NPG-NPG 2008 31 (cropped)
Amanda Berry Smith, 23 Jan 1837 - 24 Feb 1915
The skin is applied to the frame of a tank for a B-25 bomber 8d42825v
Title: The skin is applied to the frame of a tank for a B-25 bomber. Women can be found in every department at North American Aviation, working together and with men. Next year approximately eighty percent of e... More
NPG-S-NPG 2007 113 (cropped)
Margaret "Daisy" Sutermeister, 1875 - 1950
Self-sealing fuel tanks. 8b01934v
Title: Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men... More
Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Wom...
Title: Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Women's Volunteer Service unit at Glendale, California does a good turn for Corporal Hugh B. Helm of Lexington, Kentucky. Members of the... More
Conversion. Safety razor plant. 8e10920v
Title: Conversion. Safety razor plant. Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor factory's many women workers, checks completed V-blocks with blueprint specification. Because of their previous training, readi... More
Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers 8d39713v
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Elizabeth Esty and Florence Drouin, "pond women," pulling up logs towed i... More
Untitled photo, possibly related to In the fishing village of Puerto R...
Title: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching a... More
Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industr...
Title: Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industry. This North American employee assembles stringers in the sheet metal sub-assembly department Creator(s): Palmer, Alfred T., photogr... More
Women workers at quartermaster depot. 8b03048v
Title: Women workers at quartermaster depot. The nimble fingers of many American women are now contributing to the war effort in various quartermaster corps depots. This elderly woman is handstitching sleeves ... More
Mary Louise Booth
Mary Louise Booth, 19 Apr 1831 - 5 Mar 1889
Civilian protection. 8b00951v
Title: Civilian protection. There are many responsible jobs for women volunteers in air raid protection work and other branches of the civilian defense organization. Many women are serving as members of the dr... More
Production. Airplane manufacture, general. 8b05137v
Title: Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The fabric department at Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation is the only department that had women employees before the war. Here, women se... More
Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers 8d31545v
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. As a conveyor carries the trimmed boards down past the pit, Norma Webber and R... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02903v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, women of a large West Coast aircraft factory are speeding the installation of electrical units contolling the engine. The leadman, cen... More
Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" 8b08261v
Title: 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 t... More
After green peas are picked, they're not shipped hit or miss to the re...
Title: After green peas are picked, they're not shipped hit or miss to the retail stores. They must be sorted and graded before they are packed for shipment; and that's what these two young women are doing. Cl... More
Answering call for volunteer nurses aides
From the Picryl (Library of Congress) source: "Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Miss Thelma Harris, instructor of volunteer nurses aides at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., gives Miss Maxine Ja... More
Untitled photo, possibly related to Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garre...
Title: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garrett's place, Negro tenant of Mr. Fred Wilkins. White women don't go to Negro shucking to help with the cooking but white men are fed... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02904v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, women of a large West Coast aircraft factory are speeding the installation of electrical units controlling the engine. In this, as in ... More
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Myrdal 8d03292v
Title: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Myrdal, Swedish lecturer, president of the Swedish Women's Business and Professional League and vice-president of the International Women's Business and Professional League. ... More
Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator; Miss Elise Davison, 8b...
Title: Left to right: Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator; Miss Elise Davison, Assistant Director in Charge of Volunteer Activities, Women's Division, Office of Civilian Defense; Mrs. Roosevelt, Ass... More
War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. 8b06274v
Title: War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Seven of the twelve members of the Women's Advisory Committee, WMC, are shown at a meeting in Washington, D.C., March 18, 1943. Reading from left to r... More
Women workers at quartermaster corps. 8b03049v
Title: Women workers at quartermaster corps. Women workers of all racial groups are being drawn into war production. These employees of an Eastern quartermaster corps depot are sewing sleeves into army overcoa... More
Farm women at the women's extension club meeting. 8b25202v
Title: Farm women at the women's extension club meeting. This women's meeting is held while the men meet at the Farm Bureau. Pie Town, New Mexico Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer Date Created/P... More
Miss Margaret A. Hickey, 8b06273v
Title: War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Miss Margaret A. Hickey, chairman of the Women's Advisory Committee, War Manpower Commission (WMC). As chairman of this committee, Miss Hickey, who is... More
Rags. Collection and processing. 8b01625v
Title: Rags. Collection and processing. A portion of the sorting room in a large Eastern rag processing plant. In this room new rag remnants, consisting chiefly of cuttings received from clothing factories, ar... More
Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American w...
