Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 3,541–3,600 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
School children waiting for buses in the rain8d23392v
1942-11
Scrap Rubber Drive. All Americans are being urged to continue to donate used or worn out rubber articles to the nation's scrap piles.
c. 1942
Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont.
1942-10
Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana
1942-10
Schoolboys go voluntarily from house to house collecting scrap paper 8c34770v
1942-05
Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper 8c34778v
1942-05
Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper 8c34779v
1942-05
Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper 8c34780v
1942-05
Washington, D.C. Science class in a Negro high school
1942-03
Science class in a Negro high school 8d20292v
1942-03
Washington, D.C. Schoolteacher
1942-03
Scrap collection drive. 8d23373v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive. 8d23372v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive. 8d23374v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive. 8d23375v
1942-11
Scrap colletion drive. 8d23368v
1942-11
Scrap colletion drive.8d23369v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive. 8d23441v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive. 8d23445v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive.8d23439v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive.8d23442v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive.8d23443v
1942-11
Scrap collection drive.8d23444v
1942-11
Second Avenue El - demolition
1942-09
Traffic at 5:30 on Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
1942-07
Second Avenue El - demolition
1942-09
Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska
1942
Seed and feed store, Lincoln, Nebr.
1942
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR
1942-12
Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced
1942-02
Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced
1942-02
Section of one of the switchyards from which high tension lines carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which can be increased to a
1942-06
Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring their junk 8c34682v
1942-05
Second Avenue elevated railway at 14th Street8d22159v
1942-09
Second Avenue elevated railway in process of demolition 8d22162v
1942-09
Second Avenue elevated railway at 14th Street 8d22237v
1942-09
Selling hand-made gifts at the farmers' market8d23534v
1942-11
Section of the Animal Trap Company 8d23568v
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. Self-portrait at a public sale
1942-11
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broken locomotive frame, Chicago, Ill. Workman is indicating what place must be cut. At the 40th Street shop of C&NWRR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad
1942-12
Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are working on building forms used in the manufacture of sel
1942
Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are doing the final finishing work on bullet-sealing fuel
1942
SCRAPS FOR VICTORY
1942-05
Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va
1942-07
Servicing an engine of an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va
1942-07
Servicing an A-20 bomber, Langley Field, Va.
1942-07
Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah
1942-11
Serving punch during an evening party at the home of a government artist 8c34835v
1942
Sewing class at the Banneker Junior High School8d20234v
1942-03
Sewing class at the Banneker Junior High School8d20239v
1942-03
Selling war stamps in a Negro high school 8d20294v
1942-03
Setting type for the school paper on a lithograph machine 8d20382v
1942-03
Six stages of fat salvage. Separated from the soap, crude glycerine is purified and repeatedly tested by chemists. The housewife's tablespoonful of fat is now almost ready for the fighting fronts. When 98.6 purity has been achieved, glycerine is sent to ammunition plants, munitions plants, plant fac
1942–1943
Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Sewing room
1942-01
Senators at ship launching in Portland, Maine
1942-08
Served Daily Monty's Diner in Southington, Connecticut. May 26, 1942.
1942-05
Shasta dam under construction
1942-06
Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, North American Aviation, Inc, Inglewood, Calif
1942-10
Shasta dam under construction new edit
1942-06
Shasta dam under construction, California
1942-06