A Tibetan wearing a traditional headgear performs during a function organised to mark “Losar” or the Tibetan New Year in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 5, 2022. (Photo by Monika Deupala/Reuters)

An indigenous woman looks on during the Terra Livre (Free Land) camp, a protest-camp to defend indigenous land and cultural rights that they say are threatened by the right-wing government of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil on April 4, 2022. (Photo by Adriano Machado/Reuters)

Sеx worker Moira Mona wears a mask at her studio where she creates videos near Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 30, 2020. (Photo by Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters)

A water buffalo is pictured across from the Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in Iraq's southern province of Basra on July 18, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)

A woman uses her mobile phone as she walks past a billboard with a portrait of a Russian soldier and the words “Glory to the heroes of Russia” in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Hindu devotees prepare to carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha on the first day of ten-day “Ganesh Chaturthi” festival in Mumbai on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)

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.

Mexicans dressed as French soldiers carry handcrafted guns, ahead of a reenactment of the battle of Puebla between Zacapoaxtla Indians and the French army during Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Monsalvo said he has been portraying Napoleon III in the annual neighborhood event for 28 years. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)