Photographs of American Life and Developments from 1939-1944

*Taken by the Farm Security Administration and Office Of War Information and stored

in the Library of Congress

Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co.

Southeastern Georgia

Starch Factory along Aroostook River

School Children Singing in Pie Town, New Mexico

Llano de San Juan, New Mexico Catholic Church

Merchandise Store, New Mexico

Tenant Purchaser in her Garden, Puerto Rico

Street in Village of La Vallee, St. Croix Virgin Islands

Trees in a Reforestation Project in Maryland

Central Tower From Which Cable Buckets Carry Materials to Construct Shasta Dam

Wielder working in round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad’s Proviso Yard

Lab research worker at C & NW RR’s 40th Street Yard examining paint samples used on freight cars

Brakeman signaling with red flare, twilight departure from Chicago

Coal loaded onto a freighter at one of Pennsylvania Railroad docks, Sandusky Ohio

Dorothea Cole turns her basement into a workshop for tin plate needles needed for blood transfusion bottles

Section of batch-house at Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio

Transformer at TVA’s Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, TN

Farmland in the Catskill Country in New York

House in Houston, Texas

Construction of a building on site of new steel mill—Columbia Steel Co. Geneva, Utah