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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the production front is this pneumatic drill that anthracite miners use to produce hard coal. Servicemen learned how anthracite is mined at a miners' rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the produ...

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Discarded stockings go to war. Old silk stockings, after various picking and shredding operations, are fed into a bleaching machine from which the "material," as it is now called in the processing plants, emerges white

Discarded stockings go to war. Old silk stockings, after various picki...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. New Alemite fitting is added to a toggle arm bearing of a big 90T96 Cleveland press before the machine is reassembled in another building of an important automobile factory. The building that formerly housed the press is entirely cleared for the manufacture of an entirely different war product. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. New Alemite fitting is added to a toggle...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into place with a big job scheduled for it, the dismantling of auto production equipment in an automobile factory, so that conversion to war production can begin. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. An acetylene torch is rolled into pla...

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Cooperation on a torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard arsenal putting the finishing touches on a torpedo tube mount. This arsenal is one of eleven working at top speed for the expanded war program of the Navy

Cooperation on a torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Nav...

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San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren parading with scrap metal which they have collected for war

San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren parading with scrap meta...

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Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Workers of many races contribute their skills to help crush the Axis. Six months after he graduated from high school, Robert Mason was speeding war production in a large Eastern arsenal of democracy. This Negro worker is an apprentice machinist. Edgewood Arsenal. Edgewood, Maryland

Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Workers of many races contribute thei...

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Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for trailer wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. The picture shows the close bond between successive layers of paper smoothed on over a forging mold. The secret of the final hardness and the strength of the material lies in the formula of the solution with which the paper is impregnated. Round corners of the trailer toes, formerly made of metal, are also made by this process

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for...

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Production. Copper. Open-cut copper mining operations at the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Open-cut copper mining operations at the Phelps-Do...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Company, computing which employees are to receive war bonds this month. 96% of the employees at this factory subscribe 10% of their wages for war bonds

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Comp...

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Southington, Connecticut. The house of Captain Anson Matthews, who fought under General George Washington in the War of Independence. The house, built in 1746, stands today the same as in Captain Matthews' time, a seven-room story-and-a-half (to avoid King George II's tax on two-story houses) dwelling built around a central slap-mud chimney drawing from five fireplaces. The present owners of the house are Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Brink, both school teachers. Mr. Brink is of Swedish descent

Southington, Connecticut. The house of Captain Anson Matthews, who fou...

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Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Joining a section of pipe to line already laid. This is the stove pipe method of welding

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

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Manpower, junior size. Johnny's got a man-sized job for the duration. His role in this war is a vital one, for every bit of household scrap must be collected to feed America's wartime steel furnaces. Like this Roanoke, Virginia youngster, boys and girls from coast to coast are organizing into squads to collect all available neighborhood scrap

Manpower, junior size. Johnny's got a man-sized job for the duration. ...

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Putting the parts together. Assembly of an 8-inch railway gun carriage in an eastern arsenal. The big gun is one of many speeded for war work

Putting the parts together. Assembly of an 8-inch railway gun carriage...

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Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). The widowed mother of six grown children, Eva Smuda (right) keeps young with the daughter, son-in-law and grandchild who live with her. The little girl is five-year-old Barbara Bennett, whose father, opposite, works with Mrs. Smuda at the Frankford Arsenal

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). The widowed mother of six grown children, E...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Right of way going through the countryside

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. America draws its manpower from various racial groups. This Negro worker, assembling landing gear for a medium bomber, learned his craft under the government war training program. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. America draws its manpower from ...

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Production. Copper. Conveyor gallery and smokestack at a copper smelter of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company, Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Conveyor gallery and smokestack at a copper smelte...

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Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refinin...

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Production. Copper. Ball mills, which grind copper ores to small sizes, at a large concentrator of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Ball mills, which grind copper ores to small sizes...

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Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Registering Japanese-Americans upon arrival

Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation ...

