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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Stud bolts are installed on power cases for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors in a large Eastern plant. This plant is now making great numbers of the finest kind of airplane engines for the plane of our growing air force. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Air conditioning machines

Anchor (Stangl) Pottery Company, 940 New York Avenue, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ

Three workers with large machine.

Selma Cotton Mill, 218 Morgan Avenue, Selma, Dallas County, AL

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. 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 330.

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connecticut hartford county east hartford nitrate negatives lot 2012 andreas feininger united states office of war information photo pratt whitney airplane engines whitney airplane motors airplane engines whitney aircraft ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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connecticut
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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label_outline Explore Whitney Airplane Motors, Airplane Engines, Whitney Aircraft

A special drill press cuts a great number of holes simultaneously in casings for engines at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. East Hartford, Connecticut

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitney airplane motor running on a test stand at a large Eastern plant. Before being shipped to one or another of our aircraft factories, the engine must demonstrate its ability to meet rigid Air Force requirements. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

At one of the final assembly stages in the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut

Congestion outside Pratt and Whitney United aircraft plant at afternoon change of shift. East Hartford, Connecticut

Two men working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men walking down a sidewalk, possibly related to: Workers entering plant at afternoon change of shift. Pratt and Whitney plant, United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]

Production. Copper (refining). Pouring copper ingots at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for automobiles

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connecticut hartford county east hartford nitrate negatives lot 2012 andreas feininger united states office of war information photo pratt whitney airplane engines whitney airplane motors airplane engines whitney aircraft ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress