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School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a festival in May 1942, Southington, Conn.

School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a fest...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Inflation. Aftermath of inflation--a foreclosure tale in Iowa in the early 1930s when "the bottom fell out of everything." Military police were on hand to keep farmers from preventing the auction

Inflation. Aftermath of inflation--a foreclosure tale in Iowa in the e...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Keystone photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United... More

Inflation. Almost too recent and painful to recall--dark days in America's 1930 depression. Men this side of the sign are assured of a five-cent meal--the rest must wait for generous passersby

Inflation. Almost too recent and painful to recall--dark days in Ameri...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Brown Brothers. Title and other information from captio... More

Work projects: Enrollee William L. Cross, Appalachia, Virginia, climbing up on scaffold erected for assembling a prefabricated building which is to be a camp work shop

Work projects: Enrollee William L. Cross, Appalachia, Virginia, climbi...

Civilian Conservation Corps photo no. CCC 527. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availab... More

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. FSA/ Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. FSA/ Office of War Inform...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. FSA/ Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. FSA/ Office of War Inform...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by William Perlitch or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Offi... More

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas]

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[s...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. A woman doing handwork in her bedroom. Some hand-crochet work is lying on a dresser back of her and also in a work basket beside her

Washington, D.C. A woman doing handwork in her bedroom. Some hand-croc...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. FSA/ Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. FSA/ Office of War Inform...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

African natives prepare for air attack. Guarding against possible enemy attacks in Africa, British troops are training African natives in anti-aircraft units. The instructors, veterans of the Battle of Britain, have found the natives apt students and cool under fire. An African unit is shown loading one of the thirty-seven millimeter ack-ack guns under the supervision of British non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers

African natives prepare for air attack. Guarding against possible enem...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Copper. This large motor drives one of the gyratory crushers in the crushing plant of the Utah Copper Company. Its mills at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes

Production. Copper. This large motor drives one of the gyratory crushe...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Copper. This long row of large capacity ball mills is used for fine grinding of copper ore at one of the concentrators of the Utah Copper Company. Its mills at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes

Production. Copper. This long row of large capacity ball mills is used...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Elmer Davis, Director, Office of War Information (OWI)

Elmer Davis, Director, Office of War Information (OWI)

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Cartoon by Miyamoto, U.S. Army. Shown here is one of the many cartoons drawn by Private Miyamoto, cartoonist, of the Nineth Armored Division. Miyamoto is twenty-two years old and is an American-born citizen of San Francisco. His parents are in a relocation center. He is now special duty with the public relations section of his division

Cartoon by Miyamoto, U.S. Army. Shown here is one of the many cartoons...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Troops in Australia. American jeeps carried Australian military chiefs and cabinet ministers in a recent visit to battle areas in New Guinea. Air Vice-Marshall G. Jones is shown in the leading vehicle during the tour of the convoy

Troops in Australia. American jeeps carried Australian military chiefs...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Australian Commonwealth photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Oversea... More

Paul A. Porter - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Paul A. Porter - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A group of men sitting on the ground in front of a large balloon - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men sitting on the ground in front of a large balloon - FSA...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Mr. Channing R. Dooley - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Mr. Channing R. Dooley - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Inflation. "The Street of Speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble" when peasants all over France sold everything they had, flocked to Paris, and bought 100-par shares of gambler John Law's stocks at $3,600 apiece. Thee hunchback in foreground made $10,000 by letting people use his back as a desk

Inflation. "The Street of Speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble"...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Culver Service. Title and other information from captio... More

Ray C. Ellis - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Ray C. Ellis - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. General view of part of the plant where scrap iron and steel are converted into many grades of steel alloys. In the foreground are carloads of finished products, while in the middle foreground can be seen piles and cars of scrap coming in to feed the huge furnaces. In the background is the power house which supplies electricity and steam to turn the wheels of this important defense industry, set in the Pennsylvania hills about thirty miles north of Pittsburgh, one of America's most important steel producing centers

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Negro members of an American Army engineer's unit, on a transport bound for Liberia, Africa, take their daily setting up exercises on deck. The men are wearing a new light type of life preserver which allows freer movement than the older bulkier type formerly used

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Negro members of an American Army...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

Helen Hayes and cast buy bonds to outfit fighting men. Helen Hayes and members of the cast of "Harriet" lined up in New York to buy bonds in the second War Loan Drive to help Uncle Sam furnish clothing and personal equipment for his fighting men. Private John Patrick Cooper holds part of a soldier's outfit--shirt and trousers--while Miss Hayes, Mildred Taswell (center), Edmund Abel (right) and Jacqueline Paige (far right) buy bonds from a War Savings Staff volunteer

