Construction site
Lewis Emory Walkers photographs of the building of the Treasury Building in Washington, DC are some of the earliest photographs in the holdings of the National...
Get Hot—Keep Moving
This undated poster from World War II delivered a message—the need to increase industrial output—common to wartime information efforts. Poster creators used...
Hard hat worker
This construction worker at the Navajo Generating Plant in Page, Arizona, was taken in May 1972 by Lyntha Scott Eiler who was on assignment with the Documerica...
Helping with the harvest
In 1942, the “Bracero” Program opened the door for Mexican laborers to take various agriculture and railroad jobs. For over 20 years, families like the one...
On the picket line
The man and woman in this Depression-era photograph are walking a strike picket line in New York City in 1937. The woman’s placard bears the initials of the...
Paycheck for a WPA worker
In this January 1939 photograph, a Work Projects Administration (WPA) employee receives his paycheck at a construction site. The WPA was a New Deal program created...
Productive worker
American workers made a staggering contribution to victory during World War II. They built 5,777 merchant ships, 1,556 naval vessels, 299,293 aircraft, 88,410 tanks,...