The photographs chiefly record activities on the home
front. Topics include agriculture; civilian defense;
conservation and rationing; conversion of domestic products to
war materiel; defense housing; the economy; Lend-Lease; and
manpower including shots of baseball players as shipyard
workers. Virginia scenes include the Shenandoah Valley, Forts
Story, Belvoir, Monroe and Meyer; Langley Air Field; day care
in Alexandria and youth in Roanoke.
Also various commissions, boards and offices that include
photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt and Carl Sandburg; a 1943
series called "Portraits of America"; aviation production;
maritime shipbuilding including scenes at Newport News and
Norfolk, Va.; production of metals, power, army vehicles, and
weaponry; propaganda; relocation of Japanese Americans;
salvage; the Tennessee Valley Authority; and civilian victory
campaigns.
Military subjects include Allied leaders at the Casablanca
conference and elsewhere, particularly Roosevelt, Churchill,
Stalin, Harriman, Stettinius, Stimson, Wallace, Eisenhower,
Halsey. Marshall, Patton, Rickenbacker, Giraud, deGaulle,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Getulio Vargas;
as well as the African, European, Atlantic, Far Eastern, and
Pacific theatres; and entertainment including well-known
U.S.O. performers.
Includes "Food in Britain", "Land Erosion and
Terracing"
Box 1
Agriculture: Guayule Cultivation for Rubber
1942 Nov
Box 1
Agriculture: Mexican Cotton Pickers
1942 Nov
Box 1
Agriculture: Women Workers
1942 Sep
Box 1
Agriculture: Workers and Training
1942-1944
Includes "Farm Training Program" and "School Boys
Training for Agriculture"
Box 1
Allied Leaders
1942-1943
Includes "Allied Military Conference in India,"
"America's Leaders--radio program, 9 Aug 1942," "General
Dwight D. Eisenhower," "French Military Leaders,"
"Admiral William F. Halsey," "Robert P. Patterson, Under
Secretary of War," "Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson," "Eleanor Roosevelt
and Madame Chiang Kai Shek," "Meeting of Stalin,
Churchill, and Harriman," "Edward R. Stettinius,
Lend-Lease Administrator," and "Henry Wallace,
Vice-President"
Box 1
Allied Leaders: President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and others during the Casablanca Conferences
1943 Jan
2 folders
Includes "Winston Churchill," "General Henri Honore
Giraud, French High Commissioner and President Charles
DeGaulle of France," "Major General George S. Patton,
Jr. and General George C. Marshall," "President Getulio
Vargas of Brazil," "in French Morocco," and "in Liberia
and Africa"
Box 1
Allies
1942-1944
Includes "Canadian Workers," "Chinese Seamen on
United Nations' Vessels," "Combined Munitions
Assignments Board," "Icelandic Parliament," and "Italian
Government after War"
Box 1
Civilian Defense
1942-1943
Includes "Fire Prevention", "Uniforms," and "War
Emergency Radio Service"
Box 1
Civilian Defense: Air Raid Protection
1941 Dec
Box 1
Civilian Defense
1942 Mar
Box 1
Civilian Protection
1941 Oct
Box 2
Conservation: Durable Goods
1942 Feb
Box 2
Conservation: Food Rationing
1942-1943
Includes "Meat Rationing", "Share the Meat Recipes",
"Sugarless Recipes/Sugar Rationing," and "Wartime Food
Demonstration"
Box 2
Conservation: Fuel Oil
1942 Sep-
Nov
Includes "Health Measures for Low Home Temperatures,"
Home Insulation Conserves Fuel," and "How to Conserve
Household Gas"
Box 2
Conservation: Gas Rationing
1942
Jun-Sep
Box 2
Conservation: Glass Gages Replacing Steel
1943 Jan
Includes "Man-Hours," "Plastic Tableware for the
Navy," "Substitutes--Glass Utensils and Timber
Connections," and "Used Typewriter Campaign/Forty-Two
Keys to Victory"
Box 2
Conservation: Point Rationing
1943 Feb, n.d.
Box 2
Conservation: Posters
1942-1943
Box 2
Conservation
1942-1943
Includes "Reclaimed Rubber Heels," "Tire Recapping,"
and "Tire Retreading"
Box 2
Conservation: Scrap Iron and Steel
1942-1943
Box 2
Conservation: Simplification of Clothing
1941-1943
Includes "New Tidal Basin Bridge, Washington,
D.C."
