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Bending huge steel girders. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. At the U.S. Bureau of Standards officials were witnessing the testing of rigid steel frame knees that are used in grade eliminations such as over-passes, under-passes, bridges, etc. This photo shows the girder or knee placed into the huge 600,000 lb. testing machine in preparation for the test. This welded rigid steel frame knee which was designed to withstand 50,000 pounds had a maximum load of 153,600 lbs placed on it before it buckled

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. An automatic empty gelatin capsule machine

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A workman on the final assembly of a Pratt and Whitney "WASP" engine. East Hartford, Connecticut

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Mrs. Florence Ritter removing a 105 mm. howitzer from a drilling machine at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Mrs. Florence Ritter removing a 105 mm. howitzer from a drilling machine at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. He is thus able to control movements of locomotives pushing the train over the hump from his post at the hump office; Chicago, Ill

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Workers in the vacuum cleaner factory at Reedsville, West Virginia. Many of the employees are Arthurdale homesteaders

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Employees in the vacuum cleaner factory. Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia

Employees in the vacuum cleaner factory. Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia

A black and white photo of a group of people working in a factory, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Vacuum cleaner factory. Arthurdale project. Reedsville, West Virginia

Vacuum cleaner factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Vacuum cleaner factory. Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia

Workers in the vacuum cleaner factory at Reedsville, West Virginia

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01/01/1937
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Locke, Edwin, photographer
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Reedsville ,  39.51064, -79.79839
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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NASA Industrial Plant, Systems Integration & Checkout Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Sergeant Alfred Baron, Newark, New Jersey (left) and Technical Sergeant Richard Perry, Mansfield Ohio, in medical store room

Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. In the Mary-Leila cotton mill

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Working on reconditioned gas masks for civilian defense use at the gas mask factory

Conversion. Toy factory. Stephanie Cewe and Ann Manemeit, have turned their skill from peacetime production of toy trains to the assembly of parachute flare casings for the armies of democracy. Along with other workers in this Eastern plant, they have turned their skill to the vital needs of the day, and in many cases have seen to it that the machinery they used to use does Uncle Sam's most important work today. Here, they are assembling parachute flare casings, using the same electric screwdrivers they formerly used to assemble the locomotives of toy trains. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

A black and white photo of a man in a workshop. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Nashville, Tennessee. Women operation a giant stamping machine. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Bent Furniture Factory in Holon Settlement. Process of bending wood after steaming

A couple of men standing next to each other. World War Two Era FSA/OWI Photograph.

Studying why fruits taste that way. E.K. Nelson of the Department of Agriculture is shown making tests with an apparatus which the Department imported from Germany for the purpose of studying the essential oils or "flavor-giving" content of fruits and vegetables. At present chemists are acquainted with the essential oils of only a few fruits, such as some of the citrus group. The apparatus is a vacuum distill which permits the distillation of liquids at temperatures much lower than usual by reducing the pressure, 1/10/31

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