584 Free Photos of Owi

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Commuters on train to New York City. Dining car counter. October 1941.

Harness the Savings: Sears & Roebuck store in Syracuse, New York, 1941.

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He Drives By Night: James Hall, truck driver, enroute to New Orleans on U.S. Highway 90. March 1943.

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Wait Here: Entrance to the waiting room at the municipal airport, in Washington, D.C. 1941

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Spring Blossoms: Washington, D.C. Tourists admiring the cherry blossoms. April 1943.

Urban Fauna: A cactus streetlight in front of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. May 1940.

Garden of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C. May 1939-42.

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Misfortune's Boulevard: Part of Shantytown in Spencer, Iowa. December 1935.

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Hi-Way Tavern: Signs in front of a highway tavern. Crystal City, Texas, March 1939.

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Municipal swimming pool in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, June 1942.

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The Place to Be: Parade on fiesta day in Taos, New Mexico, July 1940.

Side Ways: Trucks being loaded. Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1939.

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Cabby: Portrait of a woman training to operate buses and taxicabs, 1942.

Globetrotters: Decoration on the floor of the waiting room in the municipal airport in Washington, D.C. July 1941.

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Self-Defense: Mexican-American workers on strike. California, 1933.

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Playground Street: A Black neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. March 1943

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Growing Boy: A young steelworker at a bar in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. January 1941.

Sunday cyclist in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. June 1942.

The Beach front at Miami Beach, Florida, 1939.

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Latchkey Afternoon: Children in street, Washington, D.C, 1941.

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Adrift: Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton. June 1935.

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Nighthawk: Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant, waiting for a pickup. Washington D.C., April 1943. Photo by Esther Bubley.

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Greasy Spoon Galore: Street scene in Cascade, Idaho. June 1941.

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Between the Liners: At the Greyhound bus terminal in Indianapolis, Indiana. September 1943.

The Winter Soldier: World War statue in a park after a snowstorm. Chillicothe, Ohio, February 1940.

Fill er Up: An airliner refueling. Washington, D.C. municipal airport, July 1941.

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Gus' Place: Occidental Hotel restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue at noon. Washington, D.C. July 1942.

Rush Hour: Traffic at an intersection in San Diego, California, 1940.

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Summer Shade: City park in Chico, California. June 1942.

Army Life: View from the Courthouse steps in Peoria, Illinois. May 1938.

Boys sitting on truck parked at the Farm Security Administraton labor camp. Robstown, Texas, 1941.

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Laid Off: The interview for unemployment compensation. San Francisco, California 1938.

Sand in my Shoes: Beach bathers at Miami Beach, Florida, 1939.

Hay & Neigh: Horse and his shelter on a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, February 1940.

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Wading in Rock Creek Park. Washington, D.C. June 1942.

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But Once a Year: Hanging Christmas decorations in Providence, Rhode Island, December 1940.

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Old Home Time: The Mambert farm, located in the Hudson River Valley, New York. October 1941.

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Top of the Heap: Pulpwood pile in Groveton, New Hampshire. February 1936.

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Commuters playing bridge on train to New York City. October 1941.

Pleased to Meet: Washington, D.C. Girl and a soldier came into the Sea Grill separately, but are developing a beautiful friendship, 1943.

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A Japanese-American farm worker. Nyssa, Oregon, July 1942.

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The Sawatch mountains near Buena Vista, Colorado, September 1941.

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Chi Town Dapper: Portrait of a man on 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1941.

Art director and copy writer at a large advertising agency. Detroit, Michigan. July 1942.

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Each Their Own: Row houses at the corner of N and Union Streets S.W., Washington, D.C. 1941.

Steelworker and family. Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 1941.

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Lights Out: In the lounge at the United Nations service center. Washington, D.C. December 1943.

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Christmas in a home. Washington, D.C. December 25, 1941.

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Midstream: Jaywalkers in traffic. Chicago, Illinois July 1941.

Buying a radio in the Crowley-Milner department store. Detroit, Michigan, July 1941.

