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A black and white photo of a crowd of men. Office of War Information Photograph

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There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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1944
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Lot 963, Mount Carmel, World War Two

Village women from Dartford, near London, visit American soldiers in new hospital just opened by American army there. Few of the visitors come empty-handed. They bring little gifts of all kinds for the soldiers, and the Red Cross usually commandeer their services, also for the distribution of comfort bags and other Red Cross material to distant parts of the grounds. All these things are carried about in "hospital wagons", which are sometimes pilled by the young women visitors, and sometimes by the convalescent Americans

Sugar rationing. Application form which will have to be filled out by every person to whom war ration book no.1 is issued when sugar rationing starts within a few weeks. Applicants will register at public schools on dates to be announced shortly

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Farmers in town on Saturday afternoon. Russellville, Kentucky

The last American wounded arriving from the front at the Salisbury Hospital, erected by the American Red Cross at Southampton, England. They are unloaded by the boys of the Kentucky unit now on duty at this base hospital

Manati (vicinity), Puerto Rico. A gathering of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers to whom land was being distributed under the land authority act

Travelling preacher, Reverend C.L. Bullard, with Jonathan Daniels and construction workers from Monroe, Louisiana. Alexandria, Louisiana

General Baden-Powell and a detachment of his Boy Scouts furnish an afternoon's entertainment for the wounded Amer. soldiers at the Amer. hospital at Tottenham, near London. The hero of the afternoon's entertainment was a Scotch soldier, a resident of Tottenham, who has just been awarded the Victoria Cross for valor on the Western Front. Col. John B. Anderson of Austin, Texas, the commander of the hospital, stands next to him. General Baden-Powell is just behind the Scotchman, directly under the Amer. flag

Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who lives in village La Vallee

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. The nursery school

A woman sitting on a blanket with two babies FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

An old photo of a woman standing in front of a group of children, Farm Security Administration photo, 1935

A black and white photo of a room filled with beds. Office of War Information Photograph

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