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V-mail. Paper reproduction for V-mail microfilm are inspected and then cut into individual letters by the "chopper" at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes

Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work later. Girls are 12 and 14 years old and go to school working in the morning before school and at night after studying is finished. Mother said, "It is better for children to learn something useful to do." The three average one dozen brushes a day. (30 cents.) One of the girls said she would rather work then i.e., than? study. Shultz family, 476 Third Ave., Brooklyn. February 5, 1912. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the second inner court. Group just finishing week's work. Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State) Photo 4 P.M. February 21?, 1908. By Lewis W Hine

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the second inner court. Group just finishing week's work. Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State) / Photo 4 P.M. February 21[?], 1908. By Lewis W Hine.

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A black and white photo of a family sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a family sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

An old black and white photo of a street. Great Depression and Dust Bowl.

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

A black and white photo of a family sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 0, frame 0.

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01/01/1942
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Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Falls Village, Litchfield County, Connecticut

A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Company, 800 Twenty-eighth Street, North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Torrington Country Club golf course, Torrington, Connecticut

Victory food from American waters. Tomorrow's fishermen--young Gloucester boys push wagons of rosefish from the unloading pier to the processing plant where the fish are filleted and frozen. Many of the boys will follow their forefathers and fishermen in New England waters

Torrington Armory, West of intersection of U.S. Routes 85 & 26, Torrington, Goshen County, WY

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Bulldozer grading the grounds of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C

Bellmawr Homes, Camden, New Jersey. Long shot on axis

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Young and old, everybody is Victory Gardening this spring, and there'll soon be hardly a backyard that's not under cultivation. Prior to planting, this gardener is raking the soil to pulverize and prepare it for seed

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connecticut litchfield county bantam nitrate negatives howard r hollem united states office of war information photo torrington homes heath room war workers ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration industrial facilities machine shops united states history library of congress