War Work Collection

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Soldiers seated around a table in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

[Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
[Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Women preparing food in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

'Pour servir Aussi; Les Franciscaines a la Moisson, 1914. Creator: J Simont
'Pour servir Aussi; Les Franciscaines a la Moisson, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I". [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

'Matinales; le depart pour l'ambulance au petit jour, 1914. Creator: L Sabattier
'Matinales; le depart pour l'ambulance au petit jour, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs; La moisson du mais-fourrage, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Aspects imprevus de la campage Francaise: les indo-chinois aux champs; L'arrachage mecanique des pommes de terre, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Les ravitailleuses, 1916. Creator: L Sabattier
Les ravitailleuses, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916"

"Pour nos soldats, s'il vous plait" ; Les Queteuses de la Croix-Rouge, 1916. Creator: L Sabattier
"Pour nos soldats, s'il vous plait" ; Les Queteuses de la Croix-Rouge au passage des trains emmenant les Parisiens a la campagne ou a la mer, 1916

Les femmes dans les usines de guerre; Une travailleuse de l'usine de guerre, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les femmes dans les usines de guerre; Une travailleuse de l'usine de guerre, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Les femmes dans les usines de guerre; Une jeune Parisienne travaillant a l'evidement... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les femmes dans les usines de guerre; Une jeune Parisienne travaillant a l'evidement du corps des projectiles, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Les femmes dans les usines de guerre; Un atelier de femmes dans une usine... 1916. Creator: Unknown
Les femmes dans les usines de guerre; Un atelier de femmes dans une usine de guerre : verification des obus, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Workroom in the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 1904. Supervised by the Tsarina and the Dowager Empress, dressings and gowns are being produced to be sent to Russians wounded in the Russo-Japanese War

1939 Bedford MWD lorry. Creator: Unknown
1939 Bedford MWD lorry

Women aircraft maintenance and repair workers, South Wales, World War II, c1939-c1944 (1946). The women of South Wales played a skilled part in the maintenance

Male munitions workers in Engineering Shop, School of Building, Brixton, London, 1915. Men working at benches with belt driven machinery

Female munitions workers, Shoreditch Technical Institute, London, 1915
Female munitions workers, mechanical engineering workshop, Shoreditch Technical Institute, London, 1915

Women munitions workers putting a coat of paint on aerial bombs, World War I, c1914-c1918

A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist
A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing, World War I, c1914-c1918. A cobbler showing women how to repair boots at Scaynes Hill Womens Insititute, Sussex

Women working in a boot repairing factory, Old Kent Road, London, World War I, c1914-c1918. Cobbling was traditionally regarded as an occupation only for men

Women of Britain Come into the Factories, c1940. WWII propoganda poster

Boys of Bradfield College making shell parts, Berkshire, c1916 (1928). From The Wonder Book of Soldiers for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co

Boys of Harrow School making splints, crutches and other articles for the wounded, c1916 (1928). From The Wonder Book of Soldiers for Boys and Girls, edited by Harry Golding. [Ward. Lock & Co

A munitions factory, World War I, 1917 (1938). Artist: Horace Walter Nicholls
A munitions factory, World War I, 1917 (1938). Munitions workers with shells in a warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No 6 at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire

His Majesty inspects the shells at Holmes and Co Ltd, Hull, Yorkshire, World War I, c1914-c1918. King George V visiting a munitions works. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Sheet metal workers at a aeroplane factory, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Sheet metal workers at a aeroplane factory, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Tsarina Alexandra and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana of Russia, 1914. Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna (1872-1918) with her daughters Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1918) and Tatiana Nikolaievna ()

The clothing of the prisoner of war, Champs-Elysees, Paris, World War I, 1914-1918. French postcard

Subscriptions office of the newspaper L Action Francaise, Paris, 1917. French postcard

Folding machine room, printing works of the L Action Francaise newspaper, Paris, 1917. French postcard

Clothing for prisoners of war, Champs-Elysees, Paris, World War I, 1914-1918. French postcard

So France Can Live, Spend a Few Weeks Working in the Fields, 1940-1944. Propaganda poster of the Vichy Government

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