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Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rig...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Kelly Field, Texas. Skilled mechanics, these young men are working on a hangar line which is turning out fighting pilots almost as fast as assembly lines can produce the ships for them to fly

Kelly Field, Texas. Skilled mechanics, these young men are working on ...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A girl mechanic in a large Western aircraft plant rivets the belly of a new consolidated transport plane. The Cleco fasteners which protrude from the surface hold the sections of metal in place while the riveting job is being done. This new transport, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A girl mechanic in a la...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Drill press lineup, 1943 style. Both men and women man the machines which are turning out parts for America's bomber planes at Willow Run, Michigan. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Drill press lineup, 1943 style. B...

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Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. Russian delegates. Liudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet woman sniper is on the right

Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. Russian delegates. Liud...

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New York, New York. Italian-Americans of Mott Street raising a flag in honor of neighborhood boys in the United States Army

New York, New York. Italian-Americans of Mott Street raising a flag in...

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Lt. General Joseph W. Stilwell inspecting Chinese troops in India He is accompanied on his right by General Sun Li Zen and Lo. The former is the commanding general and the latter deputy chief of staff of the Chinese expeditionary forces.

Lt. General Joseph W. Stilwell inspecting Chinese troops in India He i...

OWI copy neg. 410-ZC. Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Food in England. Soldiers in Northern Ireland work with a tractor and harvester to cut a ten-acre field of oats. Many British soldiers, without previous farm experience have been released for temporary emergency farm work and have helped to ease the farm labor shortage

Food in England. Soldiers in Northern Ireland work with a tractor and ...

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Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. Mitchell B026 bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and Baltimore bombers of the South African air forces flying together in formation on their way to attack Rommel's position in North Africa

Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. Mitchell B026 bombers...

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Tunis, Tunisia. Allied troops entering Tunis

Tunis, Tunisia. Allied troops entering Tunis

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Lend-lease hearings. War Shipping Administrator Emory S. Land urges the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support the lend-lease act. The committee reported to the House urging that the act be continued in force

Lend-lease hearings. War Shipping Administrator Emory S. Land urges th...

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Tire recapping. A service attendant points out a worn tire that may be recapped under a new plan which removes restrictions on reclaimed camelback rubber for passenger tires. The plan to recap passenger car tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. A service attendant points out a worn tire that may be...

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Fighting the weather is part of Aleutian job

Fighting the weather is part of Aleutian job

Gale rages about planes on Adak - Consolidated Catalinas (PBY) long range flying boats weather a 60-knot wind and snow storm on Adak Island, American base in the Aleutians. Crouched low a ground crewman makes ... More

The United Nations flag, an unofficial design by Brooks B. Harding, with four bars symbolizing the Four Freedoms beside the Stars and Stripes

The United Nations flag, an unofficial design by Brooks B. Harding, wi...

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Oswego, New York. A Norwegian sailor chatting with Oswego girls on Flag Day during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. A Norwegian sailor chatting with Oswego girls on Fla...

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Finis les mauvais jours! Papa gagne de l'argent en Allemagne.

Finis les mauvais jours! Papa gagne de l'argent en Allemagne.

Political poster shows smiling mother and daughter in occupied France as father works in a factory in Germany.

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Where Marines go, their pin-ups go

Where Marines go, their pin-ups go

Photograph shows American Marines on a landing barge approaching the Japanese-held island of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, in the Pacific; one of the Marines shows at picture of pin-up girl to others. Tarawa burns ... More

Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London during World War II

Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during t...

Date from information in related LOT 12457. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

Woman with two children, one in bed, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London during World War II

Woman with two children, one in bed, in an underground tunnel during t...

Date from information in related LOT 12457. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

Bomb damage in Osaka, Japan. Public domain, Post-war Japan.

Bomb damage in Osaka, Japan. Public domain, Post-war Japan.

Aerial view of Osaka after bombing, showing bomb craters. Photograph by U.S. Army Air Forces. No. C-58589. Ira Clarence Eaker collection.

These inmates of the Amphing [i.e., Ampfing] concentration camp in Germany were recently liberated by U.S. Third Army troops [...] Amphing, Germany / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

These inmates of the Amphing [i.e., Ampfing] concentration camp in Ger...

Men suffering from starvation standing by bunks in a Nazi concentration camp. Signal Corps photo. No. SC 206586.

Residents of New York's "Little Italy" in front of 76 Mulberry St., greet the news of the Jap[anese] acceptance of Allied surrender terms with waving flags and a rain of paper

Residents of New York's "Little Italy" in front of 76 Mulberry St., gr...

Title taken from news agency caption on item. Associated Press photograph. No. 23124C. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Sign: Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Sign: Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

One of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collect... More

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

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Antisubmarine warfare in World War II

Antisubmarine warfare in World War II

"Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Columbia University Division of War Research under contract OEMsr-1131 with the Office of Scientif... More

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [...] See your local U.S. Employment Service.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....

Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [...] See your local U.S. Employment Service.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....

Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Izuno and children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Izuno and children, Manzanar Relocation Center, Cal...

Family seated in combined living room and kitchen area with playpen.

Yonemitsu Family, son - Michael, sister - Lucy Toshiko, father - Francis, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Yonemitsu Family, son - Michael, sister - Lucy Toshiko, father - Franc...

Members of the Yonemitsu family in their living room, left to right: son, Michael, seated, facing right; father, Francis, seated facing slightly left, reading newspaper; daughter, Lucy, seated, facing slightly ... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

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Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

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Entrance to Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Entrance to Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel...

Wooden sign at entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center with a car at the gatehouse in the background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-28. Gif... More

HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map : [Battle of the Bulge--France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany] /

HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map : [Battle of the Bulge--France, Be...

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

Winston Churchill - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Winston Churchill - Public domain photograph, glass negative

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas]

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[s...

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USS Saratoga, aircraft carrier. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

USS Saratoga, aircraft carrier. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

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Meeting of UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) in Bristow, Oklahoma

Meeting of UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied ...

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Velva, North Dakota - A black and white photo of a small town

Velva, North Dakota - A black and white photo of a small town

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war ration book number two. The inside pages of the war ration book number two

war ration book number two. The inside pages of the war ration book nu...

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The weeping Frenchman, 1940, World War II photo

The weeping Frenchman, 1940, World War II photo

Frenchman crying as the flags of fallen France were marched through the streets of Marseilles on their way to Africa. The man’s face conveys a sense of grief so profound as to transcend our expectations. The ph... More

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Americans will always fight for liberty. Poster distributed by Office of War Information to hotels, schools, war plants, libraries, terminals, recreational halls, office buildings. The original comes in three sizes: 40 inches x 56 inches, 28 inches x 40 inches and 22 inches x 26 inches and is printed in full color against a dark background. Copies may be obtained from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Americans will always fight for liberty. Poster distributed by Office ...

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Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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Rubber reclamation. They help produce reclaimed rubber. Workers at a big Midwest recovery plant where junked rubber is prepared for processing into thousands of essential products. In many of these products reclaimed material serves better than raw rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. They help produce reclaimed rubber. Workers at a b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Stricken from the air. Testifying to the extent of the Japanese sneak attacks are these three stricken U.S. battleships. Left to right: U.S.S. West Virginia, severely damaged; U.S.S. Tennessee, damaged; and U.S.S. Arizona, sunk

Stricken from the air. Testifying to the extent of the Japanese sneak ...

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Civilian defense. Prompt and efficient telephone handling is an important part of civilian defense work. This operator at air raid warden headquarters receives calls telling her of trouble in various areas, notes the messages and passes them on for immediate action. The demonstration was at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York, October 1941

Civilian defense. Prompt and efficient telephone handling is an import...

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Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941

Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941

Official U.S. Navy photograph. No. 8967. Z 75685. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public do... More

Red Army soldiers in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Red Army soldiers in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Image source: Sovfoto, New York. Negative misnumbered LC-USF343-091145-A. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington... More

Men working together!, World War II photo

Men working together!, World War II photo

Print shows Sgt. French L. Vineyard, George Woolslayer, welder, and aviation-radio chief John Marshall Evans, U.S.N.

Sevastopol, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Underground arms factory in the cliffs

Sevastopol, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Underground ar...

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

American all. Russian-American Leatherneck. A captain in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I, Corporal Alexis A. Stoopenkoff of New York City is now "Proud to bear the title of a U.S. Marine." During the last war he served in many campaigns and was decorated several times. After coming to the United States he became active in the National Guard. When World War II broke out, he joined the Marines as a buck private and rose to corporal

American all. Russian-American Leatherneck. A captain in the Russian I...

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Southington, Connecticut. Red Cross mess hall

Southington, Connecticut. Red Cross mess hall

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Atlantic convoy, World War II photo

Atlantic convoy, World War II photo

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

Women aircraft workers. Hollywood missed a good bet when they overlooked this attractive aircraft worker, who is shown checking electrical sub-assemblies in a large West Coast aircraft factory. Vega

Women aircraft workers. Hollywood missed a good bet when they overlook...

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America'...

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

A black and white photo of a woman. Office of War Information Photogra...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Members of the British Women's Land Army harvesting beets. A woman is driving the Fordson tractor in the foreground, while three others with pitchforks are loading the beets on the truck behind the tractor

Members of the British Women's Land Army harvesting beets. A woman is ...

