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Collection: FSA/OWI Color Transparencies
Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period
606 photos
Shasta dam under construction, California
Shasta dam under construction, California
Shasta dam under construction, California
View of Mount Shasta, Calif.
Shasta dam under construction, California
Shasta dam under construction, California
Central tower from which cable buckets carry materials used in the construction of Shasta dam, California
Worn tires on locomotive wheels are refaced on this machine in the wheel shop of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.
Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.
Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance. Chicago, Ill
Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods from the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Ill.
A Chicago and Northwestern railroad roundhouse, Chicago, Ill.
Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RR's Proviso(?) yard, Chicago, Ill.
Truck trailers loading and unloading at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
View of a Chicago and Northwestern railroad freight house. A long line of truck trailers are loading and unloading goods, Chicago, Ill.
The freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard. In the foreground are old cars used as living quarters for some yard workers and itinerant help; Chicago, Ill.
In the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.
Tracks leading into the freight house at Proviso yard. This is said to be the largest covered freight house in the world. C&NWRR, Chicago, Ill.
General view of one of the classification yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.
C & NW RR, railroad workers cultivating a little Victory garden at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.
Santa Fe R.R. yards and shops, Argentine, Kansas. Argentine yard is at Kansas City, Kansas