Career Day: Working Women of the 1940s – Maryland Center for History and Culture

In honor of the recent loss of Mary Ellis, one of the last remaining female pilots of World War II, we wanted to feature some photos exhibiting other ways women kept the world moving forward in wartime.

1940s women working hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Gender and Advertising - Consumer Advertising During the Great

Wearing Lipstick to War

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Women--Employment – Digital Collections – Maryland Center for

For These Women of Color, Historical Dressing Is a Modern Art Form

Click - Women in Civil Rights - Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Career Day: Working Women of the 1940s – Maryland Center for

Women of the Century Maryland: Most influential women in state history

The designer who radically suggested that women should wear what's

For These Women of Color, Historical Dressing Is a Modern Art Form

Important Black Women in American History

Childcare on the World War II Home Front (U.S. National Park Service)