Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 2,581–2,640 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
Kern's Detroit
1942-07-00
New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Kindergarten pupil getting to work on a puzzle
1942-01
Junior choir performance in the Moravian Sunday school 8d10713v
1942-11
Junior choir performance in the Moravian Sunday school 8d10714v
1942-11
Judge J. Roland Sala, appointed to the felony court in Brooklyn. 8d11687v
1942-12
Judge J. Roland Sala, appointed to the felony court in Brooklyn. 8d11690v
1942-12
Judge J. Roland Sala, appointed to the felony court in Brooklyn.8d11686v
1942-12
Nurse training. Just as they take biology and chemistry, students of nursing "take babies" as the young nurses say. Here Susan learns how to give a baby one of his first meals
1942-11
Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Kay Lamphear, half American Indian and half Scotch-Norwegian, has joined the growing army of American women war workers. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this 21-year-old former costumes model operates a punch press, machining diaphragm blades
1942-10
I'll carry mine. Junior should wipe that worried frown off his face, for he's doing his Uncle Sam a favor by sharing the carriage with his mother's purchases. With "I'll carry mine," the American shoppers wartime slogan to save tires and gasoline, it'll soon be an unwise child who doesn't share his
1942-11
I'll carry mine. Junior's express wagon comes of age and assumes new importance in wartime America's shopping expeditions. To conserve transportation facilities and thus save rubber and gasoline, shippers must devise their own methods of getting their purchases home. This one is among the best!
1942-11
Justice Robert Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Liudmila Pavlichenko
1942-09
Justice Robert Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Liudmila Pavlichenko (cropped)
1942-09
Lajas PR coffee farm 01
1942-01
Lajas PR coffee farm 02
1942-01
Lajas PR coffee farm 03
1942-01
Lajas PR sugar cane truck
1942-01
Lajas PR horse-power crane
1942-01
Ladle skimming at New Foundry
1942-01
Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard
1942-12
Kitchen utensils hanging below a spice rack with mint, caraway, thyme, and sage jars
1942-07
Laid up yacht at Luders Marine, Stamford CT in March 1942
1942-03
Women in industry. Gas mask production.
1942-07
Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Robert Bacon, farm wife, with some of her electric appliances: fan, ironer, radio
1942-06
Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mr. Bacon adjusts an electric fan for his wife who is using an electric iron. The Bacons use 500 kilowatt hours of TVA electricity a month
1942-06
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Sailing
1942-07
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Lancaster County apples for sale outside grocery store
1942-11
Lancaster County apples for sale 8d23461v
1942-11
Lares Puerto Rico 1942
1942-01
Mr. Langston Hughes, Negro poet and playwright. Chicago, Illinois
1942-04
Landscape, Northeast Utah *
1942-04
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bags in the community scrap heap
1942-11
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Guardian of the community scrap pile, asleep
1942-11
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mural painting on wall of a paking space
1942-11
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Parking lot
1942-11
Central Market, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1942-11
Langston Hughes cph.3a43849
1942-04
Landscape, Northeast Utah
1942-04
Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama
1942-06
Lares, Puerto Rico. In an apothecary store
1942-01
Lares, Puerto Rico. A street in the town
1942-01
Laurel Hill Tunnel 1942
1942-07
Production. Ramp boats. Launching a wooden ramp boat by crane at a Southern shipyard. These twenty-six-foot carriers, built of prefabricated sections, are used for making beach landings of men and equipment. They are delivered from the shipyard in tows of six to eight boats. Higgins Industries Creat
1942-07
Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage of housing for Negro women war workers in Washington, the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is completing construction of Wake and Midway Halls, which will accommodate 1,000 women. The project was erected by Samuel Plato, Negro contractor
1942–1943
Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Mrs. Case using an electric mangle
1942-06
Leith Stevens fsa 8b06640
1942-06
Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base
1942-08
Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort
1942-09
New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Learning how to take care of a broken leg in first aid class
1942-01
Washington, D.C. Learning to use an electrical jigsaw to make model airplanes for the U.S. Navy at the Armstrong Technical High School
1942-03
Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run.
1942–1943
Left face detail, NoonDayRestWomenAlfredTPalmer (cropped)
1942-10
Left, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Left face detail, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Left face detail, American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Left face detail, Riveting team2 (cropped)
1942-10
Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter
1942-10
Lincoln Nebraska grocery
1942