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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Wash day. In the near future the camp will have a completely modern laundry unit

Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Mrs. James Caputo using a washing machine. Laundry facilities are available in the basement of every building

Brownsville, Texas. Mexican market

Burning a field of sugar cane, vicinity of Guanica. This destroys the leaves and makes it easier to cut the cane

Butchers will pay householdersfor the fat and sell it to rendering plants where it will be processed into ammunition for America's fighting men.

Washington, D.C. Bus going through the snow near Connecticut Avenue and Chevy Chase Circle

C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill.

Busy stacks give evidence of all-out war production effort at a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Akron, Ohio

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Butcher shop of Benjamin Lutz (second from right) at 4:30 p.m. when shifts change at the factories. Although there is no scarcity of meat in Lancaster County yet, the wholesale price has risen as much as from five to eight cents a pound

Buying vegetable seeds in the Greenbelt variety store8d21091v

Butchering a steer in Lutz's slaughterhouse 8d23523v

Butchering a steer in Lutz's slaughterhouse 8d23524v

Butchering a steer in Lutz's slaughterhouse8d23522v

Butchering a steer in the Lutz slaughterhouse 8d23604v

Butchering a steer in the Lutz slaughterhouse8d23607v

Butchers Will Pay Householders for the Fat and Sell It to Rendering Plants Where It Will Be Processed Into Ammunition for America's Fighting Men. ca. 06-1942

C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Women ironing in utility building for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. In the utility building for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

C&NW coaling station 1942

C&NW 400 Locomotive 1942

C&NWRR Proviso yard fsac.1a34627u

C-87s delivered 1942

C and N RR Chicago

C-87s delivered Fort Worth (colour) 1942

C-87s delivered Fort Worth (colour) 1942-2

C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Capitol Park 1942

Cadet L. Deitz at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Cadet L. Deitz(?) at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

New York, New York. Cafeteria on the Bowery, near Cooper Union, about 10 p.m.

Calf about to be slaughtered at Lutz's slaughterhouse 8d23521v

Calves and pig before they are slaughtered at Lutz's slaughterhouse8d23519v

Calm and dependable in emergency situations 8b07795v

Calm and capable, these nurses are assisting at an appendectomy 8b08223v

Camper and wife, FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Harlingen, Texas

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Canning grapefruit for hot weather use. Community kitchen

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Sign at the Harper's tourist home, just over the district line in Maryland, lit up in the evening to attract motoring guests. Most guests are Washington workers who stay there until they find an apartment. It costs two dollars to two dollars and fifty cents a night and is chea

Carnival attraction of the Imperial county fair ppmsc00119u

Carpenter at the TVA's Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn

Casting a billet from an electric furnace at Chase Brass and Copper Co - Euclid Ohio

Carloads of sugar cane

Car salvage dump, 8b07516

Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA)

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Carlson examining blueprints

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper's tourist home just beyond the District line

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Carlson visiting one of the home workshop owners in the bach yard. Both men are of Sweedish origin

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Carlson at his desk in the Washington WPB office where he worked several days a week

Cashier checking out a customer's purchases at the Giant Food 8c34868v

Care of prematurely born babies is one of the most complicated procedures 8b07796v

Care of infants is included in all nurses training 8b08208v

Care of infants is part of every student nurse's training 8b08218v

Cardinal "don't" for housekeepers: don't put hot food into the refrigerator. Allow cooked foods to cool to room temperature before placing in the refrigerator

Production. 105 millimeter shells.

Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso, C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad Chicago, Ill.