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Capturing America: 1939-1944 Through Photographs

Explore a visual journey of American life and developments from 1939-1944 with captivating images taken by the FSA and OWI, preserved in the Library of Congress. Witness scenes from sawmills in Georgia to street life in the Virgin Islands. Immerse yourself in historical moments frozen in time.

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Capturing America: 1939-1944 Through Photographs

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  1. Photographs of American Life and Developments from 1939-1944 *Taken by the Farm Security Administration and Office Of War Information and stored in the Library of Congress

  2. Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co.

  3. Southeastern Georgia

  4. Starch Factory along Aroostook River

  5. School Children Singing in Pie Town, New Mexico

  6. Llano de San Juan, New Mexico Catholic Church

  7. Merchandise Store, New Mexico

  8. Tenant Purchaser in her Garden, Puerto Rico

  9. Street in Village of La Vallee, St. Croix Virgin Islands

  10. Trees in a Reforestation Project in Maryland

  11. Central Tower From Which Cable Buckets Carry Materials to Construct Shasta Dam

  12. Wielder working in round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad’s Proviso Yard

  13. Lab research worker at C & NW RR’s 40th Street Yard examining paint samples used on freight cars

  14. Brakeman signaling with red flare, twilight departure from Chicago

  15. Coal loaded onto a freighter at one of Pennsylvania Railroad docks, Sandusky Ohio

  16. Dorothea Cole turns her basement into a workshop for tin plate needles needed for blood transfusion bottles

  17. Section of batch-house at Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, Ohio

  18. Transformer at TVA’s Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, TN

  19. Farmland in the Catskill Country in New York

  20. House in Houston, Texas

  21. Construction of a building on site of new steel mill—Columbia Steel Co. Geneva, Utah

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