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Farmer going into dinner, Lisbon, near Franconia, New Hampshire

Farmer going into dinner, Lisbon, near Franconia, New Hampshire

Men working on office building of replacement cantonment of coast artillery. San Diego, California

Orphan asylum for Flemish children at St. Ouen, Rue Saint-Denis 43, partly destroyed by nearby explosion. A.R.C. must move these children

The house that Fritz built. German prisoners constructing students' barracks at Belgrade, Serbia under American direction. In order to aid the University of Serbia to open this Fall, the American Red Cross built a camp where students could live and aided the College to obtain the necessary equipment. The University had been closed down for four years and without this American Assistance, could not have resumed its work until 1920

Flood - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Flood] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Students at work on a house built largely by them

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Richard S. Neff (standing in doorway) U.S. Housing Authority Inspector, who with his crew of five men, sees that defense homes meet up with the standards established by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Division of Defense Housing Co-ordination

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Progress reports at the Franklin Terrace defense housing project. Shown here are some of the 300 homes in various stages of completion. Road beds are being graded to serve the completed homes at the right, which are ready for the arrival of their defense worker tenants

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. One part of the crew sheets the flooring as the walls are going up. The progress of the work is checked frequently against the working blueprints

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a drill operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Homes built for defense workers built during the First World War. These homes, located a few blocks from the new ones now being completed, were sold to private concerns after the war. They are still in excellent repair

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. J.P. Kane, defense housing project manager at the Franklin Terrace project, explains the forced-air heating system of a defense home to B.J. Rogan, worker in the General Electric plant at Erie, Pennsylvania

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This worker on defense homes in Erie, Pennsylvania is a school teacher during the winter months. During the summer of 1941 he worked on the Franklin Terrace housing project as a laborer

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second floor nears completion. Buildings of the plant where are employed many of the defense workers who will move into these homes, can be seen in the background

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The Franklin Terrace defense housing project at Erie, Pennsylvania is completed with spacious, wide-paved streets. Because of its size (300 homes are being constructed) the most modern road building machinery was used throughout. Here a street is carefully graded to receive the filling and paving materials

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Richard S. Neff (standing in doorway) U.S. Housing Authority Inspector, who with his crew of five men, sees that defense homes meet up with the standards established by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Division of Defense Housing Co-ordination

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 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 30, frame 139.

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Working on reconditioned gas masks for civilian defense use at the gas mask factory

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal from the Pennsylvania Railroad docks into a lake freighter. In the distance, a boat that has just been loaded is leaving port

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

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

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steele Corp., Brackenridge, Pa

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pennsylvania erie county erie safety film negatives lot 1911 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo defense defense homes authority inspector five men emergency management office of war information farm security administration united states history great depression library of congress