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

General view of part of classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

General view of part of the rip tracks at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill. In the background is the coal chute and roundhouse

General view of part of the south Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R

General view of part of the rip tracks at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

General view of part of classification yard at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

General view of part of the Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill. In the background is the coal chute and roundhouse

General view of one of the departure yards at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Buffalo, New York. Naturalized citizens attending an "I am an American" day rally at the Memorial Auditorium

General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill.

German aircraft wrecks1 El Aouiana May1943

General view of the city and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, Amarillo, Texas. Santa Fe R.R. trip

General view of part of the South Water street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill.

Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas

Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians as Vince DiMaggio slides home during a lunch-hour softball game in the California Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards. DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, has been a warehouseman at the C

Baseball players in war production. George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians, does his bit at the California Ship Building Corporation where he helps build Liberty ships

German M3 wreck2 Tunis May1943

Getting ready to gas a bus at the Greyhound garage 8d32923v

Girl riding on a streetcar 8d27154v

Washington, D.C. Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant waiting for a pickup.

Production. Magnesium.

Getting steel plates ready for installation. Higgins shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana

Giraud tunis

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

New York, New York. Girolamo Valente, editor of the progressive Italian weekly, La Parola, conferring with his secretary. The ashtray in the form of open-mouthed Mussolini was presented by a friend. Painting on the wall is of Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian patriot. Valente is a prominent anti-fascist

New York, New York. Girolamo Valente, editor of the progressive Italian weekly, La Parola, conferring with his secratary. The ashtray in the form of open-mouthed Mussolini was presented by a friend. Painting on the wall is of Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian patriot. Valente is a prominent anti-fascist

New York, New York. Girolamo Valente, Italian-American newspaper editor correcting proof of La Parola, his progressive weekly newspaper

Buffalo, New York. Gladys Chase, thirty-five, was a beautician for thirteen years before becoming a scarfer. Scarfing is the removing of breaks, seams, cracks, lap wells and defects from steel billets by the use of a burning torch and takes six months to learn this process which is called scarfing

Grain elevators along the route of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, Amarillo, Texas. Santa Fe trip

Grain elevators near Amarillo, Texas; Santa Fe trip

Grading oranges at a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe trip

Emmitsburg (vicinity), Maryland. Grave of an Irish-American in the cemetery

Buffalo, New York. Naturalized citizens attending an "I am an American" day rally at the Memorial Auditorium. Singing the Star Spangled Banner

Buffalo, New York. Grain boat from Duluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Men sit on the edge of an open hatch to guide the ropes of the shovel which scoops the grain into the hatch where it can be drawn by the "leg" into the tower on an endless belt of buckets

Buffalo, New York. Grain elevators and coal barge

Grain elevators and railroad yards near the Erie Canal

Buffalo, New York. Grain elevators and tugboats on the Erie Canal NOTE: incorrect; this is the City Ship Canal

Buffalo, New York. Grain elevators on the Erie Canal NOTE: incorrect; this is the City Ship Canal

Buffalo, New York. Grain elevators on the Erie Canal with grain boat in foreground NOTE: incorrect; this is the City Ship Canal

Buffalo, New York. Grain boat from Deluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal

Buffalo, New York. Grain boats and grain elevators on the Erie Canal a misnomer; this is the Buffalo River

Buffalo, New York. Grain elevator on the Erie Canal alongside grain elevators

Buffalo, New York. Grain elevators and railroad yards near the Erie Canal

Oswego, New York. Greek sailor and his friends at the carnival during United Nations week

Growers bringing in their crop to a co-op orange packing plant, Redlands, Calif. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Buffalo, New York. Half-empty hold of a grain boat from Deluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. In middle ground is the "leg" which draws grain into the tower by means of an endless belt of buckets

Greyhound bus drivers writing out trip reports 8d32767v

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Greyhound bus drivers writing out trip reports in the garage

Greyhound bus drivers at the dispatcher's desk in the garage 8d32958v

Greyhound bus drivers getting their assignments at the dispatcher's desk in the garage 8d32957v

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Guiding hand behind the establishment of many West coast Victory Gardens, Professor Harry Nelson of San Francisco's Junior College still finds time to give his ten-year-old daughter Pat (left) and her Girl Scout friends some pointers in transplanting young ve

Greyhound Waverly Half-Way House 1943

Haile Selassie I in 1940s

Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe RR

Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, N ew Mex ico)

Washington, D.C. Handing in papers after a test in a health education class at Woodrow Wilson High School

Oswego, New York. Harry Cook, Acting President of the United Trades and Labor Assembly, American Federation of Labor

Baltimore, Maryland. Hauling armature of a trolley motor to be overhauled at the amature shop at the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company

Oswego, New York. Hay ride for the United Nations heroes and Oswego girls during United Nations week

Steel plates ready for installation into the hulls of ships at the Higgins shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana