Learning a Trade

Girls at Brighton High School in 1943 Boston are learning how to be car mechanics. From the Leslie Jones Collection.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Vermont

These photos were taken in Vermont in 1942 by Fritz Henle.

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's son Richard, 

aged five, who tries to help on his father's farm, 1942

  

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Marilyn, daughter of Charles Ormsbee,
is president of her 4-H club, the Montpelier Center Girls, where
she learns how to sew and cook economically and well, 1942

  

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee and Marilyn, mother and daughter of farmer Charles Ormsbee. Mrs. Ormsbee is knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, 1942

  

 East Montpelier, Vermont. The Charles Ormsbee family and 

his widowed mother, Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, at dinner, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?"
asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. A load of sawdust from the 

lumber mill. The wagon saves gas and rubber, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in front of Gilbert S. Hastings's general store and post office reading his mail, July 1942

  

 West Danville, Vermont. Girls from Saint Johnsbury where they are spending a weekend on Joe's Pond, looking over fishing tackle in G. S. Hastings's general store, July 1942

  

West Danville, Vermont. Maynard Clark, fourteen, and Guy Davenport, eleven, reading the air raid instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings's post office and general store, July 1942

Dorothea Lange

 "Pond monkey" channels log raft. Keno, Klamath County, Oregon, Sept 1939

  

 A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The father repairs sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc. He is leaving Macon, where a license is required for such work (twenty-five dollars) and heading back for Alabama. July 1937

 

 Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, 

Cimarron County, Oklahoma, June 1938

  

 Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. 

The child is a flood refugee from southeast Missouri. April 1939

  

 Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. This is an Arkansawyers auto camp, filled almost completely with Arkansawyers recently in California, April 1939

  

 Boys riding freight. West Texas, May 1937

  

 California pea pickers returning to camp after a day's work 

in the field. Near Santa Clara, California, April 1937

  

 Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living 

near Fresno, California, picking cotton, Nov 1936

  

 Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California 

June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. November 1936

  

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California, November 1936

John Dobree Pascoe

 United States Marines near Pukekohe, 31 March 1943

  

 United States Marines playing cards in New Zealand, ca. 1944

  

 Waka race to entertain United States Servicemen, 

held by Tainui Maori at Ngaruawahia, ca. 1943

  

 Woman worker in a munitions factory, 30 August, 1943

  

 Women celebrating Victory in Europe, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1945

  

 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members sunbathing 

while off duty, Godley Head, Lyttelton, Christchurch, January 1943

  

Women's War Service Auxiliary on parade on United Nations Day, 14 June, 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Russell Lee

 7:45 a.m. Tip Estes' children watch their mother 

make a pie. Near Fowler, Indiana, Mar 1937

  

 7:10 p.m. Tip Estes and family eating dinner. The day's work 

has been finished. Tip Estes has washed up and dinner is served, Mar 1937

  

 7:40 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man, with the youngest of his nine children. After dinner the family sits around until 8-00 or 8-30, when they go to bed. There is no reading matter in the house, Mar 1937

    

 

Tip Estes' children boarding a school bus near Fowler, Indiana, April 1937

   

 A drink on the house. Lumberjacks, proprietor and 

lady attendant in saloon. Craigville, Minnesota, August 1937

  

 A mother and her children, refugees from the 1937 flood, 

encamped at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois

  

 A quilting party in an Alvin, Wisconsin, home, April 1937

  

 Agricultural workers wait in the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community, Woodville, California, Mar 1942

  

 Child at the FSA Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, Feb-Mar 1942

  

 Group of colored flood refugees housed in the 

Baptist church at Sikeston, Missouri, Jan 1937

Lafayette Studio

 Lexington Airport, large group of people standing in front of airplane, 1936

  

 Lexington Junior High School girls, 1934

  

 Liebel Supply Company, Lexington, Kentucky, 1933

  

 Meyers Brothers, group portrait of women, 1942

  

 Mr. & Mrs. Pat Mullendare, wedding reception, 1946

  

 Mrs. C.E. Skinner and children's band, 1935

  

 Mrs. Royce Martin standing next to car with dogs, 1943

  

 Needle Work Guide of America pageant, 1934

  

 People on porch, 1934

  

Pickrell & Craig Company, food brokers, 1933