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Adeline Finke modeling on Miami Beach, Florida

Adeline Finke modeling on Miami Beach, Florida

: 69565 ( http://69565 ) ...Local call number: C012609...Title: Adeline Finke modeling on Miami Beach, Florida..Date: December 21, 1949...Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Departme... More

Lady Kinnoul - Public domain portrait print

Lady Kinnoul - Public domain portrait print

A black and white photo of a woman with a fur collar. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo

Portrait photo of Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G401-4750 (several images); 1925 July

[Portrait of Angevine Shaffer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa]

[Portrait of Angevine Shaffer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa]

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

A black and white photo of a woman holding a bunch of flowers, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman holding a bunch of flowers, New Jer...

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

Helena Rubinstein and her husband Prince Gurielli-Tchkonia in Sydney, Australia, 31 October 1938 / photographer Sam Hood

Helena Rubinstein and her husband Prince Gurielli-Tchkonia in Sydney, ...

"With seventeen trunks full of clothes ... Princess Gurielli-Tchkonia, better known as Madame Helena Rubinstein, arrived in Sydney by the Monterey yesterday. ... Madame Rubinstein was wearing a smart black Schi... More

Women selling ice cream to parade watchers, Cincinnati, Ohio

Women selling ice cream to parade watchers, Cincinnati, Ohio

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

Negro women hoeing, Picayune, Mississippi

Negro women hoeing, Picayune, Mississippi

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

Woman cotton picker dragging bag of cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Woman cotton picker dragging bag of cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansa...

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

Mexican woman and child, San Antonio, Texas

Mexican woman and child, San Antonio, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

WHITE HOUSE TEA GIVEN FOR WOMEN LEADERS IN THE 'FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS' CAMPAIGN, WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 11. FOLLOWING A TEA AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, MRS. ROOSEVELT AND PROMINENT WOMEN LEADERS IN THE 'FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS' CAMPAIGN BROADCAST OVER A COAST-TO-COAST NETWORK THE URGENT NEED FOR MORE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS PATIENTS IN THIS COUNTRY. L TO R: MARGARET McBRIDE, KNOWN AS MARTHA DEAN OF THE RADIO; MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT, MRS. HARRY WOODRING; REP. EDITH NOURSE ROGERS; AND CATHREEN CARRICO, OF CLINTON, MD, WHO CONTRACTED INFANTILE PARALYSIS WHEN A SMALL CHILD AND WHO STAGED A REMARKABLE RECOVERY. SHE NOW SINGS OVER THE RADIO

WHITE HOUSE TEA GIVEN FOR WOMEN LEADERS IN THE 'FIGHT INFANTILE PARALY...

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman ironing in tent home. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See general caption 21

Woman ironing in tent home. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman living in camp near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See 33965 and general caption no. 21

Woman living in camp near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See 33...

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

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, worki...

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

Mexican woman preparing spinach. San Antonio, Texas. The spinach was a part of her relief commodities

Mexican woman preparing spinach. San Antonio, Texas. The spinach was a...

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

Blind Mexican woman. Crystal City, Texas

Blind Mexican woman. Crystal City, Texas

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

Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. 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

Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the sc...

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...

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

Uni. of Women's Clubs. Amer(?) Amic.(?) of University Women

Uni. of Women's Clubs. Amer(?) Amic.(?) of University Women

A group of people sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...

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

A man sitting on a bench next to a car, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A man sitting on a bench next to a car, Minnesota. Farm Security Admin...

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

Negro women cleaning up damaged bales of cotton. Compress, Houston, Texas

Negro women cleaning up damaged bales of cotton. Compress, Houston, Te...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Explaining the REA program to farm women, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa

Explaining the REA program to farm women, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, ...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts. Son [is] Second L[ieutenan]t, Son-in-law, Capt[ain] in Army

War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 ...

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

MRS. ROOSEVELT HONORED AT BREAKFAST BY CONGRESSIONAL CLUB. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 12. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, SHOWN HERE WITH MRS. EDWARD R. BURKE, WIFE OF THE SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA, WAS THIS MORNING HONORED AT THE CONGRESSIONAL CLUB'S ANNUAL BREAKFAST. THE CONGRESSIONAL CLUB IS COMPOSED OF WIVES OF WASHINGTON OFFICIALS IN THE CONGRESS, SUPREME COURT AND EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. REINO LUOMA, YOUNG FINNISH-AMERICAN PIANIST, WAS SELECTED AS MUSICIAN FOR THE FUNCTION. MRS. BURKE IS PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CLUB

MRS. ROOSEVELT HONORED AT BREAKFAST BY CONGRESSIONAL CLUB. WASHINGTON,...

