Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
6,949 photos, in date order; 5,761–5,820 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
Lot 11604-2
1943-03
Lot 11604-8
1943-03
Lot 11604-9
1943-03
Lot 11604-11
1943-03
Lot 11604-12
1943-03
Lot 11604-13
1943
Lot 11605-1
1943-03
Lot 11605-8
1943-03
Lot 11605-9
1943-03
Lot 11605-10
1943-03
Lot 11603-2
1943-03
Lot 11603-8
1943-03
Lot 11603-9
1943-03
Lot 11603-20
1943-03
Lot 11603-18
1943-03
Lot 11603-19
1943-03
Lot 11637-11
1943-09
Lot 11638-1
1943-09
Lot 11638-2
1943-09
Lot 11638-8
1943-09
Lot 11638-9
1943-09
Lot 11638-10
1943-09
Lot 11638-11
1943-09
Luncheon for Liberian president's party
1943-05-29
Luscombe Phantom at Bar Harbor fsa.8d31156
1943-06
Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1943-02
Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc.
1943-02
Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Left to right: Bertha Carlotta, twenty-nine, a machinist testing axles; Anna Plecenik, twenty-four, a machinist's helper, working a drill press; Mary Stefanski, thirty-seven, a blacksmith's helper; Ce
1943-05
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lower bracket of the 30,000 kilowatt waterwheel generator which Westinghouse Electric Company is manufacturing for the Watts Bar Dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), from underneath, showing hole through which the shaft is passed. The bracket supports the thrust bea
1943-06
Lt. Milton Marx
1943
Baseball players in war production. Lunch hour at California Ship Building Corporation finds two of baseball's major leaguers talking things over. As fellow ship-builders at the California shipyards, George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians, and Vince DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates out
1943-02
Mechanics working on a bus parked outside the Greyhound garage 8d32756v
1943-09
M-10 tank destroyer.
1943-03
Winner of the plant award.
1943-01
Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forteen, is further interviewed after filling out a preliminary blank in the front office of the Bell Aircraft plant. She worked in a factory in the last war, and has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen
1943-05
Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forty-five, arranges for transportation and health insurance at the Bell Aircraft plant, and is told to report for work the next morning. About 200 people a day are hired at this factory. Charts on the wall show districts of the city for the arrangement of shared ri
1943-05
Mae West life preserver
1943-06
Main Altar, SJDG
1943
War production workers at the Vilter Manufacturing Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis.
1943-02
Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forty-five, is being fingerprinted at the Bell Aircraft plant. She worked in a factory in the last war; has since been a housewife, and has two children over fourteen
1943-05
Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forty-five, poses for an identification photograph at the Bell Aircraft plant. She worked in a factory in the last war; has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen
1943-05
Tunis, Tunisia. Major General H.C. Hoo, tank expert and head of the Chinese military mission to North Africa, inspecting captured German guns with Lieutenant B. Zeff, British ordnance officer
1943-05-20
Major General Donald H. Connolly, Commander of the United States Army forces in Iran and Iraq at a press conference somewhere in Iran8d29628v
1943-03
Major General Donald H. Connolly,8d29631v
1943-03
Production. Magnesium.
1943-02
Madelon O'Leary operates a punch press in a well-cut, one-piece overall. Trim--and plenty of room for action. Visor-front cap completely covers hair for safety and essential neatness
1943-03
U.S. Army medical field service school.8d25767v
1943-02
Wartime food demonstration. Made without sugar and butter, this piece of cake is nevertheless delicious if Mrs. W.L. Sommer's expression is an indication. The cake was baked for a wartime food demonstration in Alexandria, Virginia
1943-03
Major Generals Doolittle, Bergeret, and Spaatz
c. 1943
Major Glade B. Bilby of Skidmore, Montana talking to members of his flying squadron somewhere in Tunisia. While flying top cover, the squadron destroyed six German Messerschmitts.
1943-04
Man gardening 8d31712v
1943-06
Man picking flowers in his garden8d31711v
1943-06
Tunis, Tunisia. Major Hwang (center) with General Hoo and British ordnance officers inspecting a captured German anti-tank gun
1943-05-20
Marian Anderson at the ceremony 8d36841v
1943-01-06
Washington, D.C. Marian Anderson broadcasting a Negro spiritual at the dedication of a mural installed in the United States Department of the Interior building, commemorating the outdoor concert which she gave at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow he
1943-01-06
Marian Anderson greeting members of the 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 her on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939
1943-01-06
Marian Anderson mural dedicated. Musician (second class) Wayman E. Hathcock, directs a double quartet from Camp Robert Smalls, Great Lakes Training Station, at the dedication of a mural commemorating Marian Anderson's free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. T
1943-01-06
Marian Anderson mural dedicated.
1943-01
Marian Anderson mural dedicated. Marian Anderson, noted contralto, sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the dedication of a mural commemorating her free public concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. The dedication was held in the Department of Interior Auditorium before
1943-01-06
Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas
1943-06