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Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

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Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. The demand for power transformers has increased in America in direct ratio to the increase of war production. In this section of a large Eastern electrical plant, huge transformer coils are wound; this one may end up in a factory which is producing steel for Uncle Sam's ships and tanks and guns. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that control power transformers, this employee of a large Eastern electrical plant has a job that's vital to America's war effort. Transformers are essential to almost every industry engaged in defense production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Part of a large Eastern electrical plant where large transformer tanks are shaped and welded. Power transformers are an important part of America's war effort. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. The demand for power transformers has increased in America in direct ratio to the increase of war production. In this section of a large Eastern electrical plant, huge transformer coils are wound; this one may end up in a factory which is producing steel for Uncle Sam's ships and tanks and guns. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared for testing in a large Eastern plant given over almost entirely to the manufacture of transformers. Transformers are vital to almost every phase of war production. Employed at the plant as electrical testers are nearly 200 graduates of engineering colleges and electrical trade schools. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. A large Eastern electrical company where huge power transformers, vital to America's war effort, are produced. Power transformers are essential to almost every phase of America's war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

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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 1878.

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pennsylvania mercer county sharon safety film negatives alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo giant transformers power transformers transformer war production office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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mercer county
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pennsylvania mercer county sharon safety film negatives alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo giant transformers power transformers transformer war production office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress