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A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of metal. Office of War Information Photograph

Loading saggers to take ware on tunnel kiln hearth. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. One of the machines used in converting scrap rubber into reclaim stock in a large Midwest plant which utilizes old tires in making sheet rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. One of the machines used in converting scrap rubber into reclaim stock in a large Midwest plant which utilizes old tires in making sheet rubber. Firestone

Production. M-4 tanks. Better striking power and better protection for our soldiers are provided by the mighty M-4 tank. A machine operation on a tank turret is performed in an Eastern plant

Conversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel disc covers with his universal milling machine. These disc covers were part of the cube steak machines which are the normal products of the New England plant where he is employed. Today, however, Morris uses the same machine, tooled over for war subcontract work, for the cutting of large hexagonal nuts for a government arsenal. For cube steak machinery there was only one milling wheel, instead of the two shown above. "Hexing a nut" is a very simple job with a machine designed to shape the nut in a single operation, but such a machine is not available and time is short. Morris, therefore, shifts the round steel stock three times, cutting two sides at a time. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

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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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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

Lobdell Car Wheel Company, Christina Avenue, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Machining the rotating band on the shell

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

Palestine disturbances 1936. Disabled locomotive near Ras el-Ain. Loose rail buckelled [i.e., buckled] into S shape by force of weighty engine

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

Champion Jack Johnson at wheel of his 90 horse power Thomas Flyer

Captain of tugboat at the wheel, lower Mississippi River

In this group are some of the youngest workers in Spinning Room of Cornell Mill. The smallest is Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion St. Other small ones are: John Sousa, 84 Boutwell St., Anthony Valentin, 203 Pitman St. Manuel Perry, 124 Everett St. John Travaresm [or Taveresm?], 90 Cash St. The difficulty they had in writing their names was pathetic. When I asked the second hand in charge of the room to let the boys go outside a moment and let me get a snap-shot he objected, saying they would stay out and not be in shape to work. When they carry dinners, they breathe the close air of the spinning room from 7 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. with no let-up. Cornell Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Production. Minesweepers. The frame of a new minesweeper takes shape in an Eastern shipyard. Two complete vessels of the same type ride in the water, awaiting final fitting before putting to sea. Gibbs Cass Company

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

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

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massachusetts suffolk county boston safety film negatives conversion food machinery plant food machinery plant john morris steel disc steel disc machine part cube steak cube steak machines products new new england plant war work nuts government cube steak machinery wheel job shape operation shifts round stock round steel stock three times sides two sides company cube steak machine company new england 1940 s 40 s stockphoto united states history workers library of congress