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A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...

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

Neighborhood fingerprint station Fingerprints are your identification and protection during wartime - have the entire family take theirs now! : War Identification Bureau - CDVO / / designed by Advertising Mobilization Committee.

Neighborhood fingerprint station Fingerprints are your identification ...

Poster stressing the importance of having fingerprints on file as a form of identification during the war years. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christ... More

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. The prefabricated houses, made from materials not affected by wartime shortages, are put together with wooden pegs

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

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. ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley of 1917 vintage. Many old cars have been reconditioned because of wartime transportation pressure

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley of 1917 vintage. Many old cars have been ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of passengers, mass transit, transportation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley of 1917 vintage. Many old cars have been reconditioned because of wartime transportation pressure

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley of 1917 vintage. Many old cars have been ...

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

Washington, D.C. With "Victory through good health" as a slogan, Negro schools held a show at the Uline arena stressing the importance of physical fitness in wartime and demonstrating their physical education programs. Fourth and fifth grade children take part in the physical education show

Washington, D.C. With "Victory through good health" as a slogan, Negro...

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

Wartime conservation through home sewing is demonstrated by Powers model Cynthia Hope who works with a fabric-saving dress pattern. All patterns are now adjusted to WPB (War Production Board) conservation rules. Average saving: 1/8 yard per dress. Cynthia cuts the top of her contrast dress with a remnant which would otherwise be wasted. Utilizing remnants saves tremendous yardage, gets smart results

Wartime conservation through home sewing is demonstrated by Powers mod...

Public domain photograph of people around a table, meeting, boardgame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Coast Guard motor lifeboat provides escort to San Francisco's crab fishermen as a wartime precaution. This naval protection includes taking the fleet to the fishing grounds at dawn, remaining with it through the fishing hours and finally bringing it home through the Golden Gate in the late afternoon

A Coast Guard motor lifeboat provides escort to San Francisco's crab f...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Prefabricated houses made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. Transmission towers and transformers redistributing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I'll carry mine. A boon for wartime shoppers, this cart is one of the various carry alls which have been devised to help Mrs. America get purchases home, now that truck deliveries are limited

I'll carry mine. A boon for wartime shoppers, this cart is one of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Residents of Japanese descent registering for evacuation at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station, San Francisco, April, 1942

Residents of Japanese descent registering for evacuation at the Wartim...

Photo attributed to Clem Albers. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-274. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information C... More

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U.S. War Production Board for his outstanding services in the scrap salvage wartime campaign

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U....

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

Preparation for point rationing. Clearly posted cards indicating "ration points required" for various canned foods stacked on grocery shelves helps America's wartime marketers in using war ration book two

Preparation for point rationing. Clearly posted cards indicating "rati...

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

Wartime food demonstration. Peter Brusher, six-year-old son of a camouflage engineer, seems pleased with his mother's luck in winning half of the butterless, sugarless cake made by a wartime food demonstration nutritionist. Mrs. Brusher is one of the many American housewives who are attending similar demonstrations being held throughout the country

Wartime food demonstration. Peter Brusher, six-year-old son of a camou...

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

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U.S. War Production Board for his outstanding services in the scrap salvage wartime campaign

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U....

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

I'll carry mine. Junior's express wagon comes of age and assumes new importance in wartime America's shopping expeditions. To conserve transportation facilities and thus save rubber and gasoline, shippers must devise their own methods of getting their purchases home. This one is among the best!

I'll carry mine. Junior's express wagon comes of age and assumes new i...

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

Meeting on wartime economies for retailers, September 29, 1942. Left to right: R.A. Black, L.H. Harris, L. Henderson, J.M. Johnson, L.J. Ruskin, Walter Thompson

Meeting on wartime economies for retailers, September 29, 1942. Left t...

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

Washington, D.C. Dr. John Lund (Norwegian), senior specialist in the education of school administrators, U.S. Office of Education, and acting executive director, Wartime Commission, U.S. Office of Education

Washington, D.C. Dr. John Lund (Norwegian), senior specialist in the e...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - scene at Wartime Civil Control Administration station when the first group of 664 persons of Japanese ancestry was evacuated from San Francisco

San Francisco, Calif., April 1942 - scene at Wartime Civil Control Adm...

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-94. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Chinese messboy leaving a British ship for his first visit ashore to see his countrymen in America

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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

Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control sta., San Francisco, Apr. 1942

Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil C...

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-92. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More

A line of forges that seem endless is turning out a stream of shells that is endless. The auto manufacturing plant that used these same forges for car parts is now on a full wartime production basis. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A line of forges that seem endless is turning out a stream of shells t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I'll carry mine. There's always room for another at the top! A patriotic shopper, determined to save her merchant's tires and gasoline, gets valuable cooperation from a soldier. It's a slight variation of the national wartime shopper's theme for the duration - "I'll carry mine"

I'll carry mine. There's always room for another at the top! A patriot...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. Most of these trolleys were built before 1907 and are too old to recondition despite wartime needs

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington termin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wartime food demonstration. Nutritionist, Ida Lansden spreading thick, sugarless frosting on the sugarless, butterless cake baked for a wartime food demonstration in Alexandria, Virginia. Demonstrations such as this are held daily all over America as housewives gather to learn how to buy and cook in accordance with wartime food and nutrition problems

Wartime food demonstration. Nutritionist, Ida Lansden spreading thick,...

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

New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in major leagues for more than a decade--are war-taboo. Rubber-cushioned centers, "borrowed" from stopped golf ball production, offer temporary relief. Left: cork-type ball; right; new baseball with rubber center

New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Just a kiss from mother patriotic sentimental wartime ballad

Just a kiss from mother patriotic sentimental wartime ballad

words by P.A. Seddon ; music H.A. Shuster. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Two-storied aparment wartime housing on Bradley Boulevard II

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Two-storied aparment warti...

Public domain photograph of apartment building, architectural plan, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Electric Institute of Washington. Temporary wartime structure

Electric Institute of Washington. Temporary wartime structure

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of construction of telephone lines, roads and buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorperated plant, where the lightest of all metals will be produced for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of construction of telephone lines, roads an...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Harriet Haberman left an office job to take her place on the assembly line of a giant Midwest supercharger plant. Reflecting wartime emphasis on feminine employment, this plant points with pride to the fact that 80 percent of its workers are women. Miss Haberman's deft fingers have proven most suited to the intricate work of gauging small pieces for supercharger engines. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Harriet Haberman left an off...

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

Washington, D.C. Dr. John Lund (Norwegian), senior specialist in the education of school administrators, U.S. Office of Education, and acting executive director, Wartime Commission, U.S. Office of Education

Washington, D.C. Dr. John Lund (Norwegian), senior specialist in the e...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds, showing a variety of structures and at the far right of the picture, two of the eighty-four foot silos in which ore is stored for use in the production of magnesium, the lightest of all metals used in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waistline adjustment can usually be made entirely at the easy side seam with no more difficulty than Cynthia appears to be having. By studying intricate print carefully before placing pattern, Cynthia makes very smart use of unusual flower design. Beginners are advised to use conventional "all-over" for firsdt dress or two, guarding against possible wartime waste of dress materials

Waistline adjustment can usually be made entirely at the easy side sea...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six days a week on stories for both domestic and overseas use. In the course of a week most of them turn out a list of assignments as long as a cub reporter's. Examples of the variety of stories done: "Roundup on wartime transportation," "Industrial feeding program started in war plants," "U.S. Army heroes of Greek descent," "How to get your tires recapped." Stories for domestic release go to the chief of the general news desk. Ken Stewart, chief of the foreign desk, reviews all overseas assignments

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six da...

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

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. Thomas Edmund Dewey

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. Thomas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. Robert P. Patterson

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. Robert...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Pre-fabricated houses, made from materials not affected by wartime shortages, at the camp

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

A Coast Guard motor lifeboat provides escort to San Francisco's crab fishermen as a wartime precaution. This naval protection includes taking the fleet to the fishing grounds at dawn, remaining with it through the fishing hours and finally bringing it home through the Golden Gate in the late afternoon

A Coast Guard motor lifeboat provides escort to San Francisco's crab f...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

Meeting on wartime economies for retailers, September 29, 1942. Left to right: L. Henderson, J.M. Johnson, W.D. Hunnicutt, W.R. Thomas, Jr., R.A. Black, L.J. Ruskin

Meeting on wartime economies for retailers, September 29, 1942. Left t...

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

Alexandria, Virginia. Father and son reading the Sunday newspaper. Scenes similar to this are found all over the United States because of wartime transportation problems

Alexandria, Virginia. Father and son reading the Sunday newspaper. Sce...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph related to mass media, press, newspaper, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. Most of these trolleys can be reconditioned for use if wartime needs so require. In the distance are trackless trolleys

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington termin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wartime food demonstration. Demonstrating how to make a butterless, sugarless cake, home economist, Ida Lansden combines substitute ingredients before an interested group of Virginia housewives. Small groups like this are meeting daily throughout America to learn wartime ways to buy and cook, under supervision of competent nutritionists

Wartime food demonstration. Demonstrating how to make a butterless, su...

