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

Woman learning to operate an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company 8d16918v

Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a long piece of aluminum into shorter lengths with a metal cutter in the shearing department, as shorter pieces are easier for the machine operator to handle. The outlined shape on each piece is then cut out by machine

Woman cleaner at the Greyhound garage 8d32818v

Woman employee of the mechanic shop in the Greyhound garage 8d32821v

Wartime food demonstration. With wartime food shortages creating many nutritional problems for housewives, Ida Lansden, home economist, explains the necessity of preserving the vitamin content of available foods to war workers' wives in an Alexandria, Virginia housing settlement

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Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C.

Baltimore, Maryland. Woman winding the armature of a trolley motor in the armature shop of Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. This woman was first employed by the company during the last war. No new women have been hired in the maintenance plant in this emergenc

Baltimore, Maryland. Woman trolley conductor

Woman who already is working in an aircraft factory 8d16915v

Woman who already is working in an aircraft factory 8d16930v

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who has been welding the ejection chutes of fifty callibre machine guns

Workers boarding a trackless trolley 8d27884v

Women factory workers attending mass 8d28313v

Women factory workers attending mass 8d28317v

Women factory workers attending mass 8d28318v

Women employees eating lunches brought from home at Ross Heater, 8d16979v

Women employees eating lunches brought from home at Ross Heater, 8d16982v

Workers returning home 8d27874v

Buffalo, New York. Women employed inside open hearth furnace as bricklayers' helpers at the Republic Steel. When the end of a chamber is knocked out, there are about 5000 bricks to be lifted and removed. Bricks weigh about eight pounds each

Buffalo, New York. Women have entirely replaced men as chainmen or "hookers" in the finishing department of Republic Steel. "Hookers" place slings and chains around material to be hoisted by cranes so that it can be moved to another section of the plant or loaded onto freight trains

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Women employees in the locker room waiting for their shift to begin

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Women employees rushing for their coats in the women's locker room at 4 p.m. They hurry in order not to have to stand on the buses

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Women going to work at 4:30 p.m.

Arlington, Virginia. Women engaged in conversation on a street car

Women in essential services. Women are employed as railroad workers by the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco. With increasing numbers of men leaving their jobs for the armed forces, women are stepping into new and essential work vital to civilian life

Workers rushing to catch the trolley home 8d27877v

Women in essential services. Women bus drivers help expedite America's transportation problems

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad

Women wipers at the roundhouse

Women wipers at the roundhouse 1

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa

Women trimming threads from a flag made for the government 8d14575v

Baltimore, Maryland. Women trolley conductors and motormen at the Terminal lunch. They are not required to wear hats in warm weather

Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Company8d16892v

Women workers washing up for lunch in a round sink 8d16984v

Women workers washing up for lunch in a round sink8d16978v

Buffalo, New York. Women workers leaving the Republic Steel plant. Open hearth furnaces in the background

Workers reading the newsstand papers while waiting 8d27928v

Women in essential services. Women railroad workers take over the cars and maintenance of freight and passenger trains in the Southern Pacific Company yards at San Francisco

Workers reading the newsstand papers while waiting 8d27929v

Baltimore, Maryland. Workers arriving at the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard by a former pleasure boat of the Wilson Line, now used as a workers' transport

Workers arriving at the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d15858v

Workers arriving at the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d15862v

Baltimore, Maryland. Workers arriving in shared cars at the Glenn L. Martin camouflaged parking space at seven a.m.

Workers arriving in shared cars at the Glenn L. Martin 8d15869v

Workers arriving in shared cars at the Glenn L. Martin 8d15870v

Niagara Falls, New York. Workers arriving on buses and in cars for the 4:30 p.m. shift at the Bell Aircraft plant

Niagara Falls, New York. Workers arriving on buses and in cars for the 4:30 p.m. shift to work in the Bell Aircraft plant

Niagara Falls, New York. Workers arriving on busses and in cars for the 4:30 p.m. shift at the Bell Aircraft

Worker with a personal monogram on his overalls 8d29155v

Wong Ruth Mae Moy, a young Chinese girl who survived the Canton bombings 8b06148v

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Niagara Falls, New York. Workers arriving on busses and in cars for the 4:30 p.m. shift at the Bell Aircraft

Working with a small steam drop hammer at the blacksmith shop in the Santa Fe R.R. shops, Topeka, Kansas

Wreckage of a giant German transport plane near Tunis, 1943

Wrecked German aircraft at Bizerte-Sidi Ahmed airfield, Tunisia, in May 1943 (fsa.8d29811)

WWII daycare Richmond CA

Yard and ferry

Wright R-2600 engine for A-31 bomber at Vultee Nashville 1943