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Sappers of the Red army in strongly fortified zone near Leningrad

Sappers of the Red army in strongly fortified zone near Leningrad

Photograph shows Russian sappers crossing area through barbed wire barriers near Leningrad during World War II. Title devised from item caption. Original typed caption: Defences of Leningrad: Radio Picture from... More

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

Neighborhood fingerprint station Fingerprints are your identification ...

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

General Douglas MacArthur, left, congratulates Captain Villamor of the Philippine Air Force, after awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross, December 22, 1941. Captain Villamor was one of the small group of flyers that did heroic service in the Battle of Bataan

General Douglas MacArthur, left, congratulates Captain Villamor of the...

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Your binoculars could prevent this Loan your 6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or Bausch and Lomb binoculars to your navy : Pack carefully and send to Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.

Your binoculars could prevent this Loan your 6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or...

Poster asking citizens to loan their binoculars to the Navy, showing a pair of binoculars and a ship sinking.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain

Image source: United Nations Information Office, New York. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Tennis stars. Left to right: Vincent Richards; Arthur MacPherson, Frank Shields; Clarence H. Low, chairman; S. Wallis Merrihew; and George Elder

Tennis stars. Left to right: Vincent Richards; Arthur MacPherson, Fran...

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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this young woman machines parts of aircraft engines. Like many other young Negro girls, she had known only

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-ye...

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Tobruk, Libya. Signposts printed in German and Italian point to former Axis offices at a street corner

Tobruk, Libya. Signposts printed in German and Italian point to former...

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Thanksgiving, 1942. Freedom to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world." For this we fight, said President Roosevelt in his address to the seventy-seventh Congress. Because the Fincham family, like other Americans, have been nourished on the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, they are fighting for the things they pray for. Four of Mr. and Mrs. Wayman Fincham's six fighting sons, visiting their home in Silver Spring, Maryland, attend church services

Thanksgiving, 1942. Freedom to worship God in his own way--everywhere ...

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Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being done by these women cutoff machine operators who are processing small machine parts in a Midwest drill and tool plant. Although this work is relatively unskilled, industrial experience was new to most of the women, many of whom had previously been waitresses, schoolteachers, or saleswomen. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being ...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. Wrecked seaplane. One of the 80 U.S. Navy planes wrecked by Japanese bombs and bullets during the air attacks on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The plane was an OS2U, an Observation Scout built by Vought-Sikorsky

Pearl Harbor bombing. Wrecked seaplane. One of the 80 U.S. Navy planes...

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San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Two Japanese boys, one with strip "Remember Pearl Harbor" on his hat, wave good-bye [while] awaiting the bus

San Francisco (Calif.) evacuation - Two Japanese boys, one with strip ...

Signal Corps photo no. 9CA-42-1115-PSF. No. S635. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Hopscotch has been supplanted by a new and serious game for these Girl Scouts--it's called Plant the Victory Garden. Like thousands of other school-age youngsters, Pat Nelson, Doris Laclair and Barbara Redford, all of San Francisco, are enthusiastic participants in the nation-wide Food for Victory campaign. Doris seems to be jumping the gun slightly, but at this stage cookies are more palatable than embryonic cabbages

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Hopscotch has been supplanted...

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Australia in the war. American medium tanksand their Anzac crews lined up for review at a camp in Australia. Along with other lend-lease equipment, these tanks are helping in the development of a formidable Australian mechanized army

Australia in the war. American medium tanksand their Anzac crews lined...

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"A message from America" / Hayden Hayden.

"A message from America" / Hayden Hayden.

Poster showing sailors loading ammunition into a cannon. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. These fast, easily maneuvered cannon carriers are typical of the new mechanized equipment being provided to American troops

Winner of the plant award. New M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll down...

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With the aid of a little canvas, and an obsolete French bomber, an American task force has set up a very practical mess kitchen in North Africa. Left to right are Lieutenant E. T. McBoon of Canton, Illinois, and Ssergeant C. W. Moore of Houston, Texas, inspecting the kitchen. Corporal William G. Warrington, a cook from Jefferson, Texas, is preparing the meal

With the aid of a little canvas, and an obsolete French bomber, an Ame...

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Sumiko Shigematsu, foreman of power sewing machine girls, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

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 negative sleeve. No original photographic print. Library made print in LOT... More

Tripoli, Libya. Allied air forces bombs rain down on Castel Benito airdrome during a daylight raid which damaged machine shops and other installations. In the foreground a train of bombs may be seen dropping from the bay of a United States plane

Tripoli, Libya. Allied air forces bombs rain down on Castel Benito air...

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Food in England. A shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a British housewife's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon she is allowed for one week. Most foods in Britain are rationed and some brand names are given the designation "National"

Food in England. A shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a British housewi...

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Major-General James Doolittle, United States Army Aair Forces, Major-General Bergeret of the Fighting French high command, who accepted 13 P-40 Warhawks form the Americans on behalf of the Fighting French, and Major General Carl Spaatz, United States Air Force commmander in North Africa, who made the presentation. General Spaatz is in command of Allied air forces in the North African theater of operations

Major-General James Doolittle, United States Army Aair Forces, Major-G...

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[Waves of Consolidated B-24 liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the target area, the Concordia Vega Oil refinery, Ploești, Romania, unmindful of bursting flak, after dropping their bomb loads on the oil cracking plant, on 31 May '44]

[Waves of Consolidated B-24 liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the ta...

Official Air Force photo. Photograph possibly taken by Richard R. Ganczak (1924-2014). No. 51982 AC. Forms part of: Ira Clarence Eaker Collection.

Waves of Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the target area, the Concordia Vega oil refinery, Ploesti, Rumania ... after dropping their bomb loads on the oil cracking plant, on 31 May 1944

Waves of Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the 15th AAF fly over the tar...

Aerial view. Photoprint by the U.S. Air Force. Photograph possibly taken by Richard R. Ganczak (1924-2014). No. 51982 A.C. Joseph J. Spagnola Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. ... More

[August 3, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

[August 3, 1944], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Toni Frissell with Major George S. "Spanky" Roberts at Ramitelli, Italy, March, 1945]

[Toni Frissell with Major George S. "Spanky" Roberts at Ramitelli, Ita...

Photograph shows Deputy Group Commander George S. "Spanky" Roberts with photographer Toni Frissell, at Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. Frissell wrote "Just before take off in stripped down mustang--no guns--for r... More

Chiang Kai-Shek, World War II photo

Chiang Kai-Shek, World War II photo

Portrait, bust, facing left. (Taken during visit to Army Air Force base.)

[Crowd of people, many waving, in Times Square on V-J Day at time of announcement of the Japanese surrender in 1945] / World-Telegram photo by Dick DeMarsico.

[Crowd of people, many waving, in Times Square on V-J Day at time of a...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curato... More

[Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

[Four P-51 Mustangs flying in formation. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945]

Also available as contact sheet in LOT 12447-1. Forms part of: Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress).

Elmendorf Field, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

Elmendorf Field, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

Photograph shows dog sled and team of dogs next to military airplane. In album: Scenic Alaska. Elmendorf Field, 1946. Courtesy of Alaska Air Depot, p. 14.

Aerial view of the World War II memorial, Washington, D.C.

Aerial view of the World War II memorial, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. National World War II Memorial is a National Memorial dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of arches surroundi... More

Trees at Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Trees at 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 based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jo... More

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

[Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

[Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

Includes biographical caption on verso, dated 3/31/44. Exhibited: "Art and Truth : Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence" at The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, Oct. 2014 - Feb. 2015.

Taxis to hell - and back - A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat

Taxis to hell - and back - A black and white photo of a group of men o...

Photograph shows American soldiers wading from Coast Guard landing barge toward the beach at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From the collections of Encyclopedia Britannica. Official Coast Guard photograph. O... More

[Harry Truman, half-length portrait, facing front]

[Harry Truman, half-length portrait, facing front]

J38058 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edmonston Studio. No copyright renewal.

Town plan of Roma (Rome) / - Public domain map

Town plan of Roma (Rome) / - Public domain map

Relief shown by contours. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "2-44." Includes index.

[Two Japanese soldiers on guard with the barrel of large gun in the foreground]

[Two Japanese soldiers on guard with the barrel of large gun in the fo...