Helen Hayes and cast buy bonds to outfit fighting men. Helen Hayes and...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: INP photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture D... More

Make it right--They'll make it fight. Poster distributed by War Production Board (WPB) to war plants. The original is 22 inches x 28 inches and is printed in red and blue. Copies are obtainable from War Production Drive Headquarters, 1210 Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D.C

Make it right--They'll make it fight. Poster distributed by War Produc...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is a war bond in action! That ashcan hurtling through the air, fired from a Y gun on a PC boat, is a depth charge containing potential death for a lurking submarine. It is in action because somebody bought $105 worth of war bonds. That's what the "ashcan" cost

Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is a war bond in action! Tha...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Sea jeeps. This picture shows the Ford amphibian reconnaissance car in test at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant and in the Huron River. The photo shows tests of the land-water cars in the Rouge River slip

Sea jeeps. This picture shows the Ford amphibian reconnaissance car in...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Ford photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; U... More

B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Cut-away diagram of the powerful B-24 Liberator bomber. It is a four-engine, long-range bomber and carries a crew of six to eight men. The B-24 has been one of the most active planes in bombing missions in all the war theatres and was instrumental in destroying Rommel's supply columns in the recent British 8th Army campaign

B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Cut-away diagram of ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

One year of reciprocal aid. American pilots emerge from the briefing room at a British airfield and mount their bicycles to proceed to their craft. Britian has turned over thousands of bicycles to the American forces

One year of reciprocal aid. American pilots emerge from the briefing r...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer... More

Sea jeeps. The Ford-built amphibian car can handle itself on rough ground. This picture shows a test driver putting one of them through its paces

Sea jeeps. The Ford-built amphibian car can handle itself on rough gro...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Ford photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; U... More

Proposed poster for car sharing. Artist's rendering of a proposed poster to promote car sharing. The true objective of group riding is the maximum use of the minimum number of cars. Effective group riding only begins with the swapping of rides. As more and more cars are not available for use in the future, the necessity for this transportation cooperation will become increasingly vital

Proposed poster for car sharing. Artist's rendering of a proposed post...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Building a new Army camp at top speed. New camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the thousands of U.S. and Canadian troops now arriving. The work is done by civilian contractors, but the Army garrison engineer is in constant supervision to see that work is as specified and that it is completed on time. Leveling soil ready to receive a concrete floor

Building a new Army camp at top speed. New camps are being built with ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British official photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overs... More

Indian troops in East Africa. A detachment from one of the Punjab regiments take up their position for the guard of honour for the march past the captured Italians from Amba Alagi area

Indian troops in East Africa. A detachment from one of the Punjab regi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts officially launches Paul Bunyan woodchopping contest in Massachusetts on Washington's birthday under the sponsorship of Granges and Farm Bureaus in the New England states, New York and Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the War Production Board (WPB) Northeast Lumber Production Campaign. Governor Saltonstall is here shown pulling over a tree he has chopped on his Dover, Massachusetts farm. Farm woodchopping champions of eight Northeast states will be honored in Washington on basis of their individual log production, February 22 to April 1, to provide lumber for war needs

Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts officially launches Pau...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. Radio outfits shipped from the United States under lend-lease arrive at an ordnance depot in England. They include reception sets spare valves and (on shelf) American tank radio sets

Lend-Lease to Britain. Radio outfits shipped from the United States un...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British official photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Poster. To all who use libraries. Poster distributed by Office of War Information to libraries. The original is 14 12 inches x 20 inches and is printed in black and white. Copies may be obtained from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C

Poster. To all who use libraries. Poster distributed by Office of War ...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Indian troops in East Africa. One of our Generals arrives at the Massawe Admiralty Building to take over the town from the Italian admiral and general

Indian troops in East Africa. One of our Generals arrives at the Massa...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Paul Porter welcoming I. Chance Buchanan on new job. Buchanan was recently appointed head of the Alexandria-Arlington defense rental area

Paul Porter welcoming I. Chance Buchanan on new job. Buchanan was rece...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Lend-lease to Britain. Telephone coils, part of a shipment of lend-lease materials shipped to England by the United States, are unpacked at an ordnance depot in the Midlands

Lend-lease to Britain. Telephone coils, part of a shipment of lend-lea...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British official photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

B-24 Liberator Bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Super-transports such as this C-87 Liberator Express are carrying key personnel and vital cargo to all United Nations' war fronts. With a speed in excess of 300 miles per hour and a range of more than 3,000 miles, the C-87 can carry the greatest human or cargo load of any landplane now in mass production

B-24 Liberator Bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Super-transports suc...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

8th Army in Tripoli. A Royal Air Force salvage unit plows through mud and water carrying replacement parts which will return a damaged plane to action in the Tripoli campaign

8th Army in Tripoli. A Royal Air Force salvage unit plows through mud ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Yank Magazine photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture ... More

U.S. Marines say goodbye to Guadalcanal. A newly-arrived U.S. Army soldier shakes hands in farewell to a U.S. Marine about to board the waiting barge for transit to a troop ship lying out in deeper water. This scene took place on the beach of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons as the Marines turned over the island to the Army

U.S. Marines say goodbye to Guadalcanal. A newly-arrived U.S. Army sol...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Image source: U.S. Marine Corps photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Over... More

Half a house is brought from the trailer factory in Michigan to the site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Fontana project in western North Carolina. A light truck is sufficient to transport the section. The section contains half a living-dining room, all of a bedroom, and most of the closet space in the house. A second section contains the

Half a house is brought from the trailer factory in Michigan to the si...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Tennessee Valley Authority; KX-1829. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office ... More

Sea jeeps. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-built amphibian reconnaissance car, carrying soldiers equipped for combat duty takes to the water in special tests staged recently in the Detroit area. This picture shows how the new transportation arm propelling itself as a boat to the opposite shore. The boat steers in the water the same as on land

Sea jeeps. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-bui...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Ford photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture ... More

An interior of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) experimental trailer-house, looking through the living-dining room into the kitchen. Walls, ceilings and floors are plywood, and the floor coverings are linoleum. Of the numerous built-in items of furniture and equipment in the house, the picture shows built-in seat, built-in kitchen stove,

An interior of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) experimental trail...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Tennessee Valley Authority; KX-1863. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office ... More

Productive America. Hereford beef cattle graze on a range in Eastern Wyoming

Productive America. Hereford beef cattle graze on a range in Eastern W...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

John Cassels, executive assistant to Commissioner Elliott, Consumer Division, National Defense Price Commission. Former association: director, Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens College; Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the University of Alberta; author

John Cassels, executive assistant to Commissioner Elliott, Consumer Di...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Max F. Cohn - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Max F. Cohn - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central ordnance depot in England, part of a lend-lease shipment from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. An American light tank is unloaded at a central...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British official photo. Print in lot misnumbered LC-USE6-D-9967; corrected Feb. 2002. Title and other information from caption card. Tran... More

Mr. Maury Maverick - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Mr. Maury Maverick - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

War Production Board (WPB) poster. "Slap Happy Jap." This life-size figure of "Slap Happy Jap" has been created by the "Quicker for Victory" campaign of the labor-management committee in the Cleveland warehouse plant. He appears in different departments with varying messages to spur production

War Production Board (WPB) poster. "Slap Happy Jap." This life-size fi...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper drops the ore into the grizzlies, the larger sizes of ore sliding into the gyratory crusher at the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company

Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper drops the ore into the grizzli...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

American food for British workers. Ship repairers at the Surrey Docks open a tin of American meat to make sandwiches for their lunch

American food for British workers. Ship repairers at the Surrey Docks ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Colonel Robert Kauch, Commanding Officer, Air Service Command, 9th Air Force, Garden City, New York

Colonel Robert Kauch, Commanding Officer, Air Service Command, 9th Air...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A group of men standing next to tanks - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to tanks - FSA / Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Australian Commonwealth photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Oversea... More

A black and white photo of a line of motorcycles - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a line of motorcycles - FSA / Office of War...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Australian Commonwealth photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Oversea... More

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. Kneeling and firing from cover is practiced regularly by an airfield security detachment at Dusty Hollow Training Center in Hawaii. Shown left to right are: Private Robert L. Rogers, Abbeville, Georgia; Private Harry Frank Anniston, Alabama

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. Kneeling and firing fr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Chrysler tank arsenal. A trainload of complete M-3 tanks roll away from the huge Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal, to be delivered to the Army. Each of these tanks weigh over twenty-eight tons. The camera shows only the rear of the tank in the foreground. Note the 150 calibre machine gun. Three other machine guns, a 75mm. gun and a 37mm. anti-aircraft gun are also mounted on the steel giant

Chrysler tank arsenal. A trainload of complete M-3 tanks roll away fro...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed ...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equip...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Give It Your Best. Three-color (red, white and blue) poster designed and distributed July 1 by the Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management (OEM) , for display in war plants throughout the nation. Sizes available: 40 x 56 in., 28 x 40 in. 28 12 x 20 in., 14 x 20 in. and 10 x 18 in

Give It Your Best. Three-color (red, white and blue) poster designed a...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Inform... More

John Cassels, executive assistant to Commissioner Elliott, Consumer Division, National Defense Price Commission. Former association: director, Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens College; Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the University of Alberta; author

John Cassels, executive assistant to Commissioner Elliott, Consumer Di...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. In an ammunition dump in England, hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below surface, a shipment of 30-caliber tracer ammunition shipped from the United States as lend-lease is stacked by English workmen

Lend-Lease to Britain. In an ammunition dump in England, hewn from sol...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: British official photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Boeing Flying Fortresses. Latest Boeing Flying Fortresses.This, the newest and most formidable in the Boeing Flying Fortress series, is the B-17E described by the War Department as "bigger and more deadly" than any of its predecessors. This new airplane, key weapon in America's war program, is now in mass production at the Boeing Aircraft Company. Under a special tri-company production pool arrangement, it is also being built in quantity by the Douglas Aircraft Company and by the Vega Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

Boeing Flying Fortresses. Latest Boeing Flying Fortresses.This, the ne...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Image source: Boeing Aircraft photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of... More

Production. Copper. One of the gas-heater roasters at the Arthur mill of the Utah Copper Company where molybdenum concentrates are treated. Molybdenum is recovered as a by-product of the copper ore

Production. Copper. One of the gas-heater roasters at the Arthur mill ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

John K. Westberg - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

John K. Westberg - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Every minute counts. A three-color (red, white and blue) poster designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of War Information (OWI), for display in war plants throughout the nation

Every minute counts. A three-color (red, white and blue) poster design...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

Dudley Felt - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Dudley Felt - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

One year of reciprocal aid. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Taite, Royal Air Force (RAF) takes Captain James R. Hendry, U.S. Army Air Force through the British experts' dossier on a German aircraft that fell into British hands. Reciprocal aid includes information whose value cannot be estimated in terms of money and which has been obtained at a cost measured in thousands of lives and three years of hard fighting

One year of reciprocal aid. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Taite, Royal Ai...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer... More

Paul C. Smith. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Paul C. Smith. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rubber for the landing wheels and bullet-proof fuel tanks. The flyers and ground crews can do none of the important work entrusted to them unless we keep their planes supplied with the prodigious amounts of rubber they require

Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rub...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

8th Army in Tripoli. Uncomfortably closeup shot of a British 8th Army tank used in the Tripoli campaign

8th Army in Tripoli. Uncomfortably closeup shot of a British 8th Army ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Yank Magazine photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture ... More

American military delegation calling on Haile Selassie. In conference with the American delegation. Left to right: F. N. Plangin, Office of War Information (OWI); Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Baughey; Colonel Edwin Clark; His Majesty, Haile Sellassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; Taffarra Worq (standing), and George Strompl. These picture are the first to be taken for publication since His Majesty's return to become a fighting member of the United Nations

American military delegation calling on Haile Selassie. In conference ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The final cost of olive drab paint is applied by spraygun to the twenty-eight ton M-3 tank just before it leaves the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The final cost of olive drab paint is app...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Indian troops in East Africa. Subadar Mohd Bekhsh, O.B.I., I.O.1., of the 32 Punjeb Regiment

Indian troops in East Africa. Subadar Mohd Bekhsh, O.B.I., I.O.1., of ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a sign - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a sign - FSA / Offic...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

During the thick of the fighting at Buna, an Australian infantryman receives a handful of grenades from a fellow soldier inside the tank. American tanks manned by Australian crews, carried large quantities of grenades which were distributed to the infantry. This picture was made during the actual fighting

During the thick of the fighting at Buna, an Australian infantryman re...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Australian Commonwealth photo. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

Mr. Charles F. Palmer, coordinator of defense housing for the National Defense Office for Emergency Management (OEM). Mr. Palmer is president of Palmer, Inc,. Atlanta; chairman, Atlanta Housing Authority; and president, National Association of Housing Officials

Mr. Charles F. Palmer, coordinator of defense housing for the National...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

8th Army in Tripoli. Faces of Tripoli's residents as they watch the arrival of the British army

8th Army in Tripoli. Faces of Tripoli's residents as they watch the ar...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Yank Magazine photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture ... More

