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Nevada Test Site, Pluto Facility, Disassembly Building, Area 26, Wahmonie Flats, Cane Spring Road, Mercury, Nye County, NV

Two North American employees rivet the nacelle for a B-25 bomber. Woman and man. Women will probably be doing eighty percent of work at this plant next year. Now approximately twenty percent

Filling half gallon milk bottles at Greendale Pasteurizing plant. Wisconsin

Filling half gallon milk bottles at Greendale Pasteurizing plant. Wisconsin

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Two North American employees rivet the nacelle for a B-25 bomber. Woman and man. Women will probably be doing eighty percent of work at this plant next year. Now approximately twenty percent

The skin is applied to the frame of a tank for a B-25 bomber. Women can be found in every department at North American Aviation, working together and with men. Next year approximately eighty percent of employees will be women; twenty percent at present

The skin is applied to the frame of a tank for a B-25 bomber. Women can be found in every department at North American Aviation, working together and with men. Next year approximately eighty percent of employees will be women; twenty percent at present

These two employees at North American Aviation work as a team while riveting a bomb bay door assembly for B-25

Men and women working together on the production front. Two North American employees assemble the engine cowling for a B-25 bomber

Men and women working together on the production front. Two North American employees assemble the engine cowling for a B-25 bomber

Electric spotwelding is becoming increasingly important in the aviation industry. Two North American employees work together on a tank that will go into a B-25 bomber

One of North American Aviation's many women employees assembles a B-25 tank structure

A woman welder at North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into the B-25 bombers

Two North American employees rivet the nacelle for a B-25 bomber. Woman and man. Women will probably be doing eighty percent of work at this plant next year. Now approximately twenty percent

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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

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Film copy on SIS roll 20, frame 325.

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california los angeles county inglewood safety film negatives lot 1986 alfred t palmer photo two north american employees rivet eighty percent twenty percent b 25 bomber office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases, to show various stages of tuberculosis. Timer for x-ray apparatus

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Wings for "Valiant" basic trainers at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

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

The captain of the Charles T. Campbell, a coal-burning towboat on its way down the Ohio River near Gallipolis, Ohio

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

Roosevelt Base, Bounded by Ocean Boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, Richardson Avenue, & Idaho Street, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Newport News, Virginia. Electro-welder working on a hatch combing

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Oil tank installation. Vultee workers are shown installing an oil tank behind the engine firewall on the sub-assembly engine mounting. This Wright "double cyclone" engine powers the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Sowden House, 5121 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

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california los angeles county inglewood safety film negatives lot 1986 alfred t palmer photo two north american employees rivet eighty percent twenty percent b 25 bomber office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress