Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 3,421–3,480 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
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d11591v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d11595v
1942-12
New York, New York. Rabbi in a kosher wine shop in the New York's Jewish section. His job is to inspect wines to see that they are made in the kosher manner. He also sells his services as an after-dinner speaker at Jewish functions all over the country; he speaks practically no English, only Yiddish
1942
New York, New York. Rabbi in the Jewish section passing the time of day with the proprietor of a kosher wine shop where sacrificial wines are sold
1942
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23935v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23936v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23937v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23939v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23945v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23938v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23941v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23942v
1942-12
R. H. Macy and Company department store 8d23944v
1942-12
New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas, in the book department
1942-12
New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas
1942-12
R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 (cropped)
1942-10
RAF pilot Jørgen Billy Thalbitzer 1942
1942-04-10
Radio Repairs
1942-01
Radio room of the New York Times newspaper
1942-09
Ralph Miller has guarded the Lititz waterworks for sixteen years, 8d10736v
1942-11
Ralph Miller has guarded the Lititz water works for sixteen years,8d10756v
1942-11
Raymond Fazio and his family receive a belated Christmas package 8d11689v
1942-12
Radio room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22674v
1942-09
Radio room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22675v
1942-09
Radio room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22677v
1942-09
Radio room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22678v
1942-09
Training. Ramp boats. The Marines prepare to set a truck ashore from a fifty-foot ramp boat at a Navy school conducted by the Southern shipyard at which the boat was made. When the ramp is raised it closes tightly against the boat, making it entirely seaworthy. Higgins Industries
1942-07
Rags. Collection and processing. A portion of the sorting room in a large Eastern rag processing plant. In this room new rag remnants, consisting chiefly of cuttings received from clothing factories, are sorted. The rags are classified and separated according to the type of cloth; colored rags are g
1942-01
Detroit, Michigan. Radio station WWJ Today Walker-Roehrig Building at 600 W Lafayette Blvd, Detroit, Michigan.
c. 1942
Rays Hill Tunnel at night 1942
1942-07
New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Refugee children, after learning English at Children's Colony, attend public school
1942-10
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Newswanger works a lathe in the Animal Trap Company machine shop. He's a Mennonite, about thirty, and hopes his church won't find out he's doing defense work. Most Mennonites are farmers, and Newswanger used to be
1942
Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Company8d10672v
1942-11
Raymond Runk, fire captain, lecturing volunteer fire watchers 8d10723v
1942-11
Reading beside the Potomac River in East Potomac park8c34896v
1942
Reading corner in a Negro grammer school classroom8d20277v
1942-03
Washington, D.C. Reading lesson in a Negro elementary school
1942-03
Washington, D.C. Recreation at a Negro grammar school (original title)
1942-03
Receptionist making an appointment at Francois de Paris 8d21707v
1942-09
Receptionist making an appointment at Francois de Paris 8d21709v
1942-09
Recent inscriptions on a stone railing on the mall in Central Park 8d22203v
1942-09
Recording room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22701v
1942-09
Recording room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22710v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22726v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22727v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22728v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22729v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22730v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22750v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22751v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper. 8d22753v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22752v
1942-09
Reel room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22757v
1942-09
Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Company and fire captain 8d23560v
1942-11
Raymond Runk, accountant at the Animal Trap Company and fire captain, 8d23558v
1942-11
Production. Aircraft engines.
1942-07
Manpower. Americans all.
1942-09
Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern R.R.
1942-12
Residents of one of Washington's best residential sections apply for sugar ration cards 8c34805v
1942-05
Washington, D.C. Relaxing on the edge of the municipal swimming pool on Sunday
1942-07