Title
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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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Women war workers are pouring tea for the U.S. soldiers as they land at a North of Ireland port
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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January 1942
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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek inspects ruins of Chungking after heavy bombing raid by Japanese. Other people are members of the Chinese Air Raid Relief Committee.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
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September 1940
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Nuns attend aged and ill French civilians in a quarry hospital after they were evacuated from the Caen, France hospital
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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July 30, 1944
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A nurse watches over a room full of wounded
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1940
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Tearfully patting the rough, uneven ends of her shorn locks, Grande Guilotte has learned that collaboration with Nazis doesn’t pay
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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July 1944
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Three nurses recruited for the Free French Army services in New York City dress the wound of a French soldier near Écouché, France
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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August 1944
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Sisters of Mercy move up a road in Caen with baskets of food for bombed-out citizens of the town
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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July 28, 1944
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A modern Florence Nightingale, wearing the uniform of an Allied medical corps, gives first aid to a wounded soldier inside a hospital plane as it flies over Tunisia
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with airbrushing on paper
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April 1943
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For the second time in a quarter of a century, this Belgian patriot survived the rigors of occupation by German troops
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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c. 1940-1945
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Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, first and foremost, have to operate as nurses. They themselves are exposed to the greatest dangers.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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c. 1938-1945
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Modern Turkey is proud of its women. These Turkish Girl Scouts, hardy and healthy, will be valuable for behind-the-lines work in the event of war.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 1941
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Muriel Bearer takes a bite while packing “rookie cookies” that Schenley Post No. 1190 of the American Legion is sending to draftees at army camps, New York
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1942
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Geraldine Presler cradles a gas mask—made almost 100 percent by women in the Firestone Rubber and Latex Product Company in Fall River, Massachusetts
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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August 1941
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Balloon room workers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, applying finishing touches to inflatable life rafts made by the company for the U.S. Navy
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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April 1942
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This Indian woman, an Air Raid Precaution volunteer, carries her “victim” in preparation for such rescue work in case of air raids over Bombay, India
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1942
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Sisters M. Johnson of Tatanagar India, carries a person whose body attests to the starvation suffered by Andaman Islanders at the hands of the Japanese
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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November 1945
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Nurses participating in anti-gas exercises in Milan, Italy, as air raid precautions organizations perfect their efficiency
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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October 1939
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Mary Ellul, only woman Air Raid Precautions Warden on Malta, hurls a huge block of masonry during the clean-up process after a raid
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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August 1943
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People of Castel Di Sangro start rebuilding as soon as Allies liberated their town. Women spread wheat to dry as others search for furnishings in wrecked homes.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph (radio photograph) on paper
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December 1943
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Girls of the 8th Prefectural High School in Tokyo making 2,000 comfort bags for Japanese soldiers
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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September 6, 1937
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Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth pay a surprise visit to the Bermondsey district of London and make a tour of air raid shelters
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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September 11, 1939
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Queen Elizabeth inspects clothing sent from New Zealand at the Women’s Voluntary Services headquarters in London
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 6, 1941
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Westminster’s Red Cross nurses march in a demonstration held in connection with London’s War Weapons Week
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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May 1941
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London women form a “mop and duster” brigade at a subway station
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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April 1941
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Aluminum pots and pans clutter a London sidewalk, contributed by housewives to aid in the manufacture of aircraft
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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July 1940
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