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C-54A Skymaster transport aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II

C-54A Skymaster transport aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Forces du...

(Source: researcher) Original title from negative or caption card erroneously identified plane as an Gruman Avenger torpedo bomber. Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on nega... More

Picking cotton is one of the most easily learned occupations for women in the U.S. Crop Corps. These two city girls, putting their vacation to good use, may well wear the cotton they are picking in the form of work slacks and shirts next year

Picking cotton is one of the most easily learned occupations for women...

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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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Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling Lend-Lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United S...

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War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) to U.S. employment service offices, beauty parlors, women's colleges, manufacturers, etc. The original is 28 12 inches by 40 inches and is printed in red, blue, and black on white. The poster was reproduced from a photograph by Office of War Information photographer, Howard Hollem. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Plant, Office for Emergency Management (OEM), 1509 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S. Neosho, navy oil tanker, cautiously backs away from her berth (right center) in a successful effort to escape the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. At left the battleship U.S.S. California lists after aerial blows. Other crippled warships and part of the hull of the capsized U.S.S. Oklahoma may be seen in the background. The Neosho was later sunk in the Coral Sea

Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S. Neosho...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sorting rivets may seem a lowly task in the making of war planes. But it plays an essential part in the mass production of aircraft and in the conservation of vital materials. These workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company help to keep many others working. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sorting rivets may seem a l...

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General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Premier and Commander-in chief

General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Premier and Commander-in chief

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A black and white photo of three men in suits. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Office of War Informati...

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

A black and white photo of a gas station. Office of War Information Ph...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, to labor management committees. The original, size 28 1/2 inches by 40 inches, may be obtained from war production drive headquarters, War Production Board (WPB), Washington, D.C.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the Ordnance Depart...

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Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-47 is the military version of the commerical transport DC-3 used by the airline companies. It is a twin-engined, low-wing monoplane capable of carrying heavy cargo. The main cabin is provided with a large loading door and a reinforced floor. It may also be arranged with folding benches to accomodate twenty-eight fully equipped fighting men

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-47 is the military versi...

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Manzanar, Calif., April 1942. Mealtime at the Japanese war relocation center

Manzanar, Calif., April 1942. Mealtime at the Japanese war relocation ...

Photograph showing several generations of Japanese Americans at meal time. Caption continues: In housing, as well as at mealtime, family life is preserved. LC-USE618-D-5074. Forms part of: Farm Security Adminis... More

Let's go get 'em! U.S. Marines / Guinness, Captain USMC.

Let's go get 'em! U.S. Marines / Guinness, Captain USMC.

Poster showing Marines bearing rifles with bayonets and flags in a jungle. Reqn. - 469-1943, 7-11-42, 50M.

Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation Centers was conducted by the Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation C...

Caption continues: Train lists were made up so that families would not be separated and in most instances groups associated by residence in pre-evacuation days were kept together. Here is a busy scene of famil... More

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

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Chicago, Illinois. Soldier kissing his girlfriend goodbye at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. Soldier kissing his girlfriend goodbye at the Union...

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Washington, D.C. Posing for a snapshot on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial

Washington, D.C. Posing for a snapshot on the steps of the Jefferson M...

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A violent explosion staggers Japanese destroyer escort frigate after bombing run by North American B-25's of Air Apaches Group off China Coast, April 6, 1945

A violent explosion staggers Japanese destroyer escort frigate after b...

Photograph by U.S. Army A.A.F. No. B-58114 AC. Ira Clarence Eaker Collection.

[Tuskegee airmen exiting the parachute room, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

[Tuskegee airmen exiting the parachute room, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1...

Photograph shows Tuskegee airmen leaving the arachute room. Left to right: Richard S. "Rip" Harder, Brooklyn, NY, Class 44-B; unidentified airman; Thurston L. Gaines, Jr., Freeport, NY, Class 44-G; Newman C. Go... More

Hunger, the price of defeat / World Telegram & Sun photo by Emil Reynolds.

Hunger, the price of defeat / World Telegram & Sun photo by Emil Reyno...

Photograph shows two Berliners searching for food in a garbage dump.

[Aerial view of bomb damage in Tokyo, Japan, during the second world war]

[Aerial view of bomb damage in Tokyo, Japan, during the second world w...

U.S. Army A.A.F. photo. No. A-58577 AC. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dwight D. Eisenhower, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Dwight D. Eisenhower, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, California

The Fremont Theater is a historic movie theater in San Luis Obispo, Ca...

The theater, opened in 1942, is among the last Streamline Moderne theaters built by architect S. Charles Lee. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

Manzanar from guard tower, summer heat, view SW, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Manzanar from guard tower, summer heat, view SW, Manzanar Relocation C...

Buildings and connecting roadways, mountain range in background. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-5. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Man... 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

In biology class, high school, Kiyo Yoshida, Lillian Wakatsuki, Yoshiko Yamasaki, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

In biology class, high school, Kiyo Yoshida, Lillian Wakatsuki, Yoshik...

Three young women seated in a classroom. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-44. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Cen... More

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press photo.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press pho...

Poster showing U.S. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima. Official U.S. Treasury poster.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press photo.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press pho...

Poster showing U.S. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima. Official U.S. Treasury poster.

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc. / / R. Muchley

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc....

Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort.

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc. / / R. Muchley

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc....

Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort.

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Rel...

Sumiko Shigematsu, standing at left, looking at row of women seated at sewing machines. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-45-Ax. Gift; Ansel Adams; 196... 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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Pvt. Joe Louis says -- "We're going to do our part, and we'll win because we're on God's side"

Pvt. Joe Louis says -- "We're going to do our part, and we'll win beca...

Poster showing heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis charging with bayoneted rifle.

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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Tank driver, Ft. Knox, Ky. - A man wearing goggles looking out of a tank

Tank driver, Ft. Knox, Ky. - A man wearing goggles looking out of a ta...

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[Benito Mussolini] - A black and white photo of a man in a military uniform

[Benito Mussolini] - A black and white photo of a man in a military un...

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[Section of eight-foot high concrete wall encircling Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland]

[Section of eight-foot high concrete wall encircling Jewish ghetto in ...

Associated Press photograph. No. 16527. Caption: Behind this eight-foot concrete wall some 500,000 Jews will begin a new life in Warsaw's ghetto. By German decree, all Warsaw Jews are required to reside in the... More

London is still "taking it" - A black and white photo of a city

London is still "taking it" - A black and white photo of a city

Photo shows St. Paul's Cathedral, London, amid smoke and flames of night air raid, Dec. 1940. Photograph from International News Photo. No. 924119. Gift from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Winston Churchill - Print, Library of Congress collection

Winston Churchill - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Weiner (J.) Ltd., publisher. Written on verso:... More

India in the war. Indian soldiers in action before the capture of Keren. This gun hurled approximately 24,000 shells a day. Note the shadow of camouflage on the field gun

India in the war. Indian soldiers in action before the capture of Kere...

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America calling. Take your place in civilian defense / Herbert Matter.

America calling. Take your place in civilian defense / Herbert Matter.

Poster showing an eagle, wings spread, in profile. Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in Malaya have burnt thousands of bales of rubber, destroyed rubber factories and smashed machinery. Towering clouds of pungent smoke rise hundreds of feet in the air as a rubber factory is destroyed by the British forces.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

Photograph shows black smoke from a fire set by British forces in Malaya.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Partial view of North American Aviation's B-25 final assembly floor at Inglewood, California. 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. Partial view of North Ameri...

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I'm tired of taking the rap for missing a German or Jap - that Dope dents the fins and the blinking bomb spins and swoops all over the map! / Warrant Off. Will Eisner, Ordnance.

I'm tired of taking the rap for missing a German or Jap - that Dope de...

Poster shows Joe Dope damaging a bomb by carelessly handling it making American soldiers weep.

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps submachine gunners. An efficient gas mask and a deadly Johnson submachine gun are part of the kit of fighting tools carried by this leatherneck in training at New River, North Carolina. The gun, a new Marine Corps weapon, is said to have a lot of authority. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps submachine gunners. An efficie...

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"Yak" fighter planes, for the Red air force, on the assembly lines at a Soviet factory somewhere in the USSR, March 1942

"Yak" fighter planes, for the Red air force, on the assembly lines at ...

Photograph shows an interior view of a factory with Russian fighter planes being manufactored on an assembly line. Photo from: British Ministry of Information, no. RUS.3371 (XT).

Building wreckage, possibly after World War II

Building wreckage, possibly after World War II

Photograph possibly collected by Sylvester McCauley, Rosa Parks' brother, while serving in the Army during World War II. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Feuling an N2S, primary land plane, at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Sailor mechanics at the base service the ship as a cadet prepares for the take-off

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Feuling an N2S, primary land pl...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Housewives in war work "for the duration." Employed by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, these women workers are shown banding bottles used by the armed forces for blood transfusions, plasma, and serum. Evelyn Kohl (left) and Olive Western (right) each have two children; Gladys Eldert (right foreground) has a husband and brother in the Army

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Housewives in war work "for the...

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Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif., April 1942 - a general view of quarters for evacuees of Japanese ancestry who will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif., April 1942 - a general ...

Photo attributed to Clem Albers. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. B-406. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information C... More

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone i...

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

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of the gas mask. If chemical warfare should ever be used by the enemy, the Army will have familiarized all the members of its personnel with the best methods for overcoming such attack. An instructor leading the nurses double-time through a field during a simulated gas attack

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of...

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Tunis, Tunisia French soldiers marching in the allied victory parade along Avenue Gambetta. American soldiers standing at parade rest in the foreground.

Tunis, Tunisia French soldiers marching in the allied victory parade a...

Photo by Jack Collins for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 36451-Z. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Aerial view of surfaced U-boat under attack by US Navy plane

Aerial view of surfaced U-boat under attack by US Navy plane

Photo from US Navy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Letter from John R. Bedell to Archibald MacLeish, February 9, 1943

Letter from John R. Bedell to Archibald MacLeish, February 9, 1943

Letter from John R. Bedell of the War Department's Civil Defense Division. He responds to Archibald MacLeish's letter of November 9, 1942, saying that a list has been compiled of the available air raid precauti... More

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

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

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

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

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Preparation for point rationing. An eager school boy gets his first experience in using war ration book two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing

Preparation for point rationing. An eager school boy gets his first ex...

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer. She is the only woman welder in the plant. This is her first job outside her house

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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Women: There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service / / Vernon Grant for OWI.

Women: There's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U...

Cartoon showing women constructing the word "Women" and working on a jeep.

Area 'K' : administrative map Operation Overlord South Western Zone, 15 April 1944 /

Area 'K' : administrative map Operation Overlord South Western Zone, 1...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours. Shows marshaling and embarkation areas of allied forces in Devon, England, in preparation for Operation Overlord. At head of title: Top secret, copy no. 41. "... More

[Black fighter pilot series: "Escape kits" (cyanide) being distributed to fighter pilots at air base in southern Italy, 1945]

[Black fighter pilot series: "Escape kits" (cyanide) being distributed...

Photo shows (seated): Theodore G. Lumpkin, Jr. Standing (left to right): Joseph L. "Joe" Chineworth, Memphis, TN, Class 44-E; Robert C. Robinson, Asheville, NC, Class 44-G; Driskell B. Ponder, Chicago, IL, Clas... 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).

[Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan]

[Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan]

Official U.S. Army Air Force photograph. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 268.

[Harry Truman, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, holding pencil]

[Harry Truman, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, hol...

J37850 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Chase-Statler, Washington. No copyright renewal.

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).

