Selections from the Office of War Information’s coverage of women at work on the homefront during World War II, in the era of “Rosie the Riveter,” from the archives of the Library of Congress.

“Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif.” October 1942.

Alfred T. Palmer/FSA/OWI/Library of Congress