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

Migratory worker's wife, FSA camp, Harlingen, Texas

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse fsa8e04913u crop

Minister's daughter sitting on a tombstone8c34933v

Miners prepare to ride down into the mine

Miners pick up safety lamps from the lamp room

Miners install timber supports

Miners adjust a block signal

Miners drill a hole for blasting

Miners break for lunch in the machine shop

Miners break

Miners lay track for machinery

Miners pull down an unstable roof

Miners operate a machine for gathering coal

Miners drill a hole for blasting 2

Miners break for lunch

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Myrdal, Swedish lecturer, president of the Swedish Women's Business and Professional League and vice-president of the International Women's Business and Professional League. She lectured at a special meeting at the Swedish Institute of Art, Literature and Science in Minn

Montour no. 4 mine 1942a

Montour no. 4 mine 1942b

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Tipple, where coal is loaded into railroad cars for delivery to the cleaning plant where slate and all other foreign substances are removed by washing

Moravian minister the Reverend Kortz and banker and church official A.L. Douple8d10686v

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Old and new dictionaries

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Tommy Bracken, head of this department, has been with paper fifty-one years, is the oldest employee

New York, New York. Monument to the German poet Schiller in Central Park

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Moravian sewing circle

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Motorized hoisting truck used in moving scaffolding timbers around the shipyard, California Shipbuilding Corporation, 8d03841

Greenbelt, Maryland. Mothers waiting with their children to get a physical examination by local doctors, offered free once a year to all Greenbelt children. These are new arrivals in the newly-built defense houses

Greenbelt, Maryland. Mother photographing her son feeding ducks by the artificial lake while the rest of the family looks on

Mouat mine

Motion picture show at the Cascade Theatre in Redding, California

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries Creator(s)

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Frames for motor torpedo boats under construction at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy seventy-eight-foot boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When ready for launching and fitting they are moved to nearby water. In the right

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Mounting a torpedo tube on a new wooden motor torpedo boat under construction at a big Southern shipyard. This yard also produces steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a Southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated sections of a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat are clamped in place at a large Southern shipyard. The hulls of these speedy boats are built indoors and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries Creato

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A carpenter at a Southern shipyard checks the framing of a new seventy-eight-foot motor boat. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins I

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated frame sections of a new seventy-eight-foot wooden torpedo boat are joined to the keel at a Southern shipyard. Many speedy motor-driven fighters of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections for a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the pla

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Checking a prefabricated section for a wooden torpedo boat at a Southern shipyard. Many fast seventy-eight-foot motor driven boats of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Hand trades are important in the building of wooden boats for the Navy. This man working with a chisel on a beam of a motor torpedo boat in a Southern shipyard performs an essential war task. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Negro carpenter working on the framing of a motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Negro carpenter at a Southern shipyard runs a heavy plank through a power saw. He works on the building of seventy-eight-foot wooden torpedo boats which are produced in great numbers at this yard. The hulls of these speedy motor-driven boats are built indo

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Applying planking to a new seventy-eight-foot torpedo boat in a large Southern shipyard. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections, and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Indus

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy wooden vessels are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hull is ready for launching and fitting it is removed from the plant to nearby w

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Mounting motor on a Fairfax B-25 bomber, at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif

Mr. Edward C. Elliott

Mounting motor on a Fairfax B-25 bomber, at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lutz, unmarried son Henry, and granddaughter Roberta Jean 8d10698v

Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Earle Landis turn over their Thanksgiving turkey

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Romano feeding their baby.8d11642v

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert sitting on the porch 8c34915v

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert sitting on the porch 8c34916v

Mr. Lund, who is head of the District Red Cross 8d21179v

Mr. Lund, who is head of the District Red Cross8d21174v

Mr. Lund, who is head of the District Red Cross8d21182v

Mr. Lund watching the testing of blood plasma 8d21195v

Mr. Lund, who is the head of District Red Cross 8d21196v

Mr. Lund, who is the head of District Red Cross8d21189v