595 Free Images of Owi

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Tin Can Tourists: Dade City tourist camp, Florida, February 1939.

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Wrath: Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas, March 1936.

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Hint of a Photographer: Fire engine house number four in Washington, D.C. January 1943.

Waves, Spars, & Cars: Parking lot and billboards in Baltimore, Maryland. April 1943.

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Shoppers in Hollywood, California. April 1942.

The Watering Hole: Saloon in the stockyards district. South Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938.

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Grand Canyon: Elevated structure and buildings. Lower Manhattan, December 1941.

To All Points: People buying tickets at the Greyhound bus terminal. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 1943.

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Dark Fantasy: Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boardinghouse room. Washington, D.C., January 1943.

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Pre-fight: Oil for the engine of an airliner preparatory to takeoff. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C. July 1941.

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Prince Valiant: Sailor reading in line while waiting to board a bus at the Greyhound terminal. Washington, D.C. April 1943.

A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, whose members represent the wealthier class of manufacturers and their friends. Crowd dancing, 1940.

Ticket Please: From behind one of the ticket counters in the waiting room. Washington, D.C. municipal airport, July 1941

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Lively Bunch: After dinner a bridge game goes on nightly in the largest room in the boardinghouse. Washington, D.C. January 1943.

Wife of resettled farmer. Roanoke Farms, North Carolina, 1938.

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Five o'clock Shadows: Crowds in the street at five o'clock in the afternoon, Chicago, Illinois. July 1941.

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Torrential: On a rainy day in Providence, Rhode Island, December 1940.

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Engine 1646: Chicago and North Western railroad, working on a locomotive at the 40th Street railroad shops. December 1942.

The Right Word at the Right Time: Street scene showing the effect of the gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C., 1942.

The Wee Small Hours: Gas station at night in Dubuque, Iowa, April 1941.

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Fire & Ice: A long stairway in the mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January, 1940.

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Far Bright Star: Son of an illiterate sharecropper. He wants a high school education. Near Earle, Arkansas. July 1936.

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Good and Bad: A used cars retailer in Bedford, Virginia. March 1941.

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Just the Beginning: Reading war news aboard streetcar. San Francisco, California, December 1941.

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Susan Hayward, Paramount motion picture star, does her share in sending typewriters to war. 1942.

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Union Arch: Exit of the underground tunnel through Union Station which is used by taxis and trucks, Chicago, Illinois. January 1943.

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Holiday Rush: R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas. New York, New York. December 1941.

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Well-equipped laundry in the community building at a FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing relief camp for African-Americans. Arlington, Virginia. April 1942.

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Rope corral at the Quarter Circle U roundup, Big Horn County, Montana June 1939.

Between Bites: Construction workers eating lunch on the Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California, November 1940.

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Love Boat: Summer residents watch the tourist boat arrive from Boston, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 1940.

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On the Waterfront: Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront. California. February 1937.

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Rainy Day Chaperone: Coming home from school on a rainy day in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940.

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Madonna and Child: Sunday afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1941.

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Home Companion: A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room. Washington, D.C., January 1943.

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Howard on the Air: Broadcast tower at Howard University during commencement exercises. Washington, D.C. June 1942.

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Listen Up: Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas. January 1942.

Big Easy: People sitting on dock, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1938.

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One of a fleet of trucks owned by United Cooperative Society, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, January 1936.

Breakfast & Conversation: Commuters on a train to New York City. October 1941.

Waders at an automobile ford in Rock Creek Park. Washington, D.C. June 1942.

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One for All: Waiting for a street car in Chicago, Illinois, 1940.

Wall of Dreams: Room in which migratory agricultural workers sleep. Camden County, New Jersey October 1938.

Wild Blue Yonder: Aviation cadets at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas August 1942.

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Bird's Eye View: Spectators at a scrap salvage rally at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., August 1942.

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Campesino: A Farm Security Administration borrower who is a member of a sugar growing cooperative, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. January 1942.

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Elbow Room: This boardinghouse room needs a heater in the winter and a fan in the summer. Washington, D.C. January 1943.

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A Westport commuter arriving at station for train to New York City, October 1941.

Codes of Conduct: Men playing cards in restaurant, Shellpile, New Jersey. October 1938.

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Of a Fallen Angel: The Devil's Cauldron and the Oregon coast highway, features of the Resettlement Administration's recreation area which attract many tourists. Oregon, June 1936.

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Eternal Vigilance: The National Archives building in Washington, D.C. December 1943.

