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A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio du...

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

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

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Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man and a child.

Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A home economics class of children of resettlers are trained to use the tools which they will work with when they grow up. Note charcoal trough and oven made out of a gasoline can. La Plata project. Puerto Rico

A home economics class of children of resettlers are trained to use th...

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A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, West Virginia. F...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Grea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Itinerant barber at work in the worker's quarter of La Perla. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Itinerant barber at work in the worker's quarter of La Perla. San Juan...

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Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season

Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration ca...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miner looking at daily reports (company work sheets) checking number of tons of slate he loaded during shift. Also to find out whether or not they work the next day. Caples, West Virginia

Miner looking at daily reports (company work sheets) checking number o...

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

Porch of WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker who was tenant farmer until a few years ago, near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Porch of WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker who was tenant farm...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing. Husband working on Work Projects Administration wages, forty four dollars. Washington, Yakima Valley

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri....

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Georgia. Railroad work crew houses near Madison, Georgia

Georgia. Railroad work crew houses near Madison, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Homesteader at work in garden. Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Homesteader at work in garden. Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant packinghouse worker's home, showing only bed for six people rolled up in the corner. They are from Tennessee. Parents must leave the children alone when both work. Belle Glade, Florida

Migrant packinghouse worker's home, showing only bed for six people ro...

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

Spinach cutters making a "beeline" for the basket truck to secure supplies for their work, La Pryor, Texas

Spinach cutters making a "beeline" for the basket truck to secure supp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexican pecan workers union work committee assigning a man to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers union work committee assigning a man to work. Sa...

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

Children of migrant packinghouse workers, living in a "lean-to" made of pieces of rusty galvanized tin and burlap. They are left alone all day and often until three a.m. Both parents work when possible. Belle Glade, Florida

Children of migrant packinghouse workers, living in a "lean-to" made o...

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Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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Mexican pecan worker being assigned to work by union. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan worker being assigned to work by union. San Antonio, Tex...

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Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work

Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice...

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Mr. L.L. Lecompt and his oxen. He plows three oxen, prefers them to other work stock because they use less corn. He owns eighty acres and cultivates thirty-nine. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. L.L. Lecompt and his oxen. He plows three oxen, prefers them to ot...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Young farmer plowing while other co-op members work in the sawmill. The tractor does work for five member families. Ola self-help sawmill co-op. Gem County, Idaho

Young farmer plowing while other co-op members work in the sawmill. Th...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Farmers durin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel manufacture. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

Steel manufacture. Back into production go these carloads of scrap met...

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Sacramento Pit copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. This is a pit 435 feet deep. In 1911 a shaft was sunk into the slopes of the east wall. In 1917 a dynamite charge blew off the top rock of the crown and dredges were worked to excavate the pit's ore bodies. By 1931 the pit floor was too narrow for dredges to work in. The ore was taken out by caving in the walls into the lower mine levels. Between 1917 and 1931 the mine, which covers thity-five acres, yielded 20,843,667 tons of ore. The mine is today abandoned. This development by the Phelps Dodge Company

Sacramento Pit copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. This is a pit 435 feet ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a hospital room, Arizona. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a hospital room, Arizona. Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Forgetta family, Italian vegetable farmers in Andover, Massachusetts. Mr. Forgetta, (right) and his older daughter (at the piano) both work in nearby textile mill in the winter if they can get the work

The Forgetta family, Italian vegetable farmers in Andover, Massachuset...

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

Miner who also runs a farm. At the end of a day's work at Dougherty's mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania

Miner who also runs a farm. At the end of a day's work at Dougherty's ...

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.

Migrant family getting ready to move on in search for work, Berrien County, Michigan

Migrant family getting ready to move on in search for work, Berrien Co...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The work foreman, chosen by members of the cooperative from among their own group, supervising the cultivation of the sugarcane. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

The work foreman, chosen by members of the cooperative from among thei...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing next to a train, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to a train, Kenntucky. Farm Security Adm...

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

Paper mill workers coming home after work. Berlin, New Hampshire

Paper mill workers coming home after work. Berlin, New Hampshire

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

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

Public domain photograph of public works, FDR administration, New Deal, Great Depression, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a farmer and his dog, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old black and white photo of a farmer and his dog, Iowa. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children sleep in nursery while mothers work. Shafter migrant camp. Shafter, California

Children sleep in nursery while mothers work. Shafter migrant camp. S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cultivators are taken out to finish the day's work. King and Anderson plantation, near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cu...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Miner at end of day's work. Mogollon, New Mexico

Miner at end of day's work. Mogollon, New Mexico

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

During the harvest season the field hands work from sunrise to sunset. Digging potatoes on the Woodman Potato Company farm eleven miles north of Caribou, Maine

During the harvest season the field hands work from sunrise to sunset....