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Portrait of a Businessman: Proprietor of restaurant in Shellpile, New Jersey, October 1938.

New defense houses in Detroit, Michigan. September 1942.

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Potluck Potpourri: Baltimore, Maryland. Restaurant sign on Baltimore street. April 1939

Three's a Crowd: Passengers in the waiting room at the municipal airport in Washington, D.C. July 1941

Harvesting oats in southeastern Georgia. April 1940.

Over & Under: The underpass and apartment houses, Greenbelt, Maryland, February 1938.

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Sections of frameworks for a B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber fuselages at the Boeing plant in Seattle. 1942.

View of the Lead and silver mining town of Creede, Colorado. 1942.

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Rise & Fall: Abandoned factory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1939.

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Change of shift at the California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. 1942.

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In a Flurry: Main street in Iowa City, Iowa, February 1940.

Girls coming out of the Highland Park Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan, 1942.

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Young & Old: Children jumping rope in New Orleans, Louisiana. March 1943.

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Jeannete Feinstock, clerk in the factory office of a cooperative clothing company. Hightstown, New Jersey, November 1936.

Extra Curricular: Students at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, D.C., October 1943.

Served Daily: Monty's Diner in Southington, Connecticut. May 26, 1942.

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals, June 1943.

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Gate of Nations: World's Fair. Corona gate with Bulova clock exhibit. May 1939.

Now Be A Good Boy: Washington, D.C. Woman standing in line with her son until he leaves on the bus at the Greyhound bus depot. April 1943.

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Boarding: Bus passengers at the Greyhound bus station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1940.

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Corner Jubilee: Liquor store in Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938.

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Nebraska Iceberg: An Ice cream stand in Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1938.

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Where the Sky Begins: Car on the plain in Washington County, Colorado, October 1939.

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$You Are Here: Instructor and students studying a map, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas. January 1942$

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Ride Sharing: Washington, D.C. Soldiers looking out the window of the bus just before leaving the Greyhound terminal, 1943.

Busy Bisbee: Main street of Bisbee, Arizona, May 1940.

The Good Fight: Demonstration of unemployed people. Columbus, Kansas. May 1936.

New Wheels: Auto transport in Eufaula, Oklahoma, February 1940.

Cashier checking out a customer's purchases at the Will That Be All?: Giant Food shopping center. Washington, D.C. June 1942.

Fleet's In: Sailors at Glen Echo amusement park. Maryland. March 1943.

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Free Air: Gas station in Kern County, California, November 1938.

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Parks & Rec: Ellipse Park in Washington, D.C. on a hot Sunday, June 1942.

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Main street in Herrin, Illinois. January 1939.

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Line of prospective swimmers, awaiting their turn at the municipal swimming pool on Sunday in Washington, D.C., June 1942.

Church near Junction City, Kansas

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Spectators watching a fountain at a zoo. Detroit, Michigan. July 1942

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Streamline Moderne: Completed house at Greenbelt, Maryland. September 1937

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Down Below: Detroit, Michigan. Workers at the zoological park July 1942.

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Car Culture: Saturday afternoon in Florence, Alabama. June 1942.

Melville's Finest: Aboard a trawler (locally called a dragger). Provencetown, Massachusetts 1937.

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This Side of Romney: View along the road leading out of Romney, West Virginia, Winter 1942.

Working Man: Portrait of a migratory worker at a Farm Security Administration camp in Robstown, Texas. Spring 1942.

Our Gang: Steelworkers' sons. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. January 1941.

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Do's & Don'ts: View of Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, July 1940.

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Lead and silver mining in the former ghost town of Creede, Colorado, 1942.

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Open-air Barber: On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. February 1939.

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Shedding Light: In the waiting room of the Union Station. Chicago, Illinois. January 1943.

Danger Hill: Sign on the top of a hill in the residential section of San Francisco, California. January 1943.

Lobby of the Fisher Building, Detroit Michigan. July 1942.

Among the Brave: National cemetery in Cairo, Illinois May 1943.

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