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Production. Copper. Loading copper ore from an open-cut mine of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Loading copper ore from an open-cut mine of the Ph...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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Arlington, Virginia. The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a...

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Arlington, Virginia. A new girl arriving at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. A new girl arriving at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farm...

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New York, New York. Interested spectators attracted by the exhibits at the Nature of the Enemy show, put up by the United States OWI (Office of War Information) at Rockefeller Plaza

New York, New York. Interested spectators attracted by the exhibits at...

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Production. Zinc. A bucket of zinc ore ready for hoisting from a mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A bucket of zinc ore ready for hoisting from a mine ...

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Government urges vaccinations. As a preventative against the danger of smallpox, diptheria and typhoid, health officials in Washington last week began giving free inoculations to federal employees. Photo shows Miss Norma T. Roberts of the Office of War Information (OWI) being vaccinated by Dr. C.C Dauer of the District Health Department

Government urges vaccinations. As a preventative against the danger of...

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War Labor Board anthracite hearing. Operators of the collieries (seated) hear a local union official testify before the National War Labor Board on the anthracite strike hearing, held January 15, 1943

War Labor Board anthracite hearing. Operators of the collieries (seate...

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Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from all government agencies to 240 Negro papers each week, Ted Poston, editor of the OWI's Negro desk in Washington, selects picture sequences of special interest to the Negro press. He is shown working with photographer Roger Smith and assistant William Clark, and Harriette Easterlin

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from...

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War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war plants call for their children at a war nursery in the Chalkstone Avenue School in Providence. This Chalkstone Avenue war nursery is one of thirty-five in Rhode Island for pre-school children whose mothers are employed in war work

War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war...

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense. Photo shows pupils from model airplane class demonstrating types of fighter planes

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

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Five men seated in the courtroom(?) during a scene in "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI)

Five men seated in the courtroom(?) during a scene in "Black Marketing...

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Arlington, Virginia. A girl washing her hair in a laundry tub at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. A girl washing her hair in a laundry tub at Arlin...

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Production. Zinc. Tending a rock crusher at a large zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Tending a rock crusher at a large zinc concentrator....

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New York, New York. Two Royal Air Force officers reading names written on a block-buster bomb at the New York war savings staff bond show

New York, New York. Two Royal Air Force officers reading names written...

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A scene from the motion picture "Black Marketing," produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

A scene from the motion picture "Black Marketing," produced by the U.S...

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Arlington, Virginia. The main desk in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. The main desk in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a r...

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New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia of New York City autographing the illustration of a cartoon idea he submitted at an exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production, sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia of New York City autographing the...

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Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woman shopper and daughter get their first experience in using war ration book two in purchasing processed foods. Harold B. Rowe, director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, indicates the point values of various canned goods

Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woma...

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to United Nations include more than planes, tanks and guns. Soldiers and civilians in countries threatended by the Axis countries must have food. Allied war factories need raw materials and machine tools. Longshoremen are accustomed to stacking bags of flour for shipment along with weapons

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to Uni...

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Safe clothes for women war workers. The up-swept hairdress, or any modification of it, is the ideal coiffure for war work. It's neat, it's becoming, and above all, it's SAFE. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York

Safe clothes for women war workers. The up-swept hairdress, or any mod...

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Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and staff. Standing, left to right: Arthur L. Hawley, assistant to Mr. Wilson; Carroll K. Shaw, executive officer; Ray C. Ellis, director of the Radio Division; T.P. Wright, director, Resources Controll Office, Aircraft Production Board; L.R. Boulware, Office of the Controller of Shipbuilding; M. Joseph Meehan, associate director, Office of Progress Reports; William B. Murphy, director of Facilities Division; William K. Frank, director, General Industrial Equipment Division; A.H. Bunker, director, Aluminum and Magnesium Division; John S. Chaffee, deputy director, Tools Division; R.L. Vaniman, director, Automotive Division; Curtis E. Calder, director general for operations; Ralph J. Cordiner, director general of War Production Scheduling; Captain J.O. Gawne, director, Shipbuilding Division; Francis M. Shields, director, Safety and Technical Equipment Supplies Division; Mordecai Ezekiel, assistant to Mr. Wilson; Fred Searls, Jr., director, Facilities Bureau; James N. Nicely, assistant to Mr. Searls

Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board...

