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 "Portraita 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.
