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

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Three-year-olds of all nations playing games in English

To use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude

Tomato crates at the Yauco cooperative tomato growers' association, Puerto Rico ( )

Tobacco string in the tobacco barn? vicinity of Barranquitas? Puerto Rico

Tomato crates at the Yauco cooperative tomato growers' association, Puerto Rico

Tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Growers' Association, Puerto Rico

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Tire on a car in a parking lot is marked with name of its owner to deter thieves

Tire registration took place in the library of the schoolhouse8d10675v

Tire registration took place in the school library 8d10688v

Tires to be shipped to Harrisburg 8d23493v

To keep your wringer operating properly, dry rolls thoroughly after use with a soft cloth and then release lever which removes pressure from the rolls

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been called to armed service, many young girls like 19-year-old Jewel Halliday are taking jobs never before held by women. Her job is shuttling workers between two Midwest war plant. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here a junk dealer unloads his truck in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills (Carnegie Steel, Chic

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. To provide homes for hundreds of naval and civilian employees of the Manitowac, Wisconsin shipyards, the National Housing Authority (NHA) has authorized construction of 250 units at the 400-unit federal housing project, located in Manitowac's outskirts. Two youthful re

Tons of bully beef being loaded into trucks along dock, Lend-Lease supplies, Middle East, 1942

To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total national defense, a call has been issued for 50,000 well qualified young women to enroll in the nation's schools of nursing this year. Shown above is an attractive student nurse, typical of the thousands of young women who yearly

To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster, a plant superintendent built this machine. It makes possible a speedy checking of thread accuracy in contrast to the old hand method. The inventor made the machine out of a fan base and a couple pieces of machine steel in a matte

Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

Tracks of the Lanaster-Reading Railroad. 8d10737v

Train gate at the Pennsylvania railroad station8d21819v

Train gate at the Pennsylvania station8d21818v

Toy department display at R. H. Macy and Company 8d23925v

Toy department display at R. H. Macy and Company 8d23926v

Too weak to be fed by normal methods 8b08209v

Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train going over the hump at the C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Training in marksmanship helps girls at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, Calif., develop into responsible women. Part of Victory Corps activities there, rifle practice encourages girls to be accurate in handling firearms.

Training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island1a35166v

Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill.

Transformer at TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga, Tenn.

Transmission line towers and high tension lines that carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, near Sheffield, Ala.

Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn.

Training gliders at the Marine Corp 's Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Training in marksmanship

Women in industry. Tool production.

Training. Ramp boats.

Training gliders at Page Field, Parris Island, S.C.

Transformer manufacture. Preparation of insulating board used between copper coils on distribution transformers is done by women employees of a large Eastern electrical company. These young women are extremely valuable to Uncle Sam, because the product they are making is used in almost every phase o

Truck load of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon

Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Truck driver at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee

Tribute to the flag on Memorial Day 8d21057v

Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Tule Lake War Relocation Center

TVA chemical plant, electric furnace loaded with phosphate, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

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

Turkish nightclub on Allen Street8d11640v

Truckmen who deliver coal 8d23503v

Truckmen who deliver coal8d23502v

New York, New York. Trying a hobby horse in the toy department at R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Turret-lathe workers, Negro and white, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, carrying out an operation on a turret lathe