Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 1,381–1,439 on this page. The photos were taken for US government agencies, so they are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
- 1930s
- 1940s
Scene at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Segregated cinema entrance
1939-10
Segregated cinema entrance3
1939-10
Selling fish on Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County.
1939-10
Shoe Salesman
1939-11
Shooting pool on Saturday afternoon, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1939-11
Shopping center of Eldorado, Illinois, 8b17495
1939-01
Showboat anchored at levee, Saint Louis, Missouri
1939-01
Sign on the road to Kempton MD
1939-05
Showboat anchored at levee, Saint Louis, Missouri, 8a10877a
1939-01
Siler City, NC in 1939
1939-07
Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at can.
1939-09
Snowplow streetcar Minneapolis 1939
1939-09
Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes. Corpus Christi, Texas
1939
Small family feeding ducks in park on Saturday afternoon, Minneapolis, Minnesota, John Vachon
1939-09
Son of white migrant worker putting on overalls 8b37248v
1939-02
Spectators and witnesses on second day of Superior Court dur.
1939-11
Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class,.
1939-05
State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to area between levee and Mississippi River, New Madrid County, Missouri, 8a10426
1939-01
State highway officials moving sharecroppers from roadside to area between levee and Mississippi River, New Madrid County, Missouri, 8a10639
1939-01
Striking match on button of overalls 8a24880v
1939
Streetcar in Minneapolis, Minnesota
1939-09
TCRT power plant-1939
1939-09
Tenant farmer 2
1939-06
Tenant Farmer Picking Tomatoes
1939-07
The Negro tenants and neighbors eating dinner after the whit.
1939-11
This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which disting
1939
Toll Bridge across Mississippi River at St. Louis.
1939-01
Tobacco Auction
1939-11
Trading Post stores at Tygart Valley Homesteads
1939-06
Trolley at Glen Echo
1939
Twin Cities Zephyr 9905-La Crosse WI 1939 summer
1939
Twelve-year-old girl keeps house in trailer for her three brothers who are migrant workers, near Harlingen, Texas
1939-02
Tubercular wife and daughter of agricultural day laborer, Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma, 8b22227
1939-06
Typical southeastern Georgia farm with newly harvested field of oats
1939-05
Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the.
1939-11
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garrett's place, Negro tenant of Mr. Fred Wilkins. White women don't go to Negro shucking to help with the cooking but white men are fed by Negro women just the same as at other shucking week previous at Mr. Fred Wilkins' home. Tally
1939-11
Untitled photo possibly related to CCC boys working at Tygart Valley Homesteads, WV
1939-06
Wagon load of cotton coming out of the field in the evening,.
1939-10
Washing clothes at camp for evicted sharecroppers. Butler County, Missouri
1939-11
Washing clothes at rear of sharecropper's cabin. Transylvania, Louisiana
1939-01
Washington, D.C. Aerial view of a street corner
1939
Washington, D.C. An automobile parking lot on 14th Street, back of the Department of Labor
1939
Weaving Shop, Tygart Valley Homesteads
1939-06
White woman, migratory berry picker, doing the laundry near Ponchatoula, Louisiana
1939-04
Wife of evicted sharecropper washing clothes. Butler County, Missouri
1939-11
Wife of tenant farmer near Warner, Oklahoma
1939-06
Woman ironing in tent home. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See general caption 21
1939-07
Woman preparing poke salad
1939-03
Woman Weaving WPA
1939-09
Woman washing her clothes on her farm at El Indio, Texas
1939-03
Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. ( ) - Flickr - The
1939
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa ( )
1939-01-01
Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi
1939-01
Wonder Bread ad in Memphis in 1939 (cropped)
1939-10
WP King of Prussia Inn
1939-06
Young married girl living in Mays Avenue camp 8b22521v
1939-07
Young Mexican boy pulling and bunching carrots near Edinburg, Texas
1939
“The Best Service for COLORED ONLY” - Hotel Clark, 144 Beale Street, Memphis Tennessee (cropped)
1939-10