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Arlington, Virginia. Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho...

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Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease, are in action on the various fighting fronts. Lend-lease twin engine bombers are shown being hoisted aboard ship in an unnamed American port from a lighter alongside. They are bound for distant Allied ports. More bombers in the background are awaiting loading. Expert welders fasten the big planes securely to the ship's deck to protect shipments from damage during heavy weather

Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease...

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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...

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War Labor Board anthracite hearing. Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW), is a labor member of the National War Labor Board

War Labor Board anthracite hearing. Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasure...

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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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United States Army air force gunner Sergeant William Watts of Alexandria, Louisiana, training machine gun on the enemy during a aerial fight with German planes somewhere in the European war theater. Behind him may be seen the legs of another gunner operating his weapon from the side of the plane

United States Army air force gunner Sergeant William Watts of Alexandr...

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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...

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Arlington Farms, war duration residence halls. Sunbathers on the sidewalk in the back of Idaho Hall at Arlington Farms

Arlington Farms, war duration residence halls. Sunbathers on the sidew...

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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...

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Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, at a residence for the women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war. More privacy is afforded here than in the main lounge

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two...

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Office of War Information (OWI) news bureau. Selecting material for the trade press is Phil Stitt's job. Shown here consulting with Special Services Chief Sutherland Denlinger, Stitt arranges conferences with Washington agency chiefs for trade press editors; sees that they don't get trade news they're not interested in--thus saving editors' time, taxpayers' money

Office of War Information (OWI) news bureau. Selecting material for th...

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Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of th...

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Production. Zinc. Zinc concentrate flows from a belt conveyor at a large concentrator plant. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Zinc concentrate flows from a belt conveyor at a lar...

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Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the ge...

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Production. Zinc. Husky worker in a large zinc smelting operation. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Husky worker in a large zinc smelting operation. Fro...

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Pushing them along on the Mississippi. Moving steadily along the muddy Mississippi, a towboat pushes a cargo of covered materials of war

Pushing them along on the Mississippi. Moving steadily along the muddy...

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The United States is at war and the law will show no mercy to anyone who sells--or buys--black market food

The United States is at war and the law will show no mercy to anyone w...

Photo shows a rat caught in a trap; part of a group of photos about rationing meat.

Preparation for point rationing. While a shopper and her children look on, the clerk tears point stamps from war ration book two to cover processed foods being purchased

Preparation for point rationing. While a shopper and her children look...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Bernard Cochran, wife of a Greyhound bus driver, ready to start on a house-to-house war bond canvas. The service flag in the window is for her brother

Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Bernard Cochran, wife of a Greyhound bus driver...

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Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a resid...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Woman winding the armature of a trolley motor in the armature shop of Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. This woman was first employed by the company during the last war. No new women have been hired in the maintenance plant in this emergency

Baltimore, Maryland. Woman winding the armature of a trolley motor in ...

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Washington, D.C. A sign on a shoe store on the last day on which war ration shoe coupon seventeen may be used

Washington, D.C. A sign on a shoe store on the last day on which war r...

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Preparation for point rationing. Home economics pupils of the Wilson Senior High School, Washington, D.C., learn the facts about war ration book two, and talk over ways in which homemakers can get well-balanced meals. An advanced student leads the class

Preparation for point rationing. Home economics pupils of the Wilson S...

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Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, Containers Division, for home canning of the Victory garden fruits and vegetables in 1943. First step in sealing a jar is to fit the wet, sterilized rubber ring around the projection on the underside of the glass lid, also sterilized

Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, C...

