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

Yardmaster in railroad yards, Amarillo Texas

La Goulette, Tunisia. Wrecked turbine which formerly provided electric power for the entire Tunis area. Only one of the turbines is still running

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Young and old, everybody is Victory Gardening this spring, and there'll soon be hardly a backyard that's not under cultivation. Prior to planting, this gardener is raking the soil to pulverize and prepare it for seed

Zephyr at Chicago Union Station image

Buffalo, New York. 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

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

Young woman filing small parts at Vilter Manufacturing Company

کارخانه منتاژ کامیون در اندیمشک معروف به مینی دیترویت

"Capts. Lemuel R. Custis (left) and Charles B. Hall, of the 99th Fighter Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Forces, chat while on leave in New York City

B-25 over Tivoli

B25 Mitchell over Tivoli

Ceylon--Old World aids new in the war

Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees

Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees-edit

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Washington, D.C. Eleanor Roosevelt listening to Carile Tart of the District of Columbia recreation committee sing folk songs at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Workers of American, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Washington, D.C. Eleanor Roosevelt arriving at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Workers of American, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Four images of the Budapest String Quartet performing in the Coolidge Auditorium of the

Laurel, Maryland. Monitoring at the United States Federal Communications Commission listening post

Liberation de Cherbourg le maire felicite les americains

Manuel Nieto and President Quezon

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Paul Oglesby

Washington, D.C. Pete Seeger, noted folk singer, leading the crowd in "When We March into Berlin" at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Workers of American, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Pete Seeger by Joseph A. Home, 1944 ( )

Ships under construction at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, in 1941-1946 (fsa.8b09971)

Swing bridge, Superior, Wisconsin

Swing bridge, Superior, Wisconsin (cut)

Synagogue D-Day

Synagogue D-Day1

Synagogue D-Day2

Synagogue D-Day3

The New York Grand Central Terminal

Tingfu Tsiang, council member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for China

Washington, D.C. Pete Seeger, noted folk singer entertaining at the opening of the Washington labor canteen, sponsored by the United Federal Labor Canteen, sponsored by the Federal Workers of American, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Bonnet Grew Monnet

Eisenhower and Zhukov

German instrument of surrender2

Major Barbara Stimson, an American surgeon in Rome, Italy, 1945. 2012.019.162 1

Marek Čuleň (c. 1945)

Montgomery receives Order of Victory HD-SN-99-02756

Montgomery receives Order of Victory HD-SN-99-02756 cropped

New Flame Thrower tosses fires gasoline Little Falls N.J.

Spectators are viewing works by Miné Okubo (G-830)

To the Shores of Iwo Jima titlecard

Willie HD-SN-99-02413

The maze of livestock pens and walkways at Chicago's stockyards, ca. 1947

The maze of livestock pens and walkways at Chicago's stockyards