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Poster about a vocational school teaching women how to farm. Digitized drawing or poster. 1918. The World War I had just ended or would end soon, and many young men had died in the war so women would need to keep step into their jobs they left…

At the age of twelve, Ehrich Weiss ran away from home in an effort to earn money and to alleviate his family's grinding poverty. This is the earliest sample of Houdini's handwriting in the collections of the Library of Congress and it is supplemented…

A World War I Navy recruitment poster for women. Digitized recruitment poster from World War I. 1916. World War I was happening and the United States was helping to fund the allies, such as Great Britain, but had not entered the war yet. The type of…

National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center cornerstone. Now Woodstock School of Art. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America.

Leaving a…

Print shows a man labeled "Republican War Record" standing in a pond labeled "Republican Corruption Water", yelling to an Irishman wearing a hat labeled "Democracy", gathering up the Republican's clothing labeled "Tariff Reform, Free Canal, [and]…

United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b22890

One of the tasks the Works Progress Administration…

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

The…

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a…

A political cartoon about the public's acceptance of women's suffrage after women's performance during World War I. Digitization of a drawing. 1917. World War I was still happening and would not end until the next year, but there had already been…

This is a flyer posted to convince Congress to give women the right to vote. It is the digital format of a flyer. 1918. National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company. Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. World War I has just been won and…