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Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied France, Mrs. Delia Raymond makes careful inspection of flare parachutes which she hopes will help free her relatives. Of her work she says, "I like it. It's something so vital--it means so much and is so interesting. The country needs these parachutes, and I'm proud to be able to help make them. We keep hoping all the world will be free someday." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. German-born Reinhard Lehman left his family in charge of his farm so that he could make these parachute harnesses in an Eastern plant. One of his sons is in the Marines, a nephew is in the Army. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department store lingerie counter is actually pilot chutes lined up for inspection at an Eastern parachute factory. A pilot chute is hooked up to every parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied France, Mrs. Delia Raymond makes careful inspection of flare parachutes which she hopes will help free her relatives. Of her work she says, "I like it. It's something so vital--it means so much and is so interesting. The country needs these parachutes, and I'm proud to be able to help make them. We keep hoping all the world will be free someday." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1942
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Rittase, William M., 1894-1968, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manemeit, have turned their skill from peacetime production of toy trains to the assembly of parachute flare casings for the armies of democracy. Along with other workers in this Eastern plant, they have turned their skill to the vital needs of the day, and in many cases have seen to it that the machinery they used to use does Uncle Sam's most important work today. Here, they are assembling parachute flare casings, using the same electric screwdrivers they formerly used to assemble the locomotives of toy trains. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

ASHDOWN, RAYMOND, MRS. - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Laying out finished prints for inspection

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. The main saw cutting rough boards from the logs is operated by Raymond Lathrop, sawyer, assisted by Raymond De Greenia, roller. Mr. De Greenia's wife, Dorothy, and also his brother and sister-in-law work here

Lunch hour at the Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California

A couple of people riding horses down a dirt road. Kentucky during Great Depression.

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Inspection & Repair Shops, 2900 Main Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

Relatives and friends of the family of the deceased going home from a memorial meeting in the mountains near Jackson, Kentucky. See general caption no. 1

A black and white photo of a woman walking down a dirt road. Kentucky during Great Depression.

Pioneer Mill Company, Upper Lahaina Pump Ditch & Makila Reservoir Ditch, Land of Launiupoko, Lahaina, Maui County, HI

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connecticut hartford county manchester safety film negatives production parachute aunts two aunts uncle france delia raymond delia raymond inspection flare flare parachutes relatives work country world pioneer company pioneer parachute company female portrait woman photograph history library of congress