Copy photograph from filmstrip no. 30-1. No. 24. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public do... More

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dressmaking class, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Dressmaking class, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph...

Mrs. Ryie Yoshizawa, instructor, standing in front of class of women students, one woman in foreground with dressmaker's dummy.

Negroes hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta

Negroes hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta

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

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. - A couple of tanks driving down a dirt road

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. - A couple of tanks driving down a dirt ro...

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Mexican pecan workers waiting at union hall for assignment to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers waiting at union hall for assignment to work. Sa...

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This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombard...

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Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She buoys up feminine morale in her department by arranging suitable living conditions for out-of-state employees and by helping them with their personal problems

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior ...

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Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., A...

Photograph shows woman ironing. Public domain reproduction of art deco poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft ...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C

12002-32. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraf...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

"The Walkers Club." Eight U.S. airmen in China who were forced down behind the Japanese lines. After a period of eight weeks and many narrow escapes of contacts with enemy patrols, they reached their bases. Left to right, standing: Major Grant Mahoney, Vallejo, California; Colonel Bruce Hollaway, Knoxville, Tennessee; Captain J.O. Wellborn, Daingerfield, Texas; Lieutenant C.C. Moody, Blytheville, Arkansas; Kneeling: Lieutenant Morton Sher, Greenville, South Carolina; Lieutenant C.C. Vaughn, Pearsall, Texas; Lieutenant R. Durell, Scarbrough, Hudson, New York; Lieutenant M.D. Marks, Bayonne, New Jersey

"The Walkers Club." Eight U.S. airmen in China who were forced down be...

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[Bikini attol (in the Pacific ocean). Aerial view of clouds raised by test explosion of an atomic bomb]

[Bikini attol (in the Pacific ocean). Aerial view of clouds raised by ...

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

First Army photos of the bombing of Hickam Field, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Wreckage of barracks from parade ground off Hangar Ave.

First Army photos of the bombing of Hickam Field, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941...

Photoprint by U.S. Army Signal Corps. SC-127030. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. History December 7, 1941; Geogr.

Como un solo hombre / Arias Bernal.

Como un solo hombre / Arias Bernal.

Propaganda poster showing a stylized armed man with legs emerging from North America and South America.

Harvesting time at a collective farm in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). A sixty-year-old collective farmer and her granddaughter

Harvesting time at a collective farm in the USSR (Union of Soviet Soci...

Image source: Sovfoto New York, no. A-46547. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informa... More

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-American family waiting for train to take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Wes...

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Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are the first official pictures released in the United States of the recent meetings of Premier I.V. Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain; and W. Averrell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt. The three men met in the middle of August, 1942, at the request of the Soviet leader, and held a series of conversations concerned with the future conduct of the war. Also present was V.M. Molotov, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The meetings lasted four days. Left to right, foreground: Molotov greeting Churchill at Moscow civil airport. Man in background is the interpreter

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army. Continuous chain conveyors in the stamping department of a converted auto radiator plant where presses form helmets from sheet steel and trim them at the edges. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a cavalry rifle unit going through a smokescreen during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a cavalry rifle unit going through a sm...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription automatic typewriter unit for the WPB correspondence. These machines in operation are some of the twenty dictator transcribing machines. This unit turns out almost 4,000 letters weekly

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription...

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

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of...

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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'...

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

A mounted scout on the western front in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

A mounted scout on the western front in the USSR (Union of Soviet Soci...

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Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. The Australian Commonwealth has decorated hundreds of New Guinea natives for their invaluable services to the Allied cause. General Vassey is shown at a ceremony at which medals were presented to a large group of stretcher and supply carriers

Natives aid Allied drive in New Guinea jungles. The Australian Commonw...

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Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. One of the best chippers in the yard is Bonaparte Louis, Jr., shown above with a fellow worker as the Carver is being rushed to completion

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled w...

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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...

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Beaumont, Texas. Shipyard workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards at the change of shift

Beaumont, Texas. Shipyard workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards a...

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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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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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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).

[Edward C. Gleed, Tuskegee pilot, standing, three-quarter length portrait]

[Edward C. Gleed, Tuskegee pilot, standing, three-quarter length portr...

Photograph shows Tuskegee airman Edward C. Gleed of Lawrence, KS, Class 42-K, Group Operations Officer. Includes P-5/D in background, "Creamer's Dream," generally flown by Charles L. White, St. Louis, MO, Class... More

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator] - A black and white photo of a woman on a plane

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator] - A black and white photo of a woman on ...

Photograph shows nose art on a B24 bomber depicting a pin-up with the name "Bonnie" written next to the image. Written on back: 466BG ; 2E AD, Attlebridge, Eng.

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

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

The USS "Lexington," once called the "Blue Ghost" by enemy Japanese in the Pacific Theater raging battles during World War II, is now a floating museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, Bay

The USS "Lexington," once called the "Blue Ghost" by enemy Japanese in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... 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

Japanese-American U.S. Naval cadet nurse, Kay Fukuda, Manzanar Series / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Japanese-American U.S. Naval cadet nurse, Kay Fukuda, Manzanar Series ...

Kay Fukuda, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, in military uniform. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-69. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1... 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

Chicago (north), Illinois. Children bringing scrap to the block Office of Civilian Defense headquarters

Chicago (north), Illinois. Children bringing scrap to the block Office...

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Photograph of W. Jack Duncan's "U.S. Troops Disembarking at Brest," undated

Photograph of W. Jack Duncan's "U.S. Troops Disembarking at Brest," un...

Transcribed from item: "W. Jack Duncan's drawing of U.S. TROOPS DISEMBARKING AT BREST, which opens the section dealing with the first World War in the exhibition of American Battle Art to be shown at the Librar... More

Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, the Marquess of Lothian, and the Magna Carta, November 28, 1939

Photograph of Archibald MacLeish, the Marquess of Lothian, and the Mag...

Public domain image - related to Czech and Czechoslovak history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Wrapping sliced bread. Bakery, San Angelo, Texas

Wrapping sliced bread. Bakery, San Angelo, Texas

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

Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training met...

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"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice she will be eligible for a civil service job in the capacity for which she has been trained

"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Co...

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Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas ...

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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...

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Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming ...

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Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Mrs. Roosevelt at Buckingham Palace. During her recent trip to England, Mrs. Roosevelt stayed with the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace. She is shown here with the royal family in the Bow Room. Left to right: the King, Mrs. Roosevelt, the Queen, Princess Margaret Rose, Princess Elizabeth

Mrs. Roosevelt at Buckingham Palace. During her recent trip to England...

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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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Victory Gardens--for family and country. A thriving Victory Garden--not on an island, but in a London bomb crater, close to Westminster Cathedral. Where the Nazi's sowed death, a Londoner and his wife have sown life-giving vegetables

Victory Gardens--for family and country. A thriving Victory Garden--no...

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Boy on float in Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon

Boy on float in Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon

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

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

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Stamp out the Axis / P.V.P. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Stamp out the Axis / P.V.P. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Co...

Poster shows a fist holding a stamp with an American star ready to stamp out a Nazi swastika during World War II. "33rd" in a series issued by this Navy unit in Seattle. Purchase; Swann Galleries; 2010; (DLC/P... More

Gurkhas train in Malayan jungle The 9th Burkhas have had some extensive training recently in the Malayan jungle .... Photo shows - part of the exercise, where 3" trench mortars were used.

Gurkhas train in Malayan jungle The 9th Burkhas have had some extensiv...

Photograph shows soldiers from a Gurkha regiment of the British Indian Army with rifles and mortar, crouched in grasses. British Official photo: BF 237. No. BO 768. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library o... More

Gurkhas train in Malayan jungle The 9th Burkhas have had some extensive training recently in the Malayan jungle .... Gurkhas advancing during the exercise.

Gurkhas train in Malayan jungle The 9th Burkhas have had some extensiv...

Photograph shows soldiers from a Gurkha regiment of the British Indian Army with rifles crouching in grasses. British Official photo: BF 244. No. BO 772. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Ready for another whack at the Axis. Assembly line workers enter the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. 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 maufacture, general. Ready for another whack at t...

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

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