Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 2,281–2,340 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
Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Girl occupant preparing vegetables outside of a single type trailer
1942-04
Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Single type trailer
1942-04
Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Interior of a single type trailer showing cooking facilities and couch which can be converted into a bed
1942-04
Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Washing facilities in the community building
1942-04
FSA trailer camp project for Negroes. 8c34648v
1942-04
Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project. Outside the clinic in the community building
1942-04
FSAC.1a35291 Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City
1942-10
Production. Submarines. Gaining practical experience after months in the classroom, a young naval ensign confers with a foreman on the conning tower of a submarine under construction at Manitowoc, Wisconsin
1942-08
Gas welding a joint in a line of spiral pipe at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, Tenn
1942-06
Gardens are planted in front of the row shelters, FSA. labor camp, Robstown, Tex.
1942-01
Gas welding a joint in a line of spiral pipe at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet, this rese
1942-06
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company. At right is Mrs. Julian Bachman
1942-11
Garden party at the New Zealand Legation. Lord Halifax is in the background
1942
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company. Right front is Mrs. Julian Bachman, twenty-three, whose husband is in the Army
1942-11
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yards, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad classification yards, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Georg VI England
1942
Open hearth furnaces and stacks
1942-11
George Washington Carver unrestored
1942-03
George Washington Carver2
1942-03
Manpower. Americans all.
1942-09
Generator works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity
1942-06
George Washington Carver-crop
1942-03
General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Generator works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ulti
1942-06
Generator hall of the powerhouse, Chickamauga Dam, Tenn. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-fe
1942-06
George Washington Carver 1942
1942-03
Manpower. Americans all.
1942-09
General view of yard and some of the locomotive shop of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad at 40th Street. On the tracks on the right are three streamliners, crack trains, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
General view of the hump, Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad classification yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
1942-10
Girl worker at lunch1a35343v
1942-10
Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1942-10
Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
1942-10
Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes
1942-10
New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Girl announcing a radio broadcast to Latin America in Spanish under the auspices of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. The announcer is watching for signals
1942-01
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee boy repairing a model of the SS Normandie which he made
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee boy
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee child being measured by his mother on the wall of their furnished room. His father is in the Royal Air Force
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee mother giving an apple to her son
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee mother reading to her son
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee woman reading a letter from her husband, a flier in the Royal Air Force
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee child playing with airplane models
1942-10
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. German refugee child, a devotee of Superman
1942-10
Girl having her tire changed in Southeast Washington
1942
Gordon Parks - American Gothic
1942-08
Shasta dam under construction edit
1942-06