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

Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.

Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Working with a sea-plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Working on the wing center section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

New York, New York. The Lincoln School of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Working on a relief model of New Amsterdam

Production. 105 millimeter shells. Working with precision and speed, inspectors in a large idwest war plant gauge 105 millimeter shells. Note shells on moving racks in foreground. Prior to conversion to war production, plumbing fixtures were manufactured in this plant (Manitowac Shipyards)

Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repair at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill.

Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Working on a switch engine at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

You Can't Do Business with Hitler rehearsal

WWII Woman aircraft inspector checking electrical assemblies, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California in June 1942

WW 2 woman working on cockpit

YB-17 at Langley Field, Va

YB-17 at Langley Field, Va with ornament

New York, New York. Janet and Marie (age six, second from right) Wynn or Winn attend Sunday school in the Jan Huss Church on East Seventy-third Street. Although most of the students and teachers are Czech-American, they conduct school in English. Marie's class receiving illustrations of the Bible

WRM Aviation Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant 1942 - Produktionsarbeiterin in der Douglas Aircraft Company 1942

Young spectator at the Memorial Day ceremony 8d21055v

Young nurses assist at an appendectomy 8b07788v

You'll probably find new friends during this war, but you may not find a new refrigerator, so keep yours in good condition. To assure best results, arrange food properly, meat and milk closest to freezing unit. Don't overcrowd, as this prevents circulation of air

Women in industry. Tool production.

Young defense woman. This young woman, trained in a National Youth Administration (NYA) work center, is contributing to defense as the result of skill acquired on the government project. Scene from Women in Defense, Office of War Information (OWI) motion picture which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote th

WWII Woman aircraft inspector checking electrical assemblies, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California in June 1942 (cropped)

WWII Woman aircraft inspector checking electrical assemblies, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California in June 1942 (cropped 2)

Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon, FSA. camp, Robstown, Tex.

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take note!

Oswego, New York. A Belgian sailor on the merry-go-round at the carnival during United Nations week

Dehydration. Potatoes. A batch of dehydrated potatoes is inspected by Horace Campbell, chief of the Vegetable Section at the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany, California. Four to seven hours of dehydration are required before all moisture is removed from the potatoes

8d19660r Skyrocket 1943

"An eager school boy gets his first experience in using War Ration Book Two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing."

Mary McLeod Bethune, "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and others at the opening of Midway Hall, one of two residence halls built by the Public Buildings Administration of FWA for Negro government girls."

Audience at late moving picture show 8d17325v

OFFICIAL SALVAGE DEPOT" sign and American boys at the Sullivan Street depot separating scrap 8d24240v (cropped)

The Nature of the Enemy" at Rockefeller Plaza 1

The Nature of the Enemy" at Rockefeller Plaza 2

Adam Powell reports on his 8000 mile cross country tour" "The Negro on the Home Front" "beginning in this week's People's Voice" "No Punchs Pulled"-May-1943 (cropped)

1943 Illinois Centrail Rail Yard

333 North Michigan from Illinois Railroad Freight yard

Audience at late moving picture show 8d17326v

Oswego, New York. United Nations heroes eating a picnic lunch after swimming in Lake Ontario at a swimming party held for visitors' entertainment during United Nations week

Wartime food demonstration. Using such substitutes as corn syrup and vegetable shortening, home economist, Ida Lansden shows a group of Alexandria, Virginia women how to bake the most succulent of sugarless, butterless cakes. This meeting is part of the wartime food demonstration program now underwa

60 foot high sulphur vat, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas

A Belgian sailor on Flag Day greeting American Legionnaires 8d38684v

A Belgian sailor visiting Oswego 8d38893v

A Belgian sailor at the carnival during United Nations week 8d38916v

A Belgian sailor visiting Oswego 8d38937v

A Belgian sailor giving sponge sugar to a little girl 8d31029v

A careless word.A needless loss poster

A Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul, and Pacific Railroad train

A Chinese in the U.S. Army and two American soldiers 8d20099v

A bridge over the Oswego River 8d20151v

A Canadian flight commander visiting Oswego 8d38895v

Oswego, New York. A British naval officer being entertained at the American Legion post during United nations week

A British naval officer visiting Oswego 8d38925v

A British naval officer visiting Oswego 8d38930v