After green peas are picked, they're not shipped hit or miss to the retail stores. They must be sorted and graded before they are packed for shipment; and that's what these two young women are doing. Clean, easy work for women who join the U.S. Crop Corps, and very essential Related Names: United St

Women in war. Summer canning workers. A skilled and vastly important job in this Rochelle, Illinois, asparagus canning factory is performed by this woman grading expert. The grade of vegetables, their water content, and the relative excellence of the product determines the price which the canner wil

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Food to make America strong. Women near Rochelle, Illinois, many of them schoolteachers and pupils, work in asparagus canning factories during the summer months

These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop.

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To assure adequate civilian supply of canned produce in the future, householders are urged to save their used cans and turn them in to their local collection agencies, which will send them to detinning mills. Reclaimed metals from t

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. As a conveyor carries the trimmed boards down past the pit, Norma Webber and Ruth De Rochs, "pit women," take the board off when it is opposite the pile designated for boards

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop

Centerville, California. Young workers of Japanese ancestry picking peas on a farm in Alameda Count.

Production. Shell loading. These girls are "staking" fuses in the assembly of artillery shells in a large Midwest loading plant. In the manufacture and loading of percussion caps--an operation performed in a large division of the plant--ninety percent of the employees are women. Army officers say th