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school supervisor with her young charges at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona

WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school supervisor with her ...

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

Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Electric plant, in his trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Ele...

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

Team of work horses. Scottsbluff Farmsteads, FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. Nebraska

Team of work horses. Scottsbluff Farmsteads, FSA (Farm Security Admini...

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

Men going to work in a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Men going to work in a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

WPA (Work Projects Administration) teacher at the nursery school puts on bibs of her charges at the FSA (Farm Security Adminisrtation) family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington

WPA (Work Projects Administration) teacher at the nursery school puts ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Ready to go is the huge 15 x 30 foot Arsenal of Democracy montage deseigned by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, for exhibition at the National and Civilian Defense Exposition in New York and in many other cities throughout the country. The panel is divided into 2 1/2 foot squares. The artist seems pleased with his work, which is only the second time this particular montage technique has been used. Behind him are figures from the Four Freedoms panel, which equal in size to the Arsenal of Democracy. Both panels were prepared for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM)

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Ready to go is the hug...

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Men going to work at the mill. Lawrence, Massachusetts

Men going to work at the mill. Lawrence, Massachusetts

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The spacious, open planning of the defense trailer camp affords youngsters pleant of room for playing in the sun and fresh air. In the background can be seen a smokestack of the General Electric Company, which employs some 10,000 men in defense work

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The spacious, open planning of th...

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

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men whose hands are fashioning powerful new additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly expanding naval forces. A few miles away at the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, other thousands are also coming off their shifts. This scene is typical of dozens of shipyards throughout the nation. Shipyard workers have a lot to smile about, for invariably they have done their work so well and efficiently that production is ahead of schedule

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men who...

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

Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn out for drill. These two groups make up the personnel of stretcher bearers, first aid squads, casualty clearance stations, and first aid posts. Both are also assigned to hospital work in a rigorous course of training and hospital experience which is necessary to become members of their groups

Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn ou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. The women are shown how to make overgarments

In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) proj...

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.

Civilian protection. A City of New York emergency service truck, fully equipped for rescue work

Civilian protection. A City of New York emergency service truck, fully...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. 155mm shells. Transferring 155mm shells for finishing work in a converted auto plant. All machining operations on these shells have been completed and they are now on their way to the painting department. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Transferring 155mm shells for finishing work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. He is attending the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Wife of a WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker near Siloam. Greene County, Georgia

Wife of a WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker near Siloam. Green...

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

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly skilled work, seeing to it that the oil refined for our military machines is of the highest quality. This worker is inspecting the solution tower for denaphthizing bright stock

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly ski...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service office to open in the morning, Yakima, Washington

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Decorated for gallantry in action. Private Bukaro Frafra, Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, who has been awarded the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in the East African campaign. In April, 1941, as a member of a patrol sent out to find its way over a ravine and across a tank trap, he work his Bren gun forward to within fifty yards of the tank trap, inflicting seven casualties on an enemy party working beyond it. On April 1941, under very heavy fire, he was wounded but refused to give in. He stuck to his gun until it was knocked out of action and he was wounded a second time. He is one of the first three African soldiers to receive the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal

Decorated for gallantry in action. Private Bukaro Frafra, Gold Coast R...

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after a day's work for the De Land pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe with her two-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after...

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G.F. Bailey, scientific aide, at work on carotene test of dehydrated vegetables at the regional agricultural research laboratory. Albany, California

G.F. Bailey, scientific aide, at work on carotene test of dehydrated v...

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"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop of the Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan. He and his seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack helper were recognized by Donald Nelson as the only two-man labor- management war production drive committee in the United States. The two work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, and, unaided, have produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months

"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at this school, and one that's highly important to the war effort. Young men in the Willow Run bomber plant attend a riveting school before going to work on the assembly lines. These "schoolrooms" are right in the plant proper; classes are held in many types of work. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at ...

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

Production. Aircraft. This Negro worker using a portable electric drill on a YP-38 subassembly in a large Western aircraft plant was trained in a very short time to do fast, accurate work

Production. Aircraft. This Negro worker using a portable electric dril...

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

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder who is training for war work at Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder who is...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy ship, but he's hitting at the Axis just the same. Formerly a Work Projects Administration timekeeper (WPA), this employee of a small Eastern manufacturing firm is now producing small parts for America's war machine, due to the company's subcontract for defense work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy shi...

