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

Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, N orth A merican Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Women in industry. Tool production.

Women in industry. Gas mask production.

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of

Shasta dam

Shot putter, University of Nebraska

Shepherd with horse and dog, Madison County, Montana fsac.1a35022u

Shopper waiting in line at a cashier's booth in the Giant Food 8c34867v

Shelling lima beans at the farmers' market 8c35066v

Shoemaker and his wife in the Italian section on Mott Street 8d21727v

Shoeshine parlor on East Forty-Second Street. 8d21713v

Shoeshine parlor on East Forty-Second Street. 8d21714v

Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no longer recognizable as waste fat. Its nitric and sulphuric acids are added, it becomes deadly nitroglycerine for explosives. When gylcerine is allocated to one of our allies, it is usually shipped in its harmless state Related Na

Shelling lima beans at the farmers' market 8c35066v (cropped)

Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana

Shelley, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese who live at the camp have a laundry room

Side machine gunner of a YB-17 bomber

Sign in the hall of a Moravian Sunday school.8d10670v

Sign in the hall of the Moravian Sunday school. 8d10715v

New York, New York. Sidewalk merchant in the Jewish section

Sir Winston S Churchill

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Sixth graders working on an illuminated map of South America, showing resources

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Sixth grader making a clay bowl influenced by Latin American design

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Sixth-grade pupils making pottery influenced by Latin American design

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Sixth-grade pupils making pottery influenced by Latin American design. Part of a general Latin American project

Signaller on the track of the Third Avenue 8d22281v

Sir Winston S Churchill (cropped)

Washington, D.C. Sleeping in a car on Sunday in Rock Creek Park

Smoke stack of TVA chemical plant where elemental phosphorus is made, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Conservation of durable goods. So-o-o-o big! But still not quite big enough to sell to the junk man or give to the Red Cross, Boy Scouts or other agencies in the neighborhood. Conservation of waste paper will save millions of dollars annually for Uncle Sam. When that pile is broomstick high, they'll

Production. Small ramp boats. Fitting and painting small wooden ramp boats at a Southern shipyard. These thirty-six-foot carriers, built of prefabricated sections, are used for making beach landings of men and equipment. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six to eight

Production. Small ramp boats. A tow of wooden ramp boats used for landing men and equipment on beaches. These thirty-six-foot boats, just launched at a large Southern shipyard, will soon be delivered to the Navy. The high bottom-hinged sterns of these boats are used as ramps to make fast, dry-shod l

Production. Small ramp boats. A new wooden ramp boat, just completed at a Southern shipyard, is swung aboard a freighter for delivery to the Navy. The bottom-hinged sterns of these boats are used as ramps to make fast, dry landings of men and equipment at beach locations of any kind. Higgins Industr

Production. Small ramp boats. A thirty-six-foot wooden ramp boat, just completed at a Southern shipyard, in tow of a fast power launch. The high bottom-hinged stern of this boat is used as a ramp to make beach landings of men and equipment. Higgins Industries

Production. Small ramp boats. A tow of wooden ramp boats used for landing men and equipment on beaches. These thirty-six-foot boats, just launched at a large Southern shipyard, will soon be delivered to the Navy. The high bottom-hinged sterns of these boats are used as ramps to make fast, dryshod la

Production. Small ramp boats. Small wooden ramp boats for landing men and equipment on beaches, under construction at a Southern shipyard. The frames of these thirty-six-foot carriers are made of prefabricated parts and sections. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six

Son of one of the FSA farmers on the Rio Piedras project who brought lunch to his father, working in the sugar cane field, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico

Son tries to persuade his mother, a school teacher, 8d20246v

Some washing machine models requires oiling, others don't. Consult your instruction book before attempting a home-grease job. And when in doubt, call the service man

Something the matter with your wringer?

Southwestern Puerto Rico in the vicinity of Guanica?

Southington, Connecticut. School children pledging their allegiance to the flag

Spectators at a baseball game wives, sweethearts and children 8c34951v

Spectators at a baseball game wives, sweethearts8c34952v

Spectators at a baseball game8c35027v

Spectators at a baseball game8c35029v

Washington, D.C. Spectator in the National Gallery of Art on a Sunday afternoon

Southington, Connecticut. A group of young men soon to leave for army induction camps are listening to William Mongelo, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, May, 1942.

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's U.S. Post Office

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's U.S. Post Office (cropped)

Spencer Tracy Garson Kanin 1

Spencer Tracy Garson Kanin 2

Spencer Tracy Garson Kanin 1 cropped

Spencer Tracy Garson Kanin 2 cropped

Stand of virgin ponderosa pine, Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon

Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street locomotive shops

Stack of untranslated messages in the middle of the table 8e05113v

Spectators at a baseball game8c35030v

Spectators at a Sunday baseball game8d21078v