A black and white photo of two women sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. M.E. Chappell with her daughter, Sybil Lee, being given typhoid anti-toxin by Dr. F.A. Williams, director of East Carroll Parish health unit, assisted by Miss Lucy Akin, community nurse, in the project school clinic. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

Mrs. M.E. Chappell with her daughter, Sybil Lee, being given typhoid a...

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

Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of Ordnance, U.S. Army, and head of the Design Division of the U.S. War Department, is now touring Ministry of Suply munition factories. General Barnes talking to Mrs. Martha Haddon, now working in a gun factory, and formerly a housewife. On General Barnes' left is Mr. H.E. Harris, the Deputy Director General of Ordnance Factories. In between the General and Mr. Haddon, is the factory superintendent

Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Disembarking South Steyne, Sydney, 1940 / attributed to Dennis Rowe

Disembarking South Steyne, Sydney, 1940 / attributed to Dennis Rowe

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 845476 ( http://845476 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collect... More

Miss Speed's wedding, Major Prendergast

Miss Speed's wedding, Major Prendergast

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American women plastering an adobe house, Chamisal, New Mexico

Spanish-American women plastering an adobe house, Chamisal, New Mexico

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

Woman and her child living in a slum house in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a steelworker

Woman and her child living in a slum house in Bridgewater, Pennsylvani...

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

Spanish-American woman washing in irrigation ditch, Chamisal, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman washing in irrigation ditch, Chamisal, New Mexi...

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

A black and white photo of an old woman, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of an old woman, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

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

Mrs. D'Acchiloi, Italian market gardener, near Johnston, Rhode Island

Mrs. D'Acchiloi, Italian market gardener, near Johnston, Rhode Island

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish-American woman hanging up meat to dry, Chamisal, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman hanging up meat to dry, Chamisal, New Mexico

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

Mrs. Ruth Lina, home management supervisor, helping some of the project women can milk. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

Mrs. Ruth Lina, home management supervisor, helping some of the projec...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt with Diana Hopkins. South entrance of White House Easter. Monday egg rolling

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of...

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

Mountain woman riding to town up Frozen Creek, near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Mountain woman riding to town up Frozen Creek, near Jackson, Breathitt...

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

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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

Two of the Reitz children putting the finishing touches on "lamb cake" made by Mrs. Reitz for sale at the Tri County Farmers Co-op Market, at Du Bois, Pennsylvania. On the Reitz farm near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania

Two of the Reitz children putting the finishing touches on "lamb cake"...

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

A black and white photo of a woman holding a cup, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman holding a cup, Great Depression. FS...

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

Farm woman was working in fields along Route 79, just outside Ithaca, New York

Farm woman was working in fields along Route 79, just outside Ithaca, ...

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

Woman of Spanish extraction putting up dried meat with other produce of the farm. Concho, Arizona

Woman of Spanish extraction putting up dried meat with other produce o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Mary Amerson at the home of Reverend Bell, Boyd, Alabama]

[Mary Amerson at the home of Reverend Bell, Boyd, Alabama]

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. No print found. Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicians in the Lomax Collection.

Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by women who work at the Navy shipyards. Bremerton, Washington

Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by wom...

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

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

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Informa...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Moscow, USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). A worker in one of Moscow's factories, where thousands of women have replaced men on machines of all kinds

Moscow, USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). A worker in one of...

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

Woman who lives with her family in the upper part of tobacco barn, gathering coal. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman who lives with her family in the upper part of tobacco barn, gat...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Helene Kirsova, ballerina, ca. 1941 / photographer Bitter-Jeppesen Studios, Melbourne

Helene Kirsova, ballerina, ca. 1941 / photographer Bitter-Jeppesen Stu...

Notes: Danish ballerina Helene Kirsova first came to Australia with the famous Ballet Russe in 1936. They played in capital cities for months and Australians were enthralled with modern classical ballet. On her... More

Scene in one of the basements of a Brooklyn apartment house with a squad of women volunteers at work on tin can salvage, organized by a Brooklyn housewife in the interest of the national war effort

Scene in one of the basements of a Brooklyn apartment house with a squ...

