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A black and white photo of a man fixing a tire, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man fixing a tire. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. Marine transport workers in the fleet force are the most expert of tire changers. This man, in training at the New River, North Carolina base, takes them all ways: big ones, little ones, any way they come. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age forty-five, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age forty-five, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Irean Smotinski, age twenty-nine, and ex-housewife, cleaning a chassis before it goes to the paint room

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Elizabeth Little, age thirty, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Elizabeth Little, age thirty, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

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12002-22.

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

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01/01/1939
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A restored Gulf gasoline station in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

Priming a tractor with gasoline, El Indio, Texas

Headed for last cleanup. Six giant truck tires, of the non-directional type are being wheeled in for cleaning and painting. This pattern, developed for the U.S. Army in 1941 is used for field equipment....gives excellent traction in forward or reverse because of the horizontal cleats, yet rides well on the highway on the continuous center rib. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Pouring gasoline into combine engine. Walla Walla County, Washington

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Arrangements are made by phone, and Don's car is left at home. The few miles left in those tires of his can be used for emergency, or the car may be put completely out of service for the duration. Here, Don leaves the plant ready for the trip home under new car pooling arrangement

Guard at the entrance to the Phillips gasoline plant

Tank car and storage tanks at the Phillips gasoline plant

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Norma K. Jones used to be a high school teacher and now teaches two nights a week. She inspects 105 mm. howitzers at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Operating a gate valve which controls the flow of refined products through the Tulsa station of the Great Lakes pipeline. This line sends gasoline from Oklahoma to Minneapolis

Day laborer filling five gallon cans with gasoline for use in tractors, large farm near Ralls, Texas

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heil company army air forces industry women employment trucks world war gasoline tires wisconsin milwaukee transparencies color farm security administration office of war information color photographs howard r hollem photo gasoline trailer tanks army air corps war production workers trailers army angeline kwint ultra high resolution high resolution kodachrome film transparencies united states history wwi truck workers library of congress