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Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. The buffing room in the recapping shop. Before being recapped, tires must be buffed. The rasp buffs rubber off. This rubber is afterwards collected for salvage

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

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

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. In the recapping shop, after visual inspection, the tire is put in a tire spreader for thorough inside and outside inspection. Here a soldier is using a probe to remove a nail from the tire

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. After having been repaired, tires which need only spot recapping are cured in these section molds. They remain in these molds under pressure for about one hour and forty-five minutes

A man working on a tire in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. A soldier cementing the inner side wall of a truck tire; he is preparing this tire for sectional repair in the recapping shop

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. All United States Army drivers are warned to take it easy around curves. One of the best ways to shorten the life of tires is to take curves without materially slackening speed

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. In the recapping shop, after having been buffed and coated with cement, the tire gets a capping of camelback. It is first put on by hand and then by the power stitcher, as in this picture

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. These rubber half-track treads cannot be recapped. Extreme care must therefore be taken to remove nails, glass and rocks from the grooves

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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maryland baltimore nitrate negatives baltimore md holabird ordnance depot holabird ordnance depot rubber half track rubber half track extreme care extreme care nails glass rocks grooves farm security administration ww 2 1940 s history of baltimore maryland united states history great depression library of congress car
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01/01/1943
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Rosener, Ann, photographer
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Baltimore (Md.) ,  39.29028, -76.61222
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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A black and white photo of a truck on a snowy road. Office of War Information Photograph

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot, Iowa & Jones Streets, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Men of an air depot group studying the mechanism of one of the turrets of a bomber

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia going through a pass over the snowbound mountain top

L.R. & H.S.W. R.R. [i.e. Little Rock & Hot Springs Western Railroad] Depot, Hot Springs, Ark.

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

A black and white photo of horses pulling a wagon down a dirt road. Office of War Information Photograph

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Passenger Depot, Central Avenue, Dubuque, Dubuque County, IA

Erie Railway, Wellsville Station, Pearl & Depot Streets, Wellsville, Allegany County, NY

Lebango, Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. Monthly wild rubber market at which natives sell what they have gathered to administered or commercial representatives. On this long table made of branches, the natives deposit their rubber while they await their turn at the scales

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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