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

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for work in February, now reads blueprints and is able to proceed with various accessory assemblies for bombers with little supervision from leadmen

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes fo...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Men leaving work at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad shops at the end of a shift

Chicago, Illinois. Men leaving work at the Chicago and Northwestern Ra...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a worker stands ready with his iron ladle to transport molten glass from the furnace to the machine that forms it into glass marbles from which it is converted into glass fibers. As one of the men behind the men behind the guns, his work is an essential step in the production of fiberglass yarns being used in a wide variety of military and naval applications

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In a plant of the...

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.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Each day's work is surveyed and plotted on a chart by the mine engineers

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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.

The Friends sleeping as best they can. En route from Richwood, West Virginia to Batavia, New York to work in the harvest

The Friends sleeping as best they can. En route from Richwood, West Vi...

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

Childersburg, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Peek of Georgia take it easy after the day's work in front of the trailer they bought for thirteen hundred dollars just to have a place to live

Childersburg, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Peek of Georgia take it easy after...

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

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottles with rubber diaphrams and aluminum closures at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Scrap metal and rubber help provide critical materials needed for this important work

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottl...

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Ontario, Oregon (vicinity). Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans who were evacuated from coastal area and now work for a local farmer

Ontario, Oregon (vicinity). Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans who were e...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Drillers at work

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority...

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.

Richwood, West Virginia. A family talking over the prospects of work with the United States employment service

Richwood, West Virginia. A family talking over the prospects of work w...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. The day's work is done at logging camp

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. The day's work is done ...

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

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, Carr's repair plant in De Land, Florida, is now subcontracting on war production. When De Land organized its machines and manpower into a community pool to handle war work, it was discovered Carr's had two things: first class machinery that would work tolerances down to a split hair and first class machinists. Now, much of the precision work on the pool's contract is handled in his plant

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, ...

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Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Clara, California. Rather than distributing food to the needy of the community during the fiesta of the Holy Ghost, proceeds from the auction are used for this work. It is not unusual for a single egg or lemon to sell at auction for one dollar

Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Cla...

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

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Home machine shop owner working for defense

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shop...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Assembling rubber closures for blood transfusion bottles. Nancy Synnestvedt (left), and Marjorie Holms, mother of a two-year-old child, are just a few of the many women performing vital war work at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Assembling rubber closures for ...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women...

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

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Night shift at work on the barges

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Night shift at work on...

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The stories they've told! Another load of RKO Radio typewriters is turned in to the government for war work. Somewhere in the lot is Maureen O'Harra's personal typewriter which she added to the pile before she would pose in the picture. The machines come from the script department where each one has played its role in recording countless memorable senes for screenplays. Taking time off between the shooting of scenes at the RKO Studios in Hollywood, Miss O'Harra helped collect more than seventy typewriters for future use by the Army, Navy, and Marines

The stories they've told! Another load of RKO Radio typewriters is tur...

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

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. From there they were hired as a group by a local white farmer. They will be allowed to remain on this farm for the duration of the war. When such an arrangement is made the U.S. Employment Service must inspect and approve housing facilities and wage standards

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Welders at work on a tank being made from salvaged material at the Mid-continent refinery

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Welders at work on a tank being made from salvaged ma...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of aircraft engines are bent on this horizontal bulldozer which was formerly used to bend rails for merry-go-rounds to delight the hearts of carefree children. It was thought impossible to convert the machine for this use, but a little thinking and ingenuity solved the problem. The slack was taken out of the bulldozer and it was found to work quite satisfactory as an aid to bending the heavy hooks into shape. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of ai...

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National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Tw...

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Inglewood, California. Employees at North American Aviation, Inc., returning to their work after lunch

Inglewood, California. Employees at North American Aviation, Inc., ret...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are working on an electrical control panel

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West...

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Santurce, Puerto Rico. These umbrellas were carried to work by women who are employed by the Rodriguez needlework factory

Santurce, Puerto Rico. These umbrellas were carried to work by women w...

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Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, comprehensive clerical work is carried on between maneuvers. Unless those typewriters not essential to the war effort are turned in by civilians to Uncle Sam, the shortage of sufficient machines may materially cripple the speed and facility of army operations

Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, ...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas masks for America's soldiers and civilians. Margaret Reed, left, who used to work in the vacuum brush department, now operates a precrimping machine which attaches eye rings to the mask proper. Note the "V" chalked on her machine. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum ...

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Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

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San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wait for final evacuation orders

San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wa...

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Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

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