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50th Congress Kentucky delegates Brady & Handy Photo Wash D.C

A black and white photo of a woman in overalls. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this employee of a small Eastern plant finds a touch of similarity between levers of the old job and the new. But he's one of America's war production workers now, due to the company's subcontract for war production. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this employee of a small Eastern plant finds a touch of similarity between levers of the old job and the new. But he's one of America's war production workers now, due to the company's subcontract for war production. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy ship, but he's hitting at the Axis just the same. Formerly a Work Projects Administration timekeeper (WPA), this employee of a small Eastern manufacturing firm is now producing small parts for America's war machine, due to the company's subcontract for defense work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. A modern Molly Pitcher of the machine, this secretary-treasurer of a small Eastern manufacturing company knows as much about drills and lathes as the oldest employee around the place. And it was in part through her foresight and initiative that this floor waxer plant was converted to war production. She's shown here with a youthful worker who is operating one of the recently converted machines. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These twenty-year-old lathes are producing equipment for Uncle Sam's armed forces twenty-two hours a day. Alive to the possibilities of converting old equipment to defense usage, the owner of this small Eastern factory bought and remodelled old equipment which is proving its mettle in 1942. Note overhead power-driven machinery. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These twenty-year-old lathes are producing equipment for Uncle Sam's armed forces twenty-two hours a day. Alive to the possibilities of converting old equipment to defense usage, the owner of this small Eastern factory bought and remodelled old equipment which is proving its mettle in 1942. Note overhead power-driven machinery. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These bench operators of a small Eastern floor-waxing equipment company are working on defense production, all but the worker at left. He's completing assembly of one of the few waxing machines left in the factory. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man for looms, but he's one of Uncle Sam's defense workers now. Employed by a small Eastern floor waxer manufacturing firm, this worker now spends ninty-nine percent of his time working on small parts for gun mounts. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy ship, but he's hitting at the Axis just the same. Formerly a Work Projects Administration timekeeper (WPA), this employee of a small Eastern manufacturing firm is now producing small parts for America's war machine, due to the company's subcontract for defense work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man for looms, but he's one of Uncle Sam's defense workers now. Employed by a small Eastern floor waxer manufacturing firm, this worker now spends ninty-nine percent of his time working on small parts for gun mounts. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this employee of a small Eastern plant finds a touch of similarity between levers of the old job and the new. But he's one of America's war production workers now, due to the company's subcontract for war production. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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York (Pa.) ,  39.96250, -76.72778
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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Nashville, Tennessee. Drop hammer operator stamping out parts for Vultee bombers

Marconi operator aboard ship "Deutschland", at his instruments

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Tommy Bracken, head of this department, has been with paper fifty-one years, is the oldest employee

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at NYA (National Youth Administration) school

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Caterpillar tractor operator

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Normally used in manufacture of floor waxers, as shown here, this five-spindle drill press is now used full-time on defense orders for which this small Eastern plant is under subcontract. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company earning thirty-nine dollars a week, taking readings from dials and thermometers

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. These workers are transferring the templates designs, or patterns, to steel, to be used in ships under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

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