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Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one operation at a large eastern arsenal working full speed for total war

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Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one operation at a large eastern arsenal working full speed for total war

Skilled machine operator. A finishing cut on a turbine wheel in an eastern Navy arsenal where production has been stepped up to top speed to meet war needs

Skilled machine operator. A finishing cut on a turbine wheel in an eastern Navy arsenal where production has been stepped up to top speed to meet war needs

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Smoothing a gun cylinder. A skilled worker in an eastern Navy yard arsenal guiding the machine which is turning a major caliber gun. He is one of thousands who are producing ammunition for the expanded Navy war program

Smoothing a gun cylinder. A skilled worker in an eastern Navy yard arsenal guiding the machine which is turning a major caliber gun. He is one of thousands who are producing ammunition for the expanded Navy war program

Expert machinist on armaments. Boring and facing a setter fuze in one operation at a large eastern arsenal working full speed for total war

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

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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 37, frame 76.

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pennsylvania philadelphia county philadelphia safety film negatives lot 2017 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo expert machinist setter fuze one operation office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history workers library of congress
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01/01/1942
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A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Travelling crane, Cramp's ship yard, Philadelphia

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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Welch, Philadelphia., 1924 - Public domain portrait photograph

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Oil tank installation. Vultee workers are shown installing an oil tank behind the engine firewall on the sub-assembly engine mounting. This Wright "double cyclone" engine powers the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

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

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

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pennsylvania philadelphia county philadelphia safety film negatives lot 2017 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo expert machinist setter fuze one operation office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history workers library of congress