, resident manager of both Carver Hall and the Lucy Slowe Hall, residential hotel for Negro women war workers

First lady inspects war workers homes. On an inspection tour of federa...

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War workers. Social activities. Government girls at Scotts' Hotel, Washington, D.C., dance with their Army officer friends in the hotel auditorium

War workers. Social activities. Government girls at Scotts' Hotel, Was...

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War workers' nursery. A mid-morning tomato juice is thoroughly appreciated by these war workers' children who attend an Oakland, California nursery school

War workers' nursery. A mid-morning tomato juice is thoroughly appreci...

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War workers. Social activities. Three government girls at Scott's Hotel, Washington, D.C., a government hotel for women war workers, place their bids in the "date box" for a serviceman's dance

War workers. Social activities. Three government girls at Scott's Hote...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnesota, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is secretary of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnes...

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First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

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Women aircraft workers. Precision assembly at a West Coast aircraft factory. A leadman explains the use of wiring jigs in making up assembly to three of the plant's attractive young war workers. Lockhead

Women aircraft workers. Precision assembly at a West Coast aircraft fa...

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Putting them together. A corner of the assembly room at an armory, where war workers are putting together the parts which make up a Garand rifle

Putting them together. A corner of the assembly room at an armory, whe...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, shows a fifteen-passenger war workers' coach that his company made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. The six-foot central section was made largely of wood and other non-critical materials

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of th...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Another skilled worker "enlists" for the duration. When the Kentucky watch case factory for whom she has worked twenty years converted to war production, this lady was ready to join the procession of war workers. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Another skilled worker "enl...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, shows a fifteen-passenger war workers' coach that his company made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. The six-foot central section was made largely of wood and other non-critical materials

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of th...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. He used to be an automobile worker, but he's one of Uncle Sam's war workers these days, with the conversion of his company to the production of airplane parts. In the picture above, he's assembling part of a wing section. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. He used to be an automobile worker, but h...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Edith Leppanen, of Ironwood, Michigan, who does secretarial work at the Office for Civilian Defense, is President of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Edith Leppanen, of Ironwood, Michi...

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War workers' nursery. Preparations for naps at the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California include finding one's own bedroom slippers and replacing shoes on the shelf

War workers' nursery. Preparations for naps at the Bella Vista Nursery...

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Washington, D.C. Neil Darnell of the Navy School of Music talking with two young guests, Grace Merle and Lyn Henderson, and with Miss Cynthia Chasan, right, a member of the hospitality committee at the Walsh Club for war workers, following a kitchen shower where the Navy School of Music provided entertainment

Washington, D.C. Neil Darnell of the Navy School of Music talking with...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Marian Squire, of Yampa, Colorado, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is treasurer of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Marian Squire, of Yampa, Colorado,...

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War workers. Social activities. A government girl and her soldier friend feed the pigeons in Lafayette Park, across from the White House

War workers. Social activities. A government girl and her soldier fri...

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Washington, D.C. Mrs. James M. Landis, chairman of club centers for war workers, at the Walsh Club, 1523 22nd Street, N.W

Washington, D.C. Mrs. James M. Landis, chairman of club centers for wa...

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Niagara Falls, New York. War workers who live at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse having supper at 5:30

Niagara Falls, New York. War workers who live at Mrs. Hannegan's board...

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Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war workers attach cylinder barrels to one of the "green" engines in a huge Midwest aircraft plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war work...

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War workers! are you looking for a - house? apartment? room? we can help you

War workers! are you looking for a - house? apartment? room? we can he...

Poster alerting defense workers to the availability of houses, apartments, and rooms through the Philadelphia Homes Registration Offices, showing a man dressed as a Quaker. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Emily Sauermilch, baker, has taken her place in America's army of war workers. Employed in a large Midwest supercharger plant, she puts the finishing touches on impellors part of the airplane motor. Allis Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Emily Sauermilch, baker, has...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, is one of Uncle Sam's disabled war workers. With both legs afflicted by infantile paralysis, he's nevertheless an expert lathe operator and assistant foreman in a Baltimore factory. He's shown here turning the inside radius of spacers, which are part of an airplane motor's supercharger. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, i...

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War workers' nursery. His milk and graham crackers, part of the Bella Vista Nursery School's afternoon schedule, do not seem to be totally occupying this young man's attention

War workers' nursery. His milk and graham crackers, part of the Bella ...

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War workers' nursery. The morning checkup at modern nursery schools includes mouth and throat inspection. Mrs. Arlene Corbin, time checker at a Richmond, California shipyard waits until two-and-a-half-year-old Arlene is pronounced in perfect health by Mrs. Elsie Curran, supervisor at the Bella Vista Nursery in Oakland, California

War workers' nursery. The morning checkup at modern nursery schools in...

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