back to collection1939 - 1945 USA - Life during the war (102 images)
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Photograph by John Vachon on assignment for the...
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Unemployed high school graduate, circa 1940
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San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor....
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San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor....
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San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor....
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John Gannon (14 years old) 104 Cherry St. John...
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Waiting at the Airport in Pittsburgh,...
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Oakland, California. High School Youth. Typical...
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Salinas Valley, Monterey County, California....
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Night Owls' Roost: A hamburger shop in Durham,...
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Bus passengers at the Greyhound bus station in...
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View of Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, July...
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A Movie theatre in Chicago, Illinois, July...
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Instant Messaging: Direct postal telegraph wire...
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75¢ Thanksgiving: On a main street in Norwich,...
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Sunday Best: Congregation of a Black church in...
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The Long Shadows: Traffic on the main street of...
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Poster in the window of a business in...
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As this big pile of used auto tires indicates,...
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Rationed tires. (Office of Price...
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Night view, downtown section. Dallas, Texas....
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San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign...
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John W. Abbott, investigator for the Tolan...
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A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry identifies...
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Following evacuation orders, this store was...
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A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry waits with...
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Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from...
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A woman hanging out washing with her young son...
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Field laborers of Japanese ancestry from a...
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These young evacuees of Japanese ancestry are...
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Members of the Mochida family awaiting...
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Photograph of Transmission Lines in Mojave...
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Government workers lunching and resting in...
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Morning of July 21st, the last day before...
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Morning of July 21st, the last day before...
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At 7 a.m. on July 21st, the day before stricter...
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Mary Josephine Farley, who at 20 is considered...
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Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace...
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Women workers install fixtures and assemblies...
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Japanese-American female internees playing...
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Steel Thunderbolts: A Steam and a diesel engine...
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It's Been Good to Know Ya: Wolfsmith waves...
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Construction of aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin...
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Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank,...
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An eager school boy gets his first experience...
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Boy Scouts queue up for their morning...
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Lunch tme at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank,...
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Steel under giant rolls being shaped for...
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Welders work on hull of new submarine at...
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Workers eat lunch against FBY wing panels at...
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Man working on hull of U.S. submarine at...
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Peggy Bridgeman at the left demonstrates to...
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Washington (DC) USA - 1941 - Rotary saw for...
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Undated file photo circa Dec 1942 - Japanese...
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No Known Restrictions: Smoke Stacks by Alfred...
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R. H. Macy and Company department store during...
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Portrait of a woman training to operate buses...
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Training women to operate buses and taxicabs,...
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Portrait of a woman training to operate buses...
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Women riveters at the Boeing plant in Seattle...
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Lubricating and servicing a new B-17F Flying...
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Susan Hayward, Paramount motion picture star,...
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A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridge at...
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To replace men who have been called to armed...
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Two of the four mighty engines of a new B-17F...
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Sections of frameworks for a B-17F (Flying...
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A skilled team of men and women workers at the...
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Townspeople on a street corner on Saturday...
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On Little Cat Feet: Foggy Night street scene in...
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The Birdman: This man feeds the pigeons in...
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Waiting for a street car in Chicago, Illinois,...
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Workplace Democracy: Election of officers to...
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First Black family moving into the Sojourner...
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Workers coming out of the Highland Park...
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Farmers drinking beer during a hard day's work....
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Farmers near Woodstock, Vermont bring their...
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Woolworth Company building in Indianapolis,...
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Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942 Photo by John Vachon.
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High school students strolling through the...
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A student eating an ice cream cone at the...
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Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Dodge...
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A mother and child with an ice cream cone in...
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Operator taking telephone orders at the...
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A Black shipyard worker who helps buid Liberty...
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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore,...
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Crossroads of the World: Union Station...
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Shedding Light: In the waiting room of the...
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Chicago Noir: Special agent making his rounds...
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Servicemen waiting for trains at Pennsylvania...
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Torrential: On a rainy day in Providence, Rhode...
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Times Square on a rainy day. New York, New...
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Passerby: Looking out of a building on 47th...
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Hot All Nite: Young man with his bicycle on...
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Men waiting for the Third Avenue elevated train...
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Melvin Cash, truck driver, putting water in his...
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Bath Time: Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54...
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Portrait of a man on the corner of 44th and...
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Nerve Center: Control room at the waterworks....
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Passengers Anonymous: People in a bus on rainy...
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From toy trains to parachute flare casings,...
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Workin' on the Railroad: Portrait of Abbie...