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[Damascus Gate, Jerusalem], Israel

[Damascus Gate, Jerusalem], Israel

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of cars and buses. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of cars and buses. Great Depression FFSA / OWI...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house. Great D...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck. Great Depre...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man in a truck. Great Depression FFSA / O...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of cars parked in front of a building. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of cars parked in front of a building. Great D...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a truck with a bunch of junk. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a truck with a bunch of junk. Great Depress...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production. All over shot B-24. San Diego

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production. All ov...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of one family living in miner's boarding house. One woman and six children live in one room. Two beds, no water, no heat. Mohegan, West Virginia

Part of one family living in miner's boarding house. One woman and six...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Recreational, educational, cooperative activities in the camp are aided by Work Projects Administration instructors assigned to the camp programs

In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafte...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trucks which bring livestock to the stockyards. South Omaha, Nebraska

Trucks which bring livestock to the stockyards. South Omaha, Nebraska

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Middleton Place, Ashley River vic., Dorchester County, South Carolina

Middleton Place, Ashley River vic., Dorchester County, South Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women picking carrots, Camden County, New Jersey

Women picking carrots, Camden County, New Jersey

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Royal Oak, Michigan. Woman cooking a turkey in an electric roaster

Royal Oak, Michigan. Woman cooking a turkey in an electric roaster

Public domain photograph of kitchen, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lines of cars along highways on day at Duke-Carolina football game. Durham, near Duke University Stadium. Durham County, North Carolina

Lines of cars along highways on day at Duke-Carolina football game. Du...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro woman, strawberry picker, arranging her living quarters near Hammond, Louisiana

Negro woman, strawberry picker, arranging her living quarters near Ham...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman removing peppers from stove. Taos, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman removing peppers from stove. Taos, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Line of trucks at wheat elevator west of Amarillo, Texas

Line of trucks at wheat elevator west of Amarillo, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a city street. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a city street. Great Depression FFSA / OWI ...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trucks unloading sacks of wheat at elevator. Only a very small percent of grain comes in by truck to city elevators. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Trucks unloading sacks of wheat at elevator. Only a very small percent...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman covering dough so that shaped loaves will rise evenly. Near Taos, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman covering dough so that shaped loaves will rise ...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Truckload of tobacco in baskets being taken from the warehouse after the auction sales down the main street of Wendell. Wake County, North Carolina

Truckload of tobacco in baskets being taken from the warehouse after t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dogcatcher's truck, St. Paul, Minnesota

Dogcatcher's truck, St. Paul, Minnesota

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman in shack home in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Straightening her son's hair. Refer general caption no. 21

Woman in shack home in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Straig...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Royal Oak, Michigan. Automobile and two-car garage

Royal Oak, Michigan. Automobile and two-car garage

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women staying at nearby lodge listening to the boys in the summer camp singing. El Porvenir, New Mexico

Women staying at nearby lodge listening to the boys in the summer camp...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Truck loading potatoes at storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado

Truck loading potatoes at storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Very often farmers must travel long distances at night or wait several days for tobacco to be sold. They can be found sleeping on the covered piles of tobacco in warehouses or in their trucks or the floors of camp rooms. Durham, North Carolina

Very often farmers must travel long distances at night or wait several...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cars parked along the highways on day of Duke-Carolina football game, near Duke University Stadium

Cars parked along the highways on day of Duke-Carolina football game, ...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman weaving a rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving a rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Admini...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trucks loaded with shelled corn at grain elevator. Grundy County, Iowa

Trucks loaded with shelled corn at grain elevator. Grundy County, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish-American woman placing and turning peppers on the stove near Taos, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman placing and turning peppers on the stove near T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant woman peeling potatoes on running board of car while camped near Prague, Oklahoma. Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Migrant woman peeling potatoes on running board of car while camped ne...

Public domain photograph of 1930s cars, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman and her son with greens which they feed to their rabbits near Taos, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman and her son with greens which they feed to thei...

Photo shows at left, Rupert Martiniano Sandoval, age 1 1/2, at right,Ofelia Trujillo Sandoval, age 39 (source: Rupert Martiniano Sandoval, 2005).

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Truck loading up with cattle feed at Pillsbury flour mill. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Truck loading up with cattle feed at Pillsbury flour mill. Minneapolis...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman living with agricultural day laborer's family who cared for his wife and two children. Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma

Woman living with agricultural day laborer's family who cared for his ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

At large dairy in Tom Green County, feed is delivered to a barn, immediately chopped up and blown into a truck for transportation to feeding lot

At large dairy in Tom Green County, feed is delivered to a barn, immed...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Training for war. This apprentice school lad will become a soldier of industry in our war preparation. Right now he's learning how to grind tools at an eastern armory

Training for war. This apprentice school lad will become a soldier of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Members of the women's club making a quilt. Granger Homesteads, Iowa

Members of the women's club making a quilt. Granger Homesteads, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Truck which hauls lumber from a small sawmill near Pie Town, New Mexico

Truck which hauls lumber from a small sawmill near Pie Town, New Mexic...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1930s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Main street. Creedmoor, North Carolina

Main street. Creedmoor, North Carolina

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Burton and her child, inside trailer (see caption #42581-D). Bath, Maine

Mrs. Burton and her child, inside trailer (see caption #42581-D). Bath...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old houses on Race Street. Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania

Old houses on Race Street. Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

8th Army in Tripoli. Uncomfortably closeup shot of a British 8th Army tank used in the Tripoli campaign

8th Army in Tripoli. Uncomfortably closeup shot of a British 8th Army ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is really a "killer." Being tested for desert warfare at Iron Mountains, California. It carries both a 105mm Howitzer and a 50 caliber gun. Lieutenant M. Hutchison of Enterprise, Alabama is at the extreme right. Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas is at post behind the Howitzer. Corporal Downing, whose home is Dekalb, Missouri, is in the turret

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is really a "killer." ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Behind scenes with generals as they mapped woe for Axis. Caught in earnest discussion, Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell, commander-in-chief, India, flexes his arm as he chats with Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, chief of the entire U.S. Army, Service of Supply

Behind scenes with generals as they mapped woe for Axis. Caught in ear...

Public domain image of aristocratic military leader, general, monarch, 18th-19th century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

8th Army in Tripoli. Warehouse on the Spanish Mole, on Tripoli's harbor, managed by U.S. Army 9th Air Force bombers during the attack on Tripoli

8th Army in Tripoli. Warehouse on the Spanish Mole, on Tripoli's harbo...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

James G. Rolunson [or Robinson], Administrative Officer of War Production

James G. Rolunson [or Robinson], Administrative Officer of War Product...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. Knees at oven, baking bread to be sold at farmers' market. Du Bois, near Penfield, Pennsylvania

Mrs. Knees at oven, baking bread to be sold at farmers' market. Du Boi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The women's club leaving the church and community building after a home management demonstration by the supervisor and a baby shower they gave for Mrs. Verden Lee, one of their members. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

The women's club leaving the church and community building after a hom...

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

8th Army in Tripoli. Wreckage of Italian hangars and airplanes at Castel Benito Airfield outside Tripoli. The airfield was captured by the British in the Tripoli campaign

8th Army in Tripoli. Wreckage of Italian hangars and airplanes at Cast...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Dropping the power plant of a Dodge Army truck to its place in the chassis assembly. The complete motor, carried on an overhead conveyor, reaches the chassis moving along the assembly line at precisely the right time and place to permit steady production of these urgently needed army vehicles

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Dropping the power plant of a Dodge Ar...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman and her baby waiting in line for barbecue on Labor Day at Ridgway, Colorado

Woman and her baby waiting in line for barbecue on Labor Day at Ridgwa...

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailer and car belonging to Paul Knight, construction worker at Fort Benning building new barracks. He pays two dollars for trailer space (only) in W.T. Willis' backyard, is from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia. He said the bad roads were one of the worst problems around there and agreed that things generally were bad and the government had better do something about it soon

Trailer and car belonging to Paul Knight, construction worker at Fort ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One year of reciprocal aid. British sailors and U.S. Rangers share a joke as well as ships. More than thirty troops, transports of the British Merchant Navy, were in the first convoy that swept through the Mediterranean in the invasion of North Africa, in company with American forces under escort of the Royal Navy. American aviators flew British Spitfire planes, in a joint action that established the Allied second front. The principle of sharing by the Allies paid tremendous dividends in this action

One year of reciprocal aid. British sailors and U.S. Rangers share a j...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Truck drivers may stop and sleep at trucker's comfort station on New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road. U.S. Highway No. 1, Washington, D.C.

