Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 1,861–1,920 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
Composing room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22754v
1942-09
Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louis
1942-02
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express
1942-10
Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn
1942-06
Construction work at Douglas Dam
1942-06
Conservation of waste paper will save millions annually for Uncle Sam.
c. 1942
Consolidated transport planes being loaded, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas
1942-10
Construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.
1942-06
Construction at Douglas Dam (TVA), Tenn.
1942-06
Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.
1942-06
Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA
1942-06
Constructing a building on the site of a new steel mill which will soon turn out steel for the war needs, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah
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. Congressman Tom Eliot of Massachusetts chatting with a delegate from his stat
1942-02
Composition class in Negro grammar school 8d20269v
1942-03
Composing room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22748v
1942-09
Composing room of the New York Times newspaper8d22736v
1942-09
Composing room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22749v
1942-09
Composing room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22756v
1942-09
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft. Consolidated Aircraft factory, Fort Worth, Texas.
1942-10
Construction toys help to rehabilitate convalescents and ambulatory patients 8b07885v
1942-11
Production. Submarines. Construction of the hull section of a submarine at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. These sections will be assembled in a small bay, and when completely installed will be sent through the Saint Lawrence Canal to the sea
1942-08
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express (cropped)
1942-10
Copper and Brass - Inside brass and copper tube mill
1942-02
Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Cooperatively owned apartment house
1942-10
Cooking class at the Banneker Junior High School8d20233v
1942-03
Convalescent children in a hospital 8b07881v
1942-11
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors.
1942-07
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors.
1942-07
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors.
1942-07
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors.
1942-07
Conversion. Safety razor plant. Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor factory's many women workers, checks completed V-blocks with blueprint specification. Because of their previous training, reading blueprints is no novelty to women employed in this plant which is now producing tool posts unde
1942-02
Country school near Portsmouth, Ohio
1942–1943
Countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas dam, Tenn.
1942-06
New York, New York. Corset display at R. H. Macy and department store during the week before Christmas
1942-12
Counselor at Boy Scout Camp
1942-07
Crane Driver Douglas Dam
1942-06
Crewman of an M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky
1942-06
Crew of 37mm. anti-tank gun, in training at Fort Benning, Georgia, clean and adjust their weapon.
c. 1942
Crane at a "central" gathering place for sugar cane crop, vicinity of San Sebastian, Puerto Rico
1942-01
Crane at a "central" sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico
1942-01
Crewman of an M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.
1942-06
Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, N orth A merican Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.
1942-10
Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, North American, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.
1942-10
Creede, 1942
1942-12
Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee
1942-06
Dancing and music on Mott Street,8d21719v
1942
Cultivating a field, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.
1942-06
Croquet game on Sunday in Central Park8d22213v
1942-09
Curtiss SNC refueling NAS Corpus Christi 1942
1942-08
Customers in the Giant Food shopping center 8c34859v
1942
Customers in the Giant Food shopping center 8c34860v
1942
Customers in the Giant Food shopping center 8c34861v
1942
Customers in the Giant Food shopping center 8c34862v
1942
Customers in the Giant Food shopping center 8c34864v
1942
Customers in the Giant Food shopping center 8c34865v
1942
Cyclist at Haines Point 8c34850v
1942
Customers descending the ramp from a roof parking space 8c35054v
1942-07
Customers descending the ramp from a roof parking space at the Giant Food 8c35053v
1942-07
Customers leaving the Giant Food shopping center 8c35061v
1942-07
Customers mounting the ramp to a roof parking space 8c35059v
1942-07