July 1940. "Spanish-American boy eating sweet corn which he has roasted on top of hot stove. Chamisal, New Mexico." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

June 30, 1950. "Cleveland Municipal Stadium during Cleveland-Detroit night baseball game." Photo by Carl McDow. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection. View full size.

        "With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941

March 1942. Washington, D.C. "Construction of temporary war emergency buildings on the Mall, near 16th and 17th Streets N.W., seen from the top of the Washington Monument." Acetate negative by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Wartime construction in vicinity of federal government buildings -- lower 14th Street improvement project. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence Avenue and 14th and 16th Streets. Steel piles to be driven as supports for bridge structure." Photo by John Ferrell for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1940. "Rural scene with Lombardy poplars used as windbreak. Box Elder County, Utah." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1940. "Congregation leaving the Latter Days Saints Church at Mendon, Cache County, Utah." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "Abandoned gold mill along Million Dollar Highway immediately south of Ouray, Colorado, in Ouray County." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1940. "Small business establishments. Ouray, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1941. Warren, Michigan. "Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, 28-ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal near Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Mass assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts." Photo by Alfred Palmer for the Office for Emergency Management. View full size.

February 1938. "Resident at Greenbelt, Maryland, with child in the cooperative grocery store. Greenbelt is a model community planned by the Suburban Division of U.S. Resettlement Administration." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.

October 1942. "I'll carry mine. -- Delivery vans, 1942 style, line up outside a Greenbelt, Maryland, grocery store awaiting customers. Tire scarcity and gasoline rationing have placed such service at a premium, and these youngsters who are using their express wagons to carry home Mrs. America's purchases are doing their country a real service." Medium format nitrate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1941. "Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Baltimore. Scrapped cars are collected in such yards in every state. Usable parts are stripped from the chassis and the remainder of the car is sent to scrap iron dealers for processing and shipment to steel mills." Acetate negative by "Danish," Office for Emergency Management. View full size.

October 1942. Washington. D.C. "Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan -- Priorities Division, War Production Board." Medium format acetate negative by Howard Liberman for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1941. "Farm worker in beer parlor on a Sunday afternoon. Bruce Crossing, Michigan." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

April 1940. "Wife of Iowa farmer starting to make a cake. Greene County, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.