Arlington Farms

One more set of photos of this "residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of [World War II]". Esther Bubley is the photographer.

 One of the bi-weekly "open house" dances at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

  

 Reading the Sunday comics on the back porch at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

  

 Service shop in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms. These shops, one in each 

residence hall sells cosmetics, drugs, sandwiches, cokes, etc, 1943

  

 Sunbathers on the sidewalk in the back of Idaho Hall at Arlington Farms, 1943

  

 Sunbathers on the sidewalk in the back of Idaho Hall at Arlington Farms, 1943

  

 The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

  

 Three residents of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, admiring a photograph of a friend. 

Each girl has a different picture of him in her collection, 1943

  

 Waiting for and opening letters at the mail desk. Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

  

Washing clothes in one of the laundry rooms at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war, 1943

Esther Bubley

Final set of photos taken of people traveling by bus in 1943.

 Passengers, who have struck up a friendship on a Greyhound bus en route 

from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to St. Louis, Missouri, telling "moron" jokes

  

 People boarding a Greyhound bus at a small town 

between Chicago, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio

  

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A charwoman who cleans buses 

mopping the floor of a bus at the Greyhound garage

  

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passengers in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal

  

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passengers waiting for a bus 

to pull up to the loading platform at the Greyhound bus terminal

  

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. People buying tickets at the Greyhound bus terminal

  

 Private D.N. Danielson, stationed in North Carolina, and Mrs. Danielson, from Minnesota, in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal. They met in Chicago to save time for his furlough.

 

 Soldier and sailor waiting at the Greyhound bus terminal, Washington, DC

  

 Waiting to board one of the special buses for servicemen leaving the Greyhound 

terminal on Sunday nights. Girls stand in line with soldiers and sailors.

  

 Waiting in line to board a bus at the Greyhound terminal, Washington, DC

 

Washington Court House, Ohio. Mothers with their babies waiting at the bus depot

Arlington Farms

Here's another set of photos of this "residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of [World War II]". Esther Bubley is the photographer.

 Girl getting food in the service shop at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

 

 Girl on her way to the laundry room stops in one of the 

small alcoves to talk to some of her girlfriends, 1943

 

 Girls eating hot dogs in the service shop in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

 

 Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, Arlington Farms, 1943

 

 Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, 

Arlington Farms. More privacy is afforded here than in the main lounge, 1943

 

 Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943

 

 Jitterbugs at the bi-weekly Saturday night "open house" dance at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the govermnent for the duration of the war, 1943

 

 Mirrors over the dressing table conceals a cabinet which gives girls 

extra space for their cosmetics, etc., at Arlington Farms, 1943

  

Laundry room in Idaho Halls, Arlington Farms, 1943

Esther Bubley

More photos of bus travel, taken in 1943.

 Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Girl baggage clerk loading newspapers onto a bus at Knoxville, Tennessee. These will be left at small towns along the way.

 

Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Soldier
saying goodbye to his wife and child at small town in Tennessee.
 

Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.
Bus passengers at Knoxville, Tennessee.
 

Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.
Girl agent checking bag at Knoxville.
 

Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C. Passengers boarding bus at Knoxville.
 

Passengers freshening up in the ladies' restroom at the Greyhound bus terminal, Chicago
 

Passengers in the waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal at five am, Chicago
 

Passengers leaving a Greyhound bus in a small town in Pennsylvania
 

Passengers on a Greyhound bus going from Washington, DC to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 

Passengers on the Greyhound bus going from Washington, D.C. to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, some of which were standing all the way
 

Passengers waiting for a Greyhound bus driver to start
loading them on the bus at a small town in Pennsylvania

Esther Bubley

These photos were taken in boarding houses in the Washington, D.C. area during World War II.

 A boardinghouse rule forbids men guest to come into 

girls' rooms and vice versa. Washington, DC, 1943
[and yet, there they are]

  

 A bridge game does not disturb this sleeper, Washington, DC, 1943

  

 A girl employed by the U.S. government, a new arrival 

at a boardinghouse, being greeted by her roommates, 1943

  

 A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room, 1943

  

 A U.S. Office of Price Administration stenographer 

and a friend in their boardinghouse room, 1943

  

 An evening gathering in a boardinghouse, 1943

  

 Girl in the doorway of her room at a boardinghouse, 1943

  

 The schedule for use of the boardinghouse bathroom is worked out 

so that each person has eight minutes in the morning. It is social suicide 

to ignore the schedule and cause a tie-up like this. 1943

 

 This boardinghouse room needs a heater in the winter and a fan in the summer, 1943

 

 Those who are not too modest save time by tripling up 

in the use of the boardinghouse bathroom, 1943

  

Two girls looking at pictures in their room in a boardinghouse, 1943