Box 3
Conversion: Animal Traps to Armor-Piercing
Bullet Cores
1942 Apr
Box 3
Conversion: Automobiles to Airplane Parts
1942 Feb, May
Includes "Aircraft Landing Gear," "Airplane Engines,"
and "Airplane Parts"
Box 3
Conversion: Automobiles to Artillery Shells
1942
Includes "Artillery Shells," "40mm. A-A Guns," and
"75 and 155 mm. Shells"
Box 3
Conversion: Automobiles to Jeeps, Trucks, and
Tanks
1942 Feb, May
Box 3
Conversion: Automobiles to War Production
1942 Feb, Apr
Box 3
Conversion: Beverage Containers to Aviation
Oxygen Cylinders
1942 Feb
Box 2
Conversion: Cash Registers to Gun Magazines
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Copper and Brass Processing
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Electric Shavers/Safety Razors to
War Production
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Farm Implements to War Production
1942 Oct
Includes "Cargo Winches" and "Gun Parts and 37 mm.
Shells"
Box 3
Conversion: Flooring Products to War
Production
1942 Feb
Includes "Floor Waxers to War Production" and
"Flooring to Gun Stocks"
Box 3
Conversion: Food Machinery to War Production
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Hosiery to Mosquito Netting
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Juke Boxes to Electrical Control
Devices
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Merry-Go-Rounds to War Production
1942
Box 3
Conversion: Metal Screens to Navigator
Windows
1942 Mar
Box 3
Conversion: Oil Burners to Machine Gun Parts
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Pianos to Airplane Motors
1942 Jun
Box 3
Conversion: Safes and Locks to Guns and Gun
Mounts
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Silverware to War Production
1942 Feb
Box 3
Conversion: Soft Drink Dispensers to War
Production
1942 Feb
Box 4
Conversion: Toys to War Production
1942 Feb
Includes "Toy Factory to War Production" and "Toy
Furniture to Incendiary Bombs"
Box 4
Conversion: War Production Miscellaneous
1942
Feb-Jun
Includes "Corn to Butylene Glycol," "Duck Decoys to
Incendiary Bomb Noses," "Electric Refrigerators to
Bombers and Searchlights," "Fuel Oil to Coal Heating
System," "Garden Tools to Army Cot Parts," "Grain
Alcohol to Butadiene," "Heaters to Bogie Wheels," "Paper
Machinery to War Production," "Rubber Factory to War
Production," "Plant Conversion," "Small Manufacturing to
Aircraft Parts," and "Vulcanizing Tires to Self-Sealing
Gas Tanks"
Box 4
Conversion: Watch Cases to War Production
1942 Feb
Box 4
Defense Housing: Erie, Pennsylvania
1941
Jul-Aug
Box 4
Defense Housing: Rental Areas
1941-1942
Includes "Government Hotel for Negro Women War
Workers"
Box 4
Defense Housing: Tidewater, Virginia
1941 Jul
Box 4
Defense Housing: War Housing Trailers
1942
Mar-Jun
Box 4
Economy: Posters
1941-1943
Box 4
Economy: Price Control
1942
May-Sep
Box 4
Economy: Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
1941-1943
Box 4
Entertainment
1943-1944
Includes "Marian Anderson Mural Dedicated," "Theatre
Productions--Operas" and "USO-Camp Shows Tour"
Photographs of Fred Waring, Totimanna, Joan Blondell,
Laurel and Hardy, Martha Raye, and Kay Francis and Mitzi
Mayfair.
Box 4
Exhibitions
1944, n.d.
