Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 1,741–1,800 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
Catalina PBY 1942 1
1942-08
Cedric Hardwicke fsa 8b09659 cropped
1942-06-03
Casualties Armed Forces Wounded
1942-10-22
Cemetery at edge of Romney, West Va.
1942
Central tower from which cable buckets carry materials used in the construction of Shasta dam, California
1942-06
Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co., Euclid, Ohio. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a mold to form
1942-02
Cattle in corral waiting to be weighed before being trailed to railroad, Beaverhead County, Montana
1942-09
Cattle in corrals on ranch, Beaverhead County, Mont.
1942-09
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Central market
1942-11
Central Park lake on Sunday looking east8d22129v
1942-09
Central Park lake on Sunday 8d22207v
1942-09
Central Park lake on Sunday8d22292v
1942-09
Center, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Chadian soldier of WWII
1942
Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn
1942-06
Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam
1942-06
Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000
1942-06
Chef in Marconi's Restaurant on Mulberry Street 8d23895v
1942-12
Production. Willow Run bomber plant.
1942-07
Manpower. Americans all.
1942-09
Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Charging boxes loaded with scrap metal are dumped into electric furnaces where the scrap is melted down with steel and fluxing materials. Workers here wear dark glasses to protect their eyes from the glare
1942-10
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Tourist homes on Wisconsin Avenue just beyond the District line
1942
Chicago and North Western Railway?
1942–1943
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac.1a34676u
1942-12
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper, who runs a tourist home at 5530 Wisconsin Avenue. She charges two dollars to two dollars and fifty cents a night and most guests stay until they find an apartment, because it is cheaper than hotels in town
1942
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper's tourist home is at the entrance to Friendship Heights
1942
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper's tourist home, 5530 Wisconsin Avenue. Mrs. Harper sweeping her steps. Door is left open all day and all night
1942
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Table in the hall of Mrs. Harper's tourist home at 5530 Wisconsin Avenue
1942
Chevy Chase, Maryland. The register in Mrs. Harper's tourist home
1942
Chester W. Woolworth, president of the Animal Trap Company8d10671v
1942-11
Chef in Marconi's Restaurant on Mulberry Street preparing New Year's dinner 8d23891v
1942-12
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac.1a34676u reprocessed
1942-12
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac.1a34676u-BW
1942-12
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop, fsac.1a34676u
1942-12
Chickamauga Dam generator hall
1942-06
Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center's cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Tex.
1942-01
Child's bedroom in a house 8d21177v
1942-06
Chicago, Illinois. On Sunday afternoon at home, "Red" Sounders and his wife read the comics to their children and puppy whose name is "Blitz" subject misnamed as Red Sounders
1942-04
Child holding hands with mother and face detail, Japanese-American family waiting for relocation, Los Angeles, 1942 (cropped)
1942-04
Chicago, Illinois. Frank Williams, working on the car repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard
1942-11
Children and teacher in a Mennonite school Pennsylvania 1942
1942-03
Children in Santurce, Puerto Rico fsa.8a38032
1942-01
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Children of all nations listening to a story in English
1942-10
Greenbelt, Maryland. Children drinking at a water fountain in the shopping center on Memorial Day
1942
New York, New York. Children lined up for their turn at pony rides in Central Park on Sunday
1942-09
New York, New York. Children in Central Park on Sunday
1942-09
Children stage a patriotic demonstration. Southington, Connecticut, May 1942
1942-05
Children playing by road near school house, Kansas?
1942–1943
Children stage a patriotic demonstration, Southington, Conn.
1942-05
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Lunch
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Lunch
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese
1942-10
Children waiting in line to buy defense stamps at public school 8d24230v
1942-12
Children playing under trees during a school recreation period 8d21139v
1942
Children on their way home from school 8d23447v
1942-11
Children on their way home from school 8d23448v
1942-11
Children playing at noon recess at a rural school, Morton County, North Dakota, 8c21194
1942-02
Chinese-american girls playing chinese checkers
1942
New York, New York. Chinese-American Mr. Fing in his home in Flatbush
1942
New York, New York. Mr. Fing, a Chinese-American merchant, and his wife in their Flatbush home. Notice the rubber tire ashtrays.
1942