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

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Food to make America strong. Women near Rochelle, Illinois, many of them schoolteachers and pupils, work in asparagus canning factories during the summer months

Share The Meat" recipes. For a coast to coast favorite and a vitamin-rich meatless dish, bake a bean loaf as you would a meatloaf. The ingredients are simple: three cups of cooked beans, one onion, one-half cup of milk (water or liquid from the beans can be substituted), one egg (beaten), one cup of

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

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)

Russell Lee, Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana, 1942

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Unloading a 37mm gun from a transport plane in a military demonstration

Fort Benjamin Harrison FSA 8d03999

Fort Knox. Colt automatic pistol. A soldier in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, demonstrates the use of one of America's renowned weapons, a Colt pistol. Much changed in appearance from the gun that was famous on our frontiers nearly a century ago, this.45 caliber automatic is one of the standard w

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 by he

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Ill. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Four students working on the preliminary sketches of a mural depicting the history of Peru

New York, New York. Former Dodge building at 56th Street and Broadway, in the automobile district

New York, New York. Fountain at the mall in Central Park on Sunday

New York, New York. Fountain at the mall in Central Park, on Sunday

New York, New York. Fountain on the mall in Central Park on Sunday

New York, New York. Fourteenth Street under the Third Avenue and 14th Street

For insurance against the Axis, buy defense bonds and stamps. You can get them at your bank, post office, department store and from your newsboy. Buy them regularly and frequently

For insurance against the Axis, buy defense bonds and stamps.

Production. Aircraft engines.

Women in industry. Gas mask production.

Women in industry. Gas mask production.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair getting instruction on the rifle range. September, 1942.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair at a marksmanship class. September, 1942.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a gas mask in a practice smokescreen, September, 1942.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair drilling with the rest of his buddies, September, 1942.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair drilling his squad, September, 1942.

Freight train used in hauling cane

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, Washington, D.C

Three members of the Free French foreign legion who distinguished themselves in the battle at Bir Hacheim in the Western desert. They are from Senegal, Equatorial Africa, and Madagascar, respectively

Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.

Frances Eggleston, aged 23, came from Oklahoma, used to do office work. Removing paper from pilot's window(?), Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Washington, D.C. Free morning lunch in the kindergarten of a Negro school

Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.

Frank Williams, working on the car repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. French refugee child learning to sew

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. French refugee child painting

Lititz, Pennsylvania. "Frozen" brand new tractors displayed outside Diem's farm machinery store. No more farm machinery can be sold since November 1. They hope for some kind of rationing before spring

Nurse training. Fresh from college, twenty-year-old Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, arrives at the School of Nursing residence in New York City, which will be her home until she becomes an Army or Navy nurse. Because of her college degree, Susan will be required to spend only twenty-seven mont

Russell Lee, Tagged for evacuation, Salinas, California, May 1942

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors.

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow lengths of molten steel--steel composed partly of roller skates, reapers, radiators and other scrap collected from America's homes and farms. This strip steel will see action as armor plate on the nation's tanks or battleships

FSA borrower? in her garden, Puerto Rico

FSA borrower who is a member of a sugar cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Hanging out clothes which have been washed in the laundry of the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Young occupant gets around by bicycle. The community building is in the background

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. View of the project showing expansible trailers

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. General view of the project from the roof of the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Children playing marbles outside the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a dining and living room

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Interior of an expansible trailer, showing one wing used as a bedroom

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Exterior of an expansible trailer

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Project occupant tending his victory garden

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. The project is situated right next to a school

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Manager of the project going over rental plan with his secretary

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Manager of the project outside the clinic in the community building

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. General view