1940s

American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft...

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., p...

Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... more

Amputating the shattered leg of a wounded soldier, operating room the ...

Training a policewoman--Chief among the policewoman's duties is the pr...

Two policewomen talking to a girl in sailor suit. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

British Going on Picket -- Mesopotamia

Photograph shows British troops, probably in Iraq during World War I.

The Worcesters going into action

Photograph shows British troops marching and waving their helmets in greeting. Printed on front: Official photograph; Crown copyright reserved; Daily Mail War Pictures, 33. Title from item. In collection: Brit... more

British troops outside Jerusalem[?]

Photograph shows British troops possibly outside Baghdad, Iraq during World War I.

British at Etaples buying from natives

Photograph shows British troops at Étaples, France with women selling food, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

British troops in France

Photograph shows British soldiers in a train during World War I, France. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

British troops resting on road

Photograph shows British troops resting on a road during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Gen. Sir C.A. Anderson

Photograph shows Lieutenant General Sir Charles Alexander Anderson, (1857-1940), Commander of British Troops in South China. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

British watch shelling near Wancourt

Photograph shows British troops watching shell-bursts near Wancourt, southeast of Arras, France, during World War I on June 21, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imperial War Muse... more

Entry of Field Marshall Allenby, Jerusalem, December 11th, 1917. Briti...

Entry of Field Marshall Allenby, Jerusalem, December 11, 1917. British...

France - in a front line trench

Photograph shows British troops in a trench in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Field kitchen & Tommies resting

Photograph shows field kitchens and British troops resting on the road between Neuville and Wancourt, France during the Battle of Arras, April 29, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image a... more

British field kitchen

Photograph shows British troops at field kitchens and dug-outs in "Sausage Valley," Somme River, France, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial War Museums website: http://www.iw... more

[British troops in Baghdad, Iraq on March 11, 1917 during World War I]

British troops in Detroit

Photograph shows British soldiers participating in a Red Cross parade in Detroit, Michigan, on July 15, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Allenby's official entry with military review at Russian Compound. Bri...

Capture and occupation of Palestine by British. British troops on para...

Entry of Field Marshall Allenby, Jerusalem, Dec. 11th, 1917. British t...

No. 1844. Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. Caption ca... more

[British troops in Jerusalem, possibly bringing the regimental flag of...

Ervin Wasey Co. Inc., Eaton Manufacturing Co. Truck from National of W...

[Damascus Gate, Jerusalem]

[Aircraft at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.]

Griffith Consumers Co. Views of Griffith Consumers Co. truck IV

Griffith Consumers Co. Views of Griffith Consumers Co. truck VII

McArthur Advertising Corporation, 2480 16th Street. Frazer auto displa...

Griffith Consumers Co. Composite of Griffith Consumers Co. oil truck a...

Ford V-8 economy run. Senator Reynolds congratulating driver Parker Le...

General [view], Brazil, D.F. [Distrito Federal], Rio De Janeiro, Copac...

Photograph shows people on Copacabana Beach, with street and buildings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Title from negative sleeve. Forms part of: Archive of Hispanic Culture Collection.

Griffith Consumers Co. Coal truck of Griffith Consumers Co.

Griffith Consumers Co. Views of Griffith Consumers Co. truck III

Robert F. Beresford, architect, 810 18th St. N.W. Site for cars by Uni...

Griffith Consumers Co. Insulating job showing Griffith Consumers Co. t...

Griffith Consumers Co. Views of Griffith Consumers Co. truck I

Mayflower Hotel. Montage of automobiles on street

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. 2nd St. gate, truck en...

Southern Dairies Building and trucks. Southern Dairies building and tr...

Griffith Consumers Co. Insulating job showing Griffith Consumers Co. t...

Ervin Wasey Co. Inc., Eaton Manufacturing Co. Truck from National of W...

E.C. Keys & Sons, Inc., Silver Spring. E.C. Keys truck parked near hou...

Griffith Consumers Co. Coal truck and house, Webster St., N.E. I

Potomac Electric Power Co. service station building, 10th and Florida ...

Griffith Consumers Co. Woman inspecting meter on tank

Potomac Electric Power Co. service station building, 10th and Florida ...

Griffith Consumers Co. Winter scene of Griffith Consumers Co. truck II

Potomac Electric Power Co. service station building, 10th and Florida ...

Griffith Consumers Co. Views of Griffith Consumers Co. truck VI

Ervin Wasey Co. Inc., Eaton Manufacturing Co. Truck from National of W...

Vaughan Connelly. Side view of car and farm in background

Griffith Consumers Co. Semi-trailer oil truck of Griffith Consumers Co...

E.C. Keys & Sons, Inc., Silver Spring. E.C. Keys truck parked on stree...

Griffith Consumers Co. Coal truck and house, Webster St., N.E. II

Griffith Consumers Co. Copy of Griffith Consumers Co. coal truck photo...

Griffith Consumers Co. Truck snow scene

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Main gate of Benning plant, ...

[Aircraft on Potomac River]

Hankow, China ...

Hankow, China. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh inspects the cockpit of his plane after the ship had been hoisted aboard the British airplane carrier HERMES after it had capsized in the Yangtse River shortly after it ... more

Along the cloud lanes

Aerial view of airplane in flight. JO8941 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Northrop Aircraft Corp.

New York city views. Downtown buildings, framed from South Street

Wir schaffen das neue Deutschland! Denkt an die Opfer-wählt Nationalso...

Propaganda poster announcing political campaign for the Nazi party in Germany, showing two soldiers, one with a bandage around his head. The poster states that the National Socialists are creating a new Germany... more

Das Volk wählt Liste 1 Nationalsozialisten Reichstagswahl 6.11.32 / WE...

Poster announcing political campaign for the Nazi party in Germany, showing a large number 1 (indicating first on the list) rising out of a huge swastika with throngs of people streaming toward the openings in ... more

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demou...

Studenten seid Propagandisten des Führers Hoch-u. Fachschulen bekennen...

Poster shows a man with left arm raised calling out to students to become propagandists for the Führer; a large swastika in the lower left corner mirrors that on his lapel. The man also asks that universities a... more

Purim Carnival in Tel Aviv. 1934. Purim celebration in Tel Aviv. The H...

Cars in desert

[Adolph Hitler with an official in a stadium at a Nazi party rally and...

Castell road "Seven Sisters" S.S. Roina Cruise travelling in train of ...

Castell road "Seven Sisters" S.S. Roina Cruise travelling in train of ...

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Rio Grande national forest, Colorado. Three thousand ewes and lambs on...

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... more

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives