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

Operating a hand drill this woman worker is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer (cropped)

Orange, Texas. This high school girl in training for nursery school work spends an hour daily with children of shipyard workers in the "laboratory" nursery school

P-40 64FS 57FG pilots

Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sign in Chicago

Packing oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Baltimore, Maryland. Painting a sign on a trolley at the paint shop of the maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baseball players in war production. Outfielder Vince DiMaggio, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been working at the California Ship Building Corporation since last October. He's one of the many former athletic stars who are helping to smash the Axis by building the equipment needed by America's fighti

OWI photographer Nick Parrino somewhere in the Persian corridor in the Jeep in which he rode to make a photographic record of the first run by an all American United States Army convoy carrying supplies for Russia. 1943.

Pan American Union, Washington, DC in 1943

Parke Davis

Baltimore, Maryland. Parking space

Baltimore, Maryland. Painting the roof and washing the windows of a 1912 trolley at the paint shop of the maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Buffalo, New York. Parade held to raise money for the cruiser Buffalo

Passing a section house along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad, Encino vicinity, New Mexico

Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer watching softball with other members of Othello production, Central Park, New York City

Paul Robeson playing softball with other members of Othello production, Central Park, New York City

Buffalo, New York. Patsy Grimm, age six, removing the bottles from the kitchen table. Her mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Patsy Grimm helping to do all the housework. Their mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Patsy Grimm, age six, dusting and Mary Grimm, eight, sweeping in the front room. Their mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Paul Hermann, German baker in a Lithuanian bakery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Paul Hermann, German, baking loaves of Lithuanian rye bread in a Lithuanian bakery

Washington, D.C. Pasting up a telegram at the Western Union telegraph office

Part of the office staff with the card system 8d32775v

Part of the Greyhound garage 8d32868v

Wartime food demonstration. Participants in a wartime food demonstration, Mrs. Harry Weiner and Mrs. M.L. Caudle, wives of Alexandria, Virginia torpedo plant workers, find an enjoyable conclusion to the demonstration where sugarless, butterless cake was the day's example of wartime cooking

New Orleans, Louisiana. Patrol torpedo boats under construction at the Higgins shipyards

Penasco Church

Pennsylvania R.R. iron ore docks, unloading ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" ore unloaders

Peanut and newspaper venders awaiting the three o'clock 8d15845v

Baltimore, Maryland. Peanut stand

Pennsylvania R.R. Railroad ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio

Penasco, Taos County, New Mexico. Barbed wire fences make excellent clotheslines

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloader, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading ore from a lake freighter by "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, a "Hulett" ore unloader in operation, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, a "Hulett" unloader in operation, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, unloading iron ore from a lake freighter by means of "Hulett" unloaders, Cleveland, Ohio

Pere Antoine Alley 1943

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant. This woman is sixty-five, and has never been anything but a housewife, she is told that she cannot be of use right now. It is feared that she wouldn't have the strength to stay on a factory job C

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant. This woman is forty-five, and worked in a factory in the last war; has since been a housewife, and has two children over fourteen

Peter Grimm, age ten, waiting with his wagon outside Loblaw's 8d29088v

Wartime food demonstration. Peter Brusher, six-year-old son of a camouflage engineer, seems pleased with his mother's luck in winning half of the butterless, sugarless cake made by a wartime food demonstration nutritionist. Mrs. Brusher is one of the many American housewives who are attending simila

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. Periodic complete vehicle inspection is required of all United States Army drivers. This soldier is checking the wheel alignment of his truck, an important factor in the length of life of tires

Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Pitching horse shoes during lunch hour 8d27863v

Physics teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School 8d41257v

Baseball players in war production. Pitching in to stop the Axis short, shortstop Vernie Stephens, former Saint Louis Browns star, has been a warehouseman for California Ship Building Corporation since early last fall

War nursery schools. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Picture books, blocks, modeling clay, story hours, music, for the pre-school children of war working mothers. War nurseries are generally to be under trained supervisory personnel and will be operated in connection with the public schools in communiti

Plaquemines Parish 1943 E Riche Sign Shack by Vachon

Placita, New Mexico on Rio Pueblo 1943

Placita, New Mexico, on the Rio Pueblo

Placita, near Penasco, Taos Co., N ew Mex ico

Buffalo, New York. Playing volleyball at Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) coeducational recreation program for third shift and swing shift workers from 9 a.m. to 1 and midnight to 5 a.m.; includes sports, singing and dancing

War workers' nursery. Playing waitress is an envied job at the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California, where a complete and nourishing luncheon is served daily in addition to midmorning cod liver oil and tomato juice and afternoon milk and crackers

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 1943 - E Riche Shack Signs

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, June 1943 - Mother of three soldiers

Porto Farina SdKfz 11 wreck May1943

Polish Refugees Iran 1943 fsa.8d29619