Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 2,881–2,940 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
Greenbelt, Maryland. Member of the Greenbelt baseball team picking out a bat. On Sunday the team plays that of a neighboring town
1942
A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-years-old, is an experienced welder at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's steel mills. His uniform is a pair of overalls and a welder's mask. Not reveille but a battered alarm clock awakens him six days a week at 6
1942-08 · poster
A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production.
1942-08 · poster
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill, C&NWRR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad. William London has been a railroad worker 25 years - now working at the roundhouse at the Proviso yards
1942-12
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard
1942-12
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard
1942-12
Mennonite children in prayer
1942-03
Mennonite Classroom Pennsylvania 1942
1942-03
Men of Fort Story, Virginia, operating azimuth instrument - March 1942
1942-03
Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle of splash in sea-target practice
1942-03
Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant
1942-06
Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport pla
1942-10
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmer's wife and her son husking corn which has been dried out in the oven. It will then be taken to a mill to be ground for cornmeal
1942-11
Washington, D.C. Members of the military unit at the Armstrong Technical High School reporting to a regular army officer
1942-03
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farm woman at her stall in the Central Market
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmer and wife selling fowl at the farmers' market
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmer is proud of his specially fed "double-breasted" turkeys
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. A Mennonite and his wife at a public sale
1942-11
Manpower. Americans all.
1942-09
Production. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The nation's underwater craft are being launched in record time because of men like these two who work on a construction crew at the Navy's shipyard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin
1942-08
Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle of splash in sea-target practice, Fort Story, Va.
1942-03
Mennonite Girls Pennsylvania 1942
1942-03
Mennonite farmer's wife dressmaking Pennsylvania 1942
1942-11
Mennonite farmer's wife and her son husking corn
1942-11
Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.
1942-10
Merchant seaman who has won a boot-full of candy at the Christmas party8d11550v
1942-12
Merchant seamen who have won boots-full of candy at the Christmas party8d11552v
1942-12
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas Party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. Drawing lots for candy-filled boots.
1942-12
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. Merchant seamen eating Christmas dinner.
1942-12
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. This serious-minded seaman brought a book along and read part of the time.
1942-12
Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club 8d11576v
1942-12
Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club 8d11578v
1942-12
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. At the bar.
1942-12
Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club 8d11581v
1942-12
Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club 8d11582v
1942-12
Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrews Feruseth Club 8d11570v
1942-12
Washington, D.C. Metal scrap collection at a Negro grammar school
1942-03
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mennonite woman waiting for a bus on a rainy market day
1942-11
Mennonite farmer's wife at her stall in Central Market. 8d23435v
1942-11
Mennonite farmer's wife at her stall8d23434v
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmer's wife at the farmers' market
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite woman arranging baked goods at the farmers' market
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mennonite woman at a public sale
1942-11
Mennonites at a public sale8d23556v
1942-11
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. Drinking beer at the bar
1942-12
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. Dancing with hostesses
1942-12
New York, New York. Merchant seamen's Christmas party at the Andrew Feruseth Club on Christmas Day. Old-timer merchant seaman
1942-12
New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Mid-morning lunch in the kindergarten
1942-01
New York, New York. Midnight mass on Christmas Eve at Saint Dominick's church in an Italian-American neighborhood
1942-12
New York, New York. Midnight mass on Christmas Eve at Saint Dominick's church in an Italian-American neighborhood.
1942-12
Migratory worker, FSA. camp, Robstown, Tex.
1942-01
Washington, D.C. Military unit in Armstrong Technical High School which is trained by the regular Army, a tradition in all Washington schools
1942-03
Washington, D.C. Military unit in Armstrong Technical High School being trained by a U.S. Army lieutenant
1942-03
Washington D.C. Military unit in Armstrong Technical High School being trained by an U.S. Army lieutenant
1942-03
Miner breaks for lunch
1942-11
Miner's lunch time
1942-11
Mine engineers check surveys after a day's work
1942-11
Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Milad's compact goes to war as a compass case. When operators at a Kentucky watch case factory ran the last batch of compacts through the automatic polishing machine, they immediately began work on war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville i.e. D
1942-02
Migratory worker's wife, FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Harlingen, Texas
1942-01
Migratory worker, FSA. camp, Robstown, Tex. ( ) (CROP)
1942-01