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

Brockton Enterprise 1940

Brockton, Mass., Dec. 1940, second-hand plumbing store

Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting,before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Burning the autumn leaves in Norwich, Connecticut

Cabin in Southern U.S.

Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky

Camp member hanging out clothes outside of utility building which is equipped with complete laundry facilities and showers. Osceola migratory camp, Belle Glade, Florida

Caribou-bar 1940

Caribou maine

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida.

Cattle call

Cattle call2

Center of town. Woodstock, Vermont. "Snowy night"

Central Vermont station in Norwich, November 1940

Cheesecloth covering used in growing shade grown tobacco; the stalks lying on the ground are left after the tobacco is cut; Suffield, Conn.

Chicago's Michigan Avenue by John Vachon, 1940

Clothesline in a working class section of Waterbury, Connecticut

Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940

Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass.

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested.

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested

Children reading 1940

Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts

Chilili, New Mexico

Church at Pie Town, New Mexico. This building was a cooperative community enterprise

Church, Pie Town, New Mexico

Church and trading post sign, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1940

Church, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1940

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. The children from the nearby farms and neighborhoods go swimming, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, in the lake

Construction contractor's camp

Connie B. Gay, FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Connecticut town, probably Stonington, on the sea.

Connecticut town, probably Stonington, on the sea

Connecticut town on the sea, probably Stonington

Cornshocks in mountain farm along the Skyline Drive in Virginia

Cowboy at Rodeo. Quemado, New Mexico

Crates of peaches being gathered from pickers to be hauled to the shipping shed, Delta County, Colo.

Crates of peaches in the orchard, Delta County, Colo.

Jewish Stores in Colchester, Conn.

Crowd eating free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

D&RGW boxcars

D&RGW locomotive

D&RGW Durango roundhouse 1940

D&RGW Durango yard 1940

D&RGW Durango roundhouse 1940b

D&RGW 453 1940

D&RGW 453 1940b

D&RGW Boxcar 3146

D&RGW Loading fat lambs

D&RGW fat lambs into corrals

D&RGW Ouray station 1940b

D&RGW Ouray station 1940a

D&RGW Boxcar 3187

D&RGW Durango roundhouse 1940c

Cutting burley

Cut burley

Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.