Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 4,561–4,620 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
A British naval officer visiting Oswego8d38907v
1943-06
A Chinaman and two South Americans registering for the second ration books 8d14057v
1943-02
A child drinking Pepsi Cola before the service held on Memorial Day 8d30387v
1943-05-30
Oswego, New York. A British naval officer visiting Oswego during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A Canadian flight commander visiting Oswego during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A citizen showing his wife vegetables from his victory garden as she starts on her way to church
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A citizen working on Sunday morning in the victory garden he has made on the edge of the street
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A cannon in front of City Hall
1943-06
Washington, D.C. A chemistry teacher explaining an experiment to her class at Woodrow Wilson High School
1943
Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. A bus serviceman washing a bus which has just come in from a run in the Greyhound garage
1943-09
A charwoman who cleans buses mopping the floor of a bus 8d32922v
1943-09
A charwoman who cleans buses sweeping the floor of a bus 8d32921v
1943-09
A cafeteria 8d28286v
1943-04
A cafeteria patron 8d28283v
1943-04
Safe clothes for women war workers. A closeup of Eunice's new uniform reveals one of its most important safety factors: the tight-buttoning trouser ankles which prelude the possibility of a loose trouser's catching in moving machinery. Note also the sturdily built, comfortable safety shoes, with box
1943-03
A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee
1943-02
A charwoman who cleans buses sweeping the floor of a bus 8d32921v (cropped)
1943-09
A customer can use the ration books of the whole family. But the first thing she will want to know when she buys pork chops, pond of butter or a half pound of cheese is--"How many points will it take?"
1943
A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service
1943-03
A east bound Union Pacific railroad freight train waiting in a siding, Alray, Calif. Coming up through Cajon Pass. The Santa Fe tracks are used by the Union Pacific as far east as Daggett, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip
1943-03
A Dutch army officer visiting Oswego 8d38890v
1943-06
A Czechoslovakian flier in the Royal Air Force chats with the Czech consul 8d38924v
1943-06
A field after the snow has melted 8d14033v
1943-02
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A dispatcher in the Greyhound garage
1943-09
Dehydration. Potatoes. A comparison of the potato in three different forms--dehydrated, natural and sliced--clearly shows the value of dehydrated vegetables for wartime shipment. Dehydrated potato goals for the fiscal year of 1943-1944 have been set at 136 million pounds, which will be directed main
1943-02
A convalescing youngster is dried after his bath by student nurse Frances Bullock, (left). Experience in the pediatric and obstetrical wards is included in every student nurse's training
1943
Buffalo, New York. Audience at late moving picture show which starts between 1:30 and 2 a.m. once a week especially for workers on the swing shift
1943-05
A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New Mexico, near Laguna, N.M.
1943-03
A French naval officer being entertained in a Polish-American home8d38898v
1943-06
A French naval officer visiting Oswego 8d38951v
1943-06
A foggy day on the Oswego River 8d39952v
1943-06
A German military cemetery on the outskirts of Tunis8d32430v
1943
A German military cemetery on the outskirts of Tunis8d32431v
1943
A German military cemetery on the outskirts of Tunis8d32432v
1943
A French soldier looking over the wreckage of a German airplane8d32476v
1943
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A girl cleaner scraping the paint from a bus which is to be repainted at the Greyhound garage
1943
A girl employed by the U.S. government, a new arrival at a boardinghouse 8d25536v
1943
A follower of the late Marcus Garvey
1943-04
A grain elevator 8d39956v
1943-06
A home in the Polish section 8d39948v
1943-06
A hot day in the park 8d39964v
1943-06
A Greek sailor whose right arm has been disabled in the war 8d30939v
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A Greek sailor visiting Oswego during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A hayride for the United Nations heores and Oswego girls, during United Nations week
1943-06
A hayride for the United Nations heroes and Oswego girls 8d31004v
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A hayride for the United Nations heroes and Oswego girls during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A hayride for the United Nations heroes during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A hot day on the Oswego River
1943-06
A Greyhound driver making out his trip reports 8d32852v
1943-09
A Greyhound bus driver making out a trip report 8d32967v
1943-09
A Greyhound bus driver signing in for a bed at the dormitory 8d32954v
1943-09
A Greyhound driver getting his shoes shined by a porter 8d32955v
1943-09
Production. Magnesium.
1943-01
A girl taking a picture of the ceremony of laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 31770u
1943-05
Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. A group of WAACS (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps) receive instruction in tire structure and care as part of the automotive preventive maintenance course which all Army men and women at Holabird must take. Instructor is H.T. McKinley of Baltimore, Maryland.
1943
A guard stationed at Sibley bridge across the Missouri river along the route of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad
1943-03
A guard stationed at Sibley bridge across the Missouri river (cropped)
1943-03
A man working at the 24 inch lathe in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
c. 1943
A mechanic straightening a bent fender 8d32812v
1943-09
A mechanic straightening a bent fender 8d32813v
1943-09