Left to right: Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator; Miss Elise Davison, Assistant Director in Charge of Volunteer Activities, Women's Division, Office of Civilian Defense; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director, Office of Civilian Defense; Mayor F.H. LaGuardia, Director of Office of Civilian

War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Seven of the twelve members of the Women's Advisory Committee, WMC, are shown at a meeting in Washington, D.C., March 18, 1943. Reading from left to right, they are: Mrs. Beatrice Gould, editor, Ladies' Home Journal; Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, vice-pr

Justice Robert Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Liudmila Pavlichenko

The first meeting of the women's policy committee of War Manpower Commission (WMC) on Oct. 1, 1942. Thre members get acquainted. Left to right: Maudell Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman, and Sue Southall. The committee was formed to aid in mobilizing women war workers for the war effort Creato

Mary McLeod Bethune, "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and others at the opening of Midway Hall, one of two residence halls built by the Public Buildings Administration of FWA for Negro government girls."

Paul V McNutt Oct 1941

Eleanor Roosevelt at Slowe Hall 1

Washington, D.C. Eleanor Roosevelt listening to Carile Tart of the District of Columbia recreation committee sing folk songs at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Workers of American, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. At the first meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission on October 1, 1942, three members get acquainted. They are, left to right: Maudelle Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman; and Sara Southall. The committee w