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Going home from work at the steel mill in Midland, Pennsylvania

Going home from work at the steel mill in Midland, Pennsylvania

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Permanent residents at the W.T. Handy's packinghouse, Crisfield, Maryland. They work on canning vegetables for part of the season and oysters the rest

Permanent residents at the W.T. Handy's packinghouse, Crisfield, Maryl...

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Children's "band" at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona

Children's "band" at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery sc...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. 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, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these car...

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Galilee trip. Nazareth. A potter at work, showing table & wheel

Galilee trip. Nazareth. A potter at work, showing table & wheel

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Migrant women at work in packing plant. Berrien County, Michigan

Migrant women at work in packing plant. Berrien County, Michigan

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A black and white photo of a little girl sitting on the ground, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a little girl sitting on the ground, Kenntu...

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

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man in a hat. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man in a hat. Great Depress...

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

A black and white photo of a little girl sitting on the ground, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a little girl sitting on the ground, Kenntu...

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Hired help resting after day's work on Upwey horse farm. South Woodstock, Vermont

Hired help resting after day's work on Upwey horse farm. South Woodsto...

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Tourist house, Truro. Cape Verde Islander (Portuguese) who came to this country more than forty years as a fisherman later took work on the railroad. After thirty years on the railroad he had a stroke, now makes most of his income from boarding tourists in his lovely house during the short season. Truro, Massachusetts

Tourist house, Truro. Cape Verde Islander (Portuguese) who came to thi...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a bunch of beds, Arizona. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a bunch of beds, Arizona. Farm Security Adm...

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Shipyard worker in for a "beer" after work. A bar just outside the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine

Shipyard worker in for a "beer" after work. A bar just outside the Bat...

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

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one-room cabins. Rent one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one...

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A group of people standing in front of a building, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of people standing in front of a building, Great Depression. F...

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Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveries of laundry, ice and grocery items from local businesses that serve the defense trailer camp twice daily. Mrs. Rogan's husband is employed by the General Electric Company as a drill press operator or defense work. Although grocery stores and milk companies deliver to the doors of the trailer town, agents, salesmen and canvassers are forbidden in the settlement. This is to see that the defense workers on the night shift may sleep during the morning or early afternoon

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveri...

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Miss J. Kent, in charge of welfare work in Heard County. Franklin, Georgia

Miss J. Kent, in charge of welfare work in Heard County. Franklin, Geo...

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The air raid protective services. In the wake of the bombs come the demolition and clearance crews, whose work is essential to efficient air raid protection. They must keep the vital roads and alleys clear so that other workers can get to the trouble spots. They are trained in the efficient use of power shovels and other time-saving tools

The air raid protective services. In the wake of the bombs come the de...

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Civilian defense. Prompt medical attention is essential in civilian defense work. Here a disaster victim is receiving immediate emergency medical attention from a "castrophe team," which includes a doctor and a nurse

Civilian defense. Prompt medical attention is essential in civilian de...

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Shoes and lunch taken by Mr. Fairchild to work at a steel works in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a vegetable farmer near Saugus, Massachusetts

Shoes and lunch taken by Mr. Fairchild to work at a steel works in Bos...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A poster comes to life. Searching for just the right faces to use for a war poster, an Office of War Information (OWI) artist selects three photographs, one of a soldier, a sailor and a welder, and gets to work on the first rough layout of "Men Working Together." Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Searching for just the right faces to use for ...

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Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

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In the sewing class, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project, at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

In the sewing class, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project, at ...

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Mr. Anthony Forgetta, Italian vegetable farmer, Andover, Massachusetts. Mr. Forgetta runs a small farm and in the winter he and an older daughter work at a mill in Lawrence

Mr. Anthony Forgetta, Italian vegetable farmer, Andover, Massachusetts...

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In the sewing class, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

In the sewing class, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at t...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This is a travograph-oxy-acetylene machine, a cutter which treads its own pattern. Here it is cutting two identical floor plates for a tank section at the bottom of a new member of the "Liberty Fleet." The work is done at what was formerly a freight car plant now a large Eastern plant. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This is a travograph-oxy-acetylene mach...

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Pea pickers (labor contractor's crew) waiting to start work in the fields. Canyon County, Idaho

Pea pickers (labor contractor's crew) waiting to start work in the fie...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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Girls who work at Aberdeen proving grounds and share a room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitory for defense workers. Aberdeen, Maryland

Girls who work at Aberdeen proving grounds and share a room in FSA (Fa...

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Priorities unemployment. Once again the worker sits with his family, secure in a job, happy that he need not worry about supporting his family. His routine has been revised and rearranged; he calls upon a new skill to earn his living, but he retains the self-respect of the producer. He has a right to work, and his country benefits from the product of his work

Priorities unemployment. Once again the worker sits with his family, s...

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The Herbster family gets well-balanced meals. Mrs. Herbster plans to give the children milk; leafy, green or yellow vegetables; raw fruits or vegetables rich in Vitamin C; cereals and bread, lean meat, poultry, fish and other vital foods which build and repair the body, give energy for work and play

The Herbster family gets well-balanced meals. Mrs. Herbster plans to g...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Highly technical training is given by two National Youth Adminstration trainers, working with a civil service employee. This training will be valuable to the Army or Navy mechanized units should tag trainees be called to service. They work at the Corpus Christi, Texas, naval air base under the NYA program. Before long they will be qualified for civil service jobs in the assembly and repair department

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Highly technical training is gi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. P-51 ("Mustang) fighter planes. An inspector checks over the work done on a P-51 fighter before it moves to the next assembly position at North American's Inglewood, California, plant. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 ("Mustang) fighter planes. An inspector checks over t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber, called the Boston by the British, is used by both the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force. It was designed as an attack bomber for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations. Because of the speed and performance abilities of this plane, the British have converted a number for use as night fighters. Some have also been used for reconnissance work. Armament details vary according to use, light and heavy guns being mounted in varying combinations

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Sign in an installment buying house; "WPA (Work Projects Administration) workers, your credit is good here"

Detroit, Michigan. Sign in an installment buying house; "WPA (Work Pro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Men who had been on relief in New York City talking the situation over after a day's work in the muck fields

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor ...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly used on automobile motors, have been moved back in the plant to make way for war work. Soon these machines will be stored outdoors until the tools necessary to adapt them to war activities can be completed. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly us...

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Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, Americans of every race and creed fight shoulder to shoulder to defeat the forces which threaten to destroy our liberties. Here Charles Geier (right) and Marcell Webb work on the rudder of a P-47 pursuit ship in an Eastern aircraft factory. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, America...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant since August 1941, leaving a job as machinist in Torrington to work here. With his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Heath was among the first to move into the new government housing project near the plant, leaving a furnished room in Torrington to occupy a spacious four-room apartment in the eighty-unit project

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Work horses near Junction City, Kansas

Work horses near Junction City, Kansas

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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...

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

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, contributes her bit to the war effort in her daily work. She is one of the thousands of Negro girls now filling clerical positions in the nation's capital

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland...

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

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, does some practice shooting with a 30-caliber Browning machine gun. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Friend family en route to Batavia, New York to work in the harvest

Friend family en route to Batavia, New York to work in the harvest

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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Women at work on a wing section for a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Women at work on a wing...

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

Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines which will power a fifty-foot steel ramp boat to be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and equipment on enemy shores. The large Southern boatyard doing the work is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Speed, speed, and more speed is the watchword in the De Land, Florida pool, where former shoe clerks, salesmen and farmers, men from every walk of life, are working shoulder to shoulder in the Babcock plant, turning out war work with grim efficiency. L.A. Lutrell, above, is typical of the De Land businessmen who are rolling out motor racks for the Air Corps on a record breaking production schedule

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Speed, speed, and more speed is the w...

