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

In curb scrap collection drive, one housewife donated a sewing machine8d23536v

In curb scrap collection drive, one housewife donated a sewing machine8d23537v

In the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Nurse training. In a hospital's formula kitchen, student nurses prepare dozens of bottles for dozens of babies. Each set of bottles contains different amounts and is made up of various ingredients. Formula is made up once a day, and bottles are labeled and kept in the refrigerator until needed Creat

In a hospital's formulae kitchen 8b07793v

In these busy days, student nurses themselves must often instruct probationers 8b08206v

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing fixtures were formerly processed, hot billets, soon to become shells, are rolled from a butane gas furnace by a water cooled hook. The red-hot billets will next be transferred to hydraulic presses for further processing (Manitowa

In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching are being done for a firm in Mayaguez and will eventually be sold in New York. Puerto Rico

Infantryman with halftrack

Inserting dynamite into hole

Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky

Infantryman in 1942 with M1 Garand, Fort Knox, KY

Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky ALT

Infantryman with halftrack, a young soldier of the armed forces, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism.

New York, New York. Information booth at the Pennsylvania railroad station

Manpower. Handicapped workers.

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Infantryman in 1942 with M1 Garand, Fort Knox, KY (cropped)

Inspectors at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company where they check all assembly work minutely to assure that dependable planes will go to our men at the front.

Instructor and students studying a map, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing oxygen flask racks above the flight deck of a C-87 transport at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Women in industry. Tool production.

Production. Submarines. Installation of an engine part in a submarine under construction at Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Score sheets are distributed on racks in the music library

Instructor explaining the operation of the parachute to students, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on

Interior of the Greenbelt variety store8d21084v

Interior of the Greenbelt variety store 8d21087v

Interior of the Greenbelt variety store8d21086v

Washington, D.C. Interior of a new Red Cross mobile canteen

Irish-American bartender serving beer to British sailors in a Third Avenue bar8d21842v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park 8d22175v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park 8d22176v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park 8d22178v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park 8d22270v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park on Sunday 8d22269v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park8d22267v

Irish-American policeman in Central Park8d22301v

Women in war. Machine gun production. Intent on the important job at hand, Elsie M. Terry uses a precision snap gauge on the machine gun part she has milled. One of 2,000 women employed by a Midwest plant, converted from spark plugs to machine gun manufacture, Mrs. Terry typified the American woman

Interlochen, Michigan.

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Washing stockings in a cabin

New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars

Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street 8d21751v

Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street 8d21752v

Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street 8d21753v

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers.

Gasoline rationing. It can't happen here in the gas-rationed East, but in the Midwest states you're still apt to see such a sign as this displayed outside a service station. Coupons for gasoline purchase are unknown in this part of the country

New York, New York. Window of a Jewish religious shop on Broom Street

Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street 8d21753v (cropped)

Italian-American garment worker in the N.M. dress shop 8d11694v

Italian-Americans in fourth grade at Public School Eight 8d11661v

Italian-Americans in fourth grade at Public School Eight8d11662v

Italian-American Legionnaries marching in a parade 8d21692v

Italian-American watching parade on Mott Street 8d21704v

Italian-American watching parade on Mott Street8d21698v