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Miner at end of day's work. Mogollon, New Mexico

Miner at end of day's work. Mogollon, New Mexico

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During the harvest season the field hands work from sunrise to sunset. Digging potatoes on the Woodman Potato Company farm eleven miles north of Caribou, Maine

During the harvest season the field hands work from sunrise to sunset....

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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 Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school supervisor with her young charges at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona

WPA (Work Projects Administration) nursery school supervisor with her ...

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Review Section in Machine Tabulation Division, All Work is Checked before Transfer to Subject Divisions

Review Section in Machine Tabulation Division, All Work is Checked bef...

Photographs Documenting the Sixteenth Decennial Census Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Electric plant, in his trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Ele...

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Team of work horses. Scottsbluff Farmsteads, FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. Nebraska

Team of work horses. Scottsbluff Farmsteads, FSA (Farm Security Admini...

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Men going to work in a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Men going to work in a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts

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WPA (Work Projects Administration) teacher at the nursery school puts on bibs of her charges at the FSA (Farm Security Adminisrtation) family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington

WPA (Work Projects Administration) teacher at the nursery school puts ...

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Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Ready to go is the huge 15 x 30 foot Arsenal of Democracy montage deseigned by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, for exhibition at the National and Civilian Defense Exposition in New York and in many other cities throughout the country. The panel is divided into 2 1/2 foot squares. The artist seems pleased with his work, which is only the second time this particular montage technique has been used. Behind him are figures from the Four Freedoms panel, which equal in size to the Arsenal of Democracy. Both panels were prepared for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM)

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Ready to go is the hug...

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

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Men going to work at the mill. Lawrence, Massachusetts

Men going to work at the mill. Lawrence, Massachusetts

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The spacious, open planning of the defense trailer camp affords youngsters pleant of room for playing in the sun and fresh air. In the background can be seen a smokestack of the General Electric Company, which employs some 10,000 men in defense work

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The spacious, open planning of th...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men whose hands are fashioning powerful new additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly expanding naval forces. A few miles away at the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, other thousands are also coming off their shifts. This scene is typical of dozens of shipyards throughout the nation. Shipyard workers have a lot to smile about, for invariably they have done their work so well and efficiently that production is ahead of schedule

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men who...

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

Decorated for gallantry in action. Private Bukaro Frafra, Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, who has been awarded the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in the East African campaign. In April, 1941, as a member of a patrol sent out to find its way over a ravine and across a tank trap, he work his Bren gun forward to within fifty yards of the tank trap, inflicting seven casualties on an enemy party working beyond it. On April 1941, under very heavy fire, he was wounded but refused to give in. He stuck to his gun until it was knocked out of action and he was wounded a second time. He is one of the first three African soldiers to receive the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal

Decorated for gallantry in action. Private Bukaro Frafra, Gold Coast R...

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Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two on the upper. The whole shack is made so that it can be loaded onto a truck, has no floor all. At present the men work at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Four men live in this small shack. Two sleep on the lower cot and two ...

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Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn out for drill. These two groups make up the personnel of stretcher bearers, first aid squads, casualty clearance stations, and first aid posts. Both are also assigned to hospital work in a rigorous course of training and hospital experience which is necessary to become members of their groups

Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn ou...

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In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. The women are shown how to make overgarments

In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) proj...

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.

Civilian protection. A City of New York emergency service truck, fully equipped for rescue work

Civilian protection. A City of New York emergency service truck, fully...

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

Production. 155mm shells. Transferring 155mm shells for finishing work in a converted auto plant. All machining operations on these shells have been completed and they are now on their way to the painting department. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Transferring 155mm shells for finishing work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. He is attending the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm f...

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

Wife of a WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker near Siloam. Greene County, Georgia

Wife of a WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker near Siloam. Green...

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Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly skilled work, seeing to it that the oil refined for our military machines is of the highest quality. This worker is inspecting the solution tower for denaphthizing bright stock

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly ski...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service office to open in the morning, Yakima, Washington

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after a day's work for the De Land pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe with her two-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after...

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G.F. Bailey, scientific aide, at work on carotene test of dehydrated vegetables at the regional agricultural research laboratory. Albany, California

G.F. Bailey, scientific aide, at work on carotene test of dehydrated v...

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"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop of the Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan. He and his seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack helper were recognized by Donald Nelson as the only two-man labor- management war production drive committee in the United States. The two work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, and, unaided, have produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months

"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop ...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at this school, and one that's highly important to the war effort. Young men in the Willow Run bomber plant attend a riveting school before going to work on the assembly lines. These "schoolrooms" are right in the plant proper; classes are held in many types of work. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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.

