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Woodbourne Orchards and Francis R. Cope family: Agriculture
Title:
Woodbourne Orchards and Francis R. Cope family: Agriculture
Date:
1911 - 1948
Collection:
Woodbourne Orchards and Francis R. Cope Family: Agriculture
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) French women deliver the mail. (b) English women fill positions vacated by men fighting abroad. English woman who is serving as village blacksmith, repairing farm implements, and doing other jobs that fall to the lot of the knight of the forge. This resourceful lady has two brothers in the British Army, one a major-farrier, the other a sergeant-farrier. Her father is dead and as there is no one else to keep the fires burning she took over the shop and can now wield the hammer with strength and precision. Besides being a good horse-shoer, she can repair nearly any agricultural machine used on neighboring farms, 2/15/1917 (c) Elephants from zoo do farm work in Surrey. (d) English woman "village blacksmith."
Date:
1917-02-05
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) Widows of France working as porters on French railroads. French women transferring luggage at a railway station near Paris. A great deal of this sort of work is being done by women, who not only act as porters but also fire and drive the engines. They are commonly known as widows of France. Every woman who has filled these positions has released a man for some labor which aids in bringing the war to a speedier and victorious termination, 7/21/1917. (b) Women replacing men in ammunition factories of France. One of the most important industries of the countries now at war is the manufacture of ammunition for the men at the front. The women have taken an active part in all the occuopations left vacant by the men who went to the aid of their country, but have been especially active in the munition factories. They are working hard in the new plants set up for making the messengers of death. The accompanying photogaph is but a common scene in France. The women are seen filling the shells with shrapnel in one of the factories at Chamond, 8/31/1915.
Date:
1915 - 1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) French women work as engineers and firemen on French railroads. Photograph taken at a round-house station near Paris. The three women shown in the picture do the actual work of engineers and firemen. The widows of France are doing more than their share in the nation"s battle for victory. They fill all sorts of positions but are especially numerous on the railroad"s of the country, 7/21/1917. (b) Together they labor--shoulder to shoulder, women and men in British industries. Two types of boiler makers-the old and the new. As a rule boiler makers are not considered ladylike but this plucky woman has thrown tradition to the winds entering on a career in a boiler factory in Glasgow. Clad in working togs deserted by a huskier boiler maker when the call to the colors sent him to the front, she is shown in this picture as a Hydraulic riveter, assisted by a man. Numerous other arguments for votes for women are presented at this boiler factory in Glasgow where women are working as stokers, drillers, riveters and planers, 11/11/1916.
Date:
1916 - 1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Russia, World War II
Title:
Russia, World War II
Description:
(a) Germany sends Russian prisoners-of-war to Denmark for Internment, 1943. (b) Russian women take over Industry (c) Russian children are evacuated from invaded zones.
Date:
1943
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) Ladies of the nobility of Petrograd hard at work at one of the "dpots" making bandages and respirators for the troops at the front. First World War, 9/7/1917. (b) Scene outside of a creche at one of the convents where the women of Russia are caring for orphans who have lost their parents in the war.
Date:
1917-09-07
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) No task too difficult for English lassies who work for country. Wheeling wheelbarrows filled with dirt may be a back-bending task, generally not attributed to women, but nevertheless, Great Britain"s lassies have taken it upon their shoulders to do even that task. Photo shows them wheeling away earth excavated for the installation of hydraulic pumps. Official photo, 6/3/1917. (b) Englishwomen prove capable railroaders. Cleaning a big railroad engine in an English yard. In many of the yards and round-houses women have taken the place of men who have gone to fight the Germans. They have proved capable and efficient workers. Many other positions besides that of cleaner are filled by women. They hold jobs as watch women, flag women, oilers, track inspectors, and guards.
Date:
1917-06-03
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Russia, World War I
Title:
Russia, World War I
Description:
(a) Recruits of the heroic Russian "Batallion of Death, First World War. (b) A Russian girl soldier. Second World War.
Date:
(approximate) 1915 - (approximate) 1945
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Russia, World War I
Title:
Russia, World War I
Description:
(a) Orderlies of the Battalion of Death going to the Russian Army for food for their comrades. (b) First photographs showing American Mission in Russia headed by Elihu Root and Gen. Scott. On the trip through Russian women workers cleaned the American Mission's special train. One of the army officers attached to the Mission watching them work, 8/15/1917.
Date:
1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers