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

Brooklyn, New York. A section of the city largely inhabited by Finnish-Americans, near Thirty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue, known as Finn Town. Palmrose family in their home. From left to right: father, daughter's two-year old son, mother, son-in-law, and son on leave from the United States Army

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. Pan-American party at the American University

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. Pan-American party at American University

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Parking lot in the rain

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Parking lot. Mural painting at left shows a tramp fishing by a stream

La Plata, Charles County, Maryland. Parked automobile

Greenbelt, Maryland. Parents taking baby's picture on Sunday

New York, New York. Parade of Italian-Americans on Mott Street at a flag raising ceremony in honor of neighborhood boys in the United States Army

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation, Inc. 's Inglewood, Calif., plant

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation (cropped)

Paramount Theatre Holiday Inn world premiere

Paramount Theatre Holiday Inn world premiere cropped

Washington, D.C. Paul Robeson, baritone

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American Aviation

Part owner and general manager of the Chicago Defender

Paul Robeson 1942 crop

Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Carlson visiting one of the home workshop owners. Both men are of Sweedish origin

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. The Carlson family in the milkbar in the cellar playroom of their home in a Passaic suburb

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Carlson greeted by his family when he returns from work

Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. Carlson and his youngest daughter

Paul Ritz serving his two hours per week8d10678v

Paul Ritz serving his two hours per week as an airplane spotter 8d10693v

Greenbelt, Maryland. Party for Mrs. Taylor's eighty third birthday, attended by her children and grandchildren, on the grounds of the home of her son-in-law, Dr. McCarl

New York, New York. Path in Central Park ramble on Sunday

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Part of the Lititz fire department called out during an air raid drill

PBY gunner NASCoChr1942

PBY Gun Blister

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right), whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Her job is to fin

Penn Station 1942 fsa.8d21801

Peanut stand next to the Lutz butcher shop finds it hard to get peanuts since the war started. Peanut oil is needed in industry

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Peanuts are scarce since the war started. Schoolbooks show that children are learning about the whole world

Pennsylvania coal miners, 1942

Pennsylvania coal miners

Pennsylvania coal miners, by John Collier

Pennsylvania coal miners, by J. Collier

Pennsylvania coal miner

Pennsylvania coal miner, 1942

Pennsylvania coal miner, a black face, 1942

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to f

Pavlichenko in the US with two other delegates, 1942

Pavlichenko in the US with two other delegates, 1942 (cropped)

Pennsylvania coal miner, a black face, 1942, 8d23666a

Pennsylvania Turnpike 1942

Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1942

Pennsylvania Turnpike 70 mph 1942

St. Mary's County, Maryland. People going to All Faith Church

Saint Mary's County, Maryland. People going to All Faith Church

New York, New York. Pennsylvania railroad station

New York, New York. Waiting for trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station

New York, New York. Information booth and escalators at the Pennsylvania railroad station

New York, New York. Concourse at the Pennsylvania railroad station

Russell Lee, Japanese-American family waiting for relocation, Los Angeles, 1942

Peter Fraser

Philip Martin Spencer Tracy Garson Kanin

Philip Martin Spencer Tracy Garson Kanin cropped

Photo mural to promote the sales of defense bonds, in concourse of Grand Central terminal

People leaving the Moravian Church on Sunday8d10680v

Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22683v

Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper.8d22680v