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

Ten Psalms for wartime - Public domain World War One sheet music

Ten Psalms for wartime - Public domain World War One sheet music

the music by Raphael Lemeunier ; the words by Carl Engel. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff ... More

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Two-storied aparment wartime housing on Bradley Boulevard I

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Two-storied aparment warti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use more water in the kitchen than is necessary / / Kerkam.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use more water in the kitc...

Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a woman cleaning a pan and preparing food. F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - Department of Water Suppl... More

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing part of the completed buildings already being used for the production of the lightest of all metals for use in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing. Two workmen are walking in the foreground

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated, showing a tool shed and part of two buildings on which construction is going forward rapidly for the production of the lightest of all metals needed for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A view of the plant of Basic Magnesium Incorporated...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

Substitute materials containers. Wartime tobacco containers. Left to right: one-pound fiber container, two-ounce fiber container, and two-ounce metal can. Fiber is expected to be used for tobacco containers for the duration

Substitute materials containers. Wartime tobacco containers. Left to r...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. East meets West. Left to right: Coast Guardsman Vincent Pope, Bronx, New York; Coast Guardsman George Gilpin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lee Ah Ding and Yee Chee Ching, Chinese seamen from a British freighter, meet at South Ferry, New York City. Lee and Yee are two of the first Chinese granted shore leave in an American port since this country entered the war

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U.S. War Production Board for his outstanding services in the scrap salvage wartime campaign

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U....

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

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U.S. War Production Board for his outstanding services in the scrap salvage wartime campaign

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U....

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

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Poster asking Americans to conserve meat during the war. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489556.

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Poster asking Americans to conserve meat during the war. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489556.

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. Samuel T. Rayburn

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. Samuel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. James Forrestal

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. James ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Two-storied aparment wartime housing on Bradley Boulevard III

Houses by Schreier & Patterson, architects. Two-storied aparment warti...

Public domain photograph of apartment building, architectural plan, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Chinese Counsul General Lee (holding hat) greeting one of his countrymen from the crew of a British vessel in New York. Lee met the men on arrival and explained the rules under which, for the first time in warring America, they were permitted ashore during their ship's stay in port

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Surrounded by their peacetime products, the president and general manager of an Eastern manufacturing company take a last look at their orange squeezers, game boards and soft drink dispensers, relics of bygone days. Today they're producing vital wartime essentials for Uncle Sam: tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other war necessities on prime and subcontract for the Army and Navy. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Surrounded by their peacetime ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shif...

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.

Wartime food demonstration. Explaining methods of "extending" meats now that rationing is limiting civilian meat purchases, wartime food demonstrator Alice Burtis puts finishing touches to a meat loaf before an audience in Washington, D.C.

Wartime food demonstration. Explaining methods of "extending" meats no...

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

Washington, D.C. Woman worker in a wartime machine shop using a chair designed to rest her back and manufactured with a minimum use of steel

Washington, D.C. Woman worker in a wartime machine shop using a chair ...

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

Wartime food demonstration. Winners of the butterless, sugarless cake made at a wartime food demonstration were, Mrs. Victor Brusher and Mrs. M.L. Cuadle, both of Alexandria, Virginia. Attending all such meetings held at the housing settlement where they live, both women have found the demonstrations helpful in wartime cooking and buying

Wartime food demonstration. Winners of the butterless, sugarless cake ...

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

Steel production. The steel industry poised for wartime demands. Huge ore piles await feeding to hungry blast furnaces. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Steel production. The steel industry poised for wartime demands. Huge ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with Leon Henderson, Office of Price Administration Administrator (OPA), and Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Canadian Wartime Prices and Trade Board, at the announcement of the price control order. Dr. Brown is working with OPA on the price regulation as it affects the Negro race in America

Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with...

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Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redistributing power from Boulder Dam to Basic Magnesium Incorporated, which produces huge quantities of the lightest of all metals for aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A mass of transmission towers and transformers redi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Lee Ah Ding (left), engine crew member of a British vessel, and Yee Chee Ching, seaman, start down the gangway to visit New York after their officer (rear) told them they might go ashore. Previously, terms of the new agreement were explained to them, and customs and other formalities were straightened out

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used in production of file cabinets in wartime America. A supervisor and his assistant in an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern, check a row of the completed cabinets ready for crating. Note resemblance of this model to pre-war metal models. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used i...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Chinese Counsul General Lee (left) greets a Chinese seaman of the crew of a British freighter in New York. Lee met the men on arrival and explained the rules under which, for the first time in warring America, they were permitted ashore during their ship's stay in port

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in war plants, but it's serious business here, for these two are among the hundreds of young people employed in a West Coast aircraft plant. He's a leadman and is instructing her in the use of a power rivet-squeezing machine

Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in ...

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Washington, D.C. Dr. John Lund (Norwegian), senior specialist in the education of school administrators, U.S. Office of Education, and acting executive director, Wartime Commission, U.S. Office of Education

Washington, D.C. Dr. John Lund (Norwegian), senior specialist in the e...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Prefabricated houses made from material not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Taos, New Mexico. First week of wartime food rationing

Taos, New Mexico. First week of wartime food rationing

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A Christmas prayer of wartime - Public domain dedication image

A Christmas prayer of wartime - Public domain dedication image

(DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Christmas Prayer of Wartime" by Grace G. Bostwick, Good housekeeping, 67:13 (Dec. 1918).

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Lee Ah Ding, Chinese seaman from the crew of a British cargo boat, is shown outside the gates of the dock getting his first glimpse of wartime America from the inside

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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Washington, D.C. Photographs for a poster or billboard to persuade citizens not to complain about wartime shortage of coffee

Washington, D.C. Photographs for a poster or billboard to persuade cit...

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I'll carry mine. As patriotic on leave as he is on shipboard, this sailor on furlough keeps America's wartime pledge to save tires and gasoline by carrying the family purchases. Note that the young man's wife carries only her own handbag: husbands please observe

I'll carry mine. As patriotic on leave as he is on shipboard, this sai...

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Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. John W. Bricker

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. John W...

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Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. J.E. Hoover

Kiplinger series of wartime leaders of prominence by M. Kalish. J.E. H...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Labor resources of New Zealand, with its total population of less than 2,000,000 persons, have been strained by the demands of wartime and her women have turned to the farms and the factories to assure production of food and facilities for the American soldiers in the South Pacific

One year of reciprocal aid. Labor resources of New Zealand, with its t...

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Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use hose for washing your automobile. Do use water from a pail / / Kerkam.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use hose for washing your ...

Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man washing his car. F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity... More

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. R.W. Hollamon works at gap shears in his wartime job at a Southern Navy yard. In peacetime he was a farmer, but he has converted his skill to turning out ship parts for the U.S. Navy for the duration

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. R.W. Hollamon works at gap shears...

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First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. After delivering the captain's laundry, this Chinese messboy aboard a British vessel will have his first visit in New York. He is one of a number of Chinese seamen who were recently permitted shore leave for the first time in the United States under wartime conditions

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shif...

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It's hard to recognize the production layout of a well-known auto plant in machine lines that win with wartime production. It's shells instead of auto parts now--but American industry can turn out the orders for war as well as for peace. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

It's hard to recognize the production layout of a well-known auto plan...

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Baby Betty Rothwell loves her orange juice. She was very thin and ailing until lend-lease concentrated orange juice arrived in England for special distribution to children, nursing mothers and invalids. With the juice added to her wartime diet, she soon became the healthy one-year-old in the photograph. Betty lives with her parents, Edna and Edward Rothwell in quaintly-named Boot Lane, in Bolton, Lancashire

Baby Betty Rothwell loves her orange juice. She was very thin and aili...

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Wartime food demonstration. Made without sugar and butter, this piece of cake is nevertheless delicious if Mrs. W.L. Sommer's expression is an indication. The cake was baked for a wartime food demonstration in Alexandria, Virginia

Wartime food demonstration. Made without sugar and butter, this piece ...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Every available bus in Baltimore has been pressed into service to fill wartime transportation needs. A church bus is waiting outside the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard gates before three o'clock whistle

Baltimore, Maryland. Every available bus in Baltimore has been pressed...

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Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroads breaking all-time traffic records, they are still able to give valuable service in hauling the tank cars of the oil companies from Gulf Coast and Texas fields. But only a fraction of the required tank cars are available. Railroads are hauling 500,000 barrels daily, hope for 800,000 as more cars can be made available for movement to the East. But this still would be only half of the normal civilian requirement

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroad...

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Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : Do keep water in icebox instead / / Kerkam.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not let water run a long time ...

Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man drinking water. F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity ... More

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