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

United Nations heroes with their hostesses by Lake Ontario 8d30883v

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes with their hostesses by Lake Ontario, at a swimming party held for visitors' entertainment during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes (background) at the Flag Day ceremony at the Elks Club during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes marching in the Flag Day parade during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. United nations heroes in the Flag Day parade during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes marching behind the boy scouts carrying flags in the United Nations week parade

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes being served lunch at the boy scout outing during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes gambling at the carnival during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. Unloading bauxite from a barge onto a Canadian boat which has come up through the inland waterways from Dutch Guiana

Unloading bauxite from a barge onto a Canadian boat 8d31678v

US Army tugboats under construction at Marietta Manufacturing Co 1943

Unloading newsprint from Canada to be used by the New York Daily News 8d39941v

Workers in the Fitzgibbons tank factory 8d38966v

Working on a bus in the Greyhound garage 8d32969v

USAAF flying aces Richard E. Duffey and MacArthur Powers April 1943

Victory Gardens. Professor Harry Nelson of San Fransico gives his daughter and her Girl Scout friends some pointers in transplanting young vegetables.

Valley of Chacon, Mora County, N ew Mex ico

Varnishing and repairing the interior of a trolley at the paint shop 8d15854v

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Victory Gardeners will do well to consult reliable dealers when purchasing garden tools. A few all-purpose tools will be ample to cultivate the average garden

Victory Gardens--for family and country.

V for Victory- Mexican agricultural laborers who have come to help harvest beets eating their lunch. Stockton, California, May 1943

View from the pilot house of a grain boat from Deluth 8d18988v

View across the Oswego River opposite the bauxite docks8d31709v

View of the church, Trampas, N ew M exico

Vince DiMaggio

Workers hurrying to catch a conveyance for work 8d27841v

Vital tin and alloy metals are conserved by this procedure

Vista northward into Colorado

Village of La Alama, near Questa, Taos Co., N ew Mex ico

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

Village of Trampas, Taos County, N.M." View of Las Trampas — in Taos County, New Mexico.

Vista westward over the Rio Grande valley from the foothills of the Sangre de Cristos Mountains near Questa, Taos County, N ew M exico

View of the church, Trampas, N.M." *San José de Gracia Church and Las Trampas — in Taos County, New Mexico.

View of the church, Trampas, N. M." *San José de Gracia Church — in Las Trampas, Taos Co., New Mexico.

New York, New York. Vincent giving a face massage in his barber shop on West Eighth Street

New York, New York. Vincent's Barber Shop on West Eighth Street

Vincent's Barber Shop on West Eighth Street8d12269v

Vincent's Barber Shop on West Eighth Street8d12271v

Virginia Ludwig goes to work on a punch press, stamping out discs from steel strips. Her well-fitting uniform is devoid of unnecessary pleats, trimmings, doodads--is just right for the job

Village of Trampas, Taos County, N ew Mex ico

Waiting for the bus at Arlington Farms

Waco YKS-6 undergoing maintenance at CAP Coastal Patrol Base 20

Waiting in line at lunch hour to register for the second ration book8d14059v

Waiting in line at lunch hour to register for the second ration book8d14060v

Waiting for a bus at a busy intersection 8d27883v

Wallace Jones - Duke Ellington Orchestra 1943 (cropped)

War Department Building at 21st and Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

War production worker at the Vilter Manufacturing Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts. Son is Second L ieutenan t, Son-in-law, Capt ain in Army

War production workers at the Vilter Manufacturing Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts. Her husband and brother are in the armed service

War production workers at the Vilter Manufacturing Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the service

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, inspecting one of the planes stored at the Stevens airport.

Niagara Falls, New York. War workers who live at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse having supper at 5:30

Washing loco

Washing a bus at the Greyhound garage 8d32869v

Washing a bus at the Greyhound garage 8d32870v

Wartime food demonstration. Wartime food demonstrator Alice Burtis exhibits an "extended" meat loaf at a Washington, D.C. consumer meeting. In such gatherings now being held throughout the country, housewives are learning best methods of wartime cooking and buying

War Labor Board anthracite hearing broad view January 1943