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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Erie Canal (Enlarged), Oothout Culvert & Waste Weir, Lock No. 4 vicinity, near Maplewood village, Colonie, Albany County, NY

[Men loading logs on a horse-drawn wagon, from the original Abraham Lincoln log cabin, at College Point, N.Y., on Feb. 21, 1906, to be re-erected on the Lincoln Farm at Hodgenville, Kentucky, the birthplace of Lincoln]

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Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. An American M-4 tank coming aboard a United Nations freighter that will carry it, as part of a lend-lease shipment, together with food and other war necessities, to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. An American M-4 tank coming aboard a United Nations freighter that will carry it, as part of a lend-lease shipment, together with food and other war necessities, to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Photographed by Edward L. Gruber or Alfred T. Palmer.

Title and other information from lot catalog card and documentation accompanying lot.

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 32, frame 1133.

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new york state new york safety film negatives lot 2138 edward gruber alfred t palmer photo lend lease shipments american m 4 tanks shipment nations freighter war necessities office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii great depression world war 2 library of congress railway photo archive
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01/01/1943
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label_outline Explore War Necessities, Lot 2138, Nations Freighter

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Pilot and observer who bought their own plane and flew it in from Wisconsin to join the patrol

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

An old black and white photo of a man laying on the ground next to a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

Steel production. More iron for steel production. Hot molten metal flows from the tap hole into a trough at a big Eastern blast furnace is cast. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the log cofferdam of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limesone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these mighty important factors in the maintenance of defense production

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy carrying supplies for Russia going through a pass over the snowbound mountain top

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps demolition squads. The leathernecks can destroy railway systems, as well as build and operate them. A Marine demolition squad, in training at the New River, North Carolina base, prepares to blow out a section of track. Two men set the charge while two others stand guard. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Employees at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation return to their jobs after enjoying another lunch period program presented at the recreation center. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Lunch time discussion

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new york state new york safety film negatives lot 2138 edward gruber alfred t palmer photo lend lease shipments american m 4 tanks shipment nations freighter war necessities office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii great depression world war 2 library of congress railway photo archive