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

He's like to use that gun on the Axis. After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Hat rack at the Occident Hotel restaurant8c35076v

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Harvey Duke, an able machinist who hadn't work for several years until he came to the Animal Trap Company last year, is almost seventy, and an example of the hiring of older men since the war began. He helped a great deal in converting the factory and built many of the end-grin

Salvage. Farm scrap. Hay rakes, farm wheels, hot-water tanks and auto springs long past their prime are contributed by Michigan farmers to the scrap-collection drive. All the scrap metal which America's farmers can no longer use, will be put to immediate and vital use in the war effort

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Harriet Haberman left an office job to take her place on the assembly line of a giant Midwest supercharger plant. Reflecting wartime emphasis on feminine employment, this plant points with pride to the fact that 80 percent of its workers are women. Miss Habe

Manpower. Americans all.

Higgins Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La., makes torpedo boats and other boats for the Navy

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, carries one of the greatest human and cargo

Herder with his flock of sheep on the Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Helpers of a home machine shop owner. The piano stool serves as a horse

Henry G. Lutz, Benjamin's thirty-year-old son, 8d23525v

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Henry Lutz, thirty, has been deferred so that he can continue to help in his father's butcher business and slaughterhouse

Women in industry. Tool production.

High above, over a true "home of the brave," the floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner symbolize the American way of life to soldiers in training for the battles that will bring freedom to an unhappy, wartorn world, Fort Knox, Ky.

High above, over a true "home of the brave," the floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner symbolize the American way of life to soldiers in training for the battles that will bring freedom to an unhappy, war-torn world, Fort Knox, Ky.

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. High school girls singing a song in Spanish during a radio program broadcast to Latin America under the auspices of the United States Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. High school girls singing a song in Spanish during a radio program broadcast to Latin America, under the auspices of the United States Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

Lititz, Pennsylvania. High School band playing patriotic numbers at the Armistice Day meeting, held in the high school auditorium

High school band in green uniforms giving a band concert8d21024v

Hinkletown, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Mennonite girls

Highlighting a day of intensive training, mail from home 8b07792v

Manpower. Americans all.

Hinkletown, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Mennonite church yard on Sunday morning

His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of India

Hoisting Big Inch pipe

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Hoisting a slaughtered steer in Benjamin Lutz's slaughterhouse

Hollywood Woman With Suitcase 1942

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Home machine shop owner working for defense

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Home workshop owner of Sweedish origin who is now doing defense work

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Home workshop owner's wife bringing coffee during the morning's work

Horse breeding ranch, Grant Co., Oregon

Hospital preparations for possible air raids 8b07882v

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Hooking a rug

Howard Hollem, Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942

"Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training 3 months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square-mile Marine Base, Camp

How do I look?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from that old housedress with the splitting seams, and junior's first long pants (no cuffs) can be cut from father's old overcoat. With shortage of wool and other materials needed by the armed forces, it's a wise mother who conserves clot

How to add years to the life of your electric cords: remove them gently but firmly from wall sockets. Don't pull or tug. When not in use, coil cord loosely around a hook

How to conserve household gas. There's a time for everything, and the time to read a cookbook is before you light the gas, not after. Burners should not be lit until the cooking utensil is ready for the flame. Whenever possible, use low heat; whenever practical, use direct heat rather than a double

How to conserve household gas. Turning the gas as high as possible causes waste. A moderate flame will heat foods just as rapidly as a high flame. For more efficient cooking, use a pot with a flat bottom and straight sides. If the stove is equipped with different size burners, use small burners for

How to conserve household gas. Your stove is not a furnace! Though fuel will not be as plentiful this winter, don't make your stove do double duty. Instead dress more warmly; the wasteful practice would increase gas consumption enormously and result in curtailment of gas for all

How to conserve household gas. When bathing, keep the bathwater down to a minimum. You'll be surprised how easy it is to bathe in three or four inches of water, an economy which is necessary this year to conserve the available gas supply

How to conserve household gas. To keep burners clean, wipe them frequently with paper or a cloth. If food boils over, it may be necessary to wash the burners with soap or baking soda and water. If they need a thorough scrubbing, they should be taken from the stove and immersed in water. Do not use l

How to conserve household gas. If you would like to save gas and keep that souffle from falling don't peek in the oven unless it is imperative. Time and temperature charts should be used when baking to save loss of heat; the same rule applies to foods cooking on the stove. Remove the lids of pots on

Houses in the slum area known as El Fangitto (The Mud) in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, Calif

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Three-year-olds playing games

Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chicago, Ill.

Huge drop hammers work day and night forming sheet metal parts for United Nations bombers and fighters at the North American Aviation, Inc., plant, Inglewood, Calif. The heavy hemp rope is used to snub the hammer so that it forms the part under proper pressure and rises clear of the work after each

Production. Aircraft engines.

Manpower. Americans all.

Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chicago, Ill.

Ida B. Wells Cubs

Immediately following a blood transfusion the nurse must whirl 8b08196v

If your refrigerator is a separate unit, see that there is a two-and-a-half-inch clearance between it and the wall behind and at least a seven-inch clearance above

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, North American- Aviation, Inc, Inglewood, Calif

In the flat cattle country in the south western tip of Puerto Rico

In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill.

In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N orth A merican Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.