Finding Aid for the Collection of Photographs from the U.S. Farm Security Administration and the U.S. Office of War Information, 1930-1945

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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Finding Aid for the Collection of Photographs from the U.S. Farm Security Administration and the U.S. Office of War Information, 1930-1945

Collection number: 935

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Manuscripts Division



Los Angeles, CA

Contact Information

  • Manuscripts Division
  • UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
  • Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Box 951575
  • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
  • Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
  • Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
  • URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
Processed by:
Kayla Siegel, July 1977
Revised by:
Kayla Siegel, August 1981
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Alight Tsai
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Online finding aid edited by:
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© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Collection of Photographs from the U.S. Farm Security Administration and the U.S. Office of War Information,
Date (inclusive): 1930-1945
Collection number: 935
Extent: 21 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

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Restrictions on Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.

Additional Physical Form Available

A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
  • Public Services Division
  • UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
  • Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Box 951575
  • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
  • Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
  • Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Horace K. Rubinfier, 1948.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection of Photographs from the U.S. Farm Security Administration and the U.S. Office of War Information (Collection 935). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4232842 

Scope and Content

Collection consists of a selection from the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography project of the depression years representing the work of many well-known photographers, and from the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) reflecting efforts on the home front. The prints, 20 × 25.5 cm., were made from the original negatives in the Library of Congress. FSA photographers include Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, and Arthur Rothstein. OWI subjects include: airplanes, baseball players, Winston Churchill, Fort Benning, Japanese Americans, Liberia, Marine Corps women, Negro workers, Eddie Rickenbacker, shipbuilding, steel industry, tin, War Production Board, and women in essential services.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Farm Security Administration photographs arranged alphabetically by photographer (Boxes 19-21).
  2. Office of War Information photographs arranged alphabetically by subject (Boxes 1-18).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States--Farm Security Administration--Photographs.
United States--Office of War Information--Photographs.
Photographs.


 

Part 1: F.S.A. Photographs

Physical Description: [Boxes 19-21]

Scope and Content Note

This is a selection from the F.S.A. photography project of the depression years containing 20 × 20.5cm. prints made from the original negatives in the Library of Congress. The collection is arranged by photographer.
Box 19, Folder 1

Acme news.

Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 19, Folder 2

Alison.

Physical Description: 2 items.
Box 19, Folder 3

Brooks.

Physical Description: 20 items.
Box 19, Folder 4

Carter.

Physical Description: 12 items.
Box 19, Folder 5

Delano, Jack.

Physical Description: 7 items.
Box 19, Folder 6

Dixon.

Physical Description: 6 items.
Box 19, Folder 7

Drier.

Physical Description: 2 items.
Box 19, Folder 8

Evans, Walker.

Physical Description: 25 items.
Box 19, Folder 9

Johnson.

Physical Description: 4 items.
Box 19, Folder 10

Jung, Theodor.

Physical Description: 8 items.
Box 19, Folder 11

Lange, Dorothea.

Physical Description: 90 items.
Box 19, Folder 12

Lange, Dorothea.

Physical Description: 90 items.
Box 19, Folder 13

Lange, Dorothea.

Physical Description: 76 items.
Box 19, Folder 14

Lee, Russell.

Physical Description: 62 items.
Box 19, Folder 15

Lee, Russell.

Physical Description: 63 items.
Box 20, Folder 1

Locke.

Physical Description: 8 items.
Box 20, Folder 2

McMillian.

Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 20, Folder 3

Mydans, Carl.

Physical Description: 52 items.
Box 20, Folder 4

Mydans, Carl.

Physical Description: 53 items.
Box 20, Folder 5

Rothstein, Arthur.

Physical Description: 102 items.
Box 20, Folder 6

Rothstein, Arthur.

Physical Description: 102 items.
Box 20, Folder 7

Rothstein, Arthur.

Physical Description: 101 items.
Box 21, Folder 1

Sakaer.

Physical Description: 4 items.
Box 21, Folder 2

Staats.

Physical Description: 20 items.
Box 21, Folder 3

Vachon, John.

Physical Description: 30 items.
Box 21, Folder 4

Ward.

Physical Description: 1 item.
Box 21, Folder 5

Wolcott, Marion (Post).

Physical Description: 49 items.
Box 21, Folder 6

Miscellaneous photographs, no photographer credited.

Physical Description: 80 items.
Box 21, Folder 7

Miscellaneous photographs, captions removed.

Physical Description: 16 items.
Box 21, Folder 8

Captions from photographs in folder no.7.

 

Part 2: O.W.I. Photographs

Physical Description: [Boxes 1-18]

Scope and Content Note

These photographs are from the Office of War Information and depict home front efforts during the war years. Photographs are 20 × 25.5cm. and are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Box 1

African Native Preparation.

Box 1

Agriculture.

Box 1

Agriculture: Large scale truck-farming.

Box 1

Airplanes.

Box 1

Airplanes: Design and construction.

Box 1

Airplanes: Design and construction, Douglas Aircraft Company.

Box 1

Airplanes: Design and construction, Lockheed.

Box 1

Airplanes: Design and construction, North American.

Box 1

Airplanes: Design and construction, Ohio plant.

Box 1

Airplanes: Motors and Aircraft engines.

Box 1

Airplanes: Propellers.

Box 2

Airplane seats.

Box 2

Air Raid protection Service, Ensignia of.

Box 2

Air raids.

Box 2

Aluminum: Production and collection.

Box 2

American Red Cross.

Box 2

Army halftrack vehicles.

Box 2

Army tent manufacturer.

Box 2

Army truck production.

Box 2

Artillery.

Box 2

Bantam, Connecticut.

Box 2

Barcelona Sample Fair.

Box 2

Barrage balloons, Production of.

Box 2

Baseball players in War Production.

Box 2

Black market in meats.

Box 2

Blood transfusion bottles, Production of.

Box 2

Bombers A-20.

Box 3

Bombers A-31.

Box 3

Bombers B-17F.

Box 3

Bombers B-24E (Liberation Bombers).

Box 3

Bombers B-25.

Box 3

Brooklyn Aviation Center.

Box 3

Butylene glycol.

Box 3

Car-pooling.

Box 3

Cartridge cases.

Box 3

Children.

Box 3

Chinese.

Box 3

Churchill, Winston.

Box 3

Civilian Conservation Corps.

Box 3

Civilian Defense Uniforms.

Box 3

Civilian Protection.

Box 3

Civil Service.

Box 4

Coast Guard.

Box 4

Combined Munitions Assignment Board.

Box 4

Communications CPWB.

Box 4

Conservation of fabric.

Box 4

Conservation of goods.

Box 4

Conservation: Truck neglect.

 

Conversion

Box 4

Animal traps to armour-piercing bullet cores.

Box 4

Auto industry.

Box 4

Beverage container to aviation oxygen cylinders.

Box 4

Cash registers to gun magazines.

Box 4

Electric shaving plant.

Box 4

Conversion of farm implements.

Box 4

Farm to arsenal.

Box 4

Floor waxer plant.

Box 4

Food machinery.

Box 4

Hosiery factory.

Box 4

Juke-box plant.

Box 5

Merry-go-round.

Box 5

Miscellaneous items.

Box 5

Oil burners to machine gun parts.

Box 5

Paper machinery to war parts.

Box 5

Pianos to airplane motors.

Box 5

Rowing shells to life rafts.

Box 5

Safe and Lock Company.

Box 5

Silverware Industry.

Box 5

Soft drink dispenser plant.

Box 5

Toy factory.

Box 5

Watch cases to war production.

Box 5

Convoy.

Box 5

Copper.

Box 5

Copper and brass processing.

Box 5

Cotton stockings.

Box 5

Defense housing.

Box 5

Deland Industrial Pool.

Box 5

Deland Pool: Moving circus.

Box 6

Diesel Engines, Production of.

Box 6

Electric power, Production of.

Box 6

Engines - Jeeps.

Box 6

Engines - Marine.

Box 6

Entertainment.

Box 6

F.B.I.

Box 6

Fiberglass, Manufacture of.

Box 6

Flotation bag manufacturing.

Box 6

Food demonstration.

Box 6

Food in England.

Box 6

Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Box 6

Fort Benning, Georgia.

Box 6

Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Box 6

Fort Monroe.

Box 6

Fort Myer, Virginia.

Box 6

Fort Story, Coast defense.

Box 7

Four Freedoms, The.

Box 7

Fuel Conservation.

Box 7

German Prison Corrp.

Box 7

Glass as a substitute.

Box 7

Guadalupe Island.

Box 7

Gun carriages.

Box 7

Gun mounts.

Box 7

Halftrack cars.

Box 7

Hawaii.

Box 7

Health and welfare activities, North American Aviation.

Box 7

Herbster Family.

Box 7

High School Victory Corps.

Box 7

Howitzers.

Box 7

I'll Carry Mine campaign.

Box 7

Incendiary Bombs.

Box 7

India.

Box 7

Industrial Alcohol.

Box 7

Inflation.

Box 7

Japan.

Box 7

Japanese Americans.

Box 7

Japanese Relocation.

Box 7

Japanese Submarines.

Box 8

Lake carriers.

Box 8

Langley Field, Virginia.

Box 8

Lend-lease.

Box 8

Lend-lease, Austrialia and Great Britain.

Box 8

Liberia.

Box 8

Lumber.