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

Washington, D.C. Audience of wives watching their husbands play amateur baseball on a diamond near Lincoln Memorial on Sunday. Woman in the rear left is keeping score

Washington, D.C. Audience of wives watching their husbands play amateu...

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

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Third officer Ina Mae McFadden of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp was one of the first tenants to move into the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro war workers in Washington, D.C. Lieutenant McFadden, a native of Saint Louis, Missouri is stationed in Washington as a recruitment officer for the Third Service Command

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Third officer Ina Mae Mc...

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

"Even a little can help a lot - now"--Buy U.S. war stamps, bonds / A. Parker.

"Even a little can help a lot - now"--Buy U.S. war stamps, bonds / A. ...

Woman and girl pasting U.S. war stamps in books. Public domain photograph of stamp object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida w...

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

Washington (Southwest section), D.C. Negro woman in her bedroom

Washington (Southwest section), D.C. Negro woman in her bedroom

Photograph shows reflection of African American woman in mirror in bedroom with portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the wall. Corresponding negative no. LC-USW3-11047C. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Libr... More

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A group of North American's women employees at Inglewood, California, discuss a coming sports event with Bonnie Edlund, women's activities director. 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. A group of North American's...

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

Southington, Connecticut. Women making clothing for soldiers and for the Allied relief work

Southington, Connecticut. Women making clothing for soldiers and for t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alta Spotts, from Nora Springs, Iowa, is a junior in horticulture at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Alta Spotts, from Nora Springs, Iowa, is a junior in horticulture at I...

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

Women aircraft workers. In a West Coast aircraft plant, this young woman is trimming material for the bullet proofing of gas tanks. The material is developed from pure latex, is highly gasoline solvent and seals bullet holes

Women aircraft workers. In a West Coast aircraft plant, this young wom...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women operate plant tractors that pull trailer loads of supplies and parts through the Inglewood, California, shops of North American Aviation. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women operate plant tractor...

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

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, becomes the home for WAVES in training. Here, midshipmen take on heavy schedule to learn the duties of an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Chow! The girls eat "twice as much" as in civilian life. But they keep too busy to take on weight

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Smith College, Northam...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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. A woman employee operates a...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Men and women work together in every department at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. In the engineering department, two employees discuss a drawing of a new plane part. 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. Men and women work together...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women guerrilla fighters in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Women guerrilla fighters in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republ...

Public domain photograph related to Russia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jewett City, Connecticut (vicinity). Daughter of Estonian farmer

Jewett City, Connecticut (vicinity). Daughter of Estonian farmer

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

Women workers at quartermaster depot. Clothing for America's expanding army is being made by garment workers throughout the contry. This quartermaster corps depot employee is turning out regulation neckties in mass production quantity. Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps

Women workers at quartermaster depot. Clothing for America's expanding...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The grim realities of war are brought home to this twenty-one-year-old worker in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which now makes gas masks. It's her job to wire and tape the outlet valves of the masks, which are delivered to her by a moving conveyor belt. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The grim realities of war are ...

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

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. American women of many racial groups are furnishing manpower for war production. This Negro girl is a machine operator in the aircraft factory of an Eastern navy yard. She is turning out small parts for assembly in another part of the plant

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. American women of many racial group...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at 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. Women become skilled shop te...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Training in marksmanship helps girls at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, develop into responsible women. Part of Victory Corps activities there, rifle practice encourages girls to be accurate in handling firearms

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Training in marksmansh...

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shif...

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

Production. B-25 bomber. Terminals are attached to the panel of an electrical junction box for a B-25 bomber. Part of the complicated electrical wiring system centers in this box. The Western plant in which this warship of the air is built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bomber. Terminals are attached to the panel of an ele...

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

Epping, North Dakota. Coffee and pie served by ladies of the WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union) after meeting held in the high school to promote sale of defense stamps and bonds

Epping, North Dakota. Coffee and pie served by ladies of the WCTU (Wom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Violet Storey, "take-away," brought her sewing along to make full use of her lunch hour. She is a farmer's wife and the mother of six children

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

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

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

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

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

Beaumont, Texas. Women workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Women workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Woman employed in the machine shop at the Greyhound garage

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Woman employed in the machine shop at the Gr...

