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

Muskrat trappers drinking wine and playing cache, Delacroix Louisiana, 8c14581

Near White Plains, Ga., ca. 1941.

Near White Plains, Ga.?

Near White Plains, Ga.

Native American fisherman detail in September 1941, from- Celilo Falls Lee (cropped)

Negro doctors in a Chicago, Illinois hospital

Negro migratory workers and one shack, Belle Glade, Fla.

Negro migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla.

Negro migratory workers by a shack, Belle Glade, Fla.

Negro bus-boy dishwashers, Investment Pharmacy, Washington,.

Negro laborers sitting around in front of a fire on Saturday.

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW,.

Negro children playing outside of nursery at Okeechobee migr.

Negro bus-boy dishwashers, Investment Pharmacy, Washington, D.C., July 1941

Negro tenant farmer's wife washing clothes in the backyard. Greene County, Georgia

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

On the coast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands?

Negro woman watching the Queen of the Cherry Blossom 8b31130v

No beer sold to indians

Easter morning on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois by Russell Lee, 1941 ( )

Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois (Source )

Prison Dance by Jack Delano ( )

NYC skyline Dec 1941

Old ex-slave on a farm near Greensboro, Alabama, 8a35836

On the ferris wheel at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

On main street of Cascade, Idaho.

On the coast of Puerto Rico?

One of the children of a squatter family that had to move out of the Camp Croft area, near Whitestone, South Carolina, 8c04999

One of the steep streets on the hillsides, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands

One of the steep hillside streets, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Virgin Islands

One of the modern trailers parked in Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida. Mother is doing the family washing

Orocovis, Puerto Rico Near the main plaza 1941

Outside SD Union Station 1941

Outdoor curb service at the Washington Hot Shoppe. Washington, D.C.

Pa Pa 'as walked holes in his shoes. Cherry Blossom Festival8b31139v

Ox-drawn cart near Hinesville, Georgia

Parking lot. Chicago, Illinois

Palm trees along the road, vicinity of Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands

Part of a Negro tenant family, on a farm near Greensboro, Al.

Paul V McNutt Oct 1941

Part of the harbor, Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Passengers waiting outside Lowell Union Station, January 1941

Left to right: Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator; Miss Elise Davison, Assistant Director in Charge of Volunteer Activities, Women's Division, Office of Civilian Defense; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director, Office of Civilian Defense; Mayor F.H. LaGuardia, Director of Office of Civilian

Pentecostals Praising

Photo engraver at Chicago Defender. Chicago, Illinois

Pine Grove Mills swimming hole

Pit River valley

Picket line at Mid-City Realty Company, South Chicago, Illinois, 8a33115

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (fsa.8c15209)

Plenty of room to hang out washing in the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) low income housing project at Holyoke, Massachusetts

Plowing a field of cotton, Greene County, Georgia, 8c05957

Positively no beer sold to Indians 1941

Postcard and candy shop selling souvenirs and praline to tourists. New Orleans, Louisiana 1941 Wolcott

Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

Portrait of a farm boy1a35474v

Portrait of a farm boy

Posin. Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, D.C.

Postcard and candy shop selling souvenirs and praline to tourists, New Orleans, Louisiana 1941

Pre-fight, Oil for the engine of an airliner preparatory to takeoff. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C. July 1941. - Flickr - polkbritton

Preacher and his wife sitting under photos taken of them twenty years ago, Heard County, Georgia, 8c05342