World War II: Home Front Images
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Here you'll find hundreds of WWII images, thanks to our national archives, complete with date and context.
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Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" paintings appeared in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post in the spring of 1943. They paid homage to FDR's Four Freedoms.
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A military officer posts the Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1, requiring evacuation of all people of Japanese descent living on Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound, Washington, c. 1942.
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A Japanese-American proprietor in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles rushes to sell off merchandise before evacuation.
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A young man wearing a zoot suit and hat, June 11th, 1943.
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On the streets of Los Angeles, U.S. servicemen wield wooden clubs during a "zoot suit" riot, June 1943.