Black-and-white 8 x 10 inch photos from the mid-20th century showing women in a variety of occupational settings:
1) Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor image from August 10, 1943 showing Ernace Singleton, a Black woman on a ladder washing windows in Philadelphia during the second World War;
2) Women's Bureau, Dept. of Labor image from August 13, 1943 showing a woman of color removing machined castings from an electric annealing furnace at the Chase Brass and Copper Co.;
3) A compound image comprising two photos on one sheet depicting European women in the Sarr Protectorate sorting stones from mined coal at the Reden mine in October of 1955, with an image of rail cars outside the mine works below;
4) Farm Security Administration photo showing a migrant labor camp for Black farm workers near Pocomoke City, Maryland; showing Janet Bartholomew, supervisor of the children's program with Leila Collins of the Council of Home Missions holding hands with a group of the farm workers' children;
5) Associated Press photo of two Cuban women serving in the militia guarding a factory in Havana; both smiling, one seated and holding a rifle, "Despite the growing Russian influence in Cuba, there is an easy air about the way they do their jobs and they have no objections about smiling for the 'capitalistic' West German photographer. Women like these are in evidence all over Havana and take pride in the guard duty and rifle practice that goes with their four hours of 'soldiering.'" (Quoted from the typed caption at the foot of the image.) (5)
