Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 4,321–4,380 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
Washington, D.C. The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Minister Hassan getting into his coat in the entrance hall of the Legation
1942-04
Washington, D.C. The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Minister Hassan getting a book from his office shelves
1942-04
Washington, D.C. The Egyptian Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Minister Hassan at his desk
1942-04
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Madame Louden, wife of the minister, is learning typing by herself to help her in war work
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. An official of the legation
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden's secretary leaving the office
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden's daughter examining a sweater which her mother is knitting for the Netherlands branch of the Red Cross
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden at his desk
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Madame Louden, wife of the minister, knitting for the Netherlands National Committee of the Red Cross in her living room at home
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Madame Louden, wife of the minister, reading rare mail from Holland in the upstairs sitting room of their home
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden in his office at the legation
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden conferring with his military and naval staff
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden conferring with his naval attache
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden and his secretary in the chancery office
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden conferring with naval and military attaches
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden's daughter has supper on her tablecloth with a windmill design
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden's daughter eating supper in her nusery
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. Minister Louden's secretary at her desk in the chancery
1942-03
Washington, D.C. The Netherlands Legation. An official in the legation
1942-03
We want white tenants
1942-02
Welder at the C & NW RR locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
Watermelon vendor at the farmers' market 8c35064v
1942-07
Watermelon vendor at the farmers' market 8c35067v
1942-07
Weighing collected scrap paper at a Negro grammar school 8d20287v
1942-03
Water fountain on Memorial Day 8d21049v
1942
Welder at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad locomotive shops, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.
1942-12
We Can Do It- Women riveters (1942) (cropped)
1942-12
We want white tenants (cropped)
1942-02
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn
1942-06
Welder making boilers
1942-06
Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co, Chattanooga, Tenn
1942-06
What's a home without it's sidewalk scrap pile? Junior Commandos of Roanoke, Va., see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile.
c. 1942
Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
1942
Welder at work on Douglas Dam, Tenn. (TVA)
1942-06
Welders making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
1942-06
Welding Big Inch pipe by the stove pipe method
1942-10
Welding the Big Inch Pipeline
1942-10
NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two Negro welders, who are receiving their training in machine shop practice, building up an undersize shaft by arc welding to be re-machined to size
1942
What's wrong with this picture? Only that the lady is ruining her electric cord by disconnecting the toaster the wrong way. Don't pull cords from irons or toasters: disconnect them gently at the wall socket
1942-02
Women in industry. Flare gun production.
1942-07
Whisking dust off peaches on sale at the farmers' market 8c35069v
1942-07
When all tires above five per car were called in8d23490v
1942-11
When all tires above five per car were called in8d23492v
1942
When student nurses have completed much of their training 8b08192v
1942-11
Why greases must be saved.
1942-06
Why greases must be saved.
1942-06 · poster
White ceremonial military uniforms, three countries at UN garden party, 1942
1942-09-06
William London Melrose Park near Chicago, Ill, C&NWRR 1a34672v
1942-12
William H. Hastie, civilian aide to the Secretary of War 8e04937v
1942
William H. Hastie, civilian aide to the Secretary of War 8d20419v
1942
William H. Hastie, civilian aide to the Secretary of War8d20415v
1942
Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To assure adequate civilian supply of canned produce in the future, householders are urged to save their used cans and turn them in to their local collection agencies, which will send them to detinning mills. Reclaimed metals from t
1942-09
William A.M. Burden, Willard E. Givens, John W. Studebaker, Ralph A. Bard, Paul V. McNutt, Robert P. Patterson
1942-09
Wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber
1942
Wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall of a B-25 bomber
1942-07
With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Ca
1942-10
Wisdom Montana 1942 FSA
1942-04
Wisdom, Montana, April 1942
1942-04
Wisdom, Montana
1942-04
With a woman's determination, Lorena Craig takes over a man-size job, Corpus Christi, Texas. Before she came to work at the Naval air base she was a department store girl. Now she is a cowler under civil service
1942-08