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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant that normally produces electric dry shavers is now busy turning out spring collets for machine tools to be used in war production. On this Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder, he used to turn out rotor shafts for the motor of the shaver. To convert his machine to the larger grinding job, it was necessary only to exchange the normal one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel for a three-inch wheel and to increase the feed of the cooling solution. This worker was used to working to a tolerance of .0002 inches on the motor shafts so he finds it simple to attain the comparatively rough tolerance of .002 inches required on this war work. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant ...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young employees of a Midwest drill and tool company are operating cylindrical grinders. This work is delicate and difficult, for the drills must be tapered accurately to size. The drills will be used in manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and in all war production where metal must be worked. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young emp...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Interesting patterns are formed by the wings of A-20 attack bombers, waiting their turn on the assembly lines of the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Interesting patterns are formed by th...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-tolerance machine work? Ask A.E. Kenyon, pictured above as he operates a machine turning out war material for the De Land, Florida pool. He's been a toolmaker since 1895 in some of the biggest plants in the country. He retired to Florida and came back into industry to help out in the war. There are a dozen men like him in the plants of the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

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Bantam, Connecticut. These two drill press operators are natives of the section. Barbara Bongiolotti is one of the twelve Colleoni children, all natives of Bantam. Both her father and her husband work in a Torrington foundry going full blast on defense orders. Lilian Madeux is a Torrington girl who still lives in Torrington with her family. She used to be a waitress in a Torrington hospital

Bantam, Connecticut. These two drill press operators are natives of th...

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

Richwood, West Virginia. William Thomas, a hardware dealer, says, "The boys should be allowed to work younger. I worked in the wheat fields when I was eight. Work is more important than school. Regardless of the war, any form of government hiring is dangerous. It should by handled privately"

Richwood, West Virginia. William Thomas, a hardware dealer, says, "The...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal bulldozer was used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal b...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Machine shop back of Morris Kreider's hardware store where he makes small parts for neighboring defense plants. Here he is working on a "cyclone" or dust collector for the Hackman Furniture Company, now making propellors. Kreider expects his hardware business to fold due to lack of goods but will continue this work. Roy Neidleigh, seventeen, works on a stove pipe in background. Kreider thinks the war will be over before Neidleigh is drafted

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Machine shop back of Morris Kreider's hardware s...

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Production. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housing trailer goes into place at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Plastic wheel wells, which will shortly be covered by cabinet work, are made of paper impregnated with a special hardening solution and formed over molds. This material is a very satisfactory substitute for the steel formerly used

Production. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housi...

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Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Hydraulic excavation work

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Hydraulic excavation work

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Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, does some practice shooting with a 30-caliber Browning machine gun. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. Good man, good gun. A private of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war work at Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women work side by side with men in the engineering department of the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. The young woman pictured traces complicated drawings of the thousands of parts that go into a modern fighting plane. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women work side by side wit...

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Detroit, Michigan. Negro doing embroidery work in her bedroom. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro doing embroidery work in her bedroom. These a...

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Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied France, Mrs. Delia Raymond makes careful inspection of flare parachutes which she hopes will help free her relatives. Of her work she says, "I like it. It's something so vital--it means so much and is so interesting. The country needs these parachutes, and I'm proud to be able to help make them. We keep hoping all the world will be free someday." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied ...

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

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...

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.

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Don, an aircraft worker at Lockheed Vega Aircraft Corporation, is plenty worried about the state of his tires. Continuous company publicity has convinced him that new ones will not come his way for a long, long time. Don lives about ten miles from the plant, which is the average distance Vega employees must travel to work. There are no public transportation facilities near his house

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Don, an aircraft worker at Lockheed Vega...

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

Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which this warship of the air is built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. Th...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Erecting the structural work of a new shop for the machining of marine boiler headers. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Erecting the structural work ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans resting after work at the camp

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers train young girls in the high school Victory Corps to become valuable members of the vast womanpower army. Sally Brown, who is learning to rivet airplane parts at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, will be ready for skilled work in the war industry when her course in riveting is completed

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers tr...

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This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing panel. Negroes and whites work together at North American Aviation

This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing pa...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Her mind's on her work and on her country. That small flag tells the story of this young woman's absorption in her job. Employed by a Midwest drill and tool plant, she's grinding points on drills which will be used in the production of America's ships and planes and guns. A soldier of the production front, she fights for the men on America's battlefronts. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Her mind's on her work and on her...

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.

