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Rescue work, Dayton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rescue work, Dayton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rescue work-Dayton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rescue work, Dayton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Glass Works - Day Shift. Location: Indiana.

Rescue work- Dayton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Day Scene in an Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana.

Night Scene, in an Indianapolis Glass Works. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Glass Works - Day Shift. Location: Indiana

Rescue work- Dayton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Photo shows the Great Dayton Flood of March 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

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01/01/1913
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The last American wounded arriving from the front at the Salisbury Hospital, erected by the American Red Cross at Southampton, England. They are unloaded by the boys of the Kentucky unit now on duty at this base hospital

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Repacking and resorting boxes received from America in one of the American Red Cross warehouses in Paris

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

"We have it rich." Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak. Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 16, Wright Field Laboratory, On D Street from Third to Fifth Streets, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Food in Britain. All factories in Britain engaged in munitions or other government work are directed to provide canteens if they employ more than 250 workers. There are thousands of such canteens serving the major industries and other thousands in the smaller factories

Detroit, Michigan. Car parked in the rain on a residential district

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman going home from work at 2 a.m.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building No. 31, Aircraft Assembly Hangar, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Fairmount Waterworks, East bank of Schuylkill River, Aquarium Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Indiana Central Canal, Indianapolis Division, Parallel to West Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

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