Production. Aircraft. This Negro worker using a portable electric drill on a YP-38 subassembly in a large Western aircraft plant was trained in a very short time to do fast, accurate work

Production. Aircraft. This Negro worker using a portable electric dril...

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

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder who is training for war work at Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder who is...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy ship, but he's hitting at the Axis just the same. Formerly a Work Projects Administration timekeeper (WPA), this employee of a small Eastern manufacturing firm is now producing small parts for America's war machine, due to the company's subcontract for defense work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy shi...

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

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 with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for work in February, now reads blueprints and is able to proceed with various accessory assemblies for bombers with little supervision from leadmen

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes fo...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Men leaving work at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad shops at the end of a shift

Chicago, Illinois. Men leaving work at the Chicago and Northwestern Ra...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a worker stands ready with his iron ladle to transport molten glass from the furnace to the machine that forms it into glass marbles from which it is converted into glass fibers. As one of the men behind the men behind the guns, his work is an essential step in the production of fiberglass yarns being used in a wide variety of military and naval applications

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In a plant of the...

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.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Each day's work is surveyed and plotted on a chart by the mine engineers

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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.

The Friends sleeping as best they can. En route from Richwood, West Virginia to Batavia, New York to work in the harvest

The Friends sleeping as best they can. En route from Richwood, West Vi...

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Childersburg, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Peek of Georgia take it easy after the day's work in front of the trailer they bought for thirteen hundred dollars just to have a place to live

Childersburg, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Peek of Georgia take it easy after...

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

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottles with rubber diaphrams and aluminum closures at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Scrap metal and rubber help provide critical materials needed for this important work

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottl...

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Ontario, Oregon (vicinity). Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans who were evacuated from coastal area and now work for a local farmer

Ontario, Oregon (vicinity). Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans who were e...

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

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Drillers at work

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority...

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.

Richwood, West Virginia. A family talking over the prospects of work with the United States employment service

Richwood, West Virginia. A family talking over the prospects of work w...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. The day's work is done at logging camp

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. The day's work is done ...

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, Carr's repair plant in De Land, Florida, is now subcontracting on war production. When De Land organized its machines and manpower into a community pool to handle war work, it was discovered Carr's had two things: first class machinery that would work tolerances down to a split hair and first class machinists. Now, much of the precision work on the pool's contract is handled in his plant

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, ...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Clara, California. Rather than distributing food to the needy of the community during the fiesta of the Holy Ghost, proceeds from the auction are used for this work. It is not unusual for a single egg or lemon to sell at auction for one dollar

Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Cla...

Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Home machine shop owner working for defense

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shop...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Assembling rubber closures for blood transfusion bottles. Nancy Synnestvedt (left), and Marjorie Holms, mother of a two-year-old child, are just a few of the many women performing vital war work at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Assembling rubber closures for ...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women...

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

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Night shift at work on the barges

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Night shift at work on...

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The stories they've told! Another load of RKO Radio typewriters is turned in to the government for war work. Somewhere in the lot is Maureen O'Harra's personal typewriter which she added to the pile before she would pose in the picture. The machines come from the script department where each one has played its role in recording countless memorable senes for screenplays. Taking time off between the shooting of scenes at the RKO Studios in Hollywood, Miss O'Harra helped collect more than seventy typewriters for future use by the Army, Navy, and Marines

The stories they've told! Another load of RKO Radio typewriters is tur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. From there they were hired as a group by a local white farmer. They will be allowed to remain on this farm for the duration of the war. When such an arrangement is made the U.S. Employment Service must inspect and approve housing facilities and wage standards

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Welders at work on a tank being made from salvaged material at the Mid-continent refinery

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Welders at work on a tank being made from salvaged ma...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of aircraft engines are bent on this horizontal bulldozer which was formerly used to bend rails for merry-go-rounds to delight the hearts of carefree children. It was thought impossible to convert the machine for this use, but a little thinking and ingenuity solved the problem. The slack was taken out of the bulldozer and it was found to work quite satisfactory as an aid to bending the heavy hooks into shape. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of ai...

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

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Tw...

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

Inglewood, California. Employees at North American Aviation, Inc., returning to their work after lunch

Inglewood, California. Employees at North American Aviation, Inc., ret...

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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

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santurce, Puerto Rico. These umbrellas were carried to work by women who are employed by the Rodriguez needlework factory

Santurce, Puerto Rico. These umbrellas were carried to work by women w...

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Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, comprehensive clerical work is carried on between maneuvers. Unless those typewriters not essential to the war effort are turned in by civilians to Uncle Sam, the shortage of sufficient machines may materially cripple the speed and facility of army operations

Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, ...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas masks for America's soldiers and civilians. Margaret Reed, left, who used to work in the vacuum brush department, now operates a precrimping machine which attaches eye rings to the mask proper. Note the "V" chalked on her machine. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum ...

