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[Woman broaching key seat in front sight carrier for rifle, Eddystone Rifle Plant, Eddystone, Pennsylvania, during World War I]

Last grain of powder is dumped into the mill hopper as another hatch is completely filled. Next batch is in the foreground but will not be started until the present one is completely mixed. Mixing time varies with the characteristic of the batch, both as to the number of ingredients and the speed with which they mix thoroughly into the rubber. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

A woman working on an airplane in a hangar, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Rubber reclamation. Old rubber goes back to work. An automatic rotary knife removes the wire band portion of a scrap tire. The tire body is then ready to pass through various stages of the xylos reclamation process at a well-known rubber plant. The wire band portion, imcluding a very small amount of rubber, goes to a smelter for recovery of the metal

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Working on the final assembly of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft motors at the plant in East Hartford, Connecticut

Working on an aircraft engine casing at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft plant in East Hartford, Connecticut

Working on the assembly of a Pratt and Whitney Engine. At the plant in East Hartford, Connecticut

Working on the assembly of a Pratt and Whitney Engine. At the plant in East Hartford, Connecticut

Winging on the final stages of a Pratt and Whitney Aircraft motor at East Hartford, Connecticut

Working on an aircraft engine casing at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft plant in East Hartford, Connