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

Women who work at the Navy shipyards in the community room for women at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) duration dormitories. Bremerton, Washington

Women washing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Women workers apply preservative waterproof paint to bottom of boat which is nearing completion. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant luch wagon. At the left a 37mm anti-aircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line at a War production program scene in a Pennsylvania plant.

Workers going home from an afternoon of chopping cotton, Greene County, Ga.

In the dust storm area of the Southwest, valuable topsoil has been blown away by the winds from the fields into drifts along the fences. Dry farm near mills, New Mexico, where the Resettlement administration is restoring 70,000 acres to pasture grass, protecting the land from further devestaion.

Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942

Oakland, California. Following evacuation orders, this store, at 13th and Franklin Streets, was clo.

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B-25 bomber planes at the North American Aviation, Incorporated being hauled along an outdoor assembly line with an "International" tractor, Kansas City, Kansas

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Autumn leaves on a farm road

B-25 assembly

I'll carry mine. A boon for wartime shoppers, this cart is one of the various carry alls which have been devised to help Mrs. America get purchases home, now that truck deliveries are limited

Sailor at the Naval Air Base wears the new type protective clothing and gas mask designed for use in chemical warfare, Corpus Christi, Texas. These uniforms are lighter than the old type

Nurse weighs baby at the well baby clinic at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona

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Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel-, Lincoln, Nebraska

"Making model airplanes for U.S. Navy at the Armstrong Technical High School. Washington, DC.", 03/1942

"Negro bucket man at the Tennessee Valley Authority Douglas Dam on the French Broad River

"Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach, Calif., plant. Women workers groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers."

"Making model airplanes for U.S. Navy at the Armstrong Technical High School. Washington, DC."

Women in industry. Gas mask production.

"Red" Sounders, drummer, and his band, at the Club DeLisa, Chicago, Illinois

Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mildred Webb, an NYA trainee at the base, is learning to operate a cutting machine in the Assembly and Repair Department. After about eight weeks as an apprentice she will be eligible for a civil service job in

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig and her helper, Frances Heipek, removing turned 105 mm. howitzers from stockpile for honing operation at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox

16" gun, Ft. Story

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and els

This husky member of a construction crew building a new 33,000-volt electric power line into Fort Knox is performing an important war service, Ft. Knox, Ky. Thousands of soldiers are in training there, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisville is needed to supplement the existing pow

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week

16-inch coast artillery gun stamped "Watervliet Arsenal 1921," Ft. Story, Va.

16-inch coast artillery gun, Ft. Story, Va.

16" gun, Ft. Story (cropped)

16-inch coast artillery gun, Ft. Story, Va

220 Years of the --from cards to computers, recording and retrieving information for all ( )

40 days Lincoln, Nebraska

Filling the Arsenals

A battery of 1,000 and 2,000 pound furnaces roaring threats to the Axis. These are rotary, oil-fired melting furnaces at Aluminum Industries Inc. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret

New York, New York. Mrs. Marianna Castorella came to America from Italy forty-odd years ago.

8c34607v FSA trailer camp project for Negroes.

A clerk in one of the Inglewood, Calif., stock rooms of North American Aviation Inc., checks parts for a sub-assembly department.

A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill.

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A C-87 transport plane, just off the assembly line, at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation field, Fort Worth, Texas

A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet, this reservoir will make possible the addit

A bum on the Bowery near 7th Street 8d22167v

A bum on the Bowery at 14th Street and Third Avenue 8d22192v

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I stands in the yard of a Chicago steel mill, ready to be melted down and processed into a modern weapon for World War II

A Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill.

A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La.

Here's our mission. A combat crew receives final instructions just before taking off in a mighty YB-17 bomber from a bombardment squadron base at the field, Langley Field, Va.

A combat crew receives final instructions just before taking off in a YB-17 bomber from a bombardment squadron base at the field, Langley Field, Va.

A completed B-17 F heavy bomber is checked by final inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company before it moves to the flight line for rigid acceptance tests.

A Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant for transfer to the flight line and a test flight before delivery to the Army.

A couple of husky Junior Commnados add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Va. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves -- no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters, who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns and ships

A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 i.e., B-25 attack bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week. A delegation from Massachusetts talking with their Congressman, Tom Elliot

Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A farmer who rides into town every day in a buggy to work at a hardware store leaves his horse in a friend's barn on the outskirts of town

Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A farmer who rides into town every day in a buggy to work in a hardware store leaves his horse in a friend's barn on the outskirts of town