Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 1,321–1,380 on this page. The photos were taken for US government agencies, so they are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
- 1930s
- 1940s
A sailor mechanic refueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. The gun is mounted on a pedestal for anti-aircraft work
1942-06
A Powers Agency model on the roof of third Naval district 8d22864v
1942-10
A patient in a Rizzer corrective jacket is able to read 8b08191v
1942-11
Nurse training. A patient in a Roger Anderson traction can still enjoy luncheon
1942-11
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody!
1942-07
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors.
1942-07
Gasoline rationing. A pre-war sign gives unnecessary warning to wartime motorists, when there are any, as weekday traffic on the Pennsylvania turnpike hits new lows
1942-09
A sailor mechanic refueling a seaplane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
A part of the shop in a Midwestern company which has converted its machines and trained labor forces
1942
A soldier of the home front saves all waste fats and greases so that they can be processed into ammunition for America's soldiers of the battlefronts.
c. 1942
A snack in the local drugstore, also a cooperative8d21105v
1942
A soldier asking for help for his mother at the Red Cross home 8d21252v
1942-06
A shopper in R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23933v
1942-12
A student nurse aides the doctor in a gastric analysis 8b08211v
1942-11
A student nurse assists the doctor in changing the dressing 8b09884v
1942-11
Nurse training. A student nurse explains to diabetic patient how orange juice in her diet can limit sugar to the proper amount. In this type of work student nurses relieve graduate nurses for military duty
1942-11
Production. Aircraft engines.
1942-07
Women in industry. Tool production.
1942-08
Women in war. Summer canning workers. A skilled and vastly important job in this Rochelle, Illinois, asparagus canning factory is performed by this woman grading expert. The grade of vegetables, their water content, and the relative excellence of the product determines the price which the canner wil
1942-09
A section of the mine with an unusually high roof due to poor ceiling quality
1942-11
A train (or "cut") being pushed out of a receiving yard toward the hump. A brakeman rides each train to signal the engineer in the locomotive at the rear; Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
A train being pushed over the hump at the Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
A train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. A student reciting an original poem about Brazil in elementary school assembly
1942-01
Attending a tracheotomy case is part of the training 8b07789v
1942-11
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 student on his way from the to the Capitol making notes
1942-02
Washington, D.C. A Sunday picnic in Rock Creek Park
1942
Nurse training. A student nurse, acting as physical therapist, points to the picture book, encouraging a child to learn to use his crutches
1942-11
Nurse training. A torpedoed sailor receives burn treatment from a doctor, with student nurse Susan Petty in attendance. Care of burns gets special emphasis in the education of every nurse today, for war casualties almost invariably include victims of burns
1942-11
A student nurse, acting as physical therapist 8b07791v
1942-11
Nurse training. A student nurse (right) assists the doctor with a lumbar puncture, an important diagnostic procedure for back diseases or injuries. The student must sterilize needles and manometer, get the patient into correct position, prepare the skin area which will be punctured, and take charge
1942-11
A student regulates the oxygen flow into this tiny oxygen box 8b08205v
1942-11
A student nurse gives a patient a metabolism test 8b08222v
1942-11
A student nurse right instructs a patient 8b08213v
1942-11
A student nurse stands by ready to assist the doctor 8b08214v
1942-11
Production. Aircraft engines.
1942-07
Manpower. Handicapped workers.
1942-08
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Guest on the porch in the evening at Mrs. Harper's tourist home at 5530 Wisconsin Avenue
1942
A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif
1942-10
A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky
1942-06
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company's Proviso yard. Chicago, Illinois, December 1942
1942-12
A young boy who lives near the nation's capitol, fsa.8b14755, edit
1942-06
A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed as a medium bomber and as an escort plane
1942
A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard
1942-12
A worker in the roundhouse at the C & NW RR., Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism. Infantryman with halftrack
1942-06
A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon
1942-10
Production. Aircraft engines.
1942-07
Women in war. Machine gun production operators. A woman's place is on the production line in this Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to machine guns. Elsie M. Terry, one of 2,000 women employed here, is a skilled milling-machine operator who is making an impor
1942-07
Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A worker guides the magnet which unloads steel scrap from open freight cars to the waiting charging boxes in a Chicago steel mill. Drawn by an engine, these boxes will be brought directly to the furnace room, where they will be processed into steel for guns and ships
1942-10
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Serving supper to motorists at a Hot Shoppe on Wisconsin Avenue, just over the District line in Maryland
1942
A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Addis Ababa-8e00855u
c. 1942
Addis Ababa-8e00855u-original
c. 1942
A-20 Havoc
1942-07
A-36A production Inglewood Oct 1942
1942-10
Can I wear it today?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from that old housedress, the one with the splitting seams, and Junior's first long pants (no cuffs) can emerge from father's old overcoat. With shortages of wool and other materials that are needed by the armed forces, it's wise, m
1942-02
Aerial tug boat, which tows gliders for Marine pilots in training out of Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.
1942-05
Above the construction work, the aggregate storage pile which provides crushed stone and sand, Fort Loudon i.e., Loudoun Dam, Tenn.
1942-06