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Aluminum casting. This husky worker in a large Midwest aluminum foundry is assembling the cope on the drag of a snap flask. The product may be hard to recognize, but it's due to land in a machine of one kind or another, air or land--but one that's destined to scared the wits out of the Axis. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Sturdy workers in an aluminum plant pictured as they tap a 450-pound tilting-type crucible furnace to pour the molten into smaller gats from which further pourings are made. The finished product will be sent to a converted automobile factory or to an Eastern manufacturer of bomb sights. Specific destination for the aluminum parts is secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Sturdy workers in an aluminum plant pictured as they tap a 450-pound tilting-type crucible furnace to pour the molten into smaller gats from which further pourings are made. The finished product will be sent to a converted automobile factory or to an Eastern manufacturer of bomb sights. Specific destination for the aluminum parts is secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. A husky Negro workman taps a 2,000-pound rotary furnace from which aluminum pours into carrying pot. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. It takes skill and dexterity to perform this operation. A worker in an aluminum foundry puddling and skimming a 450-pound crucible tilting furnace. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. It takes skill and dexterity to perform this operation. A worker in an aluminum foundry puddling and skimming a 450-pound crucible tilting furnace. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Application of parting compound to unfinished mold, another step in the making of valuable aluminum parts for America's armed forces. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret--but they'll probably end up as jeeps or airplane engine parts. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four inches tall, looks small indeed as he uses air pressure to clean the lid of the world's largest vulcanizing unit at a large Eastern tire plant. The top section of this mold, now being prepared to vulcanize a large bullet-sealing gasoline tank, weighs sixteen tons and can also be used to vulcanize tires ten feet in diameter

Aluminum casting. A husky Negro workman taps a 2,000-pound rotary furnace from which aluminum pours into carrying pot. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. This husky worker in a large Midwest aluminum foundry is assembling the cope on the drag of a snap flask. The product may be hard to recognize, but it's due to land in a machine of one kind or another, air or land--but one that's destined to scared the wits out of the Axis. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Cincinnati (Ohio) ,  39.16194, -84.45694
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label_outline Explore One Kind, Flask, Midwest Aluminum Foundry

Ryno. Libretto. Swedish Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Ryno. Libretto. Swedish Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Ryno. Libretto. Swedish Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

In North American's foundry, kirksite is poured into a mould

Aluminum casting. Shelf after shelf of aluminum castings on their way to the heat treating oven for low temperature precipitation treatment. These castings are for aluminum piston heads. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Ryno. Libretto. Swedish Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Hauling in the trawl aboard a Portuguese drag boat off Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Mr. Giles, research director, with apparatus for determining the amount of pure aluminum in various oxides produced during the process of producing aluminum pigs

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Aluminum cowl sections for B-17F heavy bombers are checked and inspected in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Provincetown, Massachusetts. Aboard the Frances and Marion, a Portuguese drag trawler off Cape Cod. Winchman slacking off the trawl

Provincetown, Massachusetts. Aboard the Frances and Marion, a Portuguese drag trawler, fishing off Cape Cod. All hands hauling in the trawl

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ohio hamilton county cincinnati safety film negatives cincinnati ohio aluminum worker midwest foundry midwest aluminum foundry cope drag snap flask snap flask product land machine kind one kind air wits axis industries inc aluminum industries inc united states history library of congress