These stunning color portraits, produced by the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II depict the role of women in the US war effort. All of the images were shot on 4x5 color transparency film by Howard R. Hollem and Alfred T. Palmer during 1942 and 1943 and were turned over to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division in 1944. They are seen here with their original captions.

Model Daisy Lowe has been camouflaged into a wall of daisies by world-leading body paint artist Carolyn Roper, to showcase the Samsung QLED TV's Ambient Mode feature in London, United Kingdom on August 2, 2018. The work took eight hours to complete. (Photo by Matt Alexander/PA Wire)

A “mozos”, is caught by the horn of a bull of Miura ranch during the last “encierro”, or running-with-the-bulls, of the Sanfermines festivities in Pamplona, Spain, 14 July 2019. (Photo by Daniel Fernandez/EPA/EFE)

A performer takes part in the annual street parade, which is part of the Carnival of Cultures celebrating the multi-ethnic diversity of the city, in Berlin, Germany on May 20, 2018. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)

A palm squirrel and ring-rosed parakeet compete for space on a stump in a residential area of Chandigarh, India in the last decade of August 2024. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Solent News)

Kea are the only true alpine parrots in the world and thrive as cunning opportunists in the freezing conditions of the Southern Alps. Kea are thought to have developed their wide array of food-finding strategies during the last great ice age, where they learned to adapt using their unusual powers of curiosity. (Photo by Tom Walker/BBC Pictures/The Guardian)

An Afghan boy plays in the ruins of a house that at one point belonged to the 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on November 25, 2015. (Photo by Farshad Usyan/AFP Photo)

The towers of Russky Bridge are seen over the fog covered Vladivostok, Russia on May 26, 2020. The so-called “fog season” on the Pacific coast and in the south of Russia's Primorye Territory lasts from April till September. (Photo by Yuri Smityuk/TASS)