Teaching With Primary Sources | University of Northern Colorado | Bringing the World's Largest Library to K-12 Classrooms. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (Home Page) The FSA/OWI Collection Search. Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources. Documenting America. All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The pictures focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. The original images are color transparencies ranging in size from 35 mm. to 4x5 inches. They complement the better-known black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs, made during the same period [view information about the black-and-white FSA/OWI photographs].