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

B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)

Barrage balloon fsac 1a35100

Barbara jean wong walter pidgeon 1942

Barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C.

Barrage balloons, Parris Island, S.C.

Barrage balloon fsac 1a35100 (cropped)

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper's tourist home just over the District line, at 5530 Wisconsin Avenue

Barber Shop and Barbers at Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,(Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.) ( ) (cropped)

Bean field and canning factory Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Bean field under cultivation, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Bean fields, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Bean canning factory in the field, Seabrook farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Bedroom of a house which is furnished in special skills furniture8d21175v

Base of the monument ot the German poet Schiller in Central Park8d22789v

Manpower. Americans all.

Production. Submarines. Before gasoline rationing, in a Midwest shipyard's parking lot. Today, this same view would probably show fewer cars, as workers all over the country have formed car pool clubs to save tires and gasoline

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Wisconsin Avenue looking into Maryland just beyond the District line. Tourist home is on the far left

Bellamy salute 1

Bellamy salute 2

Ben Bow chromite mine 1942a

Ben Bow chromite mine 1942b

Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater Co., Montana. This is the first snow of the season

Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater County, Montana. This is the first snow of the season

Bending Big Inch pipe

Bertram Shaw, blind, has been recently hired at the Animal Trap Company 8d10681v

Benny Lutz conducting trumpet players 8d10701v

Benjamin o davis jr

Benjamin o davis jr (cropped)

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Big Pete" Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn.

Big Inch pipeline running through wooded land

Big Inch pipes on railroad tracks

Big Inch pipe ready to be buried

Big Inch pipes ready to lay

Big Inch pipe, welding using roll-weld method

Between dances at the senior prom8d21136v

Bicycle path in Central Park on Sunday8d22154v

Bicycling in Central Park on Sunday 8d22282v

Bidders at a public sale 8d23570v

Bidders at a public sale 8d23573v

Bidders at a public sale 8d23579v

Bidders at a public sale 8d23581v

Bidders at a public sale8d23580v

Bidders at a public sale8d23590v

Bidders at a public sale8d23591v

Bidders at a public sale8d23592v

Bidders at a public sale8d23598v

Bidders at a public sale8d23601v

Bidders at a public sale8d23602v

I'll carry mine." Betty Hutton, popular Paramount Pictures star, jitterbugs to the market and carries home her purchases, cooperating with the "I'll Carry Mine" Campaign, sponsored by the Office of Defense Transportaion to save vital delivery equipment for essential war uses

I'll carry mine." Betty Jane Rhodes, popular Paramount Pictures star, shops and carries her own parcels, patriotically cooperating with the "I'll Carry Mine" Campaign, sponsored by the Office of Defense Transportaion to save vital delivery equipment for essential war uses

Bingham Canyon mine 1942

Bingham Canyon Mine 1942

Bingham Canyon Mine 1942c

Black troops at the Memorial Day parade, Washington, D.C., probably Constitution Avenue

Bird's-eye view of the Memorial Day ceremony8d21153v

Birmingham (near Detroit), Michigan. Kitchen utensils hanging below a spice rack with mint, caraway, thyme, and sage jars

Black Women Washing Clothes

Blitz Scouts in Detroit

Boilermaker - Alfred T Palmer