Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 481–540 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

This farmer is not on government relief
1940-02

More production." This Production Drive poster dramatizes an appeal from the men who need guns to the men who make them. It is being displayed in plants throughout the nation who are producing under war contracts.
1940–1946 · poster

Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. Three youthful residents of the 400-unit federal housing project, in Manitowac, Wisconsin, investigate the merits of a neighbor's bird bath. Operated by the National Housing Authority (NHA), this project includes 400 prefabricated demountable, steel channel frame and p
1940–1946

Tobacco harvesting
1940-09

Tobacco farmer Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1940-05

One of tractors cultivating sugar cane on Terrebonne Project. Schriever, Louisiana
1940-06

Town Hall, Center Sandwich, NH
1940-03

Tourist cabins along U.S. 1, near Laurel, Maryland
1940-06

Untitled. Tower of Industrial Exposition Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1940–1945

Tourist house, Truro, Massachusetts
1940-08

Trestle bridge near Ophir Colorado1940
1940-09

Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed
1940-10

Tying a ribbon on a calfs tail was one of the feature attractions at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair rodeo
1940-10

Tyrone New Mexico 1940
1940-05

Tying a ribbon on a calf's tail was one of the feature attractions at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair rodeo
1940-10

Uncasville Mill (1), November 1940
1940-11

Uncasville Mill (2), November 1940
1940-11

Under the elevated railway, Chicago, Illinois
1940-07

Uncasville Mill (3), November 1940
1940-11

Uncasville Mill (4), November 1940
1940-11

Untitled photo
1940

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Arkansas farmer now picking fruit in Berrien County, Michigan
1940-07

Vegetable garden in camp
1940-03

Valley along the Skyline Drive in Virginia
c. 1940

View from the Skyline Drive, Virginia.
c. 1940

View in the mountains along Skyline Drive in Virginia
c. 1940

View along the Skyline Drive, Va.
c. 1940

View in the mountains along the Skyline Drive, Va.
c. 1940

View of a valley from the Skyline Drive, Virginia
c. 1940

View of fields and wooded foothills from the Skyline Drive, Virginia
c. 1940

Vought OS2U production 1940
1940-11

Virgie, KY 1940
1940-09

Walter C. Teagle, former President Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (left), and Roger D. Lapham, President of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company
1940–1946

Washing eggs to be sold at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at on Reitz farm, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania
1940-08

Washing along the irrigation ditch, Chamisal, New Mexico
1940-07

WB Mason First Building
1940-12

White House Cafe, Port Gibson MS 1940 cropped
1940-08

White House Cafe, Port Gibson MS 1940 uncropped
1940-08

Wife of Jim Norris with canned goods, Pie Town, New Mexico
1940-10

Wife of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, threading sewing machine. 8b23864v
1940-02

William L. Batt, Director
1940–1946

Wife of day laborer. Scioto Marshes, Hardin County, Ohio
1940-11

William Barclay Harding, Director, Division of Transportation and Aviation, Office of Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics. Retains partnership in Smith, Barney and Company, Investment Banking Firm, 14 Wall Street, New York City * Original title of agency d
1940

William Barclay Harding fsa.8b09166
1940

Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado
1940-10

Williamson School one-room school in Blanch Caswell County North Carolina
1940-10

Woman carrying bundle on head, Natchez, Mississippi, August.
1940-08

Woman living at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, removing the cover from her electric washing machine
1940-04

Wounded Knee
1940-11

Working on the county maps at the colored County Land Use Pl.
1940-10 · map

Yanceyville (vicinity), N.C. An outdoor picnic being held during the noon intermission of a meeting of ministers and deacons of the Negro church
1940-10

Yanceyville (vicinity), N.C. An outdoor picnic being held during the noon intermission of an all day meeting of ministers and deacons, at the Negro church
1940-10

Young child, long hair, near Casa Grande, Arizona
1940

Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. Youngsters find plenty of room for play in one of Wisconsin's newest federal housing projects at Manitowac. Principal residents of the project, operated by the National Housing Authority (NHA) are naval and civilian employees of Manitowac's shipyards
1940–1946

“COLORED WAITING ROOM” and “HITLER’S LOVE LIFE REVEALED” - Jim Crow in Durham, North Carolina (cropped)
1940-05

Men waiting to enlist at recruiting headquarters in San Francisco, California, December 1941
1941-12

San Francisco Newspapers After Pearl Harbor Attack
1941-12-08

A big day, Mama- Easter bunnies, cherry blossoms and picture taking 8b31136v
1941-05

A bite to eat. Cherry Blossom Festival8b31125v
1941-05

Cherry orchards and farming land, Emmett, Idaho
1941-07