Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 6,781–6,840 on this page. The photos were taken for US government agencies, so they are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
- 1930s
- 1940s
War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Seven of the twelve members of the Women's Advisory Committee, WMC, are shown at a meeting in Washington, D.C., March 18, 1943. Reading from left to right, they are: Mrs. Beatrice Gould, editor, Ladies' Home Journal; Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, vice-pr
1943-03-18
Washing locomotives is an old business, but it is a new thing to see women doing the work. This crew of women engine cleaners on the Pennsylvania Railroad is taking the place of men called into the armed services
1943
Workers hurrying to catch a conveyance for work 8d27845v
1943-04
Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54 hundred horse power diesel freight locomotives in the roundhouse, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas
1943-03
Washing oranges at an orange packing co-op, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip
1943-03
Washington, D.C. Washington Monument at sunset
1943-03
Washington, D.C. Dupont Circle
1943-05
Washington, D.C. A pawnshop window
1943-12
Wendy Welder Richmond Shipyards (cropped)
1943-02
Washington, D.C. Field trips for the "flying nun" pre-flight class, including inspection tours of hangars at the Washington National Airport. Here, Sister Aquinas is explaining engine structure to her
1943
Washington, D.C. Every morning, Lynn Massman, wife of a second class petty officer who is studying in Washington, must wash clothes and diapers for her eight-weeks-old son
1943-12
Washington, D.C. On the Mall
1943-12
Washington, D.C. Miss Helen Ringwald works with the pneumatic tubes
1943-06
Washington, D.C. Jewel Mazique, worker at the, waiting for a streetcar on her way home from work
1943-03
Washington, D.C. Sailors sitting on a monument 8d26777v
1943-03
Washington, D.C. Street photographer in front of the Capitol 8d26795v
1943-03
Washington, D.C. Taking pictures of the Capitol lawn on a Sunday afternoon
1943-03
Washington, D.C. The Capitol
1943-03
Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the girls at Woodrow Wilson High School
1943-10
Washington, D.C., in front of Union Station.
1943-12
Women airport workers.
1943-10
Women airport workers.
1943-10
Women airport workers.
1943-10
Women airport workers.
1943-10
The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport.
1943-10
Women airport workers.
1943-10
The U.S. Weather Bureau
1943-10
The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport.
1943-10
Women airport workers.
1943-10
The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport.
1943-10
The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport
1943-10
Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport.
1943-10
Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport
1943-10
The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport.
1943-10
Buffalo, New York. Watching the Scotch Highlander Band perform at the "I am an American" day rally in Memorial Auditorium
1943-05
Wasted in the hasty, slovenly black marketer's makeshift abattoir are parts that might make valuable surgical and medicinal supplies for U.S. soldiers: sutures for sewing up incisions, adrenalin and insulin, as well as gelatin for military photographic film
1943
Welder and assistant at the Higgins shipyards. New Orleans, Louisiana
1943-06
Wendy Welder Richmond Shipyards
1943-02
West bound Santa Fe RR freight train waiting in a siding to meet an east bound train, Ricardo, New Mexico
1943-03
". Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, and Flossie Burtos await an opportunity to weld their first piece of steel on the ship SS George Washington Carver.", ca. 1943
c. 1943
". Welders Alivia Scott, Hattie Carpenter, and Flossie Burtos await an opportunity to weld their first piece of steel on the ship SS George Washington Carver."
c. 1943
West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train 1a34746v
1943-03
Westbound freight train stopping for water1a34747v
1943-03
West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train waiting in a siding to meet an east bound train, Ricardo, N ew Mex ico
1943-03
West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train stopping for water, Tolar, N ew Mex ico
1943-03
Westbound freight train stopping for water, Melrose, N ew Mex ico
1943-03
West-bound passenger train going around a curve on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona, near Gleed, Arizone
1943-03
Welding damaged steel plates which hold rubber sandwiches8d16176v
1943-04
Welder at the Higgins shipyards. New Orleans, Louisiana
1943-06
White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire
1943-06
Workers hurrying to catch a trolley and a trackless trolley 8d27837v
1943-04
Willard DiSantis, sixteen-year old high school boy 8d20109v
1943-06
Oswego, New York. William P. O'Brien of the Neal-O'Brien lumber company
1943-06
Workers hurrying to catch a trolley and a trackless trolley 8d27838v
1943-04
Emmitsburg, Maryland. Window display in the general store
1943-02
Wartime food demonstration. Winners of the butterless, sugarless cake made at a wartime food demonstration were, Mrs. Victor Brusher and Mrs. M.L. Cuadle, both of Alexandria, Virginia. Attending all such meetings held at the housing settlement where they live, both women have found the demonstration
1943-03
Woman playing softball with other members of Othello production, Central Park, New York City
1943
Baltimore, Maryland. Woman conductor and motorman who work together eating between trips at the terminal lunch
1943-04
Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company8d16890v
1943-04
Woman learning to be an automobile mechanic at the Burgard Vocational High School. 8d16913v
1943-04