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Unloading equipment from the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camps at the permanent camp at Caldwell, Idaho

A black and white photo of a train on a track. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a country road. Great Depression and World War Two FSA/OWI Photograph

Old train cars, including a "dome car" observation coach, part of the collection of the Colorado Railroad Museum in Alamosa, Colorado

A black and white photo of a train yard. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

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One of the divisions participating in Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana drawing its supply of gasoline from the provisional gas depot

One of the divisions participating in Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana drawing its supply of gasoline from the provisional gas depot

Feed is the fuel that keeps Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army troops working day and night during the maneuvers in Louisiana. A "spot check" is made for the number of rations each organization is to receive, and food for several organizations has been broken down to unit lots and is receiving a final check before being loaded into the yawning trucks

Charlottesville, Virginia. A Baltimore to Burlington truck filling up with gas. This truck has two fifty-gallon tanks and averages about five miles to the gallon

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Every one of the 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit must know his job perfectly in order that there is no time lost as these twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks move on down the assembly line. These men are completing the final assembly of the rear hull plates

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldiers in the gas chamber filled with tear gas which emanates from cans on the floor in the corner

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Commander of a Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Commander of a Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. An M-3 tank, a 75mm cannon and a determined "tanker" at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Fort Knox school for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the enemy on our far-flung battle lines and on more than equal terms

Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army, on maneuvers in Louisiana, needs plenty of gas during this training period. These gasoline-supply men are filling five-gallon cans directly from the tank cars, later to be dropped off at various field depots

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01/01/1942
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Louisiana Fendel ,  6.43500, -10.70444
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. 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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Tank car and storage tanks at the Phillips gasoline plant

Calendar of religious ceremonies in Jer. [i.e., Jerusalem] Easter period, 1941. Processions of several distinct communities around the Rotunda

Heep plenty Hun scalps - Public domain World War One sheet music

Water Tank. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tank cars at the loading rack at the Mid-continental refinery

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. Woman operator of a five ton crane picking up rough castings of truck train for railroads. She operated this same crane in the last war; in between was a housewife

Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, right, commanding general of the U.S. Army ground forces, discussing with an umpire one of the problems being worked out at the recent maneuvers of the Third Army in Louisiana

Residential section, Aberdeen, South Dakota. This is one of the few Dakota towns with plenty of trees. They were brought here when the town was first settled by Easterners

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Tiers (7.00 x 20) to equip semi-trailers of the combination platform stake type. These trailers are used for general trucking around Army Camps and depots

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Preparing starting sheets; the workman is shown stripping the starting sheet of electrolytic copper; this copper has been deposited on a rolled copper blank, which has been lightly greased so as to prevent the deposit from adhering; to this starting sheet, loops will be attached for suspension in refining tank

Day laborer filling five gallon cans with gasoline for use in tractors, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Steel production. Driving hard for iron production. There's plenty of activity in the row of boiler house stacks, in the roaring blast furnaces and the steel trestle that serves them. Republic, Youngstown

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film negatives louisiana fendel lieutenant general walter kreuger lieutenant general walter kreuger army third army maneuvers plenty gas period men cans tank cars tank cars field depots 1940 s 40 s oil tank fuel tank library of congress railway photo archive