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

Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers arring by train to help in the harvesting of beets

Midwest Hiawatha 1943

Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers topping sugar beets

Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers throwing sugar beets into a truck

Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers arriving by trian to help in the harvesting of beets

Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers eating during the sugar beet harvest time

Stockton (vicinity), California. Mexican agricultural laborers harvesting sugar beets

Stockton, California. Mexican agricultural laborers who have come to help harvest beets eating their lunch

Niagara Falls, New York. Midnight supper at Nan Hannegan's twentieth birthday party. Her mother takes in girl war workers as boarders

Michael Spinella, Italian baker in a Lithuanian bakery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

MG Donald Connolly, Commander of U.S. Army Forces in Iran, press conference, 1943

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later administered by the National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Plant workers. Back of the trailers, with a wash hanging on a line

Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti, Michigan, looking west, 1943

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Military people of the Republic of China detail, from- American officers instructing Chinese task forces on the India mission (cropped)

Mojave Desert country, crossed by Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif.

Mojave Desert country, crossed by the Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif.

Oswego, New York. Miss Marian C. Mackin, executive secretary of the Oswego County chapter of the American Red Cross

Buffalo, New York. Mona, two, and Carol Grimm, five, being put to bed by their foster mother Mrs. Hehr, with whom they live during the week. Sundays they go home to their mother, who is a twenty-six year old widow with six children under twelve. She works as a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad 8d30165v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She lives on a farm in nearby Delmont and was formerly a waitress in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh

Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss Mary Mignogna, employed as car repairmen's helpers 8d30401v

Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss Mary Mignogna, employed as car repairmen's helpers 8d30399v

Miss Dorothy Lutz, a Western Union telegraph messenger 8d30795v

Miss Dorothy Lutz, a Western Union telegraph messenger 8d30810v

Miss Dorothy Lutz, checking map 8d30813v

Miss Ethel Wakefield, a Western Union telegraph PBX operator 8d30850v

Miss Ethel Wakefield, a Western Union telegraph PBX operator 8d30863v

Miss Kathleen McCarthy, a Western Union teleprinter operator 8d30836v

Miss Kathryne Lister, a switching clerk at the Western Union 8d30847v

Miss Mabel Stargel talks into a microphone 8d30846v

War Manpower Commission Women's Advisory Committee. Miss Margaret A. Hickey, chairman of the Women's Advisory Committee, War Manpower Commission (WMC). As chairman of this committee, Miss Hickey, who is a lawyer and a business executive of Saint Louis, Missouri, heads the first wartime committee of

Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Va.

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico

Buffalo, New York. Mona, two, and Carol Grimm, five, being put to bed by their foster mother Mrs. Hehr, with whom they live during the week. Sundays they go home to their mother who is a twenty-six year old widow with six children under twelve. She works as a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Monsignor Spellman with Corporal George T. Robinson while touring the Tunisia front.

Monsignor Spellman shaking hands with Corporal George T. Robinson while touring the Tunisia front.

War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war plants call for their children at a war nursery in the Chalkstone Avenue School in Providence. This Chalkstone Avenue war nursery is one of thirty-five in Rhode Island for pre-school children whose mothers are employed in war wor

New Orleans, Louisiana. Workers leaving the Higgins shipyards at four pm

New York, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fazio reading a letter from their son in the United States Army in Africa. Mr. Fazio is a journalist. They have three other sons in the Army in training in the United States

New York, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fazio. They have four sons in the United States Army. One is in Africa, the others in training in the United States

Oswego, New York. Mr. Bradley, general manager of Ames ironworks

Mountains in northern New Mexico

New York, New York. Mr. Raymond Fazio, journalist, in his home on East Tenth Street. He has four sons in the United States Army. A portrait of one is on the table; another on the bookcase. Note book in bookend representing Abraham Lincoln

Oswego, New York. Mr. Waterbury, publisher and part owner of Oswego's afternoon daily, the Palladium Times

Mrs Irene Bracker by Jack Delano a 1943

Mrs Irene Bracker by Jack Delano b 1943

Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad 8d30161v

Mrs. Anna Matecko, a Lithuanian, mother of four children, employed as a stower of freight 8d30406v

Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house 8d30408v

Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house 8d30409v

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Stevens' husband is in the U.S. Army

War workers' nursery. Mrs. Arlene Corbin, time checker in a Richmond, California shipyard brings two-and-a-half-year-old Arlene to a nursery school every morning before going home to sleep. Mrs. Corbin works on the midnight to 7:30 a.m. shift and relies upon the school to keep her daughter busy and

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, twenty-six year old widow operating a crane at the Pratt and Letchworth plant

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator in a war plant. She has six children under twelve. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator in a war plant. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two, invited Mrs. Grimm and the children. Here they are playing a peanut ga

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, in the black dress, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Her two youngest children, Mona, two, and Carol, five, live in a foster home during the week. Mrs. Hehr, holding the rabbit, is their foster mo

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, in the black dress, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Her two youngest children, Mona, two, and Carol, five, live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave Mona a birthday party and invited the other

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Frances O'Neil, a "hooker," has been with Republic Steel since December, 1942. Hookers place slings and chains around material to be hoisted by the crane