Tomorrow would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday (he was born July 14, 1912) and in tribute to an utterly singular American life, LIFE.com presents photographs from 1943 — none of which appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine — chronicling the guitar-strumming Oklahoma native’s rambles through wartime New York City.
See the photos on LIFE.com here.

Tomorrow would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday (he was born July 14, 1912) and in tribute to an utterly singular American life, LIFE.com presents photographs from 1943 — none of which appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine — chronicling the guitar-strumming Oklahoma native’s rambles through wartime New York City.

See the photos on LIFE.com here.

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