Image source: British Ministry of Information, from Fox Photos. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division;... More

Just below bullet junction covering a draw PFC Frank R. Boddy Inf (Chic.)

Just below bullet junction covering a draw PFC Frank R. Boddy Inf (Chi...

Sketch shows an enlisted man, Private First Class Frank R. Boddy, an infantryman from Chicago, from the side. He sits as he operates his machine gun from under a tent on Guadalcanal during World War II. Inscrib... More

[At work on camouflage nets at the Japanese internment camp in Santa Anita, California]

[At work on camouflage nets at the Japanese internment camp in Santa A...

U.S. Signal Corps, Wartime Civil Control Administration. In album: Japanese evacuation photos. ..., vol. 11, p. 1156.

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying seed for the victory garden

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying se...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Food in England. Land girls bring in the harvest in one of Britain's largest wheat fields. Unplowed for twenty years, this 400-acre block is expected to produce a heavy yield of grain

Food in England. Land girls bring in the harvest in one of Britain's l...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for the aid of Russia climbing a mountain road over the Iranian mountains

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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

The murder of a perfectly good differential - reel 1 - starring Joe Dope While draining the oil one day, the gaze of Joe Dope chanced to stray to a pippin so cute that the love-sic galoot left the oil - and the gears - by the way! Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right / / Cpt. Will Eisner, Ordnance.

The murder of a perfectly good differential - reel 1 - starring Joe Do...

Poster shows Joe Dope destroying a military truck by driving it without oil.

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

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

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Arlington, Virginia. Reading the Sunday comics on the back porch at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work for U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Reading the Sunday comics on the back porch at Id...

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

A company officer of the 442nd Combat Team makes corrections in the saluting technique of one of the rookies from Hawaii as the unit began training with remarkable speed after its arrival at Camp Shelby

A company officer of the 442nd Combat Team makes corrections in the sa...

Photograph by Bureau of Public Relations, U.S. War Department. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. A crowd on D-day in Madison Square

New York, New York. A crowd on D-day in Madison Square

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

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

Photographed by Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer or MacLaugharie. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 19... More

[Edward C. Gleed and two unidentifiedTuskegee airmen, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

[Edward C. Gleed and two unidentifiedTuskegee airmen, Ramitelli, Italy...

Photograph shows Tuskegee airman Edward C. Gleed, Lawrence, KS, Class 42-K, with two unidentified crewmen adjusting an external seventy-five gallon drop takn on the wing of a P-5/D, "Creamer's Dream." Ramitelli... More

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

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

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

One of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collect... More

A peek inside the well-kept cabin of a still-running 1942 International (brand) truck in Shoshoni, Wyoming. Its owner says that in its prime, the truck hauled logs to big cities in support of the (World War II) war effort

A peek inside the well-kept cabin of a still-running 1942 Internationa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Antisubmarine warfare in World War II

Antisubmarine warfare in World War II

"Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Columbia University Division of War Research under contract OEMsr-1131 with the Office of Scientif... More

Nursery, orphan infants, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Nursery, orphan infants, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / phot...

Nurse tending four infants in cribs. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-18. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center ... More

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.

War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [...] See your local U.S. Employment Service.

The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....

Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More

Relocation departure, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Relocation departure, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel...

Group of men gathered around a bus packed with passengers and luggage say farewell, snow on the ground. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-51. Gift; Ans... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop & Arms Room, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Company Maintenance Shop ...

Field notes for this record with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1928 is significant as a relatively unmodified example of an 800 Series Type CMS-1 structure that was used for vehicle maintenance and... More

Private Margaret Fukuoka, W.A.C. / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Private Margaret Fukuoka, W.A.C. / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Private Margaret Fukuoka, bust portrait, facing front, in uniform. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-68. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: M... More

Pour it on! / Garrett Price., World War II photo

Pour it on! / Garrett Price., World War II photo

Giant metal worker pouring airplanes from ladle. No. A14. U.S. Government Printing Office : 1942-0-476539.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pearl City Peninsula, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pearl City Peninsula, Pearl City, Honol...

Significance: This peninsula is significant for its pre-WWII civilian history, the Pan American Airways history in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the Navy history of this peninsula during and after the war... More

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

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Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

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Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Seventeenth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Cold Storage Building, Se...

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Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown here with Major General Jonathan Wainwright, who assumed command when MacArthur was ordered to Australia

Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown h...

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

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Show...

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

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

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A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, ...

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Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children

Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after ...

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Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Ir...

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Sailor at the Naval Air Base wears the new type protective clothing and gas mask designed for use in chemical warfare, Corpus Christi, Texas. These uniforms are lighter than the old type

Sailor at the Naval Air Base wears the new type protective clothing an...

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Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman wo...

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[Children on row house steps, Washington, D.C.]

[Children on row house steps, Washington, D.C.]

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