A Guide to the World War II Photographs, 1935 (1941-1944) 1945
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 8654
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Preferred Citation
World War II Photographs, 1935 (1941-1944) 1945, Accession #8654 , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Scope and Content Information
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.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically.
Contents List
Includes "Food in Britain", "Land Erosion and Terracing"
Includes "Farm Training Program" and "School Boys Training for Agriculture"
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"
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"
Includes "Canadian Workers," "Chinese Seamen on United Nations' Vessels," "Combined Munitions Assignments Board," "Icelandic Parliament," and "Italian Government after War"
Includes "Fire Prevention", "Uniforms," and "War Emergency Radio Service"
Includes "Meat Rationing", "Share the Meat Recipes", "Sugarless Recipes/Sugar Rationing," and "Wartime Food Demonstration"
Includes "Health Measures for Low Home Temperatures," Home Insulation Conserves Fuel," and "How to Conserve Household Gas"
Includes "Man-Hours," "Plastic Tableware for the Navy," "Substitutes--Glass Utensils and Timber Connections," and "Used Typewriter Campaign/Forty-Two Keys to Victory"
Includes "Reclaimed Rubber Heels," "Tire Recapping," and "Tire Retreading"
Includes "Cotton Stockings"
Includes "New Tidal Basin Bridge, Washington, D.C."
Includes "Aircraft Landing Gear," "Airplane Engines," and "Airplane Parts"
Includes "Artillery Shells," "40mm. A-A Guns," and "75 and 155 mm. Shells"
Includes "Cargo Winches" and "Gun Parts and 37 mm. Shells"
Includes "Floor Waxers to War Production" and "Flooring to Gun Stocks"
Includes "Toy Factory to War Production" and "Toy Furniture to Incendiary Bombs"
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"
Includes "Government Hotel for Negro Women War Workers"
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.
Includes "History of the War, 'Paris, France" and "Power in the Pacific,'U.S. Navy Exhibit"
"The Four Freedoms" and "Arsenal of Democracy"
Includes "Small Town America" and "Tenant Farmers and Migrant Workers"
Includes "Convalescence"
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"
Includes "Australia, New Zealand, Britain"
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"
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"
Includes "Baseball Players in War Production--Shipbuilding" Photographs of Vince DiMaggio, Vernie Stephens, and George Stovall
Includes "Brooklyn Aviation Center," Stewardess Training," and "Training High School Boys to Identify Planes"
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)"
Includes "Children of War-Working Mothers Alexandria, Virginia" and "Nursery Schools . . ."
Includes "Convoy," "Lake Carrier," "Motor Torpedo Boats," and "U.S. Destroyer Murphy in Collision"
Includes "Iranian (Persian) Journalists" and "'Three Thirds of the Nation' radio program"
Includes "Army: Helmuts and Caps," "Marines: Dress Parade," "Marines: Plastic Body Armor," and "Navy: Uniforms"
Includes "Horizontal Sorting Machine," "Office Equipment used by War Production Board," "Photographic Activities--Omega Enlarger," "Typewriters for Army, Navy, Marines," and "V-Mail"
Includes "Carl Sandburg" and "Information Division"
Includes "Eleanor Roosevelt"
Includes "Consumer Division" and "Henderson Rally"
Includes "Bureau of Industrial Conservation," "Civilian Supply", "Priorities Division," and "Purchase Division"
Includes "Elmer Davis, Director," "News Bureau," and "Oversees Branches"
Includes "Airplane Flotation Bags," "Aircraft Life Boats," and "Subcontracting"
Includes "Deland Pool, Florida"
Includes "A-20 Attack Bombers," "B-24 Bombers and C-87 Transports," "Ventura Bombers," and "Willow Run Bomber Plant"
Includes "Douglas Aircraft Company, in Long Beach, California" and "in Seattle, Washington"
Includes "(synthetic) Ammonia," "Magnesium," "Mercury," and "Phosphorous (elemental)"
Includes "Bits and Parts," "Carr's Machine Shop," "Improvised Foundry, Daytona Beach," "LaRoe Shop," "Moving Circus," "Sewing Plane Wing Fabric," and "Skilled Craftsmen"
Includes "Shenango Pottery Works, China"
Includes "Assault Boats," "B-T-13A 'Valiant' Basic Trainers," Motor Torpedo Boats (wooden)," "Rickenbacker Rescue Boats," and "Steel Ramp Boats"
Includes "Engine for Navy Mosquito Fleet," "Hatch Assembly," "Ship Propellers," and "Bits and Pieces Display"
Includes "Booker T. Washington"
Includes "Alloy," "Cooper," "Tin Smelting," "Zinc," and "Locomotives"
Includes "Army Tents," "Barrage Balloons," "Clothing: Army Uniform Trousers and Underware," "Factories--Heinz, New Jersey," "Industrial Alcohol for making explosives," and "Wagon Wheels"
Includes "Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut," "Electric Power," and "Norris Powerhouse and accompanying photographs"
Includes "M-1, M-7, M-10 Tanks," "M-4 Tanks," "Tank Armor," and "Trackless Tanks"
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"
Includes "20 mm. Machine Guns for Planes"
Includes "Aiming Apparatus," "Anti-Aircraft Carriages/Catridges," "Bofor 40 mm. Mounts and Carriages," "M-7 Mobile Howitzer Carriage," and "Naval Gun Mounts"
Includes "3" AA Cartridge Cases," "Armor Piercing Shells," "20mm. Shell Boosters," "75 mm. Shells and Catridge Cases," and "55 mm. Shells"
Includes "Hitler's Helpmates," "Inflation--Hitler's Ally," "The Nature of the Enemy," and "You Can't do Business with Hitler"
Includes "Territory of Hawaii--Americans of Japanese ancestry enlist"
Includes "Greenbelt, Maryland" and "Mid-West Flood of 1937"
Includes "Aluminum," "Marine Iron and Steel Scrap," and "Tin"
Includes "Rags and Waste Paper," "Rural/Farm Scrap," "Discarded Silk Stocking," and "Wool Reclamation"
Includes "Power for the Defense"
Includes "Chicamauga Dam," "Douglas Dam," and "Fort Loudon Dam"
Includes "Watts Bar Dam" and "Wilson Dam"
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"
Includes "Burma," "Formosa (Taiwan)," "India," "India--American Flying Squadron," "Indonesia," "Japan," and "Philippines"
Includes "Naval Aviation Observes 31st Anniversary" and "South Pacific--Marine Corps 'Black Sheep' Squadron"
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"
Includes "Lend-Lease Shipments"
Includes "U.S. Army Pays Medical Students to be Educated"
Includes "Auxillary"
Includes "Shopping for Victory with War Bonds," "Victory Book Campaign," "Victory Food--From American Waters," "Victory Garden--For Family and Country," and "Victory Stores"
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"
Includes President Roosevelt with Citation Winners