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Laundry wagon calling at trailer in FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania. There are no stores or shops in the neighborhood. Groceries, milk, etc., are brought in by truck. General Electric plant in background

Andrews County, Texas. Bringing pipelines to new oil line

A black and white photo of a bunch of pipes. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Twenty Mule Team Borax Wagons, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

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Laundry wagon calling at trailer in FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania. There are no stores or shops in the neighborhood. Groceries, milk, etc., are brought in by truck. General Electric plant in background

Grocery truck making delivery to trailer. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania. There are no stores or shops within walking distance of the camp

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

Wife and child of worker at General Electric plant in trailer home at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Women washing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Wife and child of worker at General Electric plant in trailer home at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. All trailers rent for seven dollars per week--rental fee includes electricity and water and use of laundry and all sanitary facilities. There is a fee of ten cents for twenty minutes usage of electrical washing machines. San Diego, California

Milk delivery at trailer in FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. Erie, Pennsylvania

Laundry wagon calling at trailer in FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania. There are no stores or shops in the neighborhood. Groceries, milk, etc., are brought in by truck. General Electric plant in background

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Summary

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

Temp. note: usf34batch7

Film copy on SIS roll 9, frame 2199.

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pennsylvania erie county erie safety film negatives lot 1355 john vachon photo farm security administration general electric plant laundry wagon office of war information united states history truck library of congress
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01/01/1941
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erie
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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

label_outline Explore Lot 1355, General Electric Plant, Erie

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

GETTYSBURG REUNION - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A group of men standing next to a truck in a field, possibly related to: Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

Loading the roundup truck. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Montana

An old black and white photo of a man laying on the ground next to a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

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

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Tonawanda, Erie County, New York

A black and white photo of a row of houses, Tourist cabin near Antigo, Wisconsin

Company houses near slagheap. Riddlesburg, Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of a woman leaning against a wall, possibly related to: Rehabilitation client coming back from town with fertilizer, Guilford County, North Carolina

Houses on the outskirts of Martin, South Dakota

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pennsylvania erie county erie safety film negatives lot 1355 john vachon photo farm security administration general electric plant laundry wagon office of war information united states history truck library of congress