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

Washington, D.C. A student assisting a ration book applicant at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Students assisting applicants for ration books at Woodrow Wilson High chool

A thrilling experience for student nurses is the first assignment to the operating room. Student nurse Frances Bullock (left) hands instruments to a surgeon during an operation

Student on the agricultural school farm

Student holding a young calf on the agricultural school farm

Students pledging allegiance to the flag in public school 8d25792v

Students pledging allegiance to the flag in public school eight 8d25793v

Students pledging allegiance to the flag in public school eight 8d25794v

Washington, D.C. Sue, a waitress at the Sea Grill serving beer

Students waiting to be taken to the agricultural school farm where they will learn modern methods

Sulphur vat 60 feet high, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

Oswego, New York. Sunday fishermen on the Oewego River opposite the bauxite docks

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Sunday morning in many U.S. communities finds all the neighbors getting together for a good workout at the community Victory Garden. Through cooperation of local organizations, thousands of vacant lots in thousands of cities are being transformed into fruitfu

Super Chief

Switchman throwing a switch at Chicago and Northwest Railway Company's Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943

Switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Calumet City, Illinois, January 1943

Switch lights in Santa Fe R.R. yards 1a34705v

Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Switch lights in Santa Fe R.R. yards, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations all such lights are hooded. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR1a34657v - crop

Swing shift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ballroom8d16688v

Swingshift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ballroom8d16693v

Swingshift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ballroom8d44854v

Swingshift workers sitting on the sidelines at the weekly shift dance 8d28334v

Swingshift workers sitting on the sidelines at the weekly shift dance8d28331v

Swingshift workers sitting on the sidelines at the weekly shift dance8d28333v

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Sweeper at a drinking fountain

Switchman throwing a switch at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Mold department. After molds have been pounded with air hammer, women put heads on the molds, that is put extra protective sand on top, and insert the cut core (round funnel to left of woman in foregound) through which mol

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Women sweepers in front of ladle into which metal from open-hearth furnace is poured, and which is then transported by crane to molds. Most new women employees are given clear-up jobs to start with in order to accustom the

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. Woman operating a charging machine. She works the machine by hand controls behind a partition, and has just dipped red hot metal into water, causing steam

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Rod department. Metal rods are used to reinforce the sand in most molds. After the mold has been used, rods are shaken out of the sand and transported to the Rod department. Here women sort them, and will then straighten t

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Making mold for armor plates to be tested on proving ground. The flask, or metal frame is placed over the flask, and two men press it down with air hammers

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. Woman operator of a five ton crane picking up rough castings of truck train for railroads. She operated this same crane in the last war; in between was a housewife

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. Operator of a five-ton crane in the finishing department who operated a crane in the same plant in the last war

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Woman and man chainman loading rough castings of truck trains for railroad cars on a five-ton crane, also operated by a woman

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Sand slinger operated by a woman. Sand is forced onto pattern with air pressure. The operator wears safety goggles and a dust-proof noseguard to protect herself from ricocheting sand and must rest every twenty minutes or s

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, sand slinger operator at rest. Notice sand on her face

Washington, D.C. Taking pictures of a girl on the steps of the National Gallery of Art on a Sunday afternoon

Washington, D.C. Taking pictures of the cherry blossoms

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie theatre

Teheran, Iran. Polish woman and her grandchildren shown in an American Red Cross evacuation camp as they await evacuation to new homes

Washington, D.C. Teachers listening to instructions for giving out ration book no. 4 at Woodrow Wilson High School

New Orleans, Louisiana. Tank lighter under construction at the Higgins shipyards

Ted Poston, New York Post journalist Ted Poston working at the Office of War Information with his assistants William Clark and Harriette Easterlin (cropped)

The capitol of the Virginia colony

The altar of Nuestra Senora del Carmel on the south wall of the church, Trampas, N.M." *Interior of the San José de Gracia Church — in Las Trampas, Taos Co., New Mexico.

The American Legion post entertaining a Greek sailor 8d38912v

Terminal lunch at the Park terminal 8d16165v

Terminal lunch at the Park terminal8d16180v

Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday night shoppers in a line outside a movie theatre.

San Francisco, California. The Bank of America

San Francisco, California. Bank of America victory bond ad

Market Street and Powell street and Eddy Street, San Francisco, California. Entrance to the Bank of America

San Francisco, California. Inside view of the Bank of America

The altar of Nuestra Senora del Carmel on the south wall of the church, Trampas, N.M.

The capitol of the Virginia colony during the 18th century, which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., during the 1930's, Williamsburg, Va. The capitol originally erected in 1701-5 was the meeting place of the Virginia General Assembly and General Court

The capitol of the Virginia colony during the 18th century