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Gallipolis, Ohio. List of county boys who have gone off to war

Gallipolis, Ohio. List of county boys who have gone off to war

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New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenburg of the War Manpower Commission, and Louis Priscilla, a Chairman of the Committee on War Cartoons of the American Society of Magazine Cartoons, at the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenburg of the War Manpower Commission...

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan, who runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants, sewing

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan, who runs a boardinghouse for g...

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Arlington, Virginia. A satisfied customer in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war. There's always something doing here, never a dull moment

Arlington, Virginia. A satisfied customer in Idaho Hall, Arlington Far...

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Production. Zinc. Tending a rock crusher at a large zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Tending a rock crusher at a large zinc concentrator....

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New York, New York. Spectators attracted by the exhibits at the Nature of the Enemy show, put up by the United States OWI (Office of War Information) at Rockefeller Plaza

New York, New York. Spectators attracted by the exhibits at the Nature...

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Production. Zinc. A stream of molten zinc flows from a furnace at a large smelting operation. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A stream of molten zinc flows from a furnace at a la...

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New York, New York. An exhibit at the Nature of the Enemy show, put up by the United States OWI (Office of War Information) at Rockefeller Plaza

New York, New York. An exhibit at the Nature of the Enemy show, put up...

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge al...

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

Restricted display of publications and other materials issued by the overseas branch of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) as well as allied and enemy countries

Restricted display of publications and other materials issued by the o...

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 group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

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

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

Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease, at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. This two-bedroom dwelling was designed to utilize a minimum of critical materials, including lumber. Materials have been allotted to FEA by War Production Board, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement of the houses

Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emerge...

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

Installation of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) exhibit of original drawings and paintings by artists now in the armed forces. Preview, before shipping to Australia, held at the office of the Overseas Picture Division in the Auditor's Building

Installation of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) exhi...

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

[Anti-Vietnam war protest and demonstration in front of the White House in support of singer Eartha Kitt] / [WKL or TO'H].

[Anti-Vietnam war protest and demonstration in front of the White Hous...

Photograph shows anti-war demonstrators carrying signs, "No more...Stop the war!", "Eartha Kitt speaks for the women of America", and "Stop the draft", picketing in front of the White House. Contact sheet avai... More

Let the people vote on war

Let the people vote on war

Poster shows a crowd of people gathered together. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

World Peace Tax Fund People morally opposed to paying taxes for war will be forced to pay a share ...

World Peace Tax Fund People morally opposed to paying taxes for war wi...

Poster showing bombs in large net "world peace tax fund" over high-rise buildings.

Fort McHenry, where the "Star-Spangled Banner" was inspired by a battle in the War of 1812. Baltimore, Maryland

Fort McHenry, where the "Star-Spangled Banner" was inspired by a battl...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Fort McHenry, the place where Francis Scott Key observed that the "flag was still there" and wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" following an engagement with the invading British during the War of 1812. Baltimore, Maryland

Fort McHenry, the place where Francis Scott Key observed that the "fla...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of the Korean War Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of the Korean War Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image -... More

Stainless-steel trooper on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Stainless-steel trooper on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memoria...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

Memorial to Those Who Did Not Return from the Great Fatherland War, Khabarovsk, Russia

Memorial to Those Who Did Not Return from the Great Fatherland War, Kh...

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Aerial view of the World War II memorial, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of the World War II memorial, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. National World War II Memorial is a National Memorial dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of arches surroundi... More

[Northeast Pavilion, The Pavilion of the Seals. Mural of War Office seal. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Northeast Pavilion, The Pavilion of the Seals. Mural of War Office se...

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

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Confederate and Spanish American war monument at the historic courthouse on the square in Carrollton, Alabama

Confederate and Spanish American war monument at the historic courthou...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washingto...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Alabama, was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and n... More

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Reenactment of Civil War siege of April 1862, Bridgeport, Alabama

Located in Northeast Alabama on the Tennessee River, Bridgeport was a strategic town on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad during the American Civil War. More than one conflict was fought at and near Bridge... More

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