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

Timber, reforestation project, Md. (?)

This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant is now ready for drying, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Synthetic rubber made by the "ameripol" process is derived from butadiene (a petroleum derivative). In this rolling mill the crumbs of rubber are squeezed dry of excess wa

This young woman and her family moved from the area taken over by the Army to a prefabricated house built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) to take care of some of the farmers who had to move. Milford, Caroline County, Virginia

Tipple at copper mine. Franklin Mine, Michigan

Tony Bacinos NOLA 1941 MPWolcott

Tobacco country, vicinity of Barranquitas? Puerto Rico

Tobacco country, vicinity of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Tired feet. Cherry Blossom Festival 8b31140v

Tobacco growing in vicinity of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Trackless Tank

Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. A tirailleur (infantryman) who has been awarded the Cross of Liberation by General Charles de Gaulle

Trappers' and fishermen's boats and homes along the bayou. Delacroix Island, Louisiana, 1941

Trees in a reforestation project, Md.?

Tree in a rural area

Trees in reforestation project, Md.?

Twentieth Century Schoolteacher

Turku station fsa.8d37361

Two people kneeling, working in a field, possibly in Puerto Rico

Two women talk at corner of High and Dwight, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Two women in conversation on High Street by Holyoke City Hall

Two women pass corner tavern in Holyoke (October 1941)

U.S. Army Medal of Honor with neck band

United States Marines recruiting office 1941

Vermont state fair barker

Vermont state fair barker bw

Utti airfield fsa.8d37297

Vicinity of Corozal, Puerto Rico

View down the main street from the Grand Hotel, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

View down the main street from the Grand Hotel, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands

Vince Banonis

Vultee plant Nashville fsa.8d00305

View of the grounds at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

Virgin Islands, December 1941.

Waitress 1941

Washing greens by pump near metal shelters at Okeechobee Mig.

Washday of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

Wash day in Sarasota trailer park. Sarasota, Florida

Wash hanging at utility building. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

Washing clothes near the old well. Ridge well project, Saint Mary's County, Maryland

At the entrance to the municipal airport in Washington, D.C.

In the main waiting room at the municipal airport in Washington, D.C.

Entrance to the waiting room at the municipal airport, in Washington, D.C.

Planes on the field at the municipal airport in Washington, D.C.

A plane taxiing off at the municipal airport in Washington, D.C.

View from inside the control tower at the municipal airport, in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. Christmas rush in the Greyhound bus terminal - Waiting Room

Washington, D.C. Christmas rush in the Greyhound bus terminal. Passengers waiting for buses

Watchin' the crowds. Cherry Blossom Festival 8b31123v

White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel e Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace

Wife of migratory farm worker ironing in shelter at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

Wife of defense worker washing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Wife of defense worker ironing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Wife of defense worker hanging out wash in trailer camp on Mount Vernon Highway near Alexandria, Virginia

Willow Run airplane inspection edited

With nearly 1000 African-American women employed as burners, welders, scalers, and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7th, 1943. Welder

Wine Bottle Cream of California Claret, Delacroix Louisiana 1941

Woman in her garden, Virgin Islands?

Woman in hat and young man pass corner tavern in Holyoke (October 1941)

Women in front of Grant's Department Store in Delaney's Marble Block, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift at the Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. These women are employed in the manufacture of eight-man pyramidial tents to house the expanding defense army in the field Related Names: United States. Office for Emergency