Title: Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American women through stores, pattern companies, and radio show how to assemble a pattern as Cynthia is doing. As they did in the last war, th... More
Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers 8d31532v
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Ruth DeRoche and Norma Webber, eighteen year old "pit-women," relaxing after lun... More
Women at the Matate, Moki pueblos 17902v
Title: Women at the Matate, Moki pueblos Creator(s): Detroit Photographic Co., Date Created/Published: [between 1898 and 1905] Medium: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-p... More
Production. Shell loading. These girls are "staking" fuses 8b08266v
Title: Production. Shell loading. These girls are "staking" fuses in the assembly of artillery shells in a large Midwest loading plant. In the manufacture and loading of percussion caps--an operation performed... More
Transformer manufacture 8b02097v
Title: Transformer manufacture. Preparation of insulating board used between copper coils on distribution transformers is done by women employees of a large Eastern electrical company. These young women are ex... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02897v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their production records in a West Coast airplane factory. Feminine operators of tapping machines in this plant have made 400 more tapping ... More
Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission 8b07009v
Title: Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. First meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission held on October 1, 1942. The committee is to aid in mobilizing women... More
Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. 8b07030v
Title: Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. At the first meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission on October 1, 1942, three members get acquainted. They are, l... More
NPG 97 211 Didrikson (cropped)
"Babe" Didrikson
Correio da Manhã AN 421 (cropped)
Português: Fotografia do Fundo Correio da Manhã, sob a guarda do Arquivo Nacional.
Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. 8d39813v
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Elizabeth Esty and Florence Drouin, pond women, use regular logging pikes... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02918v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber... More
Family in tent from Georgia with neighbor's child, 8c14460v
Title: Family in tent from Georgia with neighbor's child, eight or ten men, two women, two children stay here permanently. Men sleep in shifts as construction workers. Women going to take in two neighbors' chil... More
Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers 8d39698v
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Florence Drouin and Mrs. Elizabeth Esty, pond women, use regular logging pikes... More
Production. Shell loading. 8b08259v
Title: Production. Shell loading. Every shell that goes through a large Midwest loading plant must be thoroughly cleaned. These women are removing excess paint from the bands that circle the projectiles. Women... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02907v
Title: Women aircraft workers. An attractive brunette performs a job vital to Uncle Sam's victory push. She's one of the hundreds of women employed by a West Coast aircraft plant, pictured at work on a complex... More
Production. Airplane manufacture, general. 8b05165v
Title: Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Mrs. Lewis, women's counselor at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, discusses a problem with an employee. Women employees are free to... More
Production. Airplane manufacture, general. 8b05166v
Title: 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... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02899v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Women work on both sides of the counter at this West Coast aircraft factory. A drill press operator here swaps a tool check for a drill which is given to her by one of the tool c... More
NPG 97 211 Didrikson (cropped 1)
"Babe" Didrikson
Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, 8d398...
Title: Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents e... More
Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American w...
Title: Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American women through stores, pattern companies, and radio show how to assemble a pattern as Cynthia is doing. As they did in the last war, th... More
NPG 98 62 Moran cropped
Gussie Moran
In the fishing village of Puerto Real, 8a38176v
Title: In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching are being done for a firm in Mayaguez a... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02910v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Uncle Sam's fighting men can thank the girls they left behind for the great job they're doing on America's production line. These two young women are working on the control colum... More
Women picking carrots. 8a10044v
Title: Women picking carrots. These women come from the Italian section of Philadelphia to work on the large truck farms in Camden County, New Jersey Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer Date ... More
Conductor Ray Tutle, veteran conductor, instructing women trainmen 8d3...
