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Header cards for FSA/OWI classification number .576
Header cards for FSA/OWI classification number .576

This subject index presents the categories assigned in the 1940s to make it possible to browse the FSA/OWI photographs by what they depict. The Office of War Information used a decimal number classification scheme to organize the photos. This section of the list is arranged alphabetically by subject words taken from the heading cards in the FSA/OWI photographic print file, with a link that retrieves photos that are filed under the corresponding classification number. The categories and the words used to describe them are products of their era and have not been altered for this presentation.

  • The same classification number may appear multiple times under synonyms, variant words, or inverted headings; for example: .576 is listed under both "Oil Wells" and "Petroleum."
  • Not all numbers retrieve descriptions and images, either because the information has not yet been added to the description, or because the originating agency never applied the number to any photographs.
  • For more information, view the introduction to this list.
Lab Work and Science .37586
Labor Relations, Unions .66
Labor, Conference International Office .96356
Laboratories .86655
Laborers, Sugar .329187
Lakes, Ponds .1835
Lakeshore and Seashore .19
Lambing and Shearing .5464
Land .14
Land Clearing, Earth Moving .5913
Land Treatment .162
Land Use and Development .68253
Land, A New Start on the .68052
Land, Clearing .5304
Land, Grazing .153
Land, Poor Submarginal .163
Land, Stump .1635
Land, Working Cultivated .53104
Landing Operations .7394
Landscape Architecture .5984
Landscapes, Miscellaneous .1428
Latin Americans .72311
Launching .62665
Laundries .6484
Laundry Units .6836
Laundry, Ironing .457
Law .6743
Lawyers .674
Lead .575
Leather .6093
Leaves .966
Lectures, Speakers .9023
Lettuce .53153
Liberia, Barclay, President, State Visit .962284
Libraries .872
Libraries, Popular .9224
Licenses, Decorations, Details .5104
Lighting Fixture .9662
Liquors, Tobacco, Luxuries, Flowers .641
Livestock .54
Lock and Dams Construction .5934
Locks .5231
Locks, Canals .183
Locomotives .5214
Locomotives, Rolling Stock .6258
Log Cabins, Sod Houses, Adobe, Dugouts .417
Log Cabins .4412
Log Houses, Carpentry .5963
Logs, Hauling .5537
Longshoremen, Stevedores .329164
Louisiana State Fair ( South), Exhibit .946273
Lumber Camps, Lumberjacks .553
Lumbering .552
Lumbering, Forest Products .55
Lumberjacks, Lumber Camps .553
Lumbermen .329166
Lumberyards .63055
Lunch .537406
Lunch Rooms, Diners .9064
Lunch, Eating on the Job .9066
Luxuries, Flowers, Liquors, Tobacco .641

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