Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s

Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder, 2

Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average. There are a score of private.

Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder

A branch of peaches in an orchard, Delta County, Colo.

Alonzo Dillard Folger

(African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day la.

At Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a cooperative, vicinity of. *African-American children sitting on the porch of a house (1940).

1940 “QUICK LUNCH” - Colored Door with a Coca-Cola sign - (cropped)

A Coast Guard motor lifeboat provides escort to San Francisco's crab fishermen as a wartime precaution. This naval protection includes taking the fleet to the fishing grounds at dawn, remaining with it through the fishing hours and finally bringing it home through the Golden Gate in the late afterno

A cross roads store, bar, juke joint, and gas station in Melrose, Louisiana, 1944

A cross roads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La.

A girl from Shawboro (cropped)

A highway scene Natchez August 1940

A horse-drawn digger in operation on a (potato) farm run by a French-Canadian, Caribou, Aroostook county, Me.

A mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. ( )

A store with live fish for sale. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, July 1940

A square with old houses in an old fishing village, Stonington, Conn.

A starch factory along the Aroostook River, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me.

A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, La.

Every minute counts. A three-color (red, white and blue) poster designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of War Information (OWI), for display in war plants throughout the nation

A view of the old sea town, Stonington, Conn.

A view of the mountains along the Skyline Drive in Virginia

A woman painting a view of the Shenandoah Valley from the Skyline Drive, near an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, Virginia

African American's tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940

African American Teacher

An auto repair shop along U.S. 1, between Washington, D.C. and Laurel, Maryland

An old tenant house with a mud chimney and cotton growing up to its door, which is occupied by Mulattoes, Melrose, La.

An old house almost hidden by sunflowers, Rodney, Miss.

At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina. 1940

Bangor and aroostook rr

Barkeeper. Penasco, New Mexico

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house.:*At Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a cooperative, vicinity of, Louisiana.:*African-American children sitting on the porch of a house (1940).

Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA, Natchitoches, La.

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, Natchitoches, La. A Negro family (?) seated on the porch of a house.

Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farms.

Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farms.

Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farms.

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, Natchitoches, La. A Negro family (?) seated on the porch of a house

Bayou Bourbeaux plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux farmstead association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of the FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Baseball game cherry pickers camp

Bethlehem Steel Mill, Sparrows Point, Maryland

Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California. Children living in camp. Rent $2.75 plus el.

Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California. Children living in camp. Rent $2.75 plus el

Between Woodpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California. Cabins for agricultural workers on and off re.

Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pile them for curing ( )

Billboards along U.S. 1 near Laurel, Maryland

Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pile them for curing

Bill Stagg, homesteader, in front of his barn, Pie Town, New Mexico

Bill Stagg, homesteader, with pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico

Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico

Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico

Blackwell Smith, assistant director of priorities in charge of policy fsa.8e10628

Blackwell Smith, assistant director of priorities in charge of policy fsa.8e10628 (cropped)

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, Louisiana ( fsac.1a34362)

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La.

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La. Cajun children in a bayou near the school. Terrebonne, a Farm Security Administration project

Brockton, Mass. Tenement District (Dec 1940)