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

Baltimore, Maryland. Third shift workers waiting on street corner to be picked up by shared cars around midnight

Buffalo, New York. Third shifters electing a president and other officers to organize further activities. Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) coeducational recreation program for the third shift and swing shift workers from 9 a.m. to 1 and midnight to 5 a.m. includes sports, singing and danci

Buffalo, New York. Third shifters getting breakfast. Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) coeducational recreation program for the third shift and swing shift workers from 9 a.m. to 1 and midnight to 5 a.m. includes sports, singing and dancing

This bench job requires goggles and gloves for protection. The visor front cap is necessary for protection from glare. The worker is using a small hand burr

War nursery schools. Scranton, Pennsylvania.These youngsters may not be able to sing an aria but they are having a good time in a war nursery school in Scranton, which is one of four in this community. Child care centers meet a critical need for supervised care of children of mothers employed in war

This filthy frame structure was once a "black market" for meats. Note the lime scattered on the floor, a black marketeer's gesture at cleanliness

This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear

Times Square on a Rainy Day 1943 John Vachon

Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill.

Baseball players in war production. Three major leaguers put the diamond behind them and get to work for Uncle Sam in the California Shipbuilding Corporation. Vernie Stephens (left), former shortstop with Saint Louis Browns, George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians, and Vince DiMaggi

California shipyard workers. This woman worker pushes back her helmet during a moment's pause from her welding job at the Richmond shipyard in California

California shipyard workers. Thousands of workers bound for the Richmond shipyards in San Francisco's East bay area leave the ferry and cross the ramp leading to the yards

War nursery schools. Woonsocket, Rhode Island.This young lady's mother works in a war plant. The youngster passes twelve hours a day Monday through Saturday in one of the thirty-five war nurseries conducted for war workers' children

Three of Uncle Sam's soldiers stand on the steps of an Army hospital. Lieutenant Eleanor Whalen of Chicago (left), Army transport nurse; Major Edward Rector of Marshal, South Carolina, veteran AVD flyer; and Lieutenant Frances Bullock of the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. typify the spirit

This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This is one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass production of Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers

Thomas circle December 1943

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Tired swingshift workers sitting on the sidelines8d28326v

Buffalo, New York. Tired swingshift workers sitting on the sidelines at the swingshift dance held weekly from midnight to 4 a.m. at the Main-Utica ballroom

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Tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR, Chicago, Ill.

Track repair work at the Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad, Bensenville, Ill. Track repair and work on the cinder pits at the roundhouse

Tony, shoeshiner in Vincent's barber shop 8d11684v

Tony, shoeshiner in Vincent's barber shop on West Eighth Street8d11685v

Traffic jam as workers of the first shift8d16182v

Traffic jam on the raod from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d28081v

Traffic jam on the raod from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d28083v

Traffic jam on the road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d28085v

Traffic jam on the road from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard 8d28086v

U.S. Army medical field service school.8d14037v

Tracks at Proviso yard of C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Tracks at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Transfer table, ATSF Railway, San Bernardino, Calif

Trampas, New Mexico" In Las Trampas, New Mexico.

Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico, a Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center. Due to overgrazing and loss of range title, its inhabitants now work as migratory labor and at subsistence farming." View of Las

Transferring from a trolley to a bus 8d27913v

Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico, a Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center. Due to overgrazing and loss of range title, its inhabitants now work as migratory labor and at subsistence farming

Trampas. New Mexico. The wife and daughter of Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), doing the family washing. Water is precious; it must be carried a quarter of a mile from the river

Trampas, New Mexico. One of the daughters of Juan Lopez, majordomo, doing the family washing. In summer, water is heated out of doors on an open fire, but in winter it is heated in the kitchen on the stove

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley car conductor

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley of 1917 vintage. Many old cars have been reconditioned because of wartime transportation pressure

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley conductor at dispatcher's window

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley conductor counting his receipts at the Park Terminal, dispatching center of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley conductors check in with the dispatcher behind the cage in the rear; pick up transfers, and count their receipts in this room at the Park Terminal, the dispatching center of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley conductors checking in with the dispatcher after completing their route

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley conductors counting their receipts at the Park Terminal, the dispatch center of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley dispatcher in his cage at the Park Terminal listening to a report of the engineer on the condition of a car. Each car receives a routine checkup daily

Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal 8d16152v

Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal 8d16153v

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley leaving the terminal at night

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolleys and cars leaving the Bethlehem Farifield shipyard on the road to Baltimore at three p.m. Workers are sharing the front car

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolleys inside the Park terminal

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolleys inside the Park terminal at night

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley carrying workers to the night shift at the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley terminal

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolleys in the Park terminal at night

Truck assembly plant, erected in Iran for Lend-Lease program to Russia, 1943