Women At War Collection

British women in Army Camp, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
British women in Army Camp, between c1910 and c1915.

British ambulance drivers, 30 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British ambulance drivers, 30 Jul 1917. Elsie Knocker, the Baroness de T'Serclaes (1884-1978) and Mairi Chisholm (1896-1981) standing in the ruins of Pervijze (Pervyse), West Flanders

British women tending fat boilers at front, 24 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British women tending fat boilers at front, 24 Jul 1917. Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps tending fat boilers situated outdoors in an infantry camp in Rouen, France on July 24

Making army cooks, Pratt Institute, 9 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Making army cooks, Pratt Institute, 9 Aug 1917 (date created or published later). Woman teaching men how to cook for the U.S. Army at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.

Canteen, 8th Coast Defense, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Canteen, 8th Coast Defense, between c1915 and 1918. Women serving food to American soldiers of the 8th Coast defense probably in New York State during World War I.

Mrs. E.R. Stettinius. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. E.R. Stettinius.Mrs. Edward Riley Stettinius, (formerly Judith Carrington) head of the Economy League of the Junior Colonial Dames of America

Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Queen Mary visits ambulance corps, 6 Jul 1917. Queen Mary of Teck inspecting VADs in St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples, France on July 6th 1917 during World War I.

Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Women's Motor Corps, May 1917. The members of the Women's Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, May 1917, during World War I.

Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Colonel J.H. Wells swearing in woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Women in the motor corps of the National League of Women's Service taking the oath of allegiance at the 71st Regiment Armory

Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Major Connell inoculating woman motorist, 29 May 1917. Major Connell, surgeon of the 71st Regiment, inoculating one of the three hundred women in the Women's Motor Corps of the National League

British women carpenters near the front, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
British women carpenters near the front, between c1915 and 1918. British women carpenters working in a workshop near the front during World War I.

English women sifting steel grit, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women sifting steel grit, between c1915 and 1918. Woman working in factory in England during World War I.

L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
L.C.C. Tech Institute, Munitions Class, May 1917. A woman receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I, England.

London Common Council Tech., Lessons in Tracing, May 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
London Common Council Tech., Lessons in Tracing, May 1917. Women receiving training in machine work in a munitions class offered by the London County Council in May 1917 during World War I.

English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
English women motor volunteers inspected, between c1915 and 1918. Women driver volunteers standing in front of automobiles during World War I, in England.

Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Actors Fund Fair, 1917 or 1918. Red Cross nurses standing behind guns at an Army and Navy Tea Room during a fundraiser for the Actor's Fund.

British Voluntary Aid ambulance drivers at front, 27 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British Voluntary Aid ambulance drivers at front, 27 Jun 1917. Group of British Red Cross Society Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) and First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y)

British women ambulance drivers, 27 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British women ambulance drivers, 27 Jun 1917. Female motor ambulance drivers with their vehicles, E´taples, France, 27 June 1917, during World War I.

Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Interior Military Hospital car, C.P.R.'Y, 1917. The interior of a military hospital car with nurses on the Canadian Pacific Railway during World War I.

British women carpenters near front, 30 Jun 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
British women carpenters near front, 30 Jun 1917. Women carpenters working at the Tarrant Hut workshops near Calais, France during World War I.

Traning women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Traning women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin during World War I.

German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. German nurses in a class room studying the Russian language during World War I.

Women workers, England, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women workers, England, between c1915 and c1918. Women working in a field with hay in England during World War I.

Women working, England, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Women working, England, between c1915 and c1918. Women working in a flour mill in England during World War I.

Training women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service - Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Training women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service - Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin during World War I.

A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
A spread in Nova Scotia ward, Le Touquet, between 1914 and c1915. Soldiers seated at a table in the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I

Archduchess Auguste, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Archduchess Auguste, between c1910 and c1915. Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1875-1964), the wife of Archduke Joseph August of Austria, who served as a nurse in Budapest, Hungary during World War I.

Corporal J. Mant in Canadian Hospital, Le Touquet, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Corporal J. Mant in Canadian Hospital, Le Touquet, between c1910 and c1915. Nurse bandaging head of a soldier at the Canadian base hospital in the Hotel du Golf, Le Touquet, France during World War I.

Countess Forgach, 5 Feb 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Countess Forgach, 5 Feb 1915 (date created or published later). Ilona von Rosty (born Countess Forgach) who served as a representative of the Hungarian Red Cross during World War I.

English Nurses entraining at London, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
English Nurses entraining at London, between c1914 and c1915. English nurses getting on a train at London, during World War I.