Includes "History of the War, 'Paris, France" and
"Power in the Pacific,'U.S. Navy Exhibit"
Box 5
Exhibitions
1941-1942
"The Four Freedoms" and "Arsenal of Democracy"
Box 5
Farm Security Administration
1935-1940
Includes "Small Town America" and "Tenant Farmers and
Migrant Workers"
Box 5
Health and Welfare
1942-1944
Includes "Convalescence"
Box 5
Lend-Lease
1942-1943
Includes "Imported from the United States of
America," "Lead-Lease India," "Lend-Lease Hearings,"
"Lead-Lease Loadings," "Lend-Lease Strikes at the Axis,"
and "Reciprocal Aid"
Box 5
Lend-Lease: Britain
1943 Mar
Box 5
Lend-Lease: Reciprocal Aid
194-
Includes "Australia, New Zealand, Britain"
Box 5
Manpower: African-American Workers
1942 May
Includes "Negro Aircraft Propeller Workers," "Negro
Arsenal Workers," "Negro Bomber Plant Workers," "Negro
Navy Yard/Shipyard Workers," "Negro Steel Workers," and
"Miscellaneous Jobs--barber, lab tech, postman, lawyer,
sculpture student--in New York"
Box 5
Manpower: Americans All
1942
Jul-Sep
Box 5
Manpower: Corpus Christi, Texas--Civil
Service Employees
1942 Aug
Box 6
Manpower: Fort Story, Virginia
1942
Box 6
Manpower: Langley Air Field, Virginia--YB-17
Bombardment Squadron
1942 May
Box 6
Manpower: Members of War Offices, Boards, etc
1941-1944
Box 6
Manpower: Miscellaneous
1942
Mar-Aug
Includes "Blue Island, Illinois--Senise family,"
"Elizabeth, New Jersey--Herbster family," "Frankfort,
Pennsylvania--Smuda family," "Handicapped Workers,"
"Marine Combat Reporters," "Rochester, New York--
Babcock family," "Selective Service Inductions,"
"Veteran Boring Mill Worker," "Wisconsin--Saugstad
family"
Box 6
Manpower: Miscellaneous A-F
194-
Box 6
Manpower: Miscellaneous G-O
194-
Box 6
Manpower: Miscellaneous P-Z
194-
Box 7
Manpower: Shipyard Workers
1942 May-
Oct
Includes "Baseball Players in War
Production--Shipbuilding" Photographs of Vince DiMaggio,
Vernie Stephens, and George Stovall
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Aviation
1942
Jul-Aug
Includes "Brooklyn Aviation Center," Stewardess
Training," and "Training High School Boys to Identify
Planes"
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Fort Benning, Georgia
1942
2 folders
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Fort Knox, Kentucky
1942
2 folders
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Forts Belvoir, Monroe,
and Myer, Virginia
1942
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Maritime
1941-1943
Box 7
Manpower: Training--New River, North Carolina
1942 May
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Nursing
1942-1943
Box 7
Manpower: Training--Parris Island, South
Carolina
1942 May
2 folders
Box 8
Manpower: Training--W.P.A. Vocational School
and Industry
1942
Box 8
Manpower: Women Workers
1942
2 folders
Includes "Women Aircraft Workers," "Women Workers at
Quartermaster Depot," "Women in Industry: Gas Mask
Production," " Women in Industry: Tool Production,"
"Women in Military," "Women in War: Supercharger Plant
Workers," "Women--Land Army (Farms)"
Box 8
Manpower: Women Workers
1943
Includes "Children of War-Working Mothers Alexandria,
Virginia" and "Nursery Schools . . ."
Box 8
Manpower: Youth--Roanoke, Virginia
1942
Sep-Oct
Box 8
Maritime Activities
1942-1945
Includes "Convoy," "Lake Carrier," "Motor Torpedo
Boats," and "U.S. Destroyer
Murphy in Collision"
Box 8
Media
1943-1944
Includes "Iranian (Persian) Journalists" and "'Three
Thirds of the Nation' radio program"
Box 8
Military Uniforms
1941-1942
Includes "Army: Helmuts and Caps," "Marines: Dress
Parade," "Marines: Plastic Body Armor," and "Navy:
Uniforms"
Box 8
National Defense Advisory Commission
1941, n.d.
Box 8
National Defense Advisory Commission:
Commerical and Cultural Relations Office and Production
Division
1942, n.d.
Box 9
National Defense Mediation Board
1942, n.d.
Box 9
National Parks of the United States
1942
Box 9
Office Equipment
1942-1943
Includes "Horizontal Sorting Machine," "Office
Equipment used by War Production Board," "Photographic
Activities--Omega Enlarger," "Typewriters for Army,
Navy, Marines," and "V-Mail"
Box 9
Office for Emergency Management
1942, n.d.
Includes "Carl Sandburg" and "Information
Division"
Box 9
Office of Civilian Defense
1941-1942
Includes "Eleanor Roosevelt"
Box 9
Office of Price Administration
1942, n.d.