Title: Conductor Ray Tutle, veteran conductor, instructing women trainmen, a group of the first women employed by the Long Island Railroad to replace trainmen now serving in the nation's armed forces Date Creat... More
Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, 8d398...
Title: Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents e... More
The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. 8b08605v
Title: The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the United Nations attend a garden party of the United Nations Club at Dumbarton Oaks, Sunday, September 6, 1942. Left to right: Colonel... More
Transformer manufacture. 8b02098v
Title: Transformer manufacture. Preparation of insulating board used between copper coils on distribution transformers is done by women employees of a large Eastern electrical company. These young women are ex... More
Untitled photo possibly related to In the fishing village of Puerto Re...
Title: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching a... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02924v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are working on an electrical control panel Creator(s): Bransby, David, photographer Related... More
Women who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room 8c22779v
Title: Women who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room for women at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) duration dormitories. Bremerton, Washington Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographe... More
Dorothy C. Fisher (cropped)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Food in England. Smiling with health, 8b08505v
Title: Food in England. Smiling with health, this former London dressmaker who joined the Women's Land Army in Britain claims she won't go back to dressmaking. More than 100,000 women this year will be enliste... More
To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total...
Title: To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total national defense, a call has been issued for 50,000 well qualified young women to enroll in the nation's schools of nursing this ye... More
Untitled perhaps fishing village of Puerto Real 8a38175v
Title: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching a... More
Washing locomotives is an old business, but it is a new thing to see w...
Title: Washing locomotives is an old business, but it is a new thing to see women doing the work. This crew of women engine cleaners on the Pennsylvania Railroad is taking the place of men called into the armed... More
Women aircraft workers 8b02927v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are woking on an electrical panel Creator(s): Bransby, David, photographer Related Names: ... More
Government hotel for Negro women war workers. 8b04986v
Title: Government hotel for Negro women war workers. A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first governme... More
Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. 8b06377v
Title: Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Burring landing gear housing. Two women workers are shown on the job at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. burring landing gear housings for "Ven... More
Urkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. An employee of a U.S. Departm...
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. An employee of a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill which employs women for most of the work. Lumbering used to be stictly a man's world. Old ... More
Self-sealing fuel tanks. 8b01923v
Title: Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men d... More
To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses 8b01066v
Title: To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total national defense, a call has been issued for 50,000 well qualified young women to enroll in the nation's schools of nursing this ye... More
Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers 8d39680v
Title: Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Elizabeth Esty, left, and Florence Drouin, pond women; use regular loggin... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02895v
Title: Women aircraft workers. Women man America's machines in a West Coast airplane factory, where the swing shift of drill press operators is composed almost entirely of women Creator(s): Bransby, David, pho... More
Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift 8b0...
Title: Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift at the Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. These women are employed in the manufacture of eight-man pyramidial tents t... More
Minnie Warren, born Huldah Pierce Warren Bump in the 1860s - NPG 81 M1...
Minnie Warren, 1842 - 1878
Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Wom...
Title: Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Women's Volunteer Service unit at Glendale, California does a good turn for Corporal Hugh B. Helm of Lexington, Kentucky. Members of the... More
Government hotel for Negro women war workers. 8b07816v
Title: 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,... More
Government hotel for Negro women war workers. 8b07817v
Title: Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Administrative staff members of the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro women war workers in Washingto... More
Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery 8d3162...
Title: Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state(?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents fo... More
Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the S...
Title: Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the Saint Louis, Missouri plant of the Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The male inspector in the rear checks the accu... More
The first meeting of the women's policy committee of War Manpower Comm...
Title: The first meeting of the women's policy committee of War Manpower Commission (WMC) on Oct. 1, 1942. Thre members get acquainted. Left to right: Maudell Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman, and Sue S... More
Women aircraft workers. 8b02905v
Title: Women aircraft workers. The epitone of determination and industry is personified in these two women employees of a large West Coast airplane factory. Down underneath a giant bomber, a woman electrician ... More
White and Negro women employed at the canning plant in Dania, Florida ...
Title: White and Negro women employed at the canning plant in Dania, Florida. Many of the women are migrants and live in nearby camps Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer Date Created/Publishe... More