Keeper of the Flame: Portrait of a teacher at Central High School. Charlotte Court House, Virginia. June 1943.

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Sit Anywhere: Woodsman relaxing after lunch during the spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. May 1943.

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12 O'Clock High: Training high school boys to identify planes at Weequahic High School, Newark, New Jersey July 1942.

Hard Scrabble: Couple digging their sweet potatoes in the fall. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon, October 1939.

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They Won't Forget: View from the Courthouse steps in Peoria, Illinois. May 1938.

Reading by Shadows: Washington, D.C. Girls employed by the U.S. government in a room selected for them by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) personnel service. March 1943.

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Corner Sentinel: Night view, downtown section. Dallas, Texas, 1942.

Requiem for the American Dream: Unemployed men at the White Angel Breadline in San Francisco, Califorinia 1933.

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Wash Day: Young woman at the community laundry on Saturday afternoon at a Farm Security Administration relief housing camp in Robstown, Texas, 1942.

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Beau Stroll: High school students strolling through the zoological park. Detroit, Michigan, July 1942.

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Winter's Doorstep: The main square in Colchester, Connecticut. November 1940.

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A Glimpse of Thanksgiving: At the Crouch family Thanksgiving Day dinner. Ledyard, Connecticut, November 1940.

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Over the Shoulder: A woman watches the Queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival being crowned. Washington, D.C., May 1941.

School Social: Students on steps of building between classes. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Orange County. September 1939.

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Downtown Business: Shoppers in Los Angeles, California. April 1942.

Cool in Summer: Keeping the airliner air-conditioned while it is on the ground. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C., July 1941.

Tarde en un Pueblo: Street of a Mexican village up in the hills. Cordova, New Mexico, December 1935.

Hurry Up and Wait: Servicemen waiting for trains at Pennsylvania railroad station, New York, New York. August 1942.

WWJDetroit: Street view of Radio station WWJ in Detroit, Michigan. August 1942.

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Short Leash: Woman adjusting a harness strap to prevent child from getting lost in zoological park. Detroit, Michigan. July 1942.

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Lateness of the Hour: At the Tri-County Farmers Co-op at Du Bois, Pennsylvania, August 1940.

Horse races, Hialeah Park, Miami, Florida 1939.

Yuletide Derby: The main street of Derby, Connecticut, decorated for the Christmas season, December 1940.

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Soldiering On: A war veteran who sells pencils on the street. Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938.

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When the World Slows: Late evening on the lower East Side, New York, New York. May 1943.

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Share Alike: Group waiting to drink water out of a public fountain in the zoological park. Detroit, Michigan. July 1942

Bottoms Up: Farmers drinking beer during a hard day's work. Jackson, Michigan, Fall 1941.

Corner Lunch: Townspeople discussing the severe winter on the street corner in center of town in Woodstock, Vermont, 1940.

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Beehive: In the ticket reservations department of one of the airliners. Washington, D.C. municipal airport, July 1941

Community: Public health doctor giving a tenant family medicine for malaria, near Columbia, South Carolina, 1939.

The Dugout: Players and spectators in a baseball game at Ellipse Park. Washington, D.C. July 1942.

Gasoline Noir: Oil and gasoline service station at night in San Augustine, Texas. April 1939.

Punch Line: People boarding a Greyhound bus at a small town between Chicago, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1943.

Afternoon Serenade: Arlington, Virginia. A girl in her room playing a phonograph at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war. June 1943.

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Street View, Peoria: Sign across main street, Peoria, Illinois. May 1938

And Now, the News: Mr. Babcock, an American war worker, tuning in for war news on his radio. Rochester, New York, 1943.

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American Merchant: Mr. J. Benjamin, a store owner in Washington, D.C. August 1942.

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Welcome Home: A family moving into Homesteads in Newport News, Virginia, December 1937.

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Tarmac Roost: A group of Airliners on the field at the Municipal airport, Washington, D.C., July 1941.

Winter's Wand: After a snowstorm in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940.

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The Things They Carried: In the new home of a group of Florida migrant workers just arrived in Onley, Virginia, July 1940.

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Boys of Summer: Sunday cyclists watching sailboats at Hains Point. Washington, D.C. 1942.

Desperate Times: Shack of war veteran and family with view along Nueces Bay. Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939.

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Lubricating and servicing a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber for flight tests at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant, 1942.

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We Don't Discriminate: Lunchroom near Belle Glade, Florida. January 1939.

Autumn Trappings: Fall window display at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, October 1939.

The Golden Hour: Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Fall 1939.

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