Truck drivers may stop and sleep at trucker's comfort station on New Y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Air Force bombs Tripoli. Clouds of smoke tell the story of the successful raid by U.S. Army Air Force bombers on the Spanish mole at Tripoli. Their objective was only the mole and not ships in the harbor. This third picture in a series was taken as the bomber group finished its mission

U.S. Air Force bombs Tripoli. Clouds of smoke tell the story of the su...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm women getting dinner ready at the all-day community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico

Farm women getting dinner ready at the all-day community sing. Pie Tow...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman working in garden. Southeast Missouri Farms

Woman working in garden. Southeast Missouri Farms

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Bettenhausen with canned goods in cellar. McIntosh County, North Dakota

Mrs. Bettenhausen with canned goods in cellar. McIntosh County, North ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A large portion of the 10,000 skilled workers turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit have spent years in the employ of the Chrysler company. They have learned the precision methods needed for automobile production, and their past experience is invaluable for work on the tanks which will make our new Army the equal of any in the world in mechanized power. This worker is turning and facing a cupola ring

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A large portion of the 10,000 skilled wor...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A woman riding on the back of a brown horse. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A woman riding on the back of a brown horse. Great Depression FFSA / O...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Jones, wife of tenant farmer. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina

Mrs. Jones, wife of tenant farmer. Near Farrington, Orange County, Nor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm woman with baby at pie supper at the school house. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. See general caption number 24

Farm woman with baby at pie supper at the school house. Muskogee Count...

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Poet and historian turns to films. Carl Sandburg is shown here as he was writing the commentary for "Bomber," nation defense motion picture just completed by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) film unit. Mr. Sandburg is famous as the Pulitizer prize winning author of "The War Years", monumental biography on Abraham Lincoln, and as the author of numerous poems and other works. Mr, Sandburg is also famous as a musician, newspaper columnist and authority on Americans. The commentary for "Bomber" was his first excursion into film making. He volunteered his services to the defense program and served without pay

Poet and historian turns to films. Carl Sandburg is shown here as he w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rural women at home demonstration meeting reciting their creed. McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Rural women at home demonstration meeting reciting their creed. McInto...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A veritable cascade of sparks fly when the arc welder fuses together toe risers in the front section of a Dodge army truck cab assembly

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A veritable cascade of sparks fly when...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equip...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

8th Army in Tripoli. Faces of Tripoli's residents as they watch the arrival of the British 8th Army

8th Army in Tripoli. Faces of Tripoli's residents as they watch the ar...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Barclay Harding, Director, Division of Transportation and Aviation, Office of Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics. Retains partnership in Smith, Barney and Company, Investment Banking Firm, 14 Wall Street. New York City

William Barclay Harding, Director, Division of Transportation and Avia...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burton and child. Mr. Burton came from Moose Head Lake region, Maine, where he used to run a sportsman's camp. Have been traveling around in a trailer for three years. Had a few weeks work at one of the branches of the iron works a number of months ago, has been unemployed since. Has been trying to get work at the Bath Iron Works but so far has been unsuccessful. Was planning to move to Bath with their trailer the next day. Trailer was about five miles out from center of Bath. Had no electricity and used the sanitary facilities of a house nearby.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burton and child. Mr. Burton came from Moose Head L...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Workmen during lunch period, across the street from the Consolidated Airplane Factory. San Diego, California

Workmen during lunch period, across the street from the Consolidated A...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Ruth Lina, home management supervisor, helping some of the project women can milk. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

Mrs. Ruth Lina, home management supervisor, helping some of the projec...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army transport in front of remodeled theatre in Starke, Florida

Army transport in front of remodeled theatre in Starke, Florida

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist house, Truro. Portuguese woman from the Cape Verde Islands, wife of disabled fisherman and railroad worker, who now rents rooms to and boards tourists. Truro, Massachusetts

Tourist house, Truro. Portuguese woman from the Cape Verde Islands, wi...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keeping score in the war production drive. 2) Like to mop up on these babies? Well, that's the idea. Above is another suggested War Production Board (WPB) device to enable America's factory workers to know the score in their drive to erase these gentlemen. As plant production draws closer to its goal, Awful Adolf, Bungling Benito and Horrors Hirohito begin to disappear from the face of the blackboard as they will presently disappear from the face of the earth

