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

Willow Creek, Creede, Colorado

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Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22682v

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New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. Telegraphers receive and record messages received by Western Union and Postal Telegraph from Times correspondents all over the United States and abroad

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Women in industry. Tool production.

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca (cropped)

Manpower. Handicapped workers.

William Pickens, chief, Negro Organizational Section, War Savings staff, Department of the Treasury

William Pickens, chief, Negro Organizational Section, War Savings staff, Department of the Treasury (cropped)

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies ( )

Wm Lyon Mackenzie King

Woman at work on motor, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA. camp, Robstown, Tex.

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.1a34456u

Manheim, Pennsylvania. Woman at her back gate

Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Woman at her back gate

Woman lathe operator in the 1940s

Transportation. Freight car movements. With transportation assuming vast new importance in wartime America, movement of freight cars must be accomplished with the fullest efficiency and speed. Loss and diversion of ocean carriers which served our seaboard cities have thrown an enormous burden upon t

Women in war. Machine gun production. With swift, deft movements, this young worker, one of 2,000 women employed in a Midwest war plant, assembles barrel carriers of machine guns. It's a job requiring constant attention, speed and judgement; a job for which women have proven themselves better fitted

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif, Shown checking electrical assemblies

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies

Woman lathe operator in the 1940s (cropped)

Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies ( ) - Flickr - The

Wm Lyon Mackenzie King (cropped)

Wm Lyon Mackenzie King (cropped)2

Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant1942

Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant1942 edit1

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif

Woman working on R-1830 engine at Douglas Aircraft 1942

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif.

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Woman selling eggs at the farmers' market8d23542v

Production. Aircraft engines.

Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant1942 edit1 (cropped)

Woman worker (right), American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)

Woman worker (left), American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)

Woman worker Face detail, Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)

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, center, goes from team to team, checking work, lending advice and assistance when necessary. Women ar

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

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 many other U.S. plants, women are gradually replacing or augmenting men on assembly lines, doing i

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 operations in the seven and one half hour swingw shift than men employed on the eight hour day shi

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 crib keepers. Lockhead

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 and her helper are making electical installations in the bomb bay. Vega

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 electrical assembly. Vega

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 column of a giant bomber at one of the West Coast's aricraft factories. Vega

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

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. ( )

WomanFactory1940s (cropped)

Photo shows Aluminum Industries, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Women from all fields have joined the production army, Corpus Christi, Texas

Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif