Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 4,621–4,680 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 mechanic metalizing a part in the machine shop at the Greyhound garage. 8d32925v
1943-09
A mechanic working on a gas tank at the Greyhound garage
1943-09
A mechanic working on a rear axle housing at the Greyhound garage 8d32906v
1943-09
A mechanic working on a rear axle housing at the Greyhound garage 8d32907v
1943-09
A mother sewing a button on her child's overalls 8d29755v
1943-06
War workers' nursery. A mid-morning tomato juice is thoroughly appreciated by these war workers' children who attend an Oakland, California nursery school
1943-04
A modern Florence Nightingale, Lieutenant Frances Bullock of the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. is one of America's army of nurses whose devotion to country comes before regard for personal comfort and security. In ice-bound outposts and in tropical southern isles, wherever the stars and st
1943
Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. A military policeman warning an offending jeep driver of the error of his ways
1943
Audience at the ceremony held in the auditorium of the U.S. Department of the Interior at the dedication of a mural painting commemorating a free public concert given by Marian Anderson on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939
1943-01-06
A Norwegian naval officer visiting Oswego 8d38891v
1943-06
A Norwegian sailor chatting with Oswego girls on Flag Day8d38704v
1943-06
A Norwegian sailor talking informally with air cadets 8d38894v
1943-06
A Norwegian sailor writing his autograph 8d38703v
1943-06
A nurse in the first aid room at the Ross Heater plant bandaging 8d16968v
1943-04
A Norwegian naval officer writing his autograph 8d30929v
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A Norwegian sailor and an Oswego girl at a farm during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A Norwegian sailor and an Oswego girl on a hayride during United Nations week
1943-06
Wartime food demonstration. A new and important home front activity, the wartime food demonstration is rapidly becoming a nation-wide institution. Wives of war workers in Alexandria, Virginia meet weekly to hear about best ways of ration-point spending, food conservation, etc., under the leadership
1943-03
Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ordnance plant
1943-04
A Santo bulto and a painting of the Dolorosa in the church, Trampas, New Mexico." Interor of the San José de Gracia Church — in Las Trampas, Taos Co., New Mexico.
1943
New York, New York. A pressman in the Cocce press in Barrow street
1943-01
A Polish naval officer visiting Oswego 8d38906v
1943-06
A Polish naval officer visiting Oswego 8d38933v
1943-06
A Polish parachutist visiting Oswego 8d38940v
1943-06
A park scene with a Civil War monument 8d39962v
1943-06
A secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management8d14061v
1943-02
A secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management8d14062v
1943-02
A secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management8d14063v
1943-02
A secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management8d14064v
1943-02
Buffalo, New York. A scooper unloading a grain boat from Duluth at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Scoopers are hired at each port to aid the crew in loading and unloading. They guide the ropes of the shovel which scoops the grain into range of the "leg" which draws grain into elevator by means
1943-05
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A priest of the Lithuanian national church serving mass in the Lithuanian cemetery on Memorial Day
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A Polish naval officer writing his autograph for a boy scout on Flag Day during United Nations week
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A Polish parachutist visiting Oswego during United Nations week
1943-06
A Red Cross clubmobile serving doughnuts and coffee 8d32447v
1943
Constantine (vicinity), Algeria. A Red Cross clubmobile serving doughnuts and coffee to the crew of a bomber just returned to the airport from a dangerous mission
1943
Constantine (vicinity), Algeria. A Red Cross clubmobile serving refreshments to troops in an outlying bivouac area
1943
A Red Cross clubmobile serving refreshments to troops8d40594v
1943
A Red Cross girls carrying fresh doughnuts from an improvised kitchen 8d40597v
1943
Production. Magnesium.
1943-02
A Santo bulto and a painting of the Dolorosa in the church, Trampas, New Mexico
1943
A street cleaner on Washington Street.
1943-03
A soldier and a woman in a park
c. 1943
A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center, Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico." "Due to the over-grazing and loss of range title, its inhabitants now work as migratory labor and at subsistence farming." Adobe
1943
Washington, D.C. A sign at the National Zoological Park
1943-05
A statue in front of the National Archives Building. Washington, D.C.
1943-12
A service flag in a home in the Polish section 8d39961v
1943-06
A service flag in the window of a home 8d39955v
1943-06
A secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management8d14065v
1943-02
Baltimore, Maryland. A street scene
1943-04
Oswego, New York. A sign on a store
1943-06
Oswego, New York. A street scene
1943-06
A slightly inebriated couple at the Sea Grill 8d27138v
1943-04
A streetcar passenger 8d28273v
1943-04
Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. A soldier removing a tack from a United States Army truck tire. Constant fire inspection is required of all drivers at the depot
1943
A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains dating back to 1700 which was once a sheep raising center, Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. Due to the over-grazing and loss of range title, its inhabitants now work as migratory labor and at subsistence farming
1943
A soldier and a woman in a park, with the Old Russell Senate Office Building behind them, Washington, D.C.
c. 1943
A slightly inebriated couple at the Sea Grill 8d27138v (cropped)
1943-04
A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia
1943-03
A view looking northeast from the fire tower manned by Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, Gorham vicinity, N.H.
1943
Buffalo, New York. A Sunday afternoon meeting of the rubber workers union. Despite the fact that the industry has only recently employed women, many of them are attending the meeting
1943-05