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Women in essential services. Ethel Peterson, twenty-seven, an expert lift-truck operator at the Paraffine Company in Emeryville, California. Her job demands manual skill and excellent driving judgement, for sharp curves must be rounded and the cargo must be handled with precision and speed at all times

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A black and white photo of a man on a forklift. Office of War Information Photograph

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

An old black and white photo of a street. Great Depression and Dust Bowl.

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

Farm security administration office of war information black and white negatives

A black and white photo of a man on a forklift. Office of War Information Photograph

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Summary

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 41, frame 733.

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california alameda county emeryville nitrate negatives lot 1982 ann rosener united states office of war information expert lift truck operator ethel peterson paraffine company job demands ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history workers library of congress
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Date

01/01/1943
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Location

alameda county
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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label_outline Explore Lot 1982, Alameda County, Ann Rosener

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

F.F. Cole, junior chemical engineer, keeps data on rate of dehydration of potatoes. Regional agricultural research laboratory, Albany, California

A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

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

Carroll Overhead Bridge, Altamont Pass Road, Livermore, Alameda County, CA

In time of war there is no excuse for carelessness, and it is carelessness that is responsible for the loss of most tire mileage. Running into a curb can mean a break in the tire wall, or at least a weakening. Blowouts are more apt to occur when these sidewalls are in bad condition

A black and white photo of two men working on a camera, possibly related to: Surveyors at work, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

A black and white photo of a man carrying a barrel. Office of War Information Photograph

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Victory food from American waters. Tomorrow's fishermen--young Gloucester boys push wagons of rosefish from the unloading pier to the processing plant where the fish are filleted and frozen. Many of the boys will follow their forefathers and fishermen in New England waters

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california alameda county emeryville nitrate negatives lot 1982 ann rosener united states office of war information expert lift truck operator ethel peterson paraffine company job demands ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history workers library of congress