Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 2,041–2,100 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
Elderly women as well as young women find work in the aircraft industry. This North American employee assembles stringers in the sheet metal sub-assembly department
1942-10
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. NYA (National Youth Administration) girl who lives in the resident center working in the laundry
1942-02
Elm St at night Dallas TX 1942
1942-01
Formerly a sociology major at the University of Southern California, Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis (right) now "keeps 'em flyin'" at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a supervisor under civil service in the Assembly and Repair Department. It is her job to maintain morale among the women to he
1942-08
Employees at North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling the cowling on Allison motors for the P-51 fighter planes, Inglewood, Calif.
1942-10
Emma Dougherty, thirty-five, does a man's job8d10673v
1942-11
Emma Dougherty, who does a man's work for a man's pay8d10674v
1942-11
Ellis Spickler working at the Animal Trap Company 8d10721v
1942-11
Emma Dougherty who does a man's work for a man's pay 8d10716v
1942-11
Washington, D.C. Ellipse Park on a hot Sunday
1942-07
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Emergency policemen outside their headquarters during an air raid drill
1942-11
Emergency policemen outside their headquarters during an air raid drill8d23508v
1942-11
Employees in the Animal Trap Company machine shop8d23561v
1942-11
Employees of the Animal Trap Company eating lunch 8d23564v
1942-11
Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Emily Sauermilch, baker, has taken her place in America's army of war workers. Employed in a large Midwest supercharger plant, she puts the finishing touches on impellors part of the airplane motor. Allis Manufacture Company
1942-10
Employee number 30, Mounting motor on a Fairfax B-25 bomber, at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif (cropped)
1942
Employee number 37, Clerk in a stock rooms of North American Aviation checking the numbers of parts - Inglewood Cal (cropped)
1942-10
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Ella Watson - Gordon Parks
1942
Engraver of the Chicago Defender
1942-03
Ens ign Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Ensign Noressey and Cadet Thenics at the Naval Air base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Employees on the "Sunshine" assembly line at North American's plant put the finishing touches on another B-25 bomber, Inglewood, Calif. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane w
1942-10
New York, New York. Escalators at the Pennsylvania railroad station
1942
New York, New York. Entrance to the Central Park Zoo on Sunday
1942-09
Nurse training. With migration of large numbers of people to new communities, epidemics are a latent possiblity. In New York City's School of Nursing Residence, advanced students give the Schick and Dick test (for Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever, respectively) to the probationers. By learning to protec
1942-11
Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers.
1942-08
Manpower. Handicapped workers.
1942-08
Ensenada, Puerto Rico. Carloads of sugar cane at the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company
1942
Excavating within the log cofferdam during an early stage of construction, Douglas Dam, Tenn.
1942-06
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. Examining a relief map at the Pan-American Union
1942-02 · map
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. Examining maps and catalogues on the steps of the National Art Gallery
1942-02 · map
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. Examining a relief map at the Pan-American Union at the National Archives
1942-02 · map
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged
1942-11
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. Rubber scrap
1942
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. Rags being sorted; those damp from rain are hung up to dry
1942-11
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. The sign indicated that junk men are short of help
1942-11
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. Salvaging this scrap proved to be difficult because of the wholesale, indiscriminate method of collecting
1942-11
Washington, D.C. Even the oldest jalopies were out to have their tanks filled on the day before stricter gasoline rationing went into effect
1942-07
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Executive at the SKF roller bearing factory
1942–1943
F3F-2 NAS Corpus Christi Aug 1942
1942-08
F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif
1942-10
Experienced assembly line workers of both sexes contribute to the production of A-20 attack bombers in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif.
c. 1942
F4F Wildcat on exhibit in New York for War bond selling 1942
1942-09
Member s of the experimental staff at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, observe wind tunnel tests on an accurate scale model of the B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 Mu
1942-10
Women in industry. Tool production.
1942-08
F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif.
1942-10
Experimental scale model of the B-25 plane at wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc, Inglewood, The model maker holds an exact miniature reproduction of the type of bomb the plane will carry (cropped)
1942-10
Face detail, Clerk in a stock rooms of North American Aviation checking the numbers of parts - Inglewood Cal (cropped)
1942-10
Face and arm detail, R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
1942-10
Face detail, A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif (cropped)
1942-10