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

Two women employees of North American Aviation, Incorporated, assembling a section of a wing for a P-51 fighter plane

Two sisters who left the farm to keep our airmen flying. NYA trainees at the Corpus Christi, Texas, Naval Air Base, Evelyn and Lillian Buxkeurple are shown working on a practice bomb shell.

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach 1a35342v

Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service, Glenview, Ill. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children

Two volunteer translators of the Red Cross Foreign Inquiry Service 8d21282v

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench workers, one white and one a Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley block

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench workers, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley block

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench-lathe workers, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing burrs from special taper head screws

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench-lathe workers, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing burrs from special taper head screws

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two turret-lathe workers, Negro and white, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, watching a cutting-off operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two welders, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, building up an undersize shaft by arc welding to be re-machined to size

Women in industry. Tool production.

I'll carry mine. Two excellent methods of bringing home the family purchases: carry'em or pedal'em home by bicycle to conserve the tires and gasoline of your merchant's delivery trucks

Two of the nation's millions of war workers attach cylinder barrels 8e11191v

Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Two assembly line workers at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company enjoy a well-earned lunch period, Long Beach, Calif. Nacelle parts of a heavy bomber form the background

Typesetter on the Chicago Defender

U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in front of a YB-17 bombing airplane, probably Langley field, Virginia

Tying up bundles of scrap paper at public school. 8c34771v

U.S. Army Corps major and a civilan lunching at the Occidental Hotel restaurant 8c35073v

U.S. Army Air Corps major about to leave to take over a Libyan bomber command8c35125v

Production. Aircraft engines.

U.S. Marine Corps, bedding down a big barrage balloon, Parris Island, S.C.

U.S. Marine Band drummer, probably at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Marine Corps Barrage Balloons at Parris Island South Carolina 1942

United Nations exhibition of photographs 8d14508v

Workers punching the clock at the SKF roller bearing factory 8d27970v

United States Marine Band drummer 1942

Unloading corn at the District grocery store warehouse 8c35013v

Unloading calves and pig purchased at the union stockyards8d23518v

US Marines with barrage ballon at Parris Island 1942

US Marine Corps paratrooper at Parris Island 1942

Unloading corn at the District grocery store warehouse8c35012v

Unloading potatoes and cabbage at the District grocery store8c35038v

Unloading watermelons at the farmers' market 8c35068v

Using an electric drill to make model airplanes for the U.S. Navy 8d20219v

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers

Untitled photo, possibly related to: In the fishing village of Puerto Real, many women take in needlework to do at home to supplement their income from fish. The gloves which these women are stitching are being done for a firm in Mayaguez and will eventually be sold in New York. Puerto Rico Creato

Utuado, Puerto Rico. Children in the slum area

Ventura bombers production line

Ventura bombers production line

Victory Corps at Montgomery Blair HS

Victory Program. Bicycle, tires and shovel 8c34703v

Victory Program. After saleable parts are removed from old cars 8c34710v

Victory Program. After saleable parts are removed from old cars 8c34738v

Victory Program. Bathtub, boiler and fence in wholesale junkyard 8c34730v

Victory Program. Car dismantled of saleable parts 8c34740v

Victory Program. Car headlights glare up among objects in wholesale junkyard 8c34726v

Victory Program. After bringing their scrap paper to school, 8c34784v

Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper 8c34788v

Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper 8c34790v

Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school 8c34785v

Using the picture book as bait, 8b08189v

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press which once assembled piano parts, this employee of a Chicago firm now installs gears in the pneumatic motors of trainer planes. The factory has stopped piano production for the duration and now produces trainer-plane motors for Americ

Vema hoffman 1942

Victory Program. Rubber hose and scrap paper 8c34665v

Victory Program. Crane loads blocks of scrap metal 8c34696v