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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. A product of the government's extensive training program for American youth, this Negro machinist daily performs important operations in the ship-building program of a large navy yard on the East Coast

Steel worker's wife ironing clothes. Midland, Pennsylvania

Aluminum casting. A new development in the production of war materials involves use of magnesium. Here a young worker in a large Midwest foundry takes temperature readings of molten magnesium alloy through the protective crust. At the same time he is sprinkling flux to prevent burning at the hole in the crust after removal of the thermocouple. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Rags. Collection and processing. A roll of roofing felt being sealed at a Maryland plant. Rags and waste paper are used extensively in the manufacture of this material. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Men shoveling red fish at night

A couple of men standing on top of a wooden dock, possibly related to: Chopping ice before shaving it to be used in icing shrimp boat, Morgan City, Louisiana

Wooden peg used in corn shucking. Fred Wilkins farm. Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina

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

Production. Submarines. Mounting submarines on scaffoldings facilitates assembly. Here a worker rivets parts of the hull together

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. A product of the government's extensive training program for American youth, this Negro machinist daily performs important operations in the ship-building program of a large navy yard on the East Coast

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. This Negro boring mill operator performs an important function in the record-breaking production program of a large Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. This Negro boring mill operator performs an important function in the record-breaking production program of a large Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. This navy yard machinist is one of the many skilled Negro workers now speeding ship construction in a large Eastern yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. American manpower builds America's fighting ships. This giant propeller, which will grace an American fighting ship, is receiving a pneumatic chipping operation from a Negro worker in a large navy yard on the East Coast

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, from the white and the Negro come the skills which will make America impregnable. A veteran employee in an Eastern navy yard instructs an apprentice machinist in the operation of an important machine

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. American manpower builds America's fighting ships. This giant propeller, which will grace an American fighting ship, is receiving a pneumatic chipping operation from a Negro worker in a large navy yard on the East Coast

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Anna C. Marchand is one of the hundreds of young Negro women who have been given jobs in war production plants in recent months. She is shown undersizing bushing in the aircraft factory of a large Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. A product of the government's extensive training program for American youth, this Negro machinist daily performs important operations in the ship-building program of a large navy yard on the East Coast

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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

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

[Unidentified young soldier in Union uniform with revolver and knife in belt standing with a cigar in his mouth]

Gas rationing booklet. This is the inside of the front cover and the first page of the new "A" gasoline coupon book, which motorists in the East Coast rationed area will need to obtain their basic rations of gasoline when the coupon plan goes into effect in July. Instructions appearing inside the front cover warn holders against tearing out the coupons and presenting them loose at a service station. The six coupons on the first page are marked "A-1," which means they may be used at any time during the first two months after the plan goes into effect. Coupons on the following pages are numbered "A-2," "A-3," etc., and will be good during the respective two-month periods. The book rations gasoline for the period of one year

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. CAPS., TORPEDO SHOP

Martenet's map of Kent County, Maryland ; shore lines and soundings from U.S. Coast Survey, roads and inland from actual surveys by C.H. Baker, county surveyor, under the direction, and drawn, and published by Simon J. Martenet.

Los Angeles County, California. Japanese farmer packing up his tools before he is evacuated from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. New skills are developed in a Southern Navy plant where experienced workers train young men for technical work. These boys are learning to make ship parts for U.S. Navy vessels

Fighting Filipino pilot. Manila. Captain Jesus Villamor, commanding officer of the 6th Pursuit Squadron, Philippine Army Air Corps, is pictured getting out of plane after returning from a flight to Batangas Field. The youth, who leads a daredevil squadron of six Filipino pilots in erstwhile training planes who took on fifty-four Japanese air raiders over Batangas and shot down two, said he "got so mad" he forgot to be scared. One of the Filipino pilots was wounded and parachuted to safety and another was killed, Captain Villamor said, when seven Japanese planes "rode him down." He is the son of the late associate justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and trained as a pilot at Randolph and Kelly Fields

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. America draws its manpower from all citizens alike. This navy yard machinist is one of the many skilled Negro workers now speeding ship construction in a large Eastern yard

U.S. Frigate Constitution, Commodore's Quarters, U.S. Navy Yard, Charlestown, Suffolk County, MA

Small part for a big gun. Drop forging a part for one of the smaller guns being turned out in an eastern Navy yard. This is part of the war program calling for the completion of hundreds of new warships

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safety film negatives manpower negro yard workers negro navy yard workers america citizens product government program youth american youth machinist negro machinist operations navy yard coast images black history month black history month 1940s 40s us navy race relations united states history african americans 1940 s library of congress