Alfred Palmer

 "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee, 1942

  

 A painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 Mustang fighter prior to spraying with olive-drab camouflage. North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

 B-17F Flying Fortress at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach plant, October 1942

  

 B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City, 1942

  

 B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

 Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, 1942

  

 Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, 1942

  

 Fort Knox, Kentucky. Infantryman with halftrack. A young soldier 

sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer, 1942

  

 Furnace man at phosphate smelter, TVA chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942

  

 Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation 

being hauled along an outdoor assembly line, 1942

  

 P-51 fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the 

North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, October, 1942

  

 Parris Island, South Carolina. Marine lieutenant glider pilot in training at Page Field, 1942

 

 Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia, 1940

  

 Thousands of North American Aviation employees at Inglewood, California, look skyward as the bomber and fighter planes they helped build perform overhead during a lunch period air show, 1942

  

 Touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Consolidated-Vultee's Nashville division, 1943

  

Truck driver at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam, 1942

Lafayette Photo Studio

The archives of the Lafayette Photo Studio of Lexington, Kentucky are housed at the University of Kentucky.

 AHEPA, banquet and parade, 1931

[AHEPA = American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association]
  

 Air Climbers of America, Lexington Airport, 1930

  

 American Legion Banquet, 1931

  

 Cannery at Reform School, Greendale, 1931

  

 Consolidated Drug Store interior, Maysville, Kentucky, 1930

  

 Consolidated Drug Store, lunch counter and soda fountain; Richmond, Kentucky, 1930

  

 Five African-American musicians in bed of a Guthrie and Stiles truck, 1930

  

 Good Samaritan Hospital, children's porch, 1931

  

 Good Samaritan Hospital, handicapped childrens' ward, 1931

  

 Good Samaritan Hospital, handicapped childrens' ward, 1931

 

 Good Samaritan Hospital, handicapped childrens' ward, nursery, 1931

  

 Good Samaritan Hospital, workshop for children, 1931

  

 Halloween party with men in drag, 1932

  

Piggly Wiggly, interior, 1931

Land Girls

The Women's Land Army (aka "land girls") was an organization set up in the UK during the First and Second World Wars to bring women into the countryside to do agricultural labor, freeing up the men for combat.  If you want to get much more of the flavor of farm life during World War II in England, watch the Wartime Farm series - they talk about the land girls during several of the episodes.

These are all photos of World War II land girls, mostly in England, a few in Australia.

Then there was the Women's Forestry Corps, where women did timber harvesting. These women were known as "lumberjills".

 Note the young lady at left with the notepad. In the "Wartime Farm" show they tell 

how the lumberjills were tasked with taking detailed measurements of their take, 

so that the ministry had good information on which to allocate the timber.

Victory Gardens

Victory Gardens were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort. These photos are of World War II era Victory Gardens in the United States.