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

Glen Echo, Maryland. Woman and her grandchild at the amusement park

Glen Echo, Maryland. Woman and her grandchild at the amusement park

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

Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loading plant, artillery shells soon to batter the Axis are sprayed with olive drab paint. This women is a sprayer, but women also do the "puddling" of TNT in shells better than men. For "puddling," the stirring and packing of TNT in shells, is done much as a housewife prepares dough for cake. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Women streetcar and bus operators Hattie B. Sheehan and Frances Lewis talking to Superintendent Henshaw of the Capitol Transit Company

Washington, D.C. Women streetcar and bus operators Hattie B. Sheehan a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Greyhound driver helping woman with her bag. From a nearby farm, she flagged the bus on the highway

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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

Orange, Texas. Woman who works in the shipyards calling for her daughter at the nursery school

Orange, Texas. Woman who works in the shipyards calling for her daught...

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

Washington, D.C. With "Victory through good health" as a slogan, Negro schools held a show at the Uline arena stressing the importance of physical education programs. Women of Howard University in a Swedish calisthenics drill

Washington, D.C. With "Victory through good health" as a slogan, Negro...

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

[Woman playing softball with other members of Othello production, Central Park, New York City]

[Woman playing softball with other members of Othello production, Cent...

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Marian Anderson shaking hands with woman at ceremony for the dedication of a mural commemorating Anderson's 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington D.C.]

[Marian Anderson shaking hands with woman at ceremony for the dedicati...

Photographed by Roger Smith for the U.S. Office of War Information. No. 55754 C.

Daytona Beach, Florida. Woman who says she is 104 years old

Daytona Beach, Florida. Woman who says she is 104 years old

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

Safe clothes for women war workers. Looking over the job application blank, Eunice herself gets the once-over from guards at the Bendix Aviation Plant. She may be qualified for a job, but she'll have to change her style of dressing when she's hired. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York

Safe clothes for women war workers. Looking over the job application b...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Washing windshield section prior to spotweld. A woman worker at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. is pictured here washing the windshield section of the "Vengeance" dive bomber prior to spotwelding. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) 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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Washing windshield sectio...

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Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. A woman looking out her door to see what the excitement is in the next apartment, where a fire was being extinguished by firemen

Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. A woman looking out her door...

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

Reading, Pennsylvania. Women workers on the railroad

Reading, Pennsylvania. Women workers on the railroad

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A woman welder working on the sub-assembly of shell frames

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A woman welder wor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

California shipyard workers. This woman worker pushes back her helmet during a moment's pause from her welding job at the Richmond shipyard in California

California shipyard workers. This woman worker pushes back her helmet ...

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

HIE / Anefo Londen serie - Nederlandse militaire foto

HIE / Anefo Londen serie - Nederlandse militaire foto

Nederlands meisje dat dienst doet bij de Wrens (Engels vrouwelijk marine hulpkorps)

Celebrating in Swanston Street, Melbourne

Celebrating in Swanston Street, Melbourne

Id number: 181808.Date: 15 August 1945.During celebrations in the city for VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, an enthusiastic digger is at the front of the crowd lining Swanston Street, waving flags amid streamers. A... More

Interior of Angus & Robertson booksellers, Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 1946 / photographer Bradford Pty Ltd

Interior of Angus & Robertson booksellers, Castlereagh Street, Sydney,...

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photographic collection: 117783 ( http://117783 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) . .From th... More

Woman to brighten drab rail travel / World Telegram & Sun photograph by C.M. Stieglitz.

Woman to brighten drab rail travel / World Telegram & Sun photograph b...

Mrs. Dorothy Draper, half-length portrait, standing behind chair, facing front.

Mrs Mitchell and child, Rimu Street / James Walter Chapman-Taylor collection

Mrs Mitchell and child, Rimu Street / James Walter Chapman-Taylor coll...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richard Nixon stands at a podium with his wife Pat to give an acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Both wave their arms

Richard Nixon stands at a podium with his wife Pat to give an acceptan...

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Simpromotion vid Villagatsbadet. Flickorna i baddräkt är, från vänster, Kerstin Åberg och Monica Westerman. De har lagerkransar i håret. I förgrunden står ett bord med priser; pokaler och diplom. I bakgrunden sitter publiken.

Simpromotion vid Villagatsbadet. Flickorna i baddräkt är, från vänster...

Simpromotion vid Villagatsbadet. Flickorna i baddräkt är, från vänster, Kerstin Åberg och Monica Westerman. De har lagerkransar i håret. I förgrunden står ett bord med priser; pokaler och diplom. I bakgrunden s... More

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