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petroleum carrier designed to help the oil shortage in the East. It is estimated by officials of the Office of Defense Transportation that one thousand such cars could add more than 15,000 barrels to the daily receipts of petroleum by rail in the East

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petrole...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Every day you take off gives the Axis a break. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) plants. The original is 28 12 inches by 40 inches and is printed in yellow and black on white. The photograph was taken by Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Copies may be obtained from War Production Drive Headquarters, War Production Board, Washington, D.C

Every day you take off gives the Axis a break. Poster distributed by t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Poster distributed by Office of War Information (OWI) to Office of Civilian Defense councils. The original is 22 inches x 28 inches and is printed in red and yellow on white. Copies may be obtained from the Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, Washington, D.C

Poster distributed by Office of War Information (OWI) to Office of Civ...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Henry A. Dinegar - Public domain dedication image

Henry A. Dinegar - Public domain dedication image

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

British tank men study U.S. tanks between battle in Egypt. British tank crews in Egypt train for the use of tanks arriving for the U.S.A. Experts on the U.S. machine give impromptu lessons, then the men climb aboard and examine every detail themselves. A gunner giving a talk on the 75mm gun

British tank men study U.S. tanks between battle in Egypt. British tan...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate of one every eighty minutes. Loading dock hoses like these serve a fleet of 300 vessels. An average tanker carries as much oil as 280 railroad tank cars, requiring four trains, four locomotives. Ships could haul oil for one cent a barrel as against necessary railroad rates of four cents. Low marine rates left no incentive for railroads or pipelines to equip themselves for transporting Eastern petroleum requirements

Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

U.S. tanks with British crews do sterling work in the battles of "Knightsbridge" and "The Cauldron." The American "General Grant" tank, which has arrived in quantity in the Middle East throughout the winter took Rommel's Afrika Corps by surprise. Together with the lighter "General Stuart" tank, also American built, it has been mainly responsible, manned by British crews, for holding up the new German drive toward Egypt

U.S. tanks with British crews do sterling work in the battles of "Knig...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel mill is delivered by motor truck. The melting of alloy steel for defense production necessitates constant delivery of scrap iron and steel to the mills. The overhead magnet will deposit the steel in a loader, which then carries it to an open hearth or electric furnace. In the neighborhood of forty percent of all steel produced comes from scrap metal

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel m...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. Private Napoleon Edward Taylor, first member of the U.S. forces to land in Liberia, steps ashore from a lighter. Chiefly composed of Negro units, the American contingent is building bridges, improving roads, constructing air bases and strengthening fortifications throughout the Liberian Republic, founded in 1821 by Negro freedmen under American auspices. President Edwin Barclay, welcoming the American soldiers, said: "The future of Liberia is inextricably bound up in the victory of those nations fighting for the Four Freedoms annouced by Franklin D. Roosevelt"

U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. Private Napoleon Edward Taylor...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

Cartoon by Miyamoto, U.S. Army. Shown here is one of the many cartoons drawn by Private Miyamoto, cartoonist, of the Nineth Armored Division. Miyamoto is twenty-two years old and is an American-born citizen of San Francisco. His parents are in a relocation center. He is now special duty with the public relations section of his division

Cartoon by Miyamoto, U.S. Army. Shown here is one of the many cartoons...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. Constant practice keeps the troops alert at an airfield security post in Hawaii. Shown loading clips at Dusty Hollow Training Center there are, left to right: Private Moses Riley, Eastontown, Georgia; Private Lee Bullock, New York City; Private First Class Mathew Riley, Logton, Mississippi; Private Ulis Pickett, Albeeville, Alabama and Private Mack Underwood, Bessemer, Alabama

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. Constant practice keep...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

Paul Porter welcoming I. Chance Buchanan on new job. Buchanan was recently appointed head of the Alexandria-Arlington defense rental area

Paul Porter welcoming I. Chance Buchanan on new job. Buchanan was rece...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A group of men standing next to each other in a field - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other in a field - FSA / Office o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official Australian Commonwealth photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information... More

A group of men walking down a dirt road - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men walking down a dirt road - FSA / Office of War Informat...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

Two valuable resources of the Southwest--rich oil fields and fine grazing land. In this scene near Norwalk, California oil wells rear their imposing structures over a herd of cows on one of the state's dairy farms

Two valuable resources of the Southwest--rich oil fields and fine graz...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Even women are used in the complex job of installing engines in "Valiant" basic trainers at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Even women are used in ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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