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Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

Turlock, California. Checking temperature of drying tunnel in dehydrating plant

Production. Subchasers. Galvanizing nuts and bolts for use on subchasers under construction in a Southern shipyard. This man used to run a printing shop and tourist camp. Now, as a galvanizer and also a welder, he has helped the shipyard earn the coveted Navy "E"

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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 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 shipyard workers. The hammer is still an important tool in ship production. These workers are bending metal fittings on a furnace slab floor, an operation in ship construction at a large Eastern yard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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 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. 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. 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. 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. American manpower draws its skills from all citizens alike. This Negro power drill operator is reaming a hole through which rivets will be driven in the building of warships in an Eastern shipyard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

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Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches).

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

Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 294.

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new jersey hudson county kearny safety film negatives howard liberman united states office for emergency management negro shipyard workers negro power drill operator american manpower eastern shipyard manpower drydock corporation office of war information farm security administration race relations united states history african americans home front wwii world war 2 library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Sugar rationing. Application form which will have to be filled out by every person to whom war ration book no.1 is issued when sugar rationing starts within a few weeks. Applicants will register at public schools on dates to be announced shortly

Sergeant John Fahey Gerrity, former Washington Post reporter, signals to comrades during basic training at the Marine Corps base at Parris Island, South Carolina. Sergeant Gerrity is now serving as a fighting reporter in a combat area for the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Marine Corps

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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Production. Marine boilers. Grinding of welded seams inside the drum of a large marine boiler at a Midwest plant which has converted its facilities to war production

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Feet of a Negro farmer. Greene County, Georgia

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

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

Mitchell Field. The eagle puts foot to earth. An air-crew officer dressed in full combat gear inspects a bomber landing wheel. Part of the retracting mechanism is shown

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new jersey hudson county kearny safety film negatives howard liberman united states office for emergency management negro shipyard workers negro power drill operator american manpower eastern shipyard manpower drydock corporation office of war information farm security administration race relations united states history african americans home front wwii world war 2 library of congress