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

Light tank, Ft Knox, Ky

Light tank going through water obstacle, Ft Knox, Ky

Lincoln Nebraska street 1942

Lieutenant Mike Hunter, Army pilot 1a35358v

Light tank going through water obstacle, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Lincoln, Nebraska

Light tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky.

Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans near 39th Street and 8th Avenue known as Finn Town. Lieutenant Palmrose greeting his mother as he comes home on leave. Father Palmrose is a lawyer and also a building constructor. He built his own home and others in the

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Lieutenant Palmrose buying a soda for his nephew at the corner drugstore, while home on leave for Sunday

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Lieutenant Palmrose buying sodas for his nephew and two cousins, while home on leave for Sunday

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Lieutenant Palmrose, American-born Finn

Line of prospective swimmers, awaiting their turn at the municipal swimming pool8c34965v

New York, New York. Lily Chu, owner of a Chinese gift shop in Chinatown, mending a paper dragon

Manpower. Americans all.

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Lineup of charging boxes awaiting the signal to start on the journey to the furnace floor of a Chicago steel mill. The scrap will be unloaded into electric furnaces, for processing into war weapons

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. 1a35208u

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. 1a35208u (cropped)

Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig with two sons in the service, one overseas, and a husband ready to go into the service, inspecting the inside of a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company, with microbrand and also shot-changing the honing

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig with two sons in the service, one overseas, and a husband ready to go into the service, inspecting the inside of a 105 mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company, with microbrand and also shot-changing the honing stone for

Little Norway Guide

Little Norway Guide1

Little Norway Guide2

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Moravian church8d10685v

Lititz Borough Council in session. 8d10752v

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Lititz Borough Council in session. Pictures on back wall are local heroes of the first world war. Left is Walter Miller, superintendent of the water works; right is secretary Habecker

Lititz Borough Council in session. Secretary of the borough 8d10753v

Lititz (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmer's wife dressmaking

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Almoney, who has three sons and three brothers in the services hanging out her weekly wash on Sunday

Loading logs on flatcar1942

Loading logs onto flatcar01

Loading logs onto flatcar03

Loading logs from trucks to flatcars

Loading logs onto flatcar07

Loading logs onto flatcar08

LNS-1 glider USMC Parris Is 1942

LNS-1 gliders USMC Parris Is towed 1942

Loading anti-aircraft cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform, and ductite-ready for succeeding machine operations.

LNS-1 glider is launched at Parris Island 1942

LNS-1 glider is launched at Parris Island in May 1942

Loading groceries into a car at the Giant Food 8c35057v

Sunshine Assembly B25

Lockheed plant

Long lines of a A-20 attack bombers roll ceaselessly, night and day, through the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, Calif.

Locomotive ICRR det.8d23306

Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern RR (?), near Chicago, Ill.(?)

Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill

Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.

Loading new transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Local photographer, the son of the general store owner 8d10748v

Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill

Locomotives lined up for coal, sand and water at the coaling station in the 40th Street yard of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.

Locomotive in a railroad yard, Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western RR (?), near Chicago, Ill.(?)

Loners in a Crowd- Waiting for trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, in New York City, New York, August 1942

Looking downtown from the Third Avenue elevated railway

Looking west from the Maccabees Building