Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator in a war plant. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants. Her daughter, Nan (right) nineteen, who works as a chemical operator at the Niacet Chemical Company is the youngest of eleven children and the only one unmarried. They are washing the supper dishes Creator(

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, (left), a widow of twenty-six with six children under twelve, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Her two youngest children, Carol, five, and Mona, two, live in a foster home during the week. They come home on Sundays. Here, Mrs. Grimm is bringing them back to

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan making cookies. She runs a boardinghouse for girl war workers

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from six to ten girls working in war plants. She is the mother of eleven children, loves people, and feels that this is the best way to contribute to the war effort. Girls pay eight dollars a week, including meals; her daughter Nan pays

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow with six children who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth, having her hair done after work

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow with six children who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth, occasionally has her hair done after work

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow with six children who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth (note the PL on her uniform), makers of castings used for ships, tanks, etc.

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow with six children under twelve, works as a crane operator in a war plant. For work she wears slacks, which can be buttoned around, and safety shoes, which have inner metal plates in toes for protection from falling weights

Mrs. Eva Poovey working with pneumatic tubes 8d30843v

Women in essential services. Mrs. E.K. Sabel and Mrs. J.R. Harris, members of the Women's Safety Traffic Reserve in Oakland, California, are among the many mothers who are keeping the city's accident rate low by guarding school crossings during school hours

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hazel Reed, thirty, employed as a car repairman's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She is repairing a wooden boxcar. Mrs. Reed's husband is in the United States Army

Mrs. Hazel Stokum, thirty-seven, mother of six girls, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad 8d30162v

Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian, employed as a blacksmith's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad 8d30166v

Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian, employed as a blacksmith's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards 8d30167v

Mrs. Mary Ankrom, twenty-eight, mother of six children, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad engine house 8d30153v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jennie Wensel, mother of two children employed as a machinist's helper in the Pennsylvania railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents an hour

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Julia Sabo, thirty-five, mother of three children, employed as a machinist's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She is splicing a reclaimed air brake hose

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lois Micheltree, thirty-six, employed as a laborer at the Pennsylvania Railroad lumber yard, earning fifty-five cents per hour. She helps to load and unload lumber from cars. She has a son in the United States Navy

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lois Micheltree, thirty-six, employed as a laborer at the Pennsylvania Railroad lumber yard, earning fifty-five cents per hour. She helps to load and unload lumber from cars. Mrs. Micheltree has a son in the United States Navy

Mrs. Joan Fertig, Hungarian-born librarian at the Westinghouse plant

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Mary Spangler teaching a boys' class in nutrition at Woodrow Wilson High School

Mrs. Mary Spangler teaching a boys' class in nutrition 8d33698v

Mrs. Mary Spangler, English teacher 8d33619v

Mrs. Mary Spangler, Woodrow Wilson High School 8d41118v

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Mary Spangler, Woodrow Wilson High School teacher, issuing ration books

Mrs. Louis Dreyfus visits a poor section of Teheran, Iran during WWII

Mrs. Louis Dreyfus talking with Iranian girls, Persian Corridor, 1943

Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the U.S. Minister to Iran, talking with native girls, WWII

Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the U.S. Minister to Iran, visiting native inhabitants, WWII

Mrs. Louis Dreyfus

Mrs. Louis Dreyfus visiting native inhabitants Tehran, Iran - original

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse

Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army

Oswego, New York. Mrs. Samuel M.F. Peter, President of the Women's City Club

Baltimore, Maryland. Municipal office building, which is prepared for air raids with sand bags

Mrs. May Watson, thirty-eight, mother of three children, employed as a freight trucker 8d30404v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Naomi Stroke, thirty-nine, mother of five children, employed as a trucker for the Pitcairn transfer, Pennsylvania Railroad, earns sixty-eight cents per hour. Her husband is a coal miner. She is trucking freight

Mrs. Susan Poyce writing switching instructions on a blackboard 8d30862v

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Spangler, a Woodrow Wilson faculty member, filling out a ration book application

War nursery schools. New Haven, Connecticut. Mrs. Theresa De Carlo, worker in a New Haven munitions plant and her daughter Judith, leave for a nursery where Judith will remain until her mother calls for her on her return from work

Musicians preparing for concert at Palermo symphony orchestra for Allied soldiers, September 1943

Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants. 8d16964v

Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants. 8d16966v

Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants.8d16959v

Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants. 8d16973v

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants.

Nan Hannegan doing door to door recruiting for women to work in war plants. 8d16991v

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen-year-old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company, earning thirty-nine dollars a week, corresponds with about twenty-six servicemen. She is engaged to an Army man

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan drying her hair. A chemical operator in a war plant, she must keep her head covered all day, and finds her hair needs washing frequently

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company, earning thity-nine dollars a week, taking a sample of acid from a still. She will put in brine to bring it to a freezing point

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company earning thirty-nine dollars a week, taking readings from dials and thermometers

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan a nineteen year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company, earning thirty-nine dollars a week, taking readings from dials and thermometers

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Nancy Fergusen

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

Buffalo, New York. Naturalized citizens attending "I am an American" day rally at the Memorial Auditorium

Native craftsman using sewing machine in Tripoli, Libya 1943

New Tidal Basin bridge under construction

New York, New York. Pigeons in the park