Women At Work Collection

The Writing Desk, 1915. Creator: Frederick Childe Hassam
The Writing Desk, 1915

It Was Her Business To Get There, c1941 (1942). A girl Ambulance Driver sets out through the blitz. From Frontline 1940-1941. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1942]

Blind stenographer using dictaphone, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Blind stenographer using dictaphone, 1911.

Weavers at work, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Weavers at work, between c1910 and c1915. Shows blind women weaving what appear to be rugs, with an orchestrion (automatic instrument) in background.

Philadelphia Teachers on Capitol Steps, Washington, D.C., 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Philadelphia Teachers on Capitol Steps, Washington, D.C., 1911.

Worming, Belmont Farm for girls, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Worming, Belmont Farm for girls, between c1910 and c1915.

At work on Mrs. Belmont's Farm for girls, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
At work on Mrs. Belmont's Farm for girls, between c1910 and c1915.

Picking worms from plants, Belmont girls farm, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Picking worms from plants, Belmont girls farm, between c1910 and c1915.

Helene Dutrieu, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Helene Dutrieu, 1911. Shows Helene Dutrieu (1877-1961), Belgian aviator, cyclist, hospital director and journalist.

Helene Dutrieu, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Helene Dutrieu, 1911. Shows Helene Dutrieu (1877-1961), Belgian aviator, cyclist, ambulance driver and hospital director.

Women enlisting - England, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Women enlisting - England, between c1910 and c1915.

Anatomy class, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Anatomy class, between c1915 and 1918. Shows the Metropolitan Hospital Training School for Nurses on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), New York City.

Rounding rings, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Rounding rings, between c1915 and c1920.

London canteen, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
London canteen, between c1915 and c1920. Shows soldiers at a Red Cross canteen in London, England during World War I.

Nurses on American liner the St. Louis, 4/17/15, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Nurses on American liner the St. Louis, 4/17/15, 1915. Shows nurses aboard the American liner the St. Louis. Nurses were accompanying a US Army field hospital being shipped to Europe for operation by

Farmerettes, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Farmerettes, between c1915 and 1918. Probably shows "farmerette" members of the Woman's Land Army of America (later Women's Land Army)

Theater, Times Sq. being painted, 20 Aug 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Theater, Times Sq. being painted, 20 Aug 1918. Women of the Woman's Reserve Camouflage Corps of the National League for Woman's Service painting the Times Square War Savings Stamp theater.

L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. The Long Island Railroad "Victory Special" demonstration car, organized by the women of the Long Island Food Reserve Battalion during World War I.

Enlisting "Marinettes", between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Enlisting "Marinettes", between c1915 and c1920. Women called the "Marinettes" who performed clerical work usually done by male Marines starting in 1918 during World War I.

Mrs. Mary P. Gardner, Anna A. Ryan, 14 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. Mary P. Gardner, Anna A. Ryan, 14 Oct 1918. Mrs. Mary Palmer Gardner and Anna A. Ryan working at the Souilly hospital canteen, Souilly, France, Oct. 14, 1918 during World War I.

[Red Cross] (Dining), between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
[Red Cross] (Dining), between c1915 and c1920. Lafayette House, a convalescent home for veteran soldiers and sailors at 112 West 59th Street (Central Park South), New York City

Grace George sells bonds, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Grace George sells bonds, between c1915 and 1918. Alice Fischer and Grace George selling bonds in the Liberty Theatre at the New York Public Library during World War I.

"Grape Gathering near Naples", by A. De Curzon, in the Exhibition of Fine Arts at Paris, 1864. Creator: Unknown
"Grape Gathering near Naples", by A. De Curzon, in the Exhibition of Fine Arts at Paris, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'The subject of this picture

"Christmas Time", by Miss E. Osborne, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. Creator: W Thomas
"Christmas Time", by Miss E. Osborne, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. Engraving of a painting '...which in technical qualities, and particularly in its rich and harmonious colouring

An old Dutch house at Cape Town, South Africa, 1864. Creator: G. F. A
An old Dutch house at Cape Town, South Africa, 1864. 'The Dutch, who first colonised the "Land of the Hottentot" at the Cape of Good Hope

Flag shop, Navy Yard, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Flag shop, Navy Yard, 1917. Shows women making flags on sewing machines at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York

B & O Women Workers, Loraine, O. [i.e. Lorain, Ohio], 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
B & O Women Workers, Loraine, O. [i.e. Lorain, Ohio], 1917. Shows women railroad workers in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops during World War I in Lorain, Ohio

Iva Shuster -- Judge F.B. House, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Iva Shuster -- Judge F.B. House, 1917. Shows Iva Shuster who was appointed as official stenographer for the City Magistrates courts in New York City in January 1917

L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
L.I.R.R. Food Train, 1918. The Long Island Railroad "Victory Special", organized by the women of the Long Island Food Reserve Battalion during World War I

German women do men's work, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German women do men's work, between c1915 and 1918. German women in the uniform of a gas utility, posing with a pipe threader and gas meter. During World War I women adopted traditional male jobs

British women tending fat boilers at front, 24 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British women tending fat boilers at front, 24 Jul 1917. Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps tending fat boilers situated outdoors in an infantry camp in Rouen, France on July 24

Making army cooks, Pratt Institute, 9 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Making army cooks, Pratt Institute, 9 Aug 1917 (date created or published later). Woman teaching men how to cook for the U.S. Army at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Canteen, 8th Coast Defense, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Canteen, 8th Coast Defense, between c1915 and 1918. Women serving food to American soldiers of the 8th Coast defense probably in New York State during World War I

Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Queen Mary of Teck inspecting VADs in St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples, France on July 6th 1917 during World War I

Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. The members of the Women's Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1917, during World War I

Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Women in the motor corps of the National League of Women's Service taking the oath of allegiance at the 71st Regiment Armory

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

British women carpenters near the front, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
British women carpenters near the front, between c1915 and 1918. British women carpenters working in a workshop near the front during World War I

English women sifting steel grit, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women sifting steel grit, between c1915 and 1918. Woman working in factory in England during World War I

L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class, May 1917. A woman receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I, England

London Common Council Tech. Lessons in Tracing, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
London Common Council Tech. Lessons in Tracing, May 1917. Women receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I

English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Women driver volunteers standing in front of automobiles during World War I, in England

Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Red Cross nurses standing behind guns at an Army and Navy Tea Room during a fundraiser for the Actor's Fund

Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. The interior of a military hospital car with nurses on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I

British women carpenters near front, 30 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British women carpenters near front, 30 Jun 1917. Women carpenters working at the Tarrant Hut workshops near Calais, France during World War I

Women workers, England, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women workers, England, between c1915 and c1918. Women working in a field with hay in England during World War I

Women working, England, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women working, England, between c1915 and c1918. Women working in a flour mill in England during World War I

A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Soldiers seated at a table in the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I

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