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Skiving leather in saddle shop. Alpine, Texas

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Norwegian-born Edward Groe has been employed by a Chicago piano factory since 1909, regulating keys of electric organs. With the plant's conversion to the production of trainer-plane motors, this master mechanic has discarded instruments of peace, such as this electric organ, for weapons of war. He now regulates pneumatic motors of trainer planes which are used for instruction of America's flying forces. Gulbransen Company

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what he can to shoot up the Axis - not with a gun but with the radial drill on which he makes parts for medium tanks. One of many hundreds of loyal, foreign-born Americans who work in this large Midwest tank plant, Sackwar is proud of his role in the war. "Maybe I'm too old to fight," he says, "but I'm giving our soldiers something to fight with." Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

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 machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching body parts to a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

New York, New York. Italian-American cabinet maker

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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 machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Ineligible for the army because of physical handicaps, James C. Schneider (left) and John D. Arrowood are two of Uncle Sam's ablest soldiers of production. They are inspectors of airplane motor parts in a Baltimore factory. Twenty-year-old Schneider has not let infantile paralysis interfere with war work, nor has twenty-four-year-old Arrowood allowed his polio-disabled leg and curvature of the spine to prevent his making a valuable contribution to the war effort. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. A victim of infantile paralysis, Robert H. Drake, twenty-six, does a job any man would be proud of. He's an expert drill press operator in a Baltimore factory which makes airplane motor parts. Despite restricted use of both legs and his right arm, Robert maintains high production standards both for speed and quality of work. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by infantile paralysis, pretty Mary Elizabeth Conway, twenty-one, does a war job for Uncle Sam, and loves it. She's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on a contract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

A man sitting on a stool in front of a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive paralysis, is still able to do a good job for Uncle Sam. With twenty-five-year-old Henriette Furley, she's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, where this work is done under subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. Henriette is badly crippled by arthritis and must work standing because of the arthritic condition from which she suffers. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, is one of Uncle Sam's disabled war workers. With both legs afflicted by infantile paralysis, he's nevertheless an expert lathe operator and assistant foreman in a Baltimore factory. He's shown here turning the inside radius of spacers, which are part of an airplane motor's supercharger. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

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Nashville, Tennessee. Drop hammer operator stamping out parts for Vultee bombers

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Information Photograph

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

James G. Blunt to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, June 09, 1863 (Hanging of two “Red Legs” in Kansas)

Scene in a shop where high school boys help the workers after school hours to relieve the manpower shortage

Milk truckers do not! pick up milk at farms where there are cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, spinal meningitis, smallpox, typhoid Report all cases on your route to .... Food and Drug Administration [sic].

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Caterpillar tractor operator

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at Wake and Midway Halls, latest addition to the housing for war workers in Washington, D.C. The new buildings will house 1,000 Negro women war workers and is being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A keen eye and a steady hand guide Olie R. Cawethon in hobbing gears for ships of the United Nations. Cawethon, a former diesel engineer, answered the Navy's call for skilled workers, and is today operating a milling machine in a Southern Navy yard

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg at work in the Johansson Gage Division of the Ford Motor Company where he is foreman of the rough stock department at the Gage plant

War workers. Social activities. A sailor enjoys table tennis at the USO (United Service Organization) center in Washington, D.C.

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maryland baltimore nitrate negatives baltimore md manpower workers joseph witte joseph witte twenty eight twenty eight years uncle sam uncle sam war war workers legs both legs paralysis expert lathe operator expert lathe operator assistant foreman assistant foreman factory baltimore factory radius spacers part airplane motor airplane motor supercharger white company farm security administration 1940 s history of baltimore maryland united states history library of congress