Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 3,841–3,900 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
The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on Mulberry Street8d11553v
1942-12
The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on Mulberry Street8d11554v
1942-12
The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on Mulberry Street, 8d11645v
1942-12
The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on Mulberry Street, 8d11651v
1942-12
The Di Costanzo family, owners of a restaurant on Mulberry Street, h8d11652v
1942-12
The District Red Cross gives training to taxi drivers8d21183v
1942-06
Washington, D.C. The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Madame Hassan, wife of the minister, reading an Egyptian picture magazine
1942-04
The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. 8d22886v
1942-04
The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. 8d22887v
1942-04
The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. 8d22888v
1942-04
The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. 8d22889v
1942-04
The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue.8d22883v
1942-04
Manpower. Americans all.
1942-09
Women in industry. Gas mask production.
1942-07
Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. The female war worker enters a new field. Women employees in a large Midwest supercharger plant handle the crating of superchargers with speed and skill. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company
1942-10
The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
1942-10
The first meeting of the women's policy committee of War Manpower Commission (WMC) on Oct. 1, 1942. Thre members get acquainted. Left to right: Maudell Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman, and Sue Southall. The committee was formed to aid in mobilizing women war workers for the war effort Creato
1942
The committee of railroad presidents and railroad union officials forming the Railway Labor Management Conference held a session in Washington, December 18, 1942 with Office of Defense Transportation officials to discuss manpower problems. The group agreed to submit recommendations to the ailroad ex
1942-12-18
The - (View along US 40 in Mount Vernon Canyon, Colorado) ( )
1942-12
The - (Main Street, Creede, Colorado) ( )
1942-12
The hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the Axis. American women are rapidly taking their places on the industrial front. Here in this small factory, the owner's wife operates one of the machines making dies for incendiary bombs.
1942-02
The kind of man Hitler wishes we didn't have. A bomber pilot 1a35093v
1942-05
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. The glee club from a Washington high school entertains the group at a dance g
1942-02
Lititz, Pennsylvania. The Lancaster to Lititz road as it enters Lititz
1942-11
The Greenbelt High School band8d21027v
1942
The Greenbelt High School band8d21029v
1942
The Greenbelt band8d21026v
1942
The Icelandic legation. Minister Thors dictating a letter 8d21491v
1942-07
The Icelandic legation. Minister Thors discussing business 8d21494v
1942-07
The Icelandic legation. Minister Thors joins his office staff 8d21497v
1942-07
The Icelandic legation. Minister Thors studying a report 8d21492v
1942-07
The Icelandic legation. Minister Thors studying a report 8d21493v
1942-07
The Icelandic legation. The Thors and their staff 8d21503v
1942-07
Washington, D.C. The Icelandic legation. The Thors and their staff on the legation steps
1942-07
The kind of man Hitler wishes we didn't have. A bomber pilot, captain in a bombardment squadron, just before he climbs aboard his huge YN-17 bombing plane
1942-05
The New York Times newsroom 1942
1942-09
The Lititz Service Association is made up of volunteers 8d10695v
1942-11
The Lititz Service Association is made up of volunteers 8d10719v
1942-11
The Moravian sewing circle quilts for anyone 8d10726v
1942-11
The local utility company giving a cooking demonstration8d21101v
1942
The local utility company giving a cooking demonstration8d21102v
1942
The mall restaurant in Central Park on Sunday8d22219v
1942-09
The pile of scrap is part of curb scrap drive8d23365v
1942-11
Lititz, Pennsylvania. The oldest member of the Moravian sewing circle is in her nineties. Members of the circle quilt for anyone who wants it at the cost of one cent a yard of thread, and the money goes to the church
1942-11
Nurse training. The "morning circle" starts the day's work for the student nurses. Here students get their assignment and learn what problems must be dealt with on the floor
1942-11
The necessity for student observation of operations 8b07797v
1942-11
The nurse must learn to carry out complicated and constantly changing instructions 8b08193v
1942-11
The motors of many refrigerators require periodic cleaning. If your model is one of these, keep coils free from hampering dust and grime by weekly sessions with a wire brush or a vacuum attachment
1942-02
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. The lost chord won't be found till the war is over! One of the last electric organs to be made for the duration comes off the line in a Chicago factory now converted to war production. Note octagonal trainer-plane motor in background already undergoing assembly
1942-07
The mine foreman waits for the afternoon shift
1942-11
The Moravian sewing circle quilts for anyone 8d10726v (cropped)
1942-11
Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Structural parts of a consolidated transport plane are installed in the "tunnel" of a tail fuselage section in a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or carg
1942
The Turkish Ambassador to Washington, M. Ertegün and his family
1942-02
The regular tracks of the South Yards, at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Nurse training. Through classes in pediatrics, student nurses learn how the right toys can be almost as important in getting a sick child well, as medicine and diet. Encouraging an interest in play and normal activities of childhood hastens convalescence
1942-11
The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an eastern factory, Manchester, Conn. Their work is under constant close supervision. Pioneer Parchute Company
1942-08
Lititz, Pennsylvania. The showroom of the Pierson Motor Company always had three new cars in it before the war started; now has one second-hand one
1942
The War Emergency Board of the fur industry formed a fur vest project. 8d11545v
1942-12
The Turkish Embassy. Ambassador Ertrogren 8d22873v
1942-02
The Turkish Embassy. Ambassador Ertrogren 8d22877v
1942-02