Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 3,661–3,720 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
Spectators at the Greenbelt Memorial Day ceremony 8d21056v
1942
Spectators at a Sunday baseball game8d21110v
1942
Spectators at the swimming pool 8d21142v
1942
Stack of untranslated messages in the middle of the table 8d21283v
1942-06
Stairway from trains to the concourse at the Pennsylvania railroad station8d21844v
1942
Spilled food should be wiped from a refrigerator as soon as possible. Use a cloth wrung out of warm soapsuds. Never use a steel wool on enameled surfaces
1942-02
Spreading asbestos mixture on boiler of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street locomotive shops
1942-12
Stearman N2S NAS Corpus Christi 1942
1942-08
Stockroom at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company.
c. 1942
Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach, Calif., plant HD-SN-99-02461
1942-10
Starting a propeller at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
1942-08
Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort
1942-11
Stereotype room of the New York Times newspaper.8d22715v
1942-09
This sign appeared at one upper Wisconsin Avenue gas station 8c35050v
1942-07
Street corner. Dillon, Montana, August 1942
1942-08
Street scene, with building of the Southington News, Southington, Connecticut
1942-05
Street corner, Dillon, Mont. Dillon is the trading center for a prosperous cattle and sheep country
1942-08
Student in Lancaster County Mennonite public school 1942
1942-03
Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif
1942-09
Student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.
1942-01
Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif.
1942-09
Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif. Ralph Angar, instructor, explains propeller characteristics to student s in the aeronautics class
1942-09
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. Students examining the Pan-American exhibit at American University
1942-02
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. Students examining the U.S. Constitution, with the Declaration of Independenc
1942-02
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. Students at a motion picture on the United States Coast Guard at the United S
1942-02
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. Students coming down from the Supreme Court steps
1942-02
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. Students examining books in the
1942-02
Student council meeting at the Banneker Junior High School8d20210v
1942-03
Student council meeting at the Banneker Junior High School8d20256v
1942-03
Student council meeting at the Banneker Junior High School8d20259v
1942-03
Students help prepare lunch for the school cafeteria8d20364v
1942-03
Nurse training. Student nurses, like millions of other United States citizens, are today taking Red Cross First Aid courses, but with a difference. These students of nursing are taught not only to give first aid in case of air raids or other war or peacetime emergencies, but also how to deal with am
1942-11
Nurse training. Student nurses spend a great deal of time in classrooms, as well as in practice in the wards. Many of the students entering schools of nursing today hope to serve in the Army or the Navy Nurse Corps if the war continues until they graduate; but they realize that they are giving war s
1942-11
Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania 8b07710v
1942-11
Nurse training. Student observation of operations in schools of nursing and medicine has brought about the development of various styles of amphitheatres. This dome arrangement is unique in the United States. While eye operations are in progress in the room below, the students observe through powerf
1942-11
Student nurses must be versed in occupational therapy 8b08195v
1942-11
Student nurses may often assist doctors at operations 8b08210v
1942-11
Student nurses may often assist doctors at operations 8b08220v
1942-11
Sugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico
1942-01
New York, New York. Students singing the Star Spangled Banner in a public school at Seventy-first Street and First Avenue, at Columbus Day assembly. Janet Winn or Wynn, a Czech-American child, a member of the color guard, is in the background
1942-10
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. Students listening to speeches at the Pan-American Union
1942-02
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. Students looking at the city from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
1942-02
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. Students posing for a group photograph with the Capitol in the background
1942-02
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. Students taking notes at a hearing of the Naval Affairs Committee
1942-02
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. Students on the Capitol steps
1942-02
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. Students on their way to visit the Capitol
1942-02
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. Students witness a hearing of the Naval Affairs Committee. Senator Walsh, cha
1942-02
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. Students in the hallway of the
1942-02
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. Students in the patio of the Pan-American Union
1942-02
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. Students and parrot in the patio of the Pan-American Union
1942-02
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. Students listening in on a hearing of the Naval Affairs Committee
1942-02
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. Students on the steps of the Supreme Court building
1942-02
Subchaser at Luders Marine, Stamford CT in March 1942
1942-03
Study hall where student nurses prepare their daily assignments 8b08216v
1942-11
Washington, D.C. Sunday baseball game at Ellipse Park
1942-07
at the edge of the municipal swimming pool
1942-07
Sunday dinner Martinetti home 8d11653v
1942-12
Sunday dinner in the Martinetti home. 8d11646v
1942-12
Sunday dinner in the Martinetti home. 8d11648v
1942-12
Sugar rationing card showing stamps 8c34802v
1942-05