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Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." Workers of many racial groups participated in the construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington," named for the great Negro educator. Edward Char, Chinese welder, is shown fabricating the double bottom for the ship at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yards

Michigan photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Grader operator at the Hightstown, New Jersey, project

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A worker at the Fourteenth Street coal dock of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Worker in the roasting furnace division

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Shot blasting the inside of a shell

Tying the lantern onto the back of improvised truck which will travel to California near Muskogee, Oklahoma

A black and white photo of a man sitting on the back of a truck Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

Jewett City, Connecticut (vicinity). Estonian farmer enlarging poultry house. He has a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan

A black and white photo of a man with a hammer. Office of War Information Photograph

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Summary

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 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 33, frame 414.

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01/01/1942
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united states
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Ramp Boat, Boat Yard, Fifty Foot Steel Ramp Boats

Capt. F.L. Chapin, George Grantham Bain Collection

Cowhand scraping mud off his boots. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Montana

R.P. Hobson & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Oswego, New York. Willard DiSantis, sixteen-year old high school boy who made seventy-six model planes for the U.S. Navy, and was awarded the honarary rank of admiral

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

A black and white photo of a man carrying a barrel. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details for open naval sights are inspected in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out tank gun mount housings and plane wing equipment

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information archive

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