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Office of War Information
In Rainier National Park, Washington
ca. 1945
Madelon O'Leary operates a punch press in a well-cut, one-piece coverall
Photograph
Office of War Information
Madelon O'Leary operates a punch press in a well-cut, one-piece coverall
ca. 1944
Radio Nurse Takes Nurse's Holiday
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Wide World Photos
Radio Nurse Takes Nurse's Holiday
March 1943
Frozen Food for the Fighting Forces. Mildred Harris shows how six baskets of beets, weighing 300 pounds, have been concentrated in 17-pound tin by dehydration. This shipping of food compactly saves space and adds to the quantity of supplies which can be sent in one shipment.
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Unidentified
Frozen Food for the Fighting Forces. Mildred Harris shows how six baskets of beets, weighing 300 pounds, have been concentrated in 17-pound tin by dehydration. This shipping of food compactly saves space and adds to the quantity of supplies which can be sent in one shipment.
1943
Washington Public Schools Go To War
Photograph
Roger Smith
Washington Public Schools Go To War
1943
OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital
Photograph
Roger Smith
OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital
April 1943
OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital
Photograph
Roger Smith
OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital
April 1943
Women In Essential Services. Member of the Oakland, Calif. Women's Safety Traffic Reserve, Mrs. E.K. Sabel helps relieve the shortage of traffic policeman by guarding school zones.
Photograph
Office of War Information
Women In Essential Services. Member of the Oakland, Calif. Women's Safety Traffic Reserve, Mrs. E.K. Sabel helps relieve the shortage of traffic policeman by guarding school zones.
March 1943
Victory Gardens—For Family and Country. There’s no age limit when Americans get down to the business of preparing for a Victory Garden. These youngsters are carefully selecting seeds for the vegetables they’ll grow this summer: carrots, beets, tomatoes, squash. The estimable spinach will no doubt be left upon the dealer’s shelves
Photograph
Ann Rosener
Victory Gardens—For Family and Country. There’s no age limit when Americans get down to the business of preparing for a Victory Garden. These youngsters are carefully selecting seeds for the vegetables they’ll grow this summer: carrots, beets, tomatoes, squash. The estimable spinach will no doubt be left upon the dealer’s shelves
February 1943
Victory Gardens - For Family and Country
Photograph
Ann Rosener
Victory Gardens - For Family and Country
February 1943
Transportation: Lend Lease Shipments. Coils of copper wire, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them, together with other vital necessities, to one of our allies.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Transportation: Lend Lease Shipments. Coils of copper wire, part of a lend-lease shipment, move from a pier to a United Nations freighter that will carry them, together with other vital necessities, to one of our allies.
February 1943
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. Scrap pile being sorted at Vultee's Downey, Calif. plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
1942-43
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. A midget and a woman worker install control wires on a "Valiant" basic trainer. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Production: BT-13A ("Valiant") Basic Trainers. A midget and a woman worker install control wires on a "Valiant" basic trainer. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer - a fast sturdy ship powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine.
1942-43
Lunch time
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Lunch time
February 1943
She'd pass for a choir singer
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
She'd pass for a choir singer
February 1943
Preparation for Point Rationing: With Official Table of Point Values for Processed Foods prominently posted, a shopper awaits wrapping of her purchases while clerk removes point stamps from War Ration Book Two.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Preparation for Point Rationing: With Official Table of Point Values for Processed Foods prominently posted, a shopper awaits wrapping of her purchases while clerk removes point stamps from War Ration Book Two.
February 1943
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Reclaimed household greases from America's kitchens drain into an open vat at a rendering plant. Some of the batches are recooked with additional fats to bring them up to certain specific grades.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Reclaimed household greases from America's kitchens drain into an open vat at a rendering plant. Some of the batches are recooked with additional fats to bring them up to certain specific grades.
February 1943
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Cracklings discharged by an expeller at a fat rendering plant. These cracklings consist of meat, bones and some fats, and are used as animal food.
Photograph
Alfred T. Palmer
Conservation: Rendering of Household Fats. Cracklings discharged by an expeller at a fat rendering plant. These cracklings consist of meat, bones and some fats, and are used as animal food.
February 1943
[A man dozes in his chair with the refrigerator door open]
Photograph
Office of War Information
[A man dozes in his chair with the refrigerator door open]
June 1942
[Man sitting on sacks of cane sugar]
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Unidentified
[Man sitting on sacks of cane sugar]
June 1, 1942
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Photograph
Unidentified
War Nursery Schools. Woonsocket, Rhode Island - This young lady's mother works in a war plant. The youngster passes twelve hours a day from Monday through Saturday in one of the 35 War Nurseries conducted for war workers children.
1942-43
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Photograph
Office of War Information
War Nursery Schools
1942-43
Second step in using this glass-top home canning cover
Photograph
Unidentified
Second step in using this glass-top home canning cover
ca. 1942
The Latest In Eye Shields - For Desert Warfare
Photograph
Office of War Information
The Latest In Eye Shields - For Desert Warfare
March 1943
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