[Smiling worker leans on doorframe, American Lead Pencil, Bayonne, New Jersey]

Word reaches Jon Lombardo, union steward, that management is trying to pull something. He has consulted with management on the new tank, but had not foreseen the reaction of loaders Dell Aguila and Ciciuto who threaten to walk out

[Workers outside American Lead Pencil Company playing rock, scissors, paper]

Member of gang of migrant laborers bend a crop of lettuce in a posture they maintained all day long

Home of Rural Rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought 20 acres of raw, unimproved land with a first payment, which was money saved out of relief budget (August, 1936).

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Southern California.

The accidental miracle of design created by sunlight playing on the striped nail-studded wood of clapboard siding

We visited another oil field town or two and it seems that a chiropractor sets up pretty quick after the boom starts. Here is one right next to the post office.

[Children in Abandoned Lot in Front of Brick Wall with Sign for "Church of God", Chicago, Illinois]

[Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra above the Golden Gate Bridge]

[Amelia Earhart]

[Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, Bandung, Indonesia]

[Amelia Earhart]

Staff Attorney Bartholomew F. Murphy helps a client applying for free legal aid, at offices of the New York Legal Aid Society.

Displaced Persons: Russian woman sits against the wall while washing blows vigorously before her

German Nazi civilians are set to work digging graves for the atrocity victims. Each one of these men will be responsible for the burial of one atrocity victim, and when he dies a man will be appointed to look after these graves and will be responsible...

[Lone tree trunk in decimated landscape following atomic bomb blast]

[Children of hop farmers in nothern England watch an aerial battle between Nazi and British planes while taking shelter in a ditch]

Flying bomb: Children to be evacuated by the Government meet at their school in early morning, where they say goodbye to their parents and are taken by bus to the railway station.

Two Poles who have worked as farm laborers in Germany for 6 years, one still in Polish uniform, and the other in uniform sent by the Red Cross

Sailor kissing his girlfriend goodbye in Pennsylvania Station before returning to duty after a brief furlough.

[boy sweeping up dung, collecting it in basket]

Nurse Spohranssen treating leper's feet

[Flavio da Silva making his bed, Rio de Janeiro]