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

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Making up the Cooperator, the town's weekly news sheet which contains news and editorials of local interest. The editors volunteer their services in the evening. The paper, which is distributed free at every door on Thursdays, breaks even by selling adve

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Atkins, Ann, and Pierce Atkins having supper

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Paying for purchases at the checking out gate of the cooperative grocery store

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Shopping in the cooperative grocery store

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. The school library is used as a community library in the evening

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Third grade children have a discussion

Female mechanics work on R-1830 of PBY at NAS Corpus Christi 1942

Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Standing on the wing is Floyd Helphrey who came from Iowa to join the Navy early in the year. At right is W. Gardner of Illinois who used to be a crane op

Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. View from the shopping center roof showing apartment houses on the hill

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. View from the shopping center roof

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Underpass with the school in the background

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Volunteer workers put out the Cooperator, a weekly newspaper

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Waiting to pay for purchases at checking gate in the cooperative grocery store

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Vegetable counter in the cooperative grocery store

Greenbelt, Maryland. Feeding the ducks and boating on the artificial lake. No fishing or swimming is allowed

Female worker detail, Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports (cropped)

Female worker face detail, Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports (cropped)

Ferdinand Eberstadt

First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Finnish bakery. It is a cooperative, and many of the workers are Finnish-born

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Finnish branch of the Salvation Army

New York, New York. First grader Marie Winn or Wynn, a Czech-American child (second from right), playing "Farmer in the dell" during recess at a public school

New York, New York. First grade public school children making Indian paper hats. Marie Winn or Wynn, a Czech-American child, is in the foreground

New York, New York. First graders in public school having morning milk. Marie Winn or Wynn, a Czech-American child is in the foreground

New York, New York. First graders in public school saluting the flag. Marie Winn or Wynn, a Czech-American child is in the center

New York, New York. First graders in public school singing the Star Spangled Banner. Marie Winn or Wynn, a Czech-American child is second from the left

Washington, D.C. First aid class in the Banneker Junior High School

Washington, D.C. First aid class at the Banneker Junior High School

Washington, D.C. First aid class held daily by the Red Cross aboard a Potomac riverboat which carries workers to Port Washington every morning. They are civilian employees of the U.S. Army adjutant general's office

New York, New York. Financial desk copy reader on the New York Times newspaper staff has lunch on tray ordered from outside. Lunch in the news room is a half-hour period about 11 PM between editions

Fire Captain Raymond Runk during an air raid drill8d23554v

Fire Captain Raymond Runk is an accountant 8d23553v

Field with deserted house, Dewey County, South Dakota, 8c21035

Looking down on a parking lot from the rear of the Fisher Building, Detroit, Mich.

Flag, Detroit, Mich.

Fitting the tail of a transport plane to the wing center section in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. First-grade pupils having their voices recorded for diction correction. First they give their name; then they read a paragraph from a book. This time the victim is a little Japanese girl

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. First-grade pupils having their voices recorded for diction correction. First they give their name; then they read a paragraph from a book

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. First-grader pupils, having their voices recorded for diction correction. First they give their name, then they read a paragraph from a book

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Five-year-old class

New York, New York. Flag raising ceremony in the rain in honor of Mott Street boys in the United States Army

Fish store in the Jewish section8d21930v

New York, New York. Fish store in the Jewish section

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Fishing for salmon on the Susquehanna River at 6 p.m. This man is a state supervisor of highways. In his time off late in the afternoon he fishes with a bottle of hard cider beside him

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Fishing for salmon on the Susquehanna River at 6 p.m. This man is a state supervisor of highways. In his time off late in the afternoon, he fishes with a bottle of hard cider beside him

Jim Tillma wears jumpsuit while studying 8d04850v

Detroit, Michigan. Flag presentation ceremonies at Harper Hospital. Harper Hospital supertintendents speaking to doctors and nurses going into General Hospital number seventeen

Detroit, Michigan. Flag presentation ceremonies at Harper Hospital. Doctor with his parents

Jim Tillma wears jumpsuit while studying 8d04851v

Detroit, Michigan. Flag presentation ceremonies at Harper Hospital. Colonel Carstens and Major Spaulding with the head nurse

Detroit, Michigan. Flag presentation ceremonies at Harper Hospital. Spectators at flag presentation ceremonies

Detroit, Michigan. Flag presentation ceremonies at Harper Hospital. Colonel Carstens, head of General Hospital number seventeen

First-year students practice various sick-room techniques 8b08219v

Jim Tillma wears overalls while studying. University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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

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, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the army. It ferries me

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Fodder stacked in a field

Women in industry. Gas mask production.

Transportation. Shipping rails east. Flat cars in central Iowa stacked with rails ready to be shipped eastward, where transportation demands are heaviest