Days Gone By

Howard R. Holley, Mary Josephine Farley, 20-year-old top notch mechanic, working on Wright Whirlwind airplane motor which she rebuilt at a Naval Air Base, USA, October 1942.

Alfred T. Palmer, Aluminum paint production. Women work alongside of men in this Midwest aluminum factory now converted to production of war materials. These young workers are assembling 37mm armor-piercing shot prior to heat treating operations, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942.

Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Esther Bubley, An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar, Washington, DC, June 1943.

Source: Library of Congress

Esther Bubley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Woman cleaner at the Greyhound garage, September 1943.

Source: Library of Congress

Esther Bubley, Waiting for the bus at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war, June 1943.

Source: Library of Congress

Howard R. Hollem, Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, October 1942.

Source: Library of Congress

A female police officer emptying the contents of her bag. Photograph by Peter Stackpole. Los Angeles, California, November 1950.

Female police officers getting coffee at a diner. Photograph by Peter Stackpole. Los Angeles, California, November 1950.

Female welders at work in a steel mill, replacing men called to duty during World War II. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. Gary, Indiana, USA, 1942.

A young working woman getting her time card punched. Photograph by Yale Joel. Long Island, New York, USA, March 1953.