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

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

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

Nyssa, Oregon (vicinity). This family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the 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). This family was evacuated from a coastal are...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench workers, one white and one a Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley block

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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

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

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Nurse training. Young nurses assist at an appendectomy. This is part of the training with which every student nurse must be thoroughly conversant before she completes her training. With enough students to do this type of hospital work, graduate nurses can be released for duty with the armed forces

Nurse training. Young nurses assist at an appendectomy. This is part o...

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Training. Brooklyn Aviation Center. At the Brooklyn Aviation Trade Center, a student mechanic and an instructor work side by side using identical tools and performing identical operations on wing sections. The same method is employed in training beginners to work on other jobs in plane construction

Training. Brooklyn Aviation Center. At the Brooklyn Aviation Trade Cen...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. Setting rivets in a frame member for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Setting rivets in a frame member for a B-25 ...

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

Vernon Demars, left, district landscape architecht for FSA (Farm Security Administration) and Garret Eckbo, district landscape architect for FSA work on site model of the Vallejo, California, defense housing dormitories

Vernon Demars, left, district landscape architecht for FSA (Farm Secur...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator window of a bombing plane is made on special bending equipment from extruded aluminum shapes. The work is being done in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window screens

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator wi...

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Washington, D.C. Jewal Mazique [i.e. Jewel], worker at the Library of Congress, coming home from work

Washington, D.C. Jewal Mazique [i.e. Jewel], worker at the Library of ...

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Conversion. Toy factory. Lucille Ciecko is one of the thousands of workers turning their skill today to the production of vital parts of Uncle Sam's war machine. Here she is shown at her peacetime work, drilling castings for toy locomotives in a large Eastern plant. Today she uses the same press, with different drills, to make the holes in parachute flare casings through which wires are inserted. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. Lucille Ciecko is one of the thousands of wor...

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

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

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Kansas City, Kansas (Argentine). Operator at work in the Turner interlocking tower

Kansas City, Kansas (Argentine). Operator at work in the Turner interl...

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Chicago, Illinois. In the interlocking tower at Union Station. It is here that all inbound and outbound traffic is controlled. The men work entirely by the board, hardly ever looking out of a window to see an actual train

Chicago, Illinois. In the interlocking tower at Union Station. It is h...

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Iden, New Mexico. In the commissary car of a work train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads. The clerk is J.E. Straight of Newton, Kansas

Iden, New Mexico. In the commissary car of a work train on the Atchiso...

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Washington, D.C. Sally Dessez, the editor of the Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook, at work in the publications office

Washington, D.C. Sally Dessez, the editor of the Woodrow Wilson High S...

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Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mrs. Younkers grading eggs. There are three boys in this family who will also help with farm work

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mrs. Younkers grading eggs. There are...

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Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, doing his school work at home

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Arlington, Virginia. A girl in her room playing a phonograph at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. A girl in her room playing a phonograph at Arling...

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Arlington, Virginia. Mirrors over the dressing table conceals a cabinet which gives girls extra space for their cosmetics, etc., at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Mirrors over the dressing table conceals a cabine...

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Wellington, Kansas. Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe engineer going off to work stops in the locker room for his tool kit

Wellington, Kansas. Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe engineer going off ...

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

Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of part of Idaho Hall at Arlington Farm...

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New York, New York. Mrs. Joilet Jones, of twenty-two Morris Park, New York, on her first day on special duty at the Queens Midtown Tunnel office to replace a man who has either joined the armed forces or gone to work in defense work. Eleven other women are similarly replacing men

New York, New York. Mrs. Joilet Jones, of twenty-two Morris Park, New ...

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Marceline, Missouri. A dispatcher at work in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad offices

Marceline, Missouri. A dispatcher at work in the Atchison, Topeka, and...

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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. Waiting for the bus at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Waiting for the bus at Arlington Farms, a residen...

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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. At a recent exhibit of work done in the Negro schools under the Office of Civilian Defense, the slogan, "Save, Serve, Conserve" was prominently displayed. Photo shows this slogan adorning an exhibit by one of the chemistry classes

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

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Arlington, Virginia. Girls eating hot dogs in the service shop in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war. Bulletin board lists some of the services offered at the shop

Arlington, Virginia. Girls eating hot dogs in the service shop in Idah...

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