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

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. Adolph Berle addressing students at the Pan-American Union

Hitler's helpmates. Adolf has only the most complimentary things to say about Mrs. Miranda Glucose. She has simply captivated him with her Axis-crable behavior. When the possibility of sugar rationing was first mentioned, this far-sighted lady bought up enough sugar to feed twenty-five American fami

B-25 bomb bay gas tanks

Adams County, North Dakota. Mrs. Lee Johnson bringing in a pair of overalls which had been drying on the line and have been frozen stiff

African American Barber, Chicago, Illinois

African American mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, KY (cropped)

B-24 bomber at Willow Run

After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans near 39th Street and 8th Avenue known as Finn Town. Afternoon coffee and cake in the home of a Finnish family named Palmrose. From left to right: mother, daughter, father, son-in-law and son on leave from the United Sta

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Agriculture. Women on farms. Like many another U.S. farmer's wife, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, takes an active part in the management of her farm but at the end of a long and active day, she still finds time to entertain her tow-headed youngsters with tales of farm life "when I was a

Production. Aircraft engines.

Alfred Palmer Smokestacks

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M3 Lee tank, training exercises, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Airman wearing Mae west

Alfred T. Palmer welders

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Alfred Palmer, Phosphate smelting furnace worker, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942

Alfred T. Palmer - US Office of War Information photographer in 1942

Alfred T. Palmer - Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA)

Alfred T. Palmer - Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA) - original

Alfred T. Palmer - Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA) - partial restoration

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Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives, who, like Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many chores. With one of her youngsters to help, sh

Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives. One of these, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many chores. With cattle, horses, and poultry t

Agriculture. Women on farms. The horses, cows, and chickens cared for, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, starts out for the farmhouse with her blonde, pre-school youngsters. Like many another U.S. farmer's wife, Mrs. Sontag takes an extremely active part in the management of her farm, whic

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Airplanes stationed at Lake Muroc, California

Amarillo Rail Yard 1942a

Manpower. Handicapped workers.

Amarillo, Texas. Grain elevator ( )

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American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif

American Smelting and Refining, Garfield, Utah

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans near 39th Street and 8th Avenue known as Finn Town. American-born Finn, a lieutenant in the United States Signal Corps, spending Sunday at home with his family

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Washington, D.C. Amateur baseball team recruited from garage workers who have just won a Sunday game against the employees' recreation association team at the Ellipse

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America's youngsters will take a hand in feeding the family this year.

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American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 (

American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)

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An A-20 bomber being riveted by a woman worker at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif.

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which w

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 bomber used

An American town and its way of life, Southington, Conn. The Memorial Day parade moving down the main street. The small number of spectators is accounted for by the fact that the town's war factories did not close. The town hall is in the left foreground. May 23 to May 30

An armored car near the end of the assembly line in one of India’s war factories