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Black & White photo.. . America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a parking lot, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Ford Motor Co., 13th & E - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

New Assistant WPA Administrator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Mrs. Florence S. Kerr, recently appointed Assistant Administrator of the Works Progress Administration, assumed her duties today at WPA headquarters. She succeeds Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward who resigned to become a member of the Social Security Board. Mrs. Kerr is a native of Harriman, Tenn., and a graduate of Grinnell College, Iowa, 1/6/39

Priorities unemployment. Once again the worker sits with his family, secure in a job, happy that he need not worry about supporting his family. His routine has been revised and rearranged; he calls upon a new skill to earn his living, but he retains the self-respect of the producer. He has a right to work, and his country benefits from the product of his work

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

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Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 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 37, frame 470.

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01/01/1941
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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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Havre, Montana: Mrs. Honora Redwing (8-3-79). Glasgow, Montana: Pioneer Museum Mrs. May Tihista, Mr. and Mrs. James Christinson with Paula Johnson (8-5-79)

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Junction City, Union County, Arkansas

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas

[Leadbelly, three-quarter-length, profile, facing right, lifting car out of snow, at the home of Mary Elizabeth Barnicle, Wilton, Conn.]

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

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

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Miscellaneous pictures west of Havre, Mrs. Seuser and Mr. Beebe's rawhiding

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new jersey union county elizabeth safety film negatives united states office for emergency management jobs mrs joseph thomas herbster works project administration american families herbster office of war information farm security administration united states history 1930s cars car 1930 s library of congress