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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From piano keys to parts for trainer planes. Lorraine Avezzano, pictured at work in a Chicago piano factory prior to its conversion to war production. She uses the same boring machine today to process parts for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Packing three-inch antiaircraft cartridge cases for shipment from the Ohio plant in which they were made to the plants which will load them for the Army

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

A black and white photo of a woman working on a sewing machine. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

It Can't Happen Here (157 Photographs)

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste paper from the trimmed edges of newsprint rolls blows down to the basement to a vat where it is converted back into pulp

Photograph of Gertrude Clarke Whittall, undated

A black and white photo of a woman working on a sewing machine. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

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Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 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 33, frame 65.

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illinois cook county chicago nitrate negatives lot 2011 ann rosener united states office of war information uncle sam trainer planes conversion chicago piano factory piano keys trainer planes ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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chicago
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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

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details for open naval sights are inspected in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out tank gun mount housings and plane wing equipment

A black and white photo of a nurse checking a child's heartbeat. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A skilled jig builder lines up a metal plate prior to cutting it to the correct contour. Employed at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Dorothy Conger, whose husband is in the Army, inspecting 105 mm. howitzers in the Chain Belt Company plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A woman welder working on a part of the exhaust system for a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Conversion. Farm implements to gun parts. A grinding operation is performed on a Bofors gun slide in a converted Midwestern farm implement plant which is also making marine steam cargo winches for the Maritime Commission

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

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Norma K. Jones used to be a high school teacher and now teaches two nights a week. She inspects 105 mm. howitzers at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

A woman sitting on a stool in a kitchen. 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

George McMillian - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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illinois cook county chicago nitrate negatives lot 2011 ann rosener united states office of war information uncle sam trainer planes conversion chicago piano factory piano keys trainer planes ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress