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

Old Mennonite8d23489v

Conservation of durable goods. Old Man Winter comes to the refrigerator. This unfortunate freezing compartment is lumbering along day and night, coated with excess frost. Defrost frequently, keep the cold control set at "low" except when freezing ice cream or ice cubes, and keep the frost formation

On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army

On North American's outdoor assembly line, a painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 fighter prior to spraying the olive-drab camouflage of the U.S. Army, N orth A merican Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, N orth A merican Aviation, Inglewood, Calif.

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week. On the Capitol steps

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week. On the way up the steps to the Lincoln Memorial. The Washington Monument is i

On Sunday people wait as long as one hour to get into the municipal swimming pool8c34964v

On morning of July 21st, the last day before stricter gas rationing went into effect8c34985v

One of the amateur baseball games between teams8c34948v

On morning of July 21st, the last day before stricter gas rationing went into effect8c34992v

New York, New York. On the steps of the Central Park restaurant on Sunday

On the sun roof of Babies Hospital, New York City 8b07883v

On the sun roof of Babies Hospital in New York a student nurse supervises 8b08203v

On the sun roof of Babies Hospital in New York City 8b08207v

Production. Aircraft engines.

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. One of 2,000 women currently employed in a Midwest war plant, this young Negro worker has proven a competent and earnest machine operator. She processes gun parts in this plant which has been converted from the production of spark plugs to machine guns

One of America's new warships of the air, a mighty YB-17 bomber, is pulled up at a bombardment squadron hangar, Langley Field, Va. It is all set to taxi out to a runway and take off

Zebulon, North Carolina. One of Feggen Jones' fourteen children

On a Street Where You Live, Corner store which is patronized by Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman. Washington, D.C., August 1942. - Flickr - polkbritton

On the 'RIP' tracks (Repair In Place), an Illinois Central employee jacks up a gondola to swap out a truck during November, 1942. Jack Delano photo

One of Feggen Jones' fourteen children, Zebulon, North Carolina, 8d02935

Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company 1942

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc, a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif

One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane

Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company, Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork bridge and main shops appear in the foreground

Manpower. Americans all.

Production. 105 millimeter shells. One of the many women workers in a Midwest shell plant which formerly made plumbing fixtures, inspects future gifts for the Axis. Her job requires infinite precision and patience, for the inside of every shell must be carefully inspected for flaws which might accid

One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad. On the right are three of the west coast streamliners, Chicago, Ill.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc, a woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif (cropped)

Oregon Route 58 through the Willamette National Forest

Operating an electric screwdriver, Bernice Strutz 8b07388v

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. Operating a multiple drill press with speed and accuracy, this young woman is taking an active and important part in the war effort. She's machining gun parts in a Midwest plant which has shifted from production of spark plugs to the manufacture of mac

Operation Torch, 1942. America at War - The Voyage on the Contessa

OS2U Kingfisher

P-51 Mustang fighter plane in construction, North American Aviation, Inc, Los Angeles, Calif

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic at the Naval Air Base, in the Assembly and Repair Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic in the Assembly and Repair Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Toledo, Ohio. Intense heat is needed to melt the inorganic ingredients of the batch from which Fiberglas insulation wool is manufactured. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, this gas-fired furnace maintains the temperature required in the process

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. Side view of a glass furnace melting the carefully compounded batch required for the production of Fiberglas thermal insulation being installed in the hulls of naval vessels now under construction

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Akron, O hio

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif.

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif.

P-51 "Mustang" fighter in flight, Inglewood, Calif. The "Mustang", built by North American Aviation, Incorporated, is the only American-built fighter used by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane in construction, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Outside the Central Park restaurant on Sunday 8d22201v

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Outworn metal articles of every kind lie in a neighborhood junkyard pending segregation and shipment to a steel mill where this valuable scrap will be processed into war materials

Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane in construction, North American Aviation, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.

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Parachuting Training

Part of string bean factory and field system, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Parade of M-4 (General Sherman) and M-3 (General Grant) tanks in training maneuvers, Ft. Knox, Ky. Note the lower design of the M-4, the larger gun in the turret and the two hatches in front of the turret

Parris Island, S.C., barrage balloon