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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Soviet Russian Propaganda Poster "Organize Nurseries, Kindergartens, Factories, Kitchens, Dining Halls, Mechanical Laundries"

 Collection
Identifier: 7053 G
Scope and Contents

Women's labor, Soviet Russian propaganda poster; lithograph in colors on paper, mounted on linen; foreground and right border images show women working on lathes; inset background panel in warm colors and white depicts men and women engaged in childcare, meal preparation, and clothes laundering; bold blocky modernist text, 28 1/4 x 20 in.

Dates: undated

The Working Women's Relief Association. The Women's Journal, vol. 1 no. 1, 2

 Collection
Identifier: 7052 PUBS
Scope and Contents

The Women's Journal. Philadelphia: Printed by Ringwalt & Brown, 15 September and 15 October 1864.Two issues: Vol. 1 Nos. 1 & 2; each eight folio-format pages, on uncut sheet, (old folds, minor dampstaining, light edge wear), each with contemporary "sample" ink stamps above the title and contemporary library acquisition note in pencil, "1864, Nov. 29, Gift of Hon. Chas. Sumner"; 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Dates: 1864

Women's Bureau U.S. Department of Labor, World War II Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 7046 P
Scope and Contents Women's Bureau U.S. Department of Labor, World War II -- United States, 1940s -- Ferrotyped silver prints measuring approximately 8x10 in., the majority bearing the Bureau's stamp on the verso; depicting women operating equipment in the fabrication of aircraft parts at Bell and Boeing factories; polishing small parts for Rolls Royce aircraft engines; two images from Chicago's Container Corporation of America show women sorting and packing the flat cardboard sheets, and operating giant...
Dates: 1941

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Aircraft industry -- Employees -- Training of -- Photographs 1
Clothing workers -- Photographs 1
Fabrications -- Photographs 1
Handbags -- Design and construction -- Photographs 1
Knitting -- Photographs 1