Includes "Consumer Division" and "Henderson
Rally"
Box 9
Office of Production Managment
1942-1943
2 folders
Includes "Bureau of Industrial Conservation,"
"Civilian Supply", "Priorities Division," and "Purchase
Division"
Box 9
Office of War Information
1942-1944,
n.d.
Includes "Elmer Davis, Director," "News Bureau," and
"Oversees Branches"
Box 10
Portrait of America: An American Country
Auction
1943
Box 10
Portrait of America: City Children have
Vacation o U.S. Farms
1943
Box 10
Portrait of America: Floating Hospital serves
U.S. Children
1943
Box 10
Portrait of America: Health in a U.S. City: A
Serum and Vaccine Farm
1943
Box 10
Portrait of America: How U.S. Movies are Made
1943
Portrait of America: Nantucket, Historic
American Whaling Port
1943
Production: Medical--Blood Transfusion Bottle
1942 Oct
Box 13
Production: Metals--Aluminum
1941-1942
Box 13
Production: Metals--Milling Machines and
Machine Castings
1941-1942
Box 13
Production: Metals--Miscellaneous
1942-1943
Includes "Alloy," "Cooper," "Tin Smelting," "Zinc,"
and "Locomotives"
Box 14
Production: Metals--Pipe Fittings
1942 Jan
Box 14
Production: Metals--Steel
1941
Box 14
Production: Miscellaneous
1941-1942
Includes "Army Tents," "Barrage Balloons," "Clothing:
Army Uniform Trousers and Underware," "Factories--Heinz,
New Jersey," "Industrial Alcohol for making explosives,"
and "Wagon Wheels"
Box 14
Production: Passaic Home Worshop Pool
1942 Mar
Box 14
Production: Posters
1942
Box 14
Production: Power
1942-1943
Includes "Dante Electric Company, Bantam,
Connecticut," "Electric Power," and "Norris Powerhouse
and accompanying photographs"
Box 14
Production: Power--Marine Boilers
1942
Jan-Feb
Box 14
Production: Power--Steam Power Plant
Equipment
1942 Jun
Box 14
Production: Power--Transformer Manufacture
1942 Feb
Box 14
Production: Rubber--Synthetic Rubber
1942 Feb
Box 14
Production: Rubber--Tire Manufacture
1941-1942
Box 14
Production: Tanks
1941-1943
Includes "M-1, M-7, M-10 Tanks," "M-4 Tanks," "Tank
Armor," and "Trackless Tanks"
Box 14
Production: Tanks--M-3 Tanks
1942
Box 15
Production: Vehicles--Army Trucks
1941-1942
Box 15
Production: Vehicles--Halftrac Scout Cars
1941 Dec
Box 15
Production: Vehicles--Miscellaneous
1941 May, Dec
Includes "Blitz Buggies," "Halftrac Tracks for Army
Vehicles," "Jeeps," and "Semi-Trailers"
Includes ".45 Caliber Automatic Pistols and .38
Caliber Revolvers," "Garand Rifle," and "Medium and
Major Caliber Guns"
Box 15
Production: Weaponry--Government Arsenals
1942
Box 15
Production: Weaponry--Machine Guns
1942
Feb-Jul
Includes "20 mm. Machine Guns for Planes"
Box 15
Production: Weaponry--Mounts and Carriages
1941-1943
Includes "Aiming Apparatus," "Anti-Aircraft
Carriages/Catridges," "Bofor 40 mm. Mounts and
Carriages," "M-7 Mobile Howitzer Carriage," and "Naval
Gun Mounts"
Box 15
Production: Weaponry--Shells and Catridge
Cases
1941-1943
Includes "3" AA Cartridge Cases," "Armor Piercing
Shells," "20mm. Shell Boosters," "75 mm. Shells and
Catridge Cases," and "55 mm. Shells"
Box 16
Production: Torpedoes
194-
Box 16
Propaganda
1942 Apr
Includes "Hitler's Helpmates," "Inflation--Hitler's
Ally," "The Nature of the Enemy," and "You Can't do
Business with Hitler"
Box 16
Propaganda: Posters
1942
Box 16
Religion
1943-1945
Box 16
Relocation: Japanese Ancestry
1942
Includes "Territory of Hawaii--Americans of Japanese
ancestry enlist"
Box 16
Resettlement Administration
1935-1940
3 folders
Includes "Greenbelt, Maryland" and "Mid-West Flood of
1937"
Box 16
Safety
1942-1943
Box 16
Salvage: Automobiles
1942
May-Sep
Box 17
Salvage: Greases
1942 Jun
Box 17
Salvage: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1942 Apr
Box 17
Salvage: Metals
1941-1943
Includes "Aluminum," "Marine Iron and Steel Scrap,"
and "Tin"
Box 17
Salvage: Miscellaneous
1942
Includes "Rags and Waste Paper," "Rural/Farm Scrap,"
"Discarded Silk Stocking," and "Wool Reclamation"
Box 17
Salvage: Rubber
1941-1942
Box 17
Tennessee Valley Authority
1942
Includes "Power for the Defense"
Box 17
Tennessee Valley Authority: Power and
Conservation--Dam Construction
1942 Jun
Includes "Chicamauga Dam," "Douglas Dam," and "Fort
Loudon Dam"
Box 17
Tennessee Valley Authority: Power and
Conservation--Hydroelectric Plan Construction
1942 Jun
Includes "Watts Bar Dam" and "Wilson Dam"
Box 17
Theatres of Operation: African and
Mediterranean Theatres
1943
Includes "South Africa's Army Girls," "American
'Steam Chickens' (P-40 Fighter Plane) arrive in Africa,"
"Egypt," Ethopia," "Gold Coast Battery and other
British/African Squadrons," "Liberia," "Libya, esp.
Tripoli," "Middle East," "Tunisia," and "Turkey"
Box 18
Theatres of Operation: European
Theatre--England and elsewhere, inc. Germany; and,
Atlantic Theatre--North and South America
1943-1945
Box 18
Theatres of Operation: European
Theatre--France and Italy
1944
Box 18
Theatres of Operation: Far East Theatre--Asia
1942-1945
Includes "Burma," "Formosa (Taiwan)," "India,"
"India--American Flying Squadron," "Indonesia," "Japan,"
and "Philippines"
Box 20
Theatres of Operation: Far East Theatre:
Asia--Hong Kong
1942
legal size box
Box 18
Theatres of Operation: Far East
Theatre--Persian Corridor--Supplies for Russia
1943
Box 18
Theatre of Operation: Pacific Theatre
1943
Includes "Naval Aviation Observes 31st Anniversary"
and "South Pacific--Marine Corps 'Black Sheep'
Squadron"
Box 18
Theatres of Operation: Pacific
Theatre--Oceania
1942-1945
Includes "Aleutian Islands," "Gilbert Islands,"
"Guam," "Hawaii--Airfield Security Detachment,"
"Hawaii--Pearl Harbor," "Iwo Jima," "Marcus Island,"
"Mariana Islands," "Midway Island," "New Britain," and
"New Caledonia"
Box 18
Theatres of Operation: Pacific
Theatre--Oceania--Australia
1943-1944
Box 18
Transportation
1942-1943
Includes "Lend-Lease Shipments"
Box 19
Transportation: Car-Pooling
1942
May-Jun
Box 19
United States Army Miscellaneous
1941
Includes "U.S. Army Pays Medical Students to be
Educated"
Box 19
United States Coast Guard Miscellaneous
1943-1945
Includes "Auxillary"
Box 19
United States Navy Miscellaneous
1943-1945
Box 19
Victory Campaigns
1943
Includes "Shopping for Victory with War Bonds,"
"Victory Book Campaign," "Victory Food--From American
Waters," "Victory Garden--For Family and Country," and
"Victory Stores"
Box 19
Victory Campaigns: "A Poster Comes to Life"
1942 Aug
Box 19
Victory Corps: High Schools
1942
Includes "Los Angeles, California: Polytechnic High
School, Roosevelt High School,and Washington High
School," "Silver Spring, Maryland: Montgomery Blair High
School and Washington, D. C.: McKinley Technical High
School," and "New York, New York: Benjamin Franklin High
School and Queens, New York: Flushing High School"
Box 19
War Manpower Commission
1942, n.d.
Box 19
War Production Board
1941-1942,
n.d.
Box 19
War Production Drive
1941-1943
Box 19
War Production Drive: Citations of Individual
Production Merit
1942, n.d.
Includes President Roosevelt with Citation
Winners