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“Sharecropper” by Elizabeth Catlett
“I think there is a need to express something about the working class Black woman and that’s what I do.” — R.I.P. Elizabeth Catlett, artist, womanist, genius.
Photojournalism - The Pulse
Photojournalistic images illustrated the pulse and undercurrents of Canadian society. While some images captured Canadian triumphs, others were preoccupied with exposing social problems or marking the events that affected everyday life.
Cecilia Butler, employee in a munitions plant during the Second World War
Toronto, December 1943
Photographer: unknown
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Suzanne Lenglen in the 1920s.
Womanpower.
Source: US Library of CongressAnswering the nation’s need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies
Source: US Library of Congress
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee 1943 Feb.
Source: US Library of Congress
Women workers having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa (April 1943)
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Source: US Library of Congress
Rare color photos from the Great Depression and World War II that may give you a glimpse of the taste of what it was like in the 30s and 40s- decades that were normally known and seen only in black-and-white.
Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.
The pictures depict life in the United States, including New Mexico, Chicago, Georgia, with a focus on farmlands and rural labor, as well as World War II factories, railroads, and women working.The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period.
Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. 1942 June
Source: US Library of CongressHelle Nice, born Helene Delangle, made her way to Paris in the 1920s, and worked as a ballerina, nude model and cabaret dancer. After an injury ended her dance career, she began racing cars, and after being introduced to Ettore Bugatti by Philippe de Rothschild, she drove for Bugatti on the European Grand Prix circuit in the 1930s.
A horrific crash and the onset of WWII sidelined her career, and accusations after the war (though unproven) that she worked with the Gestapo isolated her from the racing community as former friends and colleagues shunned her. She died in Nice in 1984, living in poverty and obscurity. A sad end to a glamorous life.
