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Frame Grist Mill, Route 30, Ringoes, Hunterdon County, NJ

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Valuable fats from waste household greases are recovered by a pressure process in an expeller at a rendering plant. These fats drain into a settling tank and are later drawn off into tallow storage tanks, from where they are conveyed to a soap plant for the making of soap and glycerin

Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man checking printed material and working on printing press II

Northwestern Consolidated Elevator "A", 119 Fifth Avenue South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

A black and white photo of a group of men, Anthracite rallies in Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Valuable fats from waste household greases are recovered by a pressure process in an expeller at a rendering plant. These fats drain into a settling tank and are later drawn off into tallow storage tanks, from where they are conveyed to a soap plant for the making of soap and glycerin

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safety film negatives conversion household fats household fats valuable valuable fats waste greases waste household greases pressure process pressure process expeller plant drain fats drain tank tallow storage tallow storage tanks soap soap plant glycerin united states history industrial history library of congress
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01/01/1943
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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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

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Bent Furniture Factory in Holon Settlement. Process of bending wood after steaming

Studying why fruits taste that way. E.K. Nelson of the Department of Agriculture is shown making tests with an apparatus which the Department imported from Germany for the purpose of studying the essential oils or "flavor-giving" content of fruits and vegetables. At present chemists are acquainted with the essential oils of only a few fruits, such as some of the citrus group. The apparatus is a vacuum distill which permits the distillation of liquids at temperatures much lower than usual by reducing the pressure, 1/10/31

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Covered Bridge, Spanning Soap Creek, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Conversation with 38 year old male and 34 year old female, Pennsylvania (Transcript)

Barrels of perique tobacco during process of aging. Perique tobacco is raised in one parish in Louisiana, and this is the only place in the world where this tobacco is raised. Saint James Parish, Louisiana

A black and white photo of a woman pouring something into a pot. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

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

Solvay Process Company, SA Wetside Building, Between Willis & Milton Avenue, Solvay, Onondaga County, NY

Arab factories & general improvements in Nablus. The Soap Factory. The boiling pot liquid soap being carried to stock room

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safety film negatives conversion household fats household fats valuable valuable fats waste greases waste household greases pressure process pressure process expeller plant drain fats drain tank tallow storage tallow storage tanks soap soap plant glycerin united states history industrial history library of congress