On "Red Cross", Sept 1914. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", Sept 1914
On "Red Cross", Sept 1914. A group of nurses aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe in mid September 1914 at the beginning of World War I.

On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Creator: Bain News Service. On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept
On "Red Cross", 1914 Sept. Medical personnel aboard the "Red Cross" bound for Europe at the beginning of World War I in mid-September 1914.

Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au cheve Creator: Unknown
Les revers Roumains ; au Palais Royal de Bucarest, transforme en ambulance: la reine Marie au chevet des blesses, 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Le lendamain de l'explosion, dans salle voisine et exactement... 1918
"La Guerre a L'Allemande"; Le lendamain de l'explosion, dans salle voisine et exactement semblable, les eleves sages-femmes et les infirmieres continuent leurs soins aux meres et

L'exode devant l'ennemi; Les refugies a Paris: on releve l'identite de chacun et on... 1918
L'exode devant l'ennemi; Les refugies a Paris: on releve l'identite de chacun et on s'enquiert de leur preference en vue de les diriger vers la region ou ils attendront la victoire

L'exode devant l'ennemi; L'embarquement dans la zone de bataille pour les gares de depart, 1918. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris

Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; camionnage de pommes de terre... 1916
Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; camionnage de pommes de terre sous la garde de soldats hollandais, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; manifestation faminine a Amsterdam... 1916
Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; manifestation faminine a Amsterdam contre la cherte de la vie, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

La Reine Marie de Roumanie au chevet des blesses, 1916. Creator: Unknown
La Reine Marie de Roumanie au chevet des blesses. 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

Mrs. Parmlee Campbell, Woman Mail Carrier - Delivering Mail... 1917 Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mrs
Mrs. Parmlee Campbell, I.E.Permelia, Woman Mail Carrier - Delivering Mail To Mrs. Nellie McGrath, 1917

Food Administration, U.S. War Kitchen, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Food Administration, U.S. War Kitchen, 1917
Food Administration, U.S. War Kitchen, 1917

La bataille de la Somme; derriere le front Franco-Britannique: le salut aux blesses allies, 1916
La bataille de la Somme; derriere le front Franco-Britannique : le salut aux blesses allies. 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVII

'The French in Dahomey -- The King of Dahomey's Amazons crossing a swamp on the march, 1890. Creator: Unknown
'The French in Dahomey -- The King of Dahomey's Amazons crossing a swamp on the march, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

Japanese nurses carrying a patient on a stretcher, c1905. Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Japanese nurses carrying a patient on a stretcher, c1905

Japanese nurses attending to a patient in an operating room, c1905. Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Japanese nurses attending to a patient in an operating room, c1905

A radio operator at work
A WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) radio operator, communicating with aircraft, 1 May 1943

Women of the Air Transport Auxiliary Service, whose job was to fly combat aircraft from the factories to RAF bases

WaF checking barrage balloon
A WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) checks that the barrage balloon is securely tethered, 12 November 1942

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"Women at War: Breaking Barriers and Building Strength" In the midst of chaos, a radio operator remains calm and focused as she diligently carries out her duties. Her unwavering dedication is just one example of the countless women who played vital roles during times of war. The Women of the Air Transport Auxiliary soar through the skies, defying gender norms and proving that they too can contribute to the war effort. Fearless and determined, these trailblazers pave the way for future generations. With determination in their eyes, WaF soldiers meticulously check barrage balloons, ensuring safety from above. Their commitment to protecting their homeland knows no bounds. Training sessions at the Auxiliary Territorial Service forge strong bonds among women warriors. Armed with knowledge and skills, they stand ready to defend their country with unwavering loyalty. A rivet becomes her fighting weapon as a woman works tirelessly at Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Howard Hollem's iconic photograph captures her strength and resilience amidst wartime challenges. Painting American insignia on airplane wings becomes more than just a job; it symbolizes patriotism and unity. These brave women leave an indelible mark on history while serving at Corpus Christi's Air Base. From all walks of life, women join forces in production armies across Corpus Christi. With sleeves rolled up and determination etched on their faces, they prove that no field is off-limits when it comes to contributing to national defense efforts. Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis stands tall as a senior supervisor in Assembly and Repairs department—a testament to female leadership breaking barriers during wartime struggles in Corpus Christi. Bowen rivets alongside Olsen—her dedicated supervisor—at Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi. Together they exemplify teamwork while making significant contributions towards victory over adversity. Contributing their skills selflessly for the nation's needs, women play an integral role by keeping machinery running smoothly throughout Corpus Christi. Their dedication and expertise are invaluable.