Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 1,921–1,980 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
New York, New York. Czech Jew encountered at Astor Place about midnight. He has been in America since 1905, has been on relief eight years; spends all spare time collecting scrap for defense, picked up paper because he cannot afford to buy one. However, he keeps up with the times; was out for a stro
1942-09
Czech Jew encountered at Astor Place about midnight.8d22210v
1942-09
New York, New York. Czechoslovakian Jew encountered at Astor Place about midnight. He has been in America since 1905, has been on relief eight years; spends all spare time collecting scrap for defense; picked up paper because he cannot afford to buy one. However, he keeps up with the times; was out
1942-09
Czechoslovakian Jew encountered at Astor Place about midnight8d22226v
1942-09
Cutting the throat of a steer in Benjamin Lutz's slaughterhouse 8d23515v
1942-11
Dancing class at an elementary school8d20209v
1942-03
Dancing class at an elementary school8d20212v
1942-03
Dancing class in a Negro grammar school 8d20282v
1942-03
Dancing class in a Negro grammar school8d20275v
1942-03
Dancing class in a Negro grammar school8d20280v
1942-03
Washington, D.C. Dancing on the Starlight Roof of the Roger Smith hotel
1942
Dancing and music on Mott Street 8d21724v
1942
Dancing to the music of "Red" Saunders and his band at the Club DeLisa, Chicago
1942-04
Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among the poles for overhead irrigation, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, N.J.
1942-06
I'll carry mine. Delivery vans, 1942 style, line up outside a Greenbelt, Maryland, grocery store awaiting customers. Tire scarcity and gasoline rationing have placed such service at a premium, and these youngsters who are using their express wagons to carry home Mrs. America's purchases are doing th
1942-11
Dean William Pickens and James L. Houghteling of the United States Treasury Department
1942-08
Dean William Pickens 1942
1942-08
Dean William Pickens 1942 Edit
1942-08
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, at twilight, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
New York, New York. Desert at Sunday dinner in the Martinetti home in the Bronx
1942-12
Manpower. Handicapped workers.
1942-08
Detail, AlfredPalmerlamp (cropped)
1942-06
Detail, 16" gun, Ft. Story (cropped)
1942-03
Detail of Arlington Trailer Camp
1942
Detroit Cub Scouts
1942-07
Detroit Skyline 1942
1942-07
Detroit Skyline 1942d
1942-07
Deutsch school in a Mennonite church Pennsylvania 1942
1942-03
Detroit, Michigan. Houses in the Polish district
1942-08
Development at the site of the mill for the Mouat Chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana
1942-08
Digging Bich Inch pipeline by hand
1942-10
Digging Bich Inch pipeline with vehicle
1942-10
Washington, D.C. Discarded Sunday paper, left behind by departing Sunday loungers at Haines Point i.e Hains Point
1942
Washington, D.C. Discussion class in a Negro grammar school
1942-03
Washington, D.C. Discussion in a Negro grammar school
1942-03
Detail, Virginia Davis, a Civil Service female worker in the repair shop of the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas in August 1942 (cropped)
1942-08
Detail, We Can Do It- Women riveters (1942) (cropped)
1942-12
Detail, Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant 1942 (cropped)
1942-10
Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas
1942-10
Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas
1942-10
Metal tubing at the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1942-10
Detail, Women working at Douglas Aircraft (cropped)
1942-10
Detail, Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc, a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Detail, Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers (cropped)
1942-10
Fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Detail, R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
1942-10
Detail, With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca (cropped)
1942-10
Women become skilled shop technicians at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft who produces the B-17F, A-20 and C-47.
1942-10
Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds
1942
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Order clerk settling accounts with merchants who come to make their purchases about 5 a.m.
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Man on the platform calls out orders, which the men of the produce department are loading onto small trucks. This goes on from about 2 to 5 a.m.
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Produce department. Assistant department head checking over string beans
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Order clerk making out bills for the store owners who come to the market about 5 a.m. Others telephone their orders
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Each store's order is loaded onto a small truck and checked, first by a foreman, again by a checker at the door before being loaded onto a truck. Produce department
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Foreman calling out orders from the platform, which men are loading onto small trucks
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th street S.W. Store owner kidding with the order foreman. There are 200 odd member stores in the District of Columbia
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Farmers bringing their produce in trucks, between two and five a.m. The trucks are unloaded on the outdoor platform
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Packing fish in ice for delivery to various stores belonging to members of the cooperative association
1942-06
Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse. Early Thursday morning is fish time. Each store's order is packed in ice. This one is destined for Bunker Hill market
1942-06