1940 - 1945 USA - News and Life during the war (108 images)

• F_40_Chicago_cdddb76281_o.jpg Photograph by John Vachon on assignment for the...

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• FILE_High_school_graduate_...jpg Unemployed high school graduate, circa 1940

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• FILE_4004_San_Joaquin_Vall...jpg San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor....

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• FILE_4004_San_Joaquin_Vall...jpg San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor....

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• FILE_4004_San_Joaquin_Vall...jpg San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor....

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• FILE_Undersize_14 yo_boy_L...jpg John Gannon (14 years old) 104 Cherry St. John...

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• FILE_4004_Airport_f164dce1...jpg Waiting at the Airport in Pittsburgh,...

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• FILE_4005_Oakland,_Califor...jpg Oakland, California. High School Youth. Typical...

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• FILE_4005_Boy_agriculture_...jpg Salinas Valley, Monterey County, California....

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• fFILE_40ca_USA_JAZZ_NYC_Lo...jpg [Portrait of Duke Ellington and William P....

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• FILE_4005_Burger_577153a3b...jpg Night Owls' Roost: A hamburger shop in Durham,...

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• FILE_40_FIN_GREYHOUND_78c9...jpg Bus passengers at the Greyhound bus station in...

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• FILE_4007_CHICAGO_STreet_8...jpg View of Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, July...

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• FILE_4007_CIN_Chicago_9260...jpg A Movie theatre in Chicago, Illinois, July...

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• FILE_40_Telegram_44715ab0f...jpg Instant Messaging: Direct postal telegraph wire...

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• FILE_4011_Dinner_c032b5bf2...jpg 75¢ Thanksgiving: On a main street in Norwich,...

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• FILE_4401_Church_b72887122...jpg Sunday Best: Congregation of a Black church in...

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• FILE_4103_SDhadows__872cb6...jpg The Long Shadows: Traffic on the main street of...

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• FILE_41_Barbershop_dd67ffa...jpg Poster in the window of a business in...

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• fFILE_41_USA_JAZZ_NYC_LoC_...jpg [Portrait of Ahmet M. Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun,...

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• FILE_1940-49_HUM_POSTAL_SE...jpg People and the Post, Postal History from the...

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• FILE_1940-49_HUM_POSTAL_SE...jpg People and the Post, Postal History from the...

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• HD-SN-99-02448.JPEG As this big pile of used auto tires indicates,...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02449.JPEG Rationed tires. (Office of Price...

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• F_42_Dallas_24f941c948_o.jpg Night view, downtown section. Dallas, Texas....

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• F_4203_JapaneseAmericanGro...jpg San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02432.JPEG John W. Abbott, investigator for the Tolan...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02438.JPEG A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry identifies...

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• HD-SN-99-02431.JPEG Following evacuation orders, this store was...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02437.JPEG A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry waits with...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02460.JPEG Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from...

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• FILE_42_HUM_Clothesline_2_...jpg A woman hanging out washing with her young son...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02433.JPEG Field laborers of Japanese ancestry from a...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02436.JPEG These young evacuees of Japanese ancestry are...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02435.JPEG Members of the Mochida family awaiting...

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• File_42ca_Ansel_Adams_-_Na...jpg Photograph of Transmission Lines in Mojave...

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• FILE_4207_WASINGTON_Lunch_...jpg Government workers lunching and resting in...

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• FILE_4207_Gas_035a06a02a_o.jpg Morning of July 21st, the last day before...

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• FILE_4207_Gas_1c072426ce_o.jpg Morning of July 21st, the last day before...

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• FILE_4207_Gas_5c19ecd123_o.jpg At 7 a.m. on July 21st, the day before stricter...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02465.JPEG Mary Josephine Farley, who at 20 is considered...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02461.JPEG Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02459.JPEG Women workers install fixtures and assemblies...

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• F_43_Japenese_d029e02275_o.jpg Japanese-American female internees playing...

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• FILE_4301_Chicago_Train_c0...jpg Steel Thunderbolts: A Steam and a diesel engine...

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• FILE_4301_Train_e0ba517b82...jpg It's Been Good to Know Ya: Wolfsmith waves...

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• FILE_HD-SN-99-02462.JPEG Construction of aircraft at the Glenn L. Martin...

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• FILE_HD-SN-99-02463.JPEG Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank,...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02451.JPEG An eager school boy gets his first experience...

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• FILE_43_PD_ Boy Scouts_D16...jpg Boy Scouts queue up for their morning...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02477.JPEG Lunch tme at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank,...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02475.JPEG Steel under giant rolls being shaped for...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02474.JPEG Welders work on hull of new submarine at...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02478.JPEG Workers eat lunch against FBY wing panels at...

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• PD_HD-SN-99-02479.JPEG Man working on hull of U.S. submarine at...

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• FILE_FEMALE_WELDERS_017.jpg Peggy Bridgeman at the left demonstrates to...

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• FILE_1940-49_HUM_POSTAL_SE...jpg U.S. troops almost buried by parcels do their...

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• fFILE_40ca_USA_JAZZ_NYC_Lo...jpg Portrait of Marty Emerson in his home,...

