Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 3,481–3,540 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
Residents working in their garden plot8d21125v
1942
Greenbelt, Maryland. Residents working in their garden plot
1942
Greenbelt, Maryland, Residents working in their garden plot
1942
Repair tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western R.R.
1942-12
Remember December 7th" US Government propaganda poster concerning the Attack on Pearl Harbor of 1942
1942 · poster
Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico?
1942-01
Rice and papaya in the lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico
1942-01
Rice in a lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico?
1942-01
Riveting team
1942-10
Riveting team2
1942-10
Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif.
1942
Riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a B-25 i.e. C-47 bomber at the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood i.e. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
1942-10
Road out of Romney, West Va.
1942–1943
Rita Rodriguey, 1a34937v
1942-10
Right face detail, NoonDayRestWomenAlfredTPalmer (cropped)
1942-10
Right, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Right face detail, B17F - Woman workers at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Right face detail, American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, Calif (cropped)
1942-10
Riveting team2 (cropped)
1942-10
Roden Kadir, delegate from the East Indies, a student at Catholic University, addressing on Indonesian students in the war
1942-09
Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War; John W. Studebaker, U.S. Commissioner of Education; William A.M. Burden, Special Aviation Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce
1942-09-25
Roundhouse fsa.8d23254
1942-11
Row shelters, FSA. labor camp, Robstown, Tex.
1942-01
Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill.; C & NW RR; Roy Nelin, a box packer in the roundhouse at the Proviso yard
1942-12
Rubber salvage display at Georgia Avenue filling station 8c34829v
1942-06
Rubber salvage display at Georgia Avenue filling station 8c34830v
1942-06
Rubber salvage display at Georgia Avenue filling station 8c34831v
1942-06
Rubber salvage display at Georgia Avenue filling station 8c34832v
1942-06
Roy Braden, manager of Greenbelt 8d21054v
1942
Roy Braden, manager of the town, gives a patriotic speech 8d21052v
1942
Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans leaving camp for a visit to town
1942-07
Russell Lee street corner Dillon Montana
1942-08
Russell Lee
c. 1942
Sailor mechanic inspecting a PBY plane1a34926v
1942-08
Sailor mechanic fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Sailor mechanic inspecting a PBY plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Greenbelt, Maryland. Sailor jitterbugging at the senior prom
1942
New York, New York. Saint Mark's Place and the Bowery at midnight
1942-09
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Sample hybrid corn exhibited at the side of a road at the Farm Bureau test field
1942-11
Salt Creek Falls, July 1942
1942-07
Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Aluminum kitchen utensils and scrap paper stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Artificial leg, kettle and gas tank 8c34669v
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Books and old lantern 8c34666v
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Cleaning metal by hammering off8c34667v
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Restaurant scales among objects8c34668v
1942-05
Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Schoolboy volunteers to go from house to home collecting scrap paper
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Bales of pressed scrap paper 8c34678v
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Bales of scrap paper stored in yard 8c34677v
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Hydraulic press for scrap paper 8c34679v
1942-05
Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Restaurant scales among objects stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Rubber scrap stored in warehouse8c34672v
1942-05
Salvage drive, Victory Program. Scrap paper, after being packed in hydraulic press 8c34675v
1942-05
Salvage demo
1942-10
Santurce street vendor
1942-01
Saying grace before carving the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner 8d10749v
1942-11
Saturday's a Holiday for Most of the Nation's Small Fry, but to These Youngsters of Roanoke, Va. It's Fat-Collection Day. ca. 10-1942
1942
Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers.
1942-08
Six stages of fat salvage. Saponification of fats makes glycerine. Glycerine makes explosives and camouflage paints. In this giant soap kettle, in a great industrial plant, fats become soap. When salt is added, the liquid part of this mixture will drop to the bottom of the kettle. That liquid will s
1942–1943
School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a festival in May 1942, Southington, Conn.
1942-05
School child waiting for a bus in the rain8d23393v
1942-11