Posts tagged world war two
Posts tagged world war two

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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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 CongressOperating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee 1943 Feb.
Source: US Library of CongressWoman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif. 1942 June
Source: US Library of CongressWomen workers having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa (April 1943)
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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.
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR’s Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR’s Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
House, Houston, Texas, 1943 May,
Source: US Library of Congress / Vachon, John,