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

Production. Shell loading. These girls are "staking" fuses in the assembly of artillery shells in a large Midwest loading plant. In the manufacture and loading of percussion caps--an operation performed in a large division of the plant--ninety percent of the employees are women. Army officers say th

Production. Shell loading. On the "firing line" of a large Midwest loading plant, artillery shells soon to batter the Axis are sprayed with olive drab paint. This women is a sprayer, but women also do the "puddling" of TNT in shells better than men. For "puddling," the stirring and packing of TNT in

Production. Shell loading. Every shell that goes through a large Midwest loading plant must be thoroughly cleaned. These women are removing excess paint from the bands that circle the projectiles. Women also stencil firing data on the shells and perform many other essential operations. Ravenna ordna

Questa vicinity, New Mexico

Purse checkroom at the swingshift dance held weekly 8d28328v

Purchasing bread in a Lithuanian bakery. The bread in the foreground is Lithuanian rye. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Questa, Taos County, New Mexico

Questa, Taos Co., N ew Mex ico

Rabbi Sidney Bialek, of Temple Adeth Israel 8d20115v

Questa, New Mexico. Mass

Ray Nance 1943

Railroad cars loaded with sulphur, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

New York, New York. Raymond Fazio and his family receive a belated Christmas package from one of their four sons in the service. This one is in Africa. Fazio is a journalist and lives on East Tenth Street

New York, New York. Raymond Fazio, journalist, in his home on East Tenth Street

Washington, D.C. Ration book applicants checking out at Woodrow Wilson High School

New Orleans, Louisiana. Ramp boats on railroad cars at the Higgins shipyards

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorthy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighing them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents per hour

New York, New York. Reading class in Public School Eight on King Street

Reading class in Public School Eight8d12281v

Registering for the second ration book at a public school8d14058v

Reading news bulletins and looking at the news pictures 8d27907v

Reading news bulletins and looking at the news pictures 8d27927v

Buffalo, New York. Recently employed women being sworn into the rubber workers union at a Sunday meeting. Most of them have never worked before and know little about trade unionism

Buffalo, New York. Recently-employed women being sworn into the rubber workers union at a Sunday meeting. Most of them have never worked before and know little about trade unionism

Oswego, New York. Red Cross blood donor service cars from Syracuse, New York parked outside the post office. One thousand Oswegans volunteered to give their blood, and the Red Cross handled ten every fifteen minutes during the campaign

Constantine (vicinity), Algeria. Red Cross clubmobile serving refreshments to an anti-aircraft gun crew stationed in an outlying post

Rushing to catch a trackless trolley home from work 8d27933v

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R.

Baltimore, Maryland. Restaurant window

Baltimore, Maryland. Restaurant under the elevated trolley

Repairing a wrecked trolley at the damage repair shop 8d15868v

Repairing electric connector at the end of a 1919 trolley 8d15865v

Baltimore, Maryland. Repairing the motor of a PCC trolley. Most recent trolley model designed in 1936 by a group of manufacturers and transit companies in an effort to standardize, simplify, and bring down the price; at the damage shop, maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Repairing a bus at the Washington terminal8d16185v

Repairing a bus motor at the Washington terminal8d16170v

Repairing busses and their motors at the Washington terminal, 8d16178v

Repairing busses at the Washington terminal,8d16179v

Repairing busses at the Washington terminal8d16177v

Removing a tire from a bus at the Greyhound garage 8d32895v

Rex Stewart 1943

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel

Richard Nathaniel Wright

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in shape. Santa Fe R.R.

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R.

Riding on a street car8d26776v

Reverend Charles E. Mathews, minister of the Presbyterian church 8d20102v

Washington, D.C. Riding on a street car

Washington, D.C. Riding on a streetcar

Riding on a streetcar 8d26808v

Richard E. Duffey 1943

Riveting a center wing section for a B-24E (Liberator) bomber in the horizontal position at Ford's big Willow Run plant.

Road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d28076v

Road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to Baltimore wears out 8d28077v

Road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to Baltimore wears out 8d28084v

Bell Aircraft Corp. Niagara Falls, New York. Riveter on the final assembly line of Bell Airacobras

Riding on a streetcar 8d26811v

Right face detail, Alfred T. Palmer bolt cutting (cropped)

Robeson Hagen Othello