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.

Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

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.

San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wait for final evacuation orders

San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wa...

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

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Coal miner at end of the day's work

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Family of Mr. Edward Vaughn living in one of the apartments. Mr. Vaughn is doing work for the War Department

Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Family of Mr. Edward ...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder at work

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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.

Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese dory fishermen alongside the commercial pier after their day's work

Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese dory fishermen alongside the c...

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A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten steel into ingot molds below, Sergeant Vineyard, George Woolslayer and Chief Evans stand in awe of the giant machine which processes steel into armaments. Woolslayer sums it up like this: "We're making the stuff for you to fight with to protect us." Thus America's men and her machines work together for victory. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant Camblair used to work as a lens grind...

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

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Excavation work

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Excavation work

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber, called the Boston by the British, is used by both the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force. It was designed as an attack bomber for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations. Because of the speed and performance abilities of this plane, the British have converted a number for use as night fighters. Some have also been used for reconnaissance work. Armament details vary according to use, light and heavy guns being mounted in varying combinations

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Brushing up. Apprentices study drafting-room technique in classes at an eastern arsenal. Every kind of skill is going into preparation for war work

Brushing up. Apprentices study drafting-room technique in classes at a...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. On their way to work for victory. Each of these cases contains a machine tool bound for some armament or war materials manufacturing plant somewhere in the territory of the United Nations

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. On their way to wor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. Above is a completed shell ejector getting its final testing. The brass bottom of a navy shell is applied on the testing stand, with the spring mechanism which actually ejects the shell getting the primary test. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

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.

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Since the days of early American gunsmiths, our arms manufacturers have taken pride in the quality of their work. Today, a skilled worker in a converted auto plant feels that same pride as he bores a machine gun barrel for Air Corps. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Since the days of early Ame...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied by apprentices in an eastern arsenal. Instructors explain the operation of a radical drill

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lititz (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Boys playing near a billboard. Most of their fathers work in nearby defense plants

Lititz (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Boys playing near a billboard. Most o...

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Chicago, Illinois. Men arriving for work at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Men arriving for work at an Illinois Central Railro...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule nursery beds. This machine mows the seedlings off to a uniform height for ease in digging and packing. The tops are collected in a bin on the machine and disposed of outside of the nursery. The tops are worthless for rubber production. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

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Arlington, Virginia. Auto body work plant

Arlington, Virginia. Auto body work plant

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Inspectors instructed. Student inspectors learn the ins and outs of their trade at an eastern arsenal. The mechanism under discussion is that of a 37 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage, M-3, one of the army being turned out for war work

Inspectors instructed. Student inspectors learn the ins and outs of th...

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San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wait for final evacuation orders

San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wa...

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California shipyard workers. These shipbuilders enjoy a scenic ride to work every day aboard a special ferry going from San Francisco to the giant shipyards across the bay

California shipyard workers. These shipbuilders enjoy a scenic ride to...

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Food in England. The Debnams hoe their sugar beet crop at Essex, England. In spite of their age they put in a full day at farm work to supply their country with needed food

Food in England. The Debnams hoe their sugar beet crop at Essex, Engla...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welders at work on a steel section

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"Putting on the skin" of this rowing shell was the type of work formerly done by a New England boat builder. The company now produces plywood rafts and instrument coverings under navy contracts

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Woodsmen returning to work after lunch on the road

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. W...

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Washington, D.C. High school students who work as nurse's aides at emergency hospital learning to make a bed according to hospital standards

Washington, D.C. High school students who work as nurse's aides at eme...

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Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center. Due to overgrazing and loss of the range title, its inhabitants now work as migratory labor and at subsistence farming

Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American village in the fo...

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Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war, showing the windows of the main lounge

Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a resid...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Mother taking her child home after work

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Arlington, Virigina. A soldier treating his date to a coke in the service shop at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virigina. A soldier treating his date to a coke in the serv...

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Three Japanese-Americans from the Colorado River Relocation Center are being shown their new places of work by Sam Rice, former major league baseball player, owner of a chicken farm near Olney, Maryland. Left to right are William Kobayashi, his wife Betty; Mr. Rice and Giichi Omari

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Buffalo, New York. The wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak, who work at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy. They are of Polish descent. He is temporarily deferred from the Army because of his essential work. They will live with her mother

Buffalo, New York. The wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak,...

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Orange, Texas. In the extended school day program in the public schools, some children of families where both parents are employed, come to school as early as 6 a.m. to enable the parents to get to work. They go back to bed on cots in the school corridor. They they get up and go through the regular school day. After school until the parents call for them, up to 6 p.m., they have a recreation program conducted on a hobby basis. These children are playing after school waiting for their parents to finish work

Orange, Texas. In the extended school day program in the public school...

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