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Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, for Fern Evans's husband was one of America's fighting men who died in action on December 7 aboard the USS West Virginia. Mrs. Evans has been employed at a huge West Coast aircraft plant since February and is supporting herself and twenty-month-old son. She's shown here working on a radio bracket for a bomber

All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. Some of these appear to be as young. Location: Rome, Georgia.

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Harvey Duke, an able machinist who hadn't worked for several years until he came to the Animal Trap Company last year, is almost seventy, and an example of the hiring of older men since the war began. He helped a great deal in converting the factory and built many of the end-grinding machines himself

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negro workers employed in the aircraft factory of a larger Eastern navy yard, contributes to the happy landings of our air warriors. Walker is shown working on olios, a part of the landing gear of fighting craft

Woman weaving. Cumberland Homesteads. Crossville, Tennessee

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Attaching trouser buttons with automatic button-fastening machine

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Stitching flyfront to trouser leg

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Stitching flyfront to trouser leg

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Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels and axles for the railroads. The company never employed women until recently

Buffalo, New York. Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. The company never hired women until recently and most of these women are still learning to use the machines

Buffalo, New York. Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. The company never hired women until recently and most of these women are still learning to use the machines

Buffalo, New York. Woman learning to operate an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Woman learning to operate an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finishes part of the locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman grinding the end of a locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels and axles for the railroads. The company never employed women until recently

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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new york erie county buffalo safety film negatives north buffalo junction woman axle lathe axle lathe car wheel company new york car wheel company makers wheels railroads women 1940 s women 1940 s 40 s united states history workers library of congress
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01/01/1943
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Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer
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North Buffalo Junction ,  42.94394, -78.89221
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged (56 tons), World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Captain of tugboat at the wheel, lower Mississippi River

The Timken-Detroit Axle Co., Detroit, Mich.

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. Woman operator of a five ton crane picking up rough castings of truck train for railroads. She operated this same crane in the last war; in between was a housewife

Harness makers store on the main street in Colchester, Connecticut

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Cutting sheeting to size with power driven hand saws speed up the work of the sheeting crew

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Cutting of logs on lathe into strips

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This carpenter said he considered the defense homes built in Erie, Pennsylvania, to be the best examples of efficient workmanship and sound lasting construction that he had yet seen

Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Caruso brand products. Feeding spaghetti, still moist, into a trimming machine

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new york erie county buffalo safety film negatives north buffalo junction woman axle lathe axle lathe car wheel company new york car wheel company makers wheels railroads women 1940 s women 1940 s 40 s united states history workers library of congress