Home Front Collection

Life in the W. A. A. F. 1940
Life in the W.A.A.F. 1940. From Life in the W.A.A.F. booklet on the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), in Tucks Better Little Book series

Blouse made from a silk escape map, 1940s. Creator: Unknown
Blouse made from a silk escape map, 1940s. During World War II many materials were unavailable to the public because of government rationing

Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Girl welder in the NYA (National Youth Administration) school

Elizabeth R. Wylie & class, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service. Elizabeth R
Elizabeth R. Wylie & class, between c1915 and c1920. Elizabeth R. Wylie (1868-1950) teaching women about business and household finance. She establised The Financial Center for Women.

Women's Motor Corps, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women's Motor Corps, 1917 or 1918. Captain Charles Albert Adams (1846-1929) a U.S. naval officer who served as the commander of the USS Recruit

English women in ship yards, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women in ship yards, between c1915 and 1918. Women at work building navy ships during World War I in England.

John McCormack sells Liberty Bonds, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
John McCormack sells Liberty Bonds, 1917 or 1918. Irish American tenor singer John McCormack (1884-1945) seated at a table, selling Liberty Bonds to people during World War I.

U.S. Boys Working Reserve, Washington, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
U.S. Boys Working Reserve, Washington, between c1915 and c1920. Staff(?) of the U.S. Boys Working Reserve which was organized to recruit young volunteers to work in agriculture or industry to help

Capt. Jack Adams boarding RECRUIT, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Capt. Jack Adams boarding RECRUIT, 1917. Captain Jack Adams boarding the USS Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square

RECRUIT, (c1917?). Creator: Bain News Service
RECRUIT, (c1917?). The U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square, New York City by the Navy to recruit seamen and sell Liberty Bonds.

Lauder, 19 Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Lauder, 19 Oct 1917. Scottish comedian Harry Lauder, probably on the steps in front of the Sub-Treasury to speak at the noonday Liberty Loan meeting during World War I.

Julia Kraszewski, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Julia Kraszewski, between c1915 and 1918. A woman in uniform. Probably relates to the work of the Polish Falcons based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Lauder, (19 Oct 1917?). Creator: Bain News Service
Lauder, (19 Oct 1917?). Scottish comedian Harry Lauder, probably on the steps in front of the Sub-Treasury to speak at the noonday Liberty Loan meeting during World War I.

Frances Lewinski, Julia Kraszewski, Dr. B.M. Zielinski (L. to R.), between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Frances Lewinski, Julia Kraszewski, Dr. B.M. Zielinski (L. to R.), between c1915 and 1918. Two women with a man in uniform

Lauder, (19 Oct 1917?). Creator: Bain News Service
Lauder, (19 Oct 1917?). Shows Scottish comedian Harry Lauder, probably on the steps in front of the Sub-Treasury to speak at the noonday Liberty Loan meeting during World War I.

Liberty Bond Meet, (19 Oct 1917?). Creator: Bain News Service
Liberty Bond Meet, (19 Oct 1917?). Crowds and bagpipers in kilts in front of the Sub-Treasury building on Wall Street, probably for a Liberty Loan meeting held Oct

Farmerette, Los Angeles, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Farmerette, Los Angeles, between c1915 and 1918. Probably shows a "farmerette" member of the Woman's Land Army of America (later Women's Land Army)

Los Angeles [woman] mail carrier, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Los Angeles [woman] mail carrier, between c1915 and c1920. A woman postal worker during World War I in Los Angeles, California.

Capt. Baylis & Mary Watkins, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Capt. Baylis & Mary Watkins, 1917 or 1918
Capt. Baylis & Mary Watkins, 1917 or 1918. Bacteriologist Adelaide Brooks Baylis (d. 1965), captain of the National League of Women's Services Motor Corps in New York

Mrs. J.F. Curtis, Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. J.F. Curtis, Oct 1917. Mrs. James F. Curtis, (the former Laura Beatrice Merriam) wife of James F. Curtis, an Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department; holding a poster for the 2nd Liberty

Capt. Adelaide B. Baylis, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Capt. Adelaide B. Baylis, 1917 or 1918. Bacteriologist Adelaide Brooks Baylis (d. 1965) who served as a captain in the National League of Women's Services Motor Corps in New York during World War

Elise Robert & Dorothy Kohn, Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service. Elise Robert & Dorothy Kohn, Oct 1917
Elise Robert & Dorothy Kohn, Oct 1917. Elise (Elyse) Robert and Dorothy Kohn putting 2nd Liberty Loan posters on the side of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City during World War I.

In a Detroit shop, 26 Dec 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
In a Detroit shop, 26 Dec 1917 (date created or published later). Two women wearing overalls as they work in a factory in Detroit, Michigan during World War I.

Motor Cycle Ambulance, Hero Land, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Motor Cycle Ambulance, Hero Land, 1917. Soldiers on a motorcyle ambulance at the Hero Land Bazaar held in November and December of 1917 in New York City during World War I.

Howitzer at Hero Land, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Howitzer at Hero Land, 1917. Soldiers on a howitzer artillery piece at the Hero Land Bazaar, held in November and December of 1917 in New York City during World War I.

Lerie Klein, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Lerie Klein, 1917. Lerie Klein, probably at the Hero Land Bazaar, held in November and December of 1917 in New York City during World War I

Liberty Loan parade, 25 Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Liberty Loan parade, 25 Oct 1917. Shows (left to right) Thomas William Lamont, Jr.; William Woodward, president Hanover National Bank; Charles H

Garrison, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Garrison, between c1915 and c1920. Soprano opera singer Mabel Garrison Siemonn (1886-1963) fitting a man for a knitted sweater during World War I.

Examining spruce for planes, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Examining spruce for planes, between c1915 and c1920. A man at an airplane factory is seen looking for imperfections in spruce to be used for the construction of airplanes.

English women finishing a 9.2 shell, between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
English women finishing a 9.2 shell, between c1915 and 1917. Women workers inspecting 9.2 explosive shells in a factory during World War I.

English women in shipbuilding yards, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
English women in shipbuilding yards, between c1915 and c1920. Women at work building navy ships during World War I in England.

Housewives' League car, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Housewives' League car, 1917. Union Square, New York City showing women of the National Housewives League in a car with a poster inscribed "New York Food Aid Committee" which was

English Post women, between c1915 and c1917. Creator: Bain News Service
English Post women, between c1915 and c1917. English post women from London carrying mailbags during World War I.

Women in brass fitting shop, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women in brass fitting shop, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Women working in a brass fitting shop in England during World War I.

English furnace woman in iron works, between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
English furnace woman in iron works, between c1915 and 1917. A woman stoker England in front of a furnace at an ironworks during World War I.

Woman blacksmith, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Woman blacksmith, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. A woman blacksmith in England during World War I.

Women working on propeller, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women working on propeller, Eng. [i.e. England], between c1915 and 1917. Women working on a propeller in a navy shipbuilding yard in England during World War I.

Mrs. E.R. Stettinius. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. E.R. Stettinius.Mrs. Edward Riley Stettinius, (formerly Judith Carrington) head of the Economy League of the Junior Colonial Dames of America

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

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.

Helen Ware, Grace Schnebe, Chrystal Hearn, Frances Starr, Gladys Hanson, Lucy Weston, May 1917. Actresses Helen (Remer) Ware (1877-1939), Grace Schnebbe (Mrs)

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.

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.

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