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

Baltimore, Maryland. Employees of the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard hurrying to catch the six a.m. ferry across Curtis Bay to work. The street is lined with their parked cars

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Employees eating during their half hour lunch period in the plant-operated cafeteria

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Employees lined up to get into the plant-operated cafeteria during their half-hour lunch period

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Employees must buy their own tools. Many women are learning the use of tools for the first time

Employee badge for Vultee Aircraft Company of Tennessee from Operating a hand drill this woman worker is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer (cropped)

Engine House No. 7 1940

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc.

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now she is the only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Employees of the paint shop playing checkers during lunch 8d27859v

Employees of the paint shop playing checkers during lunch 8d27860v

Baltimore, Maryland. Employees of the first shift at the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard boarding a former Wilson Line pleasure boat which takes them to work at six a.m.

Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guests on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for girl war workers

Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guest playing Chinese checkers on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for war workers

Entertaining guest, playing rummy in the living room 8d18616v

Production. Magnesium.

War workers' nursery. Encouraging a restful game after strenuous exercise, a nursery school supervisor helps youngsters identify animals in picture book

Encased in a body and leg cast, this soldier must have constant care. Here, Army nurse Frances Bullock helps him to a drink of fruit juice

Esther Bubley, A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room, Washington, D.C., 1943

Esther Bubley, Soldiers with their girls in front of the Greyhound bus, Indianapolis, 1943

Esther Bubley, Woman cleaner at the Greyhound garage, Pittsburgh, 1943

Esther Bubley, Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, 1943

Esther Bubley, A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington DC, 1943

Esther Bubley - An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar

Exit of the underground tunnel through the Union Station

Baltimore, Maryland. Every available bus in Baltimore has been pressed into service to fill wartime transportation needs. A church bus is waiting outside the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard gates before three o'clock whistle

Buffalo, New York. Esther O'Hara, twenty-six, is a shearman's helper trimming defects from machine gun barrels at Republic Steel. She prefers her job to housework

Women in essential services. Ethel Peterson, twenty-seven, an expert lift-truck operator at the Paraffine Company in Emeryville, California. Her job demands manual skill and excellent driving judgement, for sharp curves must be rounded and the cargo must be handled with precision and speed at all ti

Women in essential services. Ex-fountain girl Anita Robinson unloads freight cars at the Paraffine Company in Emeryville, California. She's one of many women workers who are taking over essential jobs in industry

War workers' nursery. Every youngster who attends the Bella Vista Nursery School in Oakland, California must be inspected by Mrs. Elsie Curran, supervisor, before mingling with the other children. Here, five-year-old Ronnie Gold has her chest inspected

War workers' nursery. Jimmy Solavich whose mother works in a local war plant, must pass health inspection every morning at his Oakland, California nursery school. To protect all children from contagion, Mrs. Elsie Curran, school supervisor, inspects each child upon arrival

Esther Bubley - An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar - Original

Washington, D.C. Explaining point rationing to a registrant for the second ration book at a public school on the corner of Tenth and F Streets

Wartime food demonstration. Explaining methods of "extending" meats now that rationing is limiting civilian meat purchases, wartime food demonstrator Alice Burtis puts finishing touches to a meat loaf before an audience in Washington, D.C.

Factory workers going home at 4 p.m.8d45280v

Face detail, A child drinking Pepsi Cola before the service held on Memorial Day 8d30387v (cropped)

Carthage, Tunisia. General Mast paying his respects to the Bay of Tunis at the latter's summer palace

Families of migratory workers in front of their row shelters, FSA. labor camp, Robstown, Tex.

Face detail, Operating a hand drill this woman worker is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer (cropped)

Face detail, Wendy Welder Richmond Shipyards (cropped)

Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California.

Corona, Long Island, New York. Family of Raymond Fazio eating supper in their home. Fazio and his wife are garment workers in the dress business

General view of part of the Bensenville freight yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Bensenville, Ill.

Farm land in Texas panhandle near Amarillo, Texas. Santa Fe R.R. trip

General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Ill.

General store, near Questa, Taos County, N ew Mex ico

General store, Chacon, N ew Mex ico

Farmland along the Delaware River, N.Y.

Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state

Farmland in the Catskill Mountains, Richmondsville, N.Y.

Farmland in the Catskill country, in New York State

Farmland in the Taconic range, near the Hudson River Valley in New York state

Oswego, New York. Father John Scikalsky, pastor of Saint Stephen's church, wearing a medal given to him by the Polish government in the last war for his recruitment of Poles in Maine

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee Aircraft Inc., Nashville, Tennessee

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Field of daisies and orange flowers, possibly hawkweed, Vermont

Fire chief and driver8d25749v

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Fireman

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Fireman and call board

New York, New York finale in a play on America at war, given by students of public school eight in an Italian-American district. Left to right: Uncle Sam, soldier, sailor, Chinese soldier, farmer, housewife

War workers' nursery. Finger painting is a healthy outlet for nursery school youngsters. With oilcloth aprons to protect their clothes, the elbow's the limit for a junior artist