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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, Lead, Lawrence County, SD

Northern Mfg. Co., detail of an automobile wheel

[No[r]thern Mfg. Co., detail of an automobile wheel]

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

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Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Southern Palestine. Nebi Rubin (The Prophet Reuben). Pilgrims en route to Nebi Rubin. Six women and children with camp equipment on one camel

Making the sparks fly. The welding machine glows brightly as a worker in an eastern arsenal attacks a fabricated structure for the 90 mm gun anti-aircraft carriage

City Point, Virginia (vicinity). Four-mule army team and wagon

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Comparator

Tire retreading. Huge stacks of tires like this, awaiting recapping, are not extraordinary these days as motorists rush to make their tires stand up as long as possible

Two of Dutton ("Dut") Calleb's children watering the mule. Southern Appalachian Project near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By using a polarized light apparatus to take pictures of plastic models of turbine nuts and bolts, Dr. Hetenyi, Hungarian-born research engineer at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, has discovered how to make this fastening device up to forty per cent stronger. He found that nuts and bolts with broad shoulders and tapered bodies distribute stress on threads more evenly than do ordinary nuts and bolts

Wheelwrightscartwheels; Dale "T-Bone" Thibault and Harvey Howes

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

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safety film negatives production wagon wheels wagon wheels revival art wheelwright southern plant southern wagon plant machine bolts rim tire 1940s 40s united states history 1940 s library of congress