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

Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in background

Lorena Craig is a cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Lorena Craig is cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

New York, New York. Looking south from East Houston Street on Sunday

New York, New York. Looking north on Central Park lake on Sunday

New York, New York. Looking south across a bicycle path in Central Park on Sunday

New York, New York. Looking south at 7 a.m. from 13th Street on Second Avenue, showing the elevated railway in midst of demolition

New York, New York. Looking south on Third Avenue from the 59th Street (Bloomingdale's) station at 8:30 a.m.

New York, New York. Looking east across Central Park lake on Sunday

New York, New York. Looking downtown from the Third Avenue elevated railway in the "Fifties"

New York, New York. Looking north from the 9th Street station on the Third Avenue elevated railway as a train leaves on the local track

New York, New York. Looking north from the Ninth Street station on the Third Avenue elevated railway as a train leaves on the local track

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Looking over the furniture at a public sale before bidding

Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard. The old cars in the foreground are used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help. Town of Melrose Park is in background

Looking east toward Rackham Building, Detroit, Mich.

Looking south from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance, Detroit, Mich.

Looking north on Woodward Ave., from the Maccabee s Building with the Fisher Building at the far left, and the Wardell Hotel at the middle right, Detroit, Mich.

Low flying planes from which dust or insecticide is spread onto crops by men who "follow the season" up the east coast, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Louis Van Iersel enlistment March 1942

Luggage - Japanese American internment

Washington, D.C. Lunchers at the Occidental Hotel restaurant

LVT-1 at New River (side view) 1942

LVT-1 at New River (front view) 1942

LVT-1 at New River (aft view) 1942

M-3 and M4 tank company at bivouac, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-3 tank and crew using small arms, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Puerto Rico?

Lowering an engine in place in assembling a transport plane in a Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Lowering an engine in place in assembling a C-87 transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Washington, D.C. Lunch in the cafeteria of the Armstrong Technical High School. Students may bring food from home

Greenbelt, Maryland. Lowering the flag at Memorial Day ceremonies conducted by the American Legion

New York, New York. Lumber shop on East Houston Street on Sunday

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress")

M4 crew, Fort Knox, WWII

M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft Knox, Ky

M-4 tank, Ft Knox, Ky

M3 tanks-post-processed

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, by Alfred T. Palmer

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, by Alfred T. Palmer 2

M-3 tanks and crews, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-4 tank line, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-3 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox., Ky.

M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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Maid cleaning fireplace fsa 8e04227

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness

Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Main Street, Creede, Colorado

New York, New York. Mailroom of the New York Times newspaper. Papers, delivered from press room on a conveyor, are tied into packages according to orders from retailers

New York, New York. Mailroom of the New York Times newspaper. Papers come from the pressroom on a conveyor

New York, New York. Mailroom of the New York Times newspaper. Bundles of papers are carried to trucks for distribution

New York, New York. Mailroom of the New York Times newspaper. Unsold copies of paper are returned, sold for scrap

New York, New York. Mailroom of the New York Times newspaper. After arriving on a conveyor from the press room, papers are wrapped in bundles according to orders

Manpower. Americans all.

Manpower. Americans all.

Hitler's helpmates. Mabel Wattwaster is helping to win the war--but she's working for the wrong side. As she drones gossip into the telephone, her toast burns merrily away. She is not only wasting food and power, but is also impairing the efficiency of her toaster by letting it overheat. Mabel knows