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• File_42-Sparks_and_Steel_o.jpg Washington (DC) USA - 1941 - Rotary saw for...

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• File_4212ca_JAP_4b924e7943...jpg Undated file photo circa Dec 1942 - Japanese...

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• F_42ca_Woman Worker at Lun...jpg

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• FILE_44_Smoke_909c9c190b_o.jpg No Known Restrictions: Smoke Stacks by Alfred...

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• FILE__4112_FIN_MACYS_2be95...jpg R. H. Macy and Company department store during...

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• FILE_42_WAR_Woman_09feaebf...jpg Portrait of a woman training to operate buses...

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• FILE_42_WAR_Woman_edd9d4bc...jpg Training women to operate buses and taxicabs,...

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• FILE_WAR_Woman_c1f3d883f4_...jpg Portrait of a woman training to operate buses...

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• FILE_42_WAR_PLanes_o.jpg Women riveters at the Boeing plant in Seattle...

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• FILE_42_WAR_Planes_6e1cb73...jpg Lubricating and servicing a new B-17F Flying...

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• FILE_42_HAYWARD_Susan_7a78...jpg Susan Hayward, Paramount motion picture star,...

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• FILE_42_UTAH_Copper_fcc4e2...jpg A section of trestle of the Carr Fork bridge at...

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• FILE_4310_SOI_Woman_f9870a...jpg To replace men who have been called to armed...

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• FILE_42_WAR_Planes_d104b83...jpg Two of the four mighty engines of a new B-17F...

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• FILE_42_WAR_planes_6ee144c...jpg Sections of frameworks for a B-17F (Flying...

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• FILE_42_WAR_Planes_7cb24fd...jpg A skilled team of men and women workers at the...

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• FILE_4304_Texas_f8aa4784a5...jpg Townspeople on a street corner on Saturday...

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• FILE_40_Fog_97315f9129_o.jpg On Little Cat Feet: Foggy Night street scene in...

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• FILE_4112_New-York_pidgeon...jpg The Birdman: This man feeds the pigeons in...

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• FILE_40_Chicago_Tramway_6d...jpg Waiting for a street car in Chicago, Illinois,...

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• FILE_420419_LAB_a7818272d4...jpg Workplace Democracy: Election of officers to...

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• FILE_42_SOI_DETROIT_3c5255...jpg First Black family moving into the Sojourner...

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• FILE_4204_WAR_Labour_a073f...jpg Workers coming out of the Highland Park...

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• FILE_41_Beer_Farmers_569f1...jpg Farmers drinking beer during a hard day's work....

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• FILE_40_MILK_b5133d56c7_o.jpg Farmers near Woodstock, Vermont bring their...

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• FILE_4005_FIN_WOOLWORTH_a2...jpg Woolworth Company building in Indianapolis,...

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• FILE_42_USA_Nebraska_BIGGE...jpg Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942 Photo by John Vachon.

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• FILE_4207_Youth_19c7ff00cd...jpg High school students strolling through the...

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• FILE_42_Youth_Ice-Cream_dc...jpg A student eating an ice cream cone at the...

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• FILE_4208_WAR_Ambulances_6...jpg Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Dodge...

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• FILE_4304_Ice-Cream_189f59...jpg A mother and child with an ice cream cone in...

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• FILE_4107_LAB_Operator_126...jpg Operator taking telephone orders at the...

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• FILE_4305_Worker_6819fdfa4...jpg A Black shipyard worker who helps buid Liberty...

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• FILE_4305_WAR_shipyeard_36...jpg Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore,...

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• FILE_4301_Train_a7a751035d...jpg Crossroads of the World: Union Station...

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• FILE_4301_878cca2046_o.jpg Shedding Light: In the waiting room of the...

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• FILE_4303_Train_36b326f038...jpg Chicago Noir: Special agent making his rounds...

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• FILE_4208_WAR_89480b5039_o.jpg Servicemen waiting for trains at Pennsylvania...

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• FILE_4012_Rain_8e9d5361ec_...jpg Torrential: On a rainy day in Providence, Rhode...

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• FILE_4303_NY_Time-Square_c...jpg Times Square on a rainy day. New York, New...

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• FILE_41_Passerby_6cb307606...jpg Passerby: Looking out of a building on 47th...

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• FILE_41_Chicago_afef2b229a...jpg Hot All Nite: Young man with his bicycle on...

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• FILE_4211_New-York_train_c...jpg Men waiting for the Third Avenue elevated train...

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• FILE_4303_Radiator_3f3fc23...jpg Melvin Cash, truck driver, putting water in his...

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• FILE_4303_Train_fb72b70635...jpg Bath Time: Washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 54...

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• FILE_41_Chigago_4ffaabb04d...jpg Portrait of a man on the corner of 44th and...

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• FILE_4009_water_7e0e60e23e...jpg Nerve Center: Control room at the waterworks....

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• FILE_4011_Passengers_9b009...jpg Passengers Anonymous: People in a bus on rainy...

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• FILE_4202_WAR Factory_PD_0...jpg From toy trains to parachute flare casings,...

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• FILE_4303_Railroad_worker_...jpg Workin' on the Railroad: Portrait of Abbie...

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