The Office of War Information (OWI) was a U.S. propaganda agency during WWII. Roy Stryker headed the photographic section, which was the successor to his famed Farm Security Administration (FSA) photodocumentary project. Twenty-one-year-old Esther Bubley got a job in Stryker's darkroom in 1942. Determined to become a field photographer, she built a portfolio by photographing life in the boarding house where her sister Enid lived, which catered to young women who had flocked to the capital to fill wartime jobs.