THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PHOTO ARCHIVE • FRAMED PRINTS • STOCK IMAGES

June 1942. "Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority). Substation." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Rural Electrification Administration lineman inspecting a meter at a substation." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) lineman examining transformers of a substation." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the OWI. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration cooperative lineman." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

April 1942. "Fort Riley, Kansas. Signal Corps unit communicating by radio from a scout car during a field problem." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

June 1942. "Norris Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority). Electric switchyard." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

May 1942. "Jim Tillma, a senior in the engineering college, in the electrical engineering laboratory. University of Nebraska, Lincoln." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

June 1942. "Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority linemen." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.

June 1942. "Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

1902. "Screw Machine Department, National Cash Register, Dayton, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street." Note the radio masts on the roof; the 12 wires strung between the towers, 236 feet apart, are too faint to be seen. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C. September 11, 1925. "Demonstration of auto safety fender." 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

SAFETY FENDER COMPANY TO GIVE TEST HERE

        "How to pick up a girl" will be practically illustrated tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on Third street between Maryland and Pennsylvania avenues northwest.
        Using a human being in their demonstration, the manufacturers, under the supervision of the traffic director's office, will show a recently devised scoop, which is designed so that when attached to the front of an automobile striking a person, injury is averted. -- Washington Times, 9/10/25

April 1942. "Chicago, Illinois -- Mr. Thomas Dorsey, radio technician, in William H. Green's radio and electrical store. Mr. Dorsey is an expert radio repairman and studied at the Tilden technical school in Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

April 1942. "Chicago, Illinois -- Negro business and professional men and women. William H. Green, owner of a radio and electrical store on 47th Street near Indiana Avenue. Mr. Green has been in the radio business for nine years, in the same store." Photo by Jack Delano for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.

September 1942. Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia. "Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper, operating Linotype machine." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.