Keeping score in the war production drive. 2) Like to mop up on these ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Men eating afternoon meal at the Salvation Army. Corpus Christi, Texas. The Salvation Army says that they have a heavy case load because of stranded unskilled laborers in the city. There is now a surplus supply of unskilled labor and a shortage of skilled labor in the city

Men eating afternoon meal at the Salvation Army. Corpus Christi, Texas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish-American woman doing needlework. Many of the homes in this section show the love of the Spanish-Americans for colorful decoration. Chamisal, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman doing needlework. Many of the homes in this sec...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This woman and her daughter are helping their neighbors plant their tobacco field. The bonnet is homemade. On U.S. 15, about five miles northeast of Durham, North Carolina

This woman and her daughter are helping their neighbors plant their to...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the project women making clothes for her family on her new sewing machine. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

One of the project women making clothes for her family on her new sewi...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Richard Carter, poultry farmer of Middleboro, Massachusetts. She runs the poultry business of one thousand while her husband drives a bulldozer at an Army camp nearby

Mrs. Richard Carter, poultry farmer of Middleboro, Massachusetts. She ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Left, Miss Dorothy Overlock; and right, Mrs. Betty Lindley, Office of Civilian Defense

Left, Miss Dorothy Overlock; and right, Mrs. Betty Lindley, Office of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trucks from a small sawmill stand in front of the cabins at Pie Town, New Mexico

Trucks from a small sawmill stand in front of the cabins at Pie Town, ...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman and her child living in slum house in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a steelworker

Woman and her child living in slum house in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania....

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On the main street of Mogollon, New Mexico

On the main street of Mogollon, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Buy Coal Now" poster. As part of a national campaign urging consumers to buy coal now to help clear the way for heavy war shipments later, the above poster is being sent to railroads, wholesale and retail coal dealers, and various public and private agencies. The poster was prepared by the Consumer Division of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and the U.S. Bituminous Coal Consumer's Council

"Buy Coal Now" poster. As part of a national campaign urging consumers...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wrecked cars of construction workers. Starke, Florida

Wrecked cars of construction workers. Starke, Florida

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rural women at home demonstration meeting reciting their creed. McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Rural women at home demonstration meeting reciting their creed. McInto...

Public domain photograph of a church interior, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cartoon by Miyamoto, U.S. Army. Shown here is one of the many cartoons drawn by Private Miyamoto, cartoonist, of the Nineth Armored Division. Miyamoto is twenty-two years old and is an American-born citizen of San Francisco. His parents are in a relocation center. He is now special duty with the public relations section of his division

Cartoon by Miyamoto, U.S. Army. Shown here is one of the many cartoons...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chrysler tank arsenal. A trainload of complete M-3 tanks roll away from the huge Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal, to be delivered to the Army. Each of these tanks weigh over twenty-eight tons. The camera shows only the rear of the tank in the foreground. Note the 150 calibre machine gun. Three other machine guns, a 75mm. gun and a 37mm. anti-aircraft gun are also mounted on the steel giant

Chrysler tank arsenal. A trainload of complete M-3 tanks roll away fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) to salvage committees in cities where tin salvage campaigns are conducted. The original is 20 inches by 28 1/2 inches and is printed in red, gray, and black on white. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Service, Office of Emergency Management (OEM), 1509 Fourteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Xmas [i.e., Christmas] victory cards

Xmas [i.e., Christmas] victory cards

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks being turned out in Detroit at the Chrysler tank arsenal, are powered by nine cylinder, 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation type engines. This is a general view of the final engine assembly department

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks...

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Trailer camp where construction workers and Army men are living. Camp Livingstone, near Alexandria, Louisiana

Trailer camp where construction workers and Army men are living. Camp ...

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J. R. Stuart, Head, Warehouse Section, Iron and Steel Branch, War Production Board

J. R. Stuart, Head, Warehouse Section, Iron and Steel Branch, War Prod...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This may look like one of the games you used to play with your erector set, but that tank, which is about to be deposited on a railroad flat car by a fifty-ton crane weighs more than twenty-eight tons. It's one of the new M-3s being built for the Army by the Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit

Chrysler tank arsenal. This may look like one of the games you used to...

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