Box 8

Machinery.

Box 8

Magnesuim production.

Box 8

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard Training Station.

Box 8

Manpower (European Immigriants).

Box 8

Manpower (Handicapped).

Box 8

Marine Boilers, Production of.

Box 8

Marine Corps.

Box 8

Marine Corps women.

Box 8

Marines: Dress parade.

Box 8

Mercury.

Box 8

Milling machines, Production of.

Box 8

Mine sweeper production.

Box 8

Mississippi River.

Box 9

Mitchell Field.

Box 9

National Defense Advisory Commission.

Box 9

National War Labor Board.

Box 9

Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi.

Box 9

Navy.

Box 9

Naval blimps.

Box 9

Negro workers.

Box 9

New Guinea.

Box 9

New River, North Carolina.

Box 9

Nurse training.

Box 9

Office of Civilian Defense.

Box 9

Office of Price Administration (and Civilian Supply).

Box 9

Office of Production Management.

Box 10

Office of War Information.

Box 10

Oil.

Box 10

Parachute making.

Box 10

Parris Island Marine Corps.

Box 10

Parris Island Marine Corps barrage balloons.

Box 10

Parris Island Marine Corps gliders.

Box 10

Passaic home workshop pool.

Box 10

Pearl Harbor bombing.

Box 10

Philippine Islands.

Box 10

Pipe fittings, Production of.

Box 10

Posters.

Box 10

Posters, Department of Agriculture.

Box 10

Posters: Men working together.

Box 11

Price ceilings.

Box 11

Priorities: Unemployment.

Box 11

Publications.

Box 11

Radio progress.

Box 11

Railroads.

Box 11

Rags.

Box 11

Rationing.

Box 11

Resettlement Administration.

Box 11

Rickenbacker, Eddie.

Box 11

Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs.

Box 11

Rubber industry and trade.

Box 11

Rubber reclaimed.

Box 12

Safty in industry.

Box 12

Salvage.

Box 12

Salvage of fats, grease.

Box 12

Science and research.

Box 12

Sea jeeps.

Box 12

Scrap metal industry.

Box 12

Self-sealing fuel tanks.

Box 12

Sellassie, Haile.

Box 12

Shells.

Box 12

Shenandoah Valley.

Box 12

Shipbuilding.

Box 13

Shipbuilding, Naval architecture.

Box 13

Shipbuilding, Marine architecture.

Box 13

Ship launching in Portland, Maine.

Box 13

Ship launching, S.S. Booker T. Washington.

Box 13

Smuda, Edwin.

Box 13

Stalin, Churchill, Harriman.

Box 13

Steel industry and trade.

Box 13

Subchasers.

Box 13

Subcontracting.

Box 13

Submarines, Production of.

Box 13

Substitute materials.

Box 13

Sydney Library.

Box 13

Synthetic rubber production.

Box 14

Tanks.

Box 14

TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority] dam construction.

Box 14

TVA plant construction.

Box 14

Thanksgiving 1942.

Box 14

Tidal Basin Bridge, Washington, D.C.

Box 14

Tin.

Box 14

Tool and die.

Box 14

Torpedoes.

Box 14

Trailers for war housing.

Box 14

Transform Manufacturing.

Box 15

Transportation.

Box 15

Tripoli.

Box 15

Trips, U.S.: 1941-1942.

Box 15

Tungsten production.

Box 15

Tunisia.

Box 15

Two-man labor management (WPB-Drive).

Box 15

Typewriter campaign.

Box 15

Uniforms, military.

Box 15

U.S. Army.

Box 15

U.S. Crop Corps.

Box 15

U.S. Maritime Service Training Station.

Box 15

U.S. Navy photograps.

Box 15

V-Mail.

Box 15

Valiant basic trainer, Production of.

Box 15

Victory Book Campaign.

Box 15

Victory food from American waters.

Box 15

Victory gardens.

Box 15

Victory store.

Box 15

Wagon wheels, Production of.

Box 15

War nursery school.

Box 15

War Production Board.

Box 16

War Production Drive.

Box 16

War Production Drive awards.

Box 16

War Production Board office equipment.

Box 16

War Production Board posters.

Box 16

War wagon trailer.

Box 16

War workers: Social activities.

Box 16

Waste paper.

Box 16

Weapons From Waste.

Box 16

Willow Run bomber plant.

Box 16

Women's Army Auxillary Corps (WAACS).

Box 16

Women Assigned to Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES).

Box 16

Women at war.

Box 16

Women in essential services.

Box 16

Women in industry.

Box 16

Women in war.

Box 16

Zinc.

Box 17

Miscellaneous buildings.

Boxes 17-18

Miscellaneous portraits.

Box 18

Miscellaneous views.