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

Betty Roche Apr 1943

Big Bill, a repair car of the Baltimore Transit Company 8d27889v

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, doing the family shopping. She is making purchases from a list left that morning by her mother who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth.

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, leaves the two younger girls alone at home while she goes shopping. She is at the bank to cash her mother's check before buying the family food for Sunday. Her mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, leaving the store after making the family purchases from a list left that morning by her twenty-six year old widowed mother who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Here she submits ration coupons to the grocer for what she has purchased

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, leaving the store after making the family purchases from a list left that morning by her twenty-six year old widowed mother who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, purchasing meat and other groceries from a list left that morning by her twenty-six year old widowed mother who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, examining her omelette. She is disappointed with the results, it puffed up too much without browning. She is a good cook. Pasty and Mary, her sisters, look on. Their mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, serving an omelette for Saturday lunch for her sisters and herself, while Pasty looks on. Their mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm. eleven, with the help of Mary, eight, and Patsy, six, her sisters putting the food away which has just been purchased from a list left that morning by her twenty-six year old widowed mother who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann, eleven, Mary, eight, and Patsy Grimm six, eating lunch of canned chicken soup and omelette which Beverly Ann prepared. Their mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann, eleven, the oldest of the six Grimm children, pausing to listen to a radio program in the midest of sweeping the front room. Her mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, the oldest of six children, stops to listen to the radio while sweeping the front room. Her mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A shipyard with a crane

BG Auby C. Strickland, 9th Air Force getting shoes shined, Tripoli, Libya, 1943

Blacksmith shop, railroad, Topeka (cropped)

Blacksmith shop, railroad, Topeka

Oswego, New York. Blood donor clinic held for several days in the Elks' Club. There were 1,000 volunteers, and the Red Cross handled ten every fifteen minutes during the campaign

Blowing horns on Bleeker Street 8d23897v

Blowing horns on Bleeker Street 8d23899v

Boarding a bus 8d27885v

Boarding a bus at four p.m.8d27912v

Boarding a former Wilson Line boat, 8d28037v

Boarding a former Wilson Line boat,8d28036v

Boarding a former Wilson Line boat 8d28056v

Baltimore, Maryland. Boarding a former Wilson Line boat, now used for transportation. Eighteen hundred men crowd onto the boat for the twenty minute trip across Curtis Bay to the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard

Oswego, New York. Boarding a Syracuse bus on Bridge Street

Oswego, New York. Blood donor clinic held for several days in the Elks' Club. There were 1000 volunteers, and the Red Cross handled ten every fifteen minutes during the campaign

Oswego, New York. Blood donor clinic held for several days in the Elks' Club. There were 1,000 volunteers, and the Red Cross handled ten every fifteen minutes

Blood donor clinic held for several days in the Elks' Club. 8d45282v

Bob, the bartender at the Sea Grill 8d27166v

Bob, the bartender at the Sea Grill 8d27167v

Boarding the bus going to the Pentagon building 8d28129v

Dehydration. Potatoes. Blanched potatoes move off the conveyor belt of a steam blancher at the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany, California. After four to five minutes in the blancher the vegetables are ready to be placed in the dehydrator

Blue Island, Illinois. Mrs. Senise Sinise ironing

Bomber crews of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force are being given a chalk talk by Major Frank W. Delong, squadron commander, before they take off on a mission over Axis territory. Tunisia, April, 1943.

Oswego, New York. Boy scouts carrying the United Nations flags on Flag Day during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. Boy scout giving an insignia to a Norwegian naval officer and sailor on Flag Day during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. Boy scouts getting autographs from the United Nations heroes on Flag Day during United Nations week

Bomber crews of the United States Army Ninth Air Force are given a chalk talk before they take off on a mission over Axis Territory. Tunisia, April, 1943.

Breaking up of the swing shift dance held weekly 8d16687v

Oswego, New York. Boys watching the Flag Day ceremony at the Elks Club during United Nations week

Boys recruited to work on the farms during the summer waiting 8d31692v

Oswego, New York. Boys recruited to work on the farms during the summer waiting to be picked up by the farmers at 7:30 a.m.

Buffalo, NY. Symington-Gould, maker of ship, tank, and railroad parts. Operator of a 5 ton crane in the Finishing Department who operated a crane in the same plant in the last war.

Building of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.

Broadcasting a United Nations message to the nation 8d38674v

Bronislaus Nowak, precision lathe operator, is engaged to Cecelia Wrazen.8d16970v

New Orleans, Louisiana. Building a dry dock at the Higgins shipyards

Building foundations for anti-aircraft guns on a cargo vessel at the Higgins shipyards. New Orleans, Louisiana

Building of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. Photo shows the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building at 330 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C., which currently houses the Voice of America and part of the Department of Health and Human Services. (Source: Flickr Common

C & NW RR Caboose 12432

C & NW RR Caboose 12010

C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, railroad worker cultivating the small Victory garden in the Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Bus at four p.m.8d27875v

Bus bound for the Negro section 8d27946v

Bystanders at a parade held to raise money for the cruiser Buffalo8d16704v