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A group of people sitting around a dinner table. Office of War Information Photograph

Bantam, Connecticut. Barbara Bongiolatti is a native of Bantam, one of the twelveColleoni children. She operates a drill press at the Warren McArthur Plant, and usually lunches with a sister and brother who also work at the plant. She lives comfortably in a low-ceilinged three-room attic flat with her husband, who works in a Torrington foundry engaged in defense work. On Sundays she likes to bake pies and do housework

Bantam, Connecticut. Barbara Bongiolatti is a native of Bantam, one of the twelveColleoni children. She operates a drill press at the Warren McArthur Plant, and usually lunches with a sister and brother who also work at the plant. She lives comfortably in a low-ceilinged three-room attic flat with her husband, who works in a Torrington foundry engaged in defense work. On Sundays she likes to bake pies and do housework

Bantam, Connecticut. A bale of kapok a week is the normal consumption of the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. Here Harold Curran is loosening fresh kapok from the bale. The filler machine into whose funnel he drops the kapok blows it into the bag behind him. Curran, whose main outside interest is amatuer theatricals, studied for a year at Manhattan College, then worked for B. Altman and Bloomingdale's, large department stores in New York City. He also traveled for some months for the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

Bantam, Connecticut. Paul Bertaccini is a waiter at Tony Giampaolo's Bantam Inn, favorite local restaurant. In late 1941 he was victor in a county contest, selling enough magazine subscriptions to win himself a new Plymouth car. Here he dawdles at the post office before going up to wait on tables during the lunch hour

A group of men working on machines in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Bantam, Connecticut. The business section of Bantam with the camera facing south along Lafayette Boulevard (Route 25). A few rods to the left is the Warren McArthur plant, while the block of stores visible at the left includes Mitchell's Tavern, the First National Store, a garage and two service stations. Not shown, but lying just this side of Mitchell's restaurant is the birthplace of Horace Bushnell, a discoverer of anaesthesia. Reading from the right are the Espiscopal Church, Tony's Bantam Inn, favorite eating place, Marcel Roy's drugstore, the Bantam grocery store and the firehouse

Bantam, Connecticut. Paul Bertaccini is a waiter at Tony Giampaolo's Bantam Inn, favorite local restaurant. In late 1941 he was victor in a county contest, selling enough magazine subscriptions to win himself a new Plymouth car. Here he dawdles at the post office before going up to wait on tables during the lunch hour

Bantam, Connecticut. Tony's spaghetti is a daily treat to many workers at the Warren McArthur plant, some of whom eat both lunch and dinner at Tony's Bantam Inn. In the corner is Foreman Bundock of the upholstery shop, and sitting with him is a young draftsman who just came to Bantam from a job in New York City, his home. At the table in the foreground are four office workers from the plant. Two of these girls are recent college graduates

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connecticut litchfield county bantam nitrate negatives tony spaghetti workers warren mcarthur plant warren mcarthur plant lunch both lunch dinner inn bantam inn corner foreman bundock foreman bundock upholstery shop upholstery shop draftsman job new york city home table foreground office four office workers girls college graduates farm security administration new york united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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[Portrait of Tony Parenti, Jimmy Ryan's (Club), New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1946]

Meeting and picnic lunch at Pine Mountain settlement school near Harlan, Kentucky

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Sugar cane workers on strike. The loaf of bread each one is holding is their lunch

Detroit, Michigan. Foreman attending a production meeting at the Allison plant

Cowhand Craig Bauer aboard his horse, Spaghetti, at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The family clothesline stretches from the back porch of the Dante home to a corner of the backyard factory. That's the entrance to the shop offices, facing the rear of the house

Farmers in front of lunch shed, country auction, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive lubrication chart in the laboratory of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. The laboratory assistant in foreground is working at a precision balance

Negro eating lunch in cane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Men who work on mechanical hop picking machines have lunch at the company restaurant, Yakima Chief Hop Ranch, Yakima County, Washington

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of lumber. Office of War Information Photograph

Cowhand Craig Bauer, atop his horse, Spaghetti, on the prowl for longhorn heifers and calves on branding day at the 1,800-acre Lonesome Pine Ranch, a working cattle ranch that is part of the Texas Ranch Life ranch resort near Chappell Hill in Austin County, Texas

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connecticut litchfield county bantam nitrate negatives tony spaghetti workers warren mcarthur plant warren mcarthur plant lunch both lunch dinner inn bantam inn corner foreman bundock foreman bundock upholstery shop upholstery shop draftsman job new york city home table foreground office four office workers girls college graduates farm security administration new york united states history library of congress