Unidentified concentration camp(s), Germany, at time of liberation by U.S. Army: German civilians burying bodies in mass grave

Unidentified concentration camp(s), Germany, at time of liberation by ...

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Col. Benjamin O. Davis, air base at Rametti, Italy

Col. Benjamin O. Davis, air base at Rametti, Italy

Col. Benjamin O. Davis, half-length portrait, wearing flight gear, standing next to airplane.

[Austria, May 1945 - Hungarian Jews after removal from Nazi concentration camps to facilities provided by US Army 121st Evacuation Hosp.: men lying on cots outside building (#206816)]

[Austria, May 1945 - Hungarian Jews after removal from Nazi concentrat...

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Changing face of Europe and colonial tension, late 1945.

Changing face of Europe and colonial tension, late 1945.

Also shows Soviet-dominated countries. "503740 4-78 (541369)." "Map 2." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster 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

Mural in Terrell, Texas, depicting a Primary Trainer PT-17 Stearman Kaydet plane, used in the training of American and British pilots in Terrell during World War II

Mural in Terrell, Texas, depicting a Primary Trainer PT-17 Stearman Ka...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since airfield was surrounded by cotton fields, the plane is depicted as flying over the one. The mural was created and painted by th... More

It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Apply to your nearest Navy recruiting station or office of naval officer procurement John Falter, USNR

It's a woman's war too! Join the WAVES--Your country needs you now--Ap...

Uniformed woman operating radio. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J7. 1942. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by She... More

Photograph of Library of Congress staff packing materials for evacuation, December 1941

Photograph of Library of Congress staff packing materials for evacuati...

Transcribed from item: "War Precautionary Measures- Packing Library of Congress materials for evacuation from Washington- 1941 (December)."

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Dispatcher House, North of Park Avenue at Forty-ninth Street, Killeen, Bell County, TX

Fort Hood, World War II Temporary Buildings, Dispatcher House, North o...

Field notes for this record are with main record TX-3392 Significance: Building 1929 is a representative example of a Dispatcher House constructed according to the 800 Series of standard construction designs de... More

Photograph of an Army truck carrying a V-1 bomb parked in front of the Library of Congress, November 13, 1944

Photograph of an Army truck carrying a V-1 bomb parked in front of the...

Transcribed from item: "Sixth War Loan Drive - opened November 13, 1944. Photograph of Army truck parked on 2nd Street, between Main and Annex Buildings, displaying a V-1 robot bomb."

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

[Five women holding hands and walking together in a row, sky in background]

[Five women holding hands and walking together in a row, sky in backgr...

Published in Vogue magazine, August, 1935. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell ; introduction by George Plimpton ; foreword by Si... 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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Alexei Stakhanov explaining his system to a fellow miner in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Alexei Stakhanov explaining his system to a fellow miner in the USSR (...

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FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] AFTER RADIO BROADCAST FOR COMMUNITY CHEST

FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] AFTER RADIO BROADCAST FOR COMMUNITY CH...

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Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., checking to see if the proper numbers of parts were received and placed in the proper bin, Inglewood, Calif. 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

Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., chec...

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Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembl...

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[Woman, probably a fashion model, lying on ferns on ground]

[Woman, probably a fashion model, lying on ferns on ground]

On negative sleeve: "Bookboard" [i.e. Book board]. Photograph may be available in LOT 12452. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

Lend-Lease to Britain. Tommy-guns arriving in England from the United States under lend-lease are unpacked and checked by an ordnance corporal. The guns arrived complete, ready to be fired

Lend-Lease to Britain. Tommy-guns arriving in England from the United ...

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South African women's services on duty in the Middle East: A South African W.A.A.F. Sergeant instructor fitting a gas mask to a beginner

South African women's services on duty in the Middle East: A South Afr...

Title from note on item. South African official photograph : No. K 2049. Picture issued April 1942.

American cheeses in factory at Antigo, Wisconsin

American cheeses in factory at Antigo, Wisconsin

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. 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 flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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