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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's shop, where steel plates are bent to fit the sidings of warcraft under construction. This is an operation requiring a high degree of skill

A couple of men standing on top of a boat [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Summer residents watch the tourist boat arrive from Boston, Provincetown, Massachusetts]

Unloading sugar beets at factory. Brighton, Colorado

A black and white photo of a group of people. FSA/OWI Photograph.

A couple of men working on a pile of fish, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's shop, where steel plates are bent to fit the sidings of warcraft under construction. This is an operation requiring a high degree of skill

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Right through the metal cute this acetylene torch, directed by the skilled hands of one of the thousands of workers in the yard. This plate will be taken by an overhead crane to the building ways, where it will become a part of one of the Navy's new battlecraft

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum department, where this vital defense metal is cut and stamped for use aboard naval warcraft.

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty of this worker in the plate shaping shop. The sledgehammer is still an important tool in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's giant new fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Tedious and exacting is the work of this highly skilled machinist. He is shaping a ship's plate, a difficult operation which must be accurate to the "nth" degree

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Tedious and exacting is the work of this highly skilled machinist. He is shaping a ship's plate, a difficult operation which must be accurate to the "nth" degree

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum department, where this vital defense metal is cut and stamped for use aboard naval warcraft

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's shop, where steel plates are bent to fit the sidings of warcraft under construction. This is an operation requiring a high degree of skill

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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 30, frame 913.

Nothing Found.

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virginia norfolk safety film negatives lot 2068 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo norfolk navy yard plate bender shop steel plates office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history workers home front wwii world war 2 library of congress
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01/01/1941
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label_outline Explore Steel Plates, Lot 2068, Norfolk Navy Yard

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

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

Sugar rationing. Application form which will have to be filled out by every person to whom war ration book no.1 is issued when sugar rationing starts within a few weeks. Applicants will register at public schools on dates to be announced shortly

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

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

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

Fair employment practices in defense industries. A poster distributed by the OEM (Office of Emergency Management) Labor Division and the President's Committe on Fair Employment Practice to war plants and employment offices throughout the United States

Victory food from American waters. Tomorrow's fishermen--young Gloucester boys push wagons of rosefish from the unloading pier to the processing plant where the fish are filleted and frozen. Many of the boys will follow their forefathers and fishermen in New England waters

Sergeant John Fahey Gerrity, former Washington Post reporter, signals to comrades during basic training at the Marine Corps base at Parris Island, South Carolina. Sergeant Gerrity is now serving as a fighting reporter in a combat area for the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Marine Corps

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

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