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A black and white photo of a man bending over. Great Depression and World War Two FSA/OWI Photograph

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Immediately after being caught, rosefish are shovled into the hold for packing in ice. Once called "goldfish" because of their brilliant color, the fish are finding a ready market because of their manifold uses--as food for humans, as fish meal and fish oil

Scene in vegetable packing plant at Deerfield, Florida. Most of the workers are migrants

Workmen pushing hand truck of linters in cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas. See caption number 34751

Switching over to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely converted to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

[Eugene Smallwood, an employee at Curatolo Banana Corp. weighing bananas] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick De Marsico.

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

Borger, Texas. Refinery workers

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free of water, are now being rolled into sheets. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free of water, are now being rolled into sheets. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is the cutting and trimming table, where newly-rolled sheets of synthetic rubber are cut to size for the drying pans. Goodrich

This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant is now ready for drying, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Synthetic rubber made by the "ameripol" process is derived from butadiene (a petroleum derivative). In this rolling mill the crumbs of rubber are squeezed dry of excess water and pressed together into the blanket shown here

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is the cutting and trimming table, where newly-rolled sheets of synthetic rubber are cut to size for the drying pans. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These workers are removing crumbs from the perforated boxes below the coagulating and extractor tanks. The rubber drips into these boxes from the tanks and the water previously added to dissolve the soap in the solution runs off through the perforations in the box. This rubber will now be prepared for the wash mill. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is the cutting and trimming table, where newly-rolled sheets of synthetic rubber are cut to size for the drying pans. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the Akron, Ohio plant of the B.F. Goodrich Company is now ready for drying

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Now thoroughly dried, these sheets of synthetic rubber are packed in larger paper drums, each holding 200 pounds for shipment. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free of water, are now being rolled into sheets. Goodrich

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
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Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Preparing starting sheets; the workman is shown stripping the starting sheet of electrolytic copper; this copper has been deposited on a rolled copper blank, which has been lightly greased so as to prevent the deposit from adhering; to this starting sheet, loops will be attached for suspension in refining tank

Rubber reclamation. Science guides rubber reclamation. Skilled chemists at a Midwest xylos process plant test every batch of rubber recovered from scrap to ensure removal of all traces of fabric, metal and other foreign matter. Firestone

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and butadiene, a highly volatile gas "cracked" from crude petroleum. These raw materials for synthetic rubber are piped from freight cars into these storage tanks. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio synthetic rubber plant of the B. F. Goodrich Company is placing trimmed sheets of synthetic rubber on the cooling racks

Last grain of powder is dumped into the mill hopper as another hatch is completely filled. Next batch is in the foreground but will not be started until the present one is completely mixed. Mixing time varies with the characteristic of the batch, both as to the number of ingredients and the speed with which they mix thoroughly into the rubber. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sealing fuel tanks must be covered with cloth. Women are doing a large portion of the work in turning out these tanks. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sealing fuel tanks must be covered with cloth. Women are doing a large portion of the work in turning out these tanks. This girl is applying a sealing strip to the edges of the building form to keep the cloth taut. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These control instruments in the Akron, Ohio, synthetic rubber plant of the B.F. Goodrich Company, maintain the proper temperature and pressure in the polymerizer tanks where raw material monomers are changed into polymers

Knocking tool joints off a drill pipe, after welder has cut it. In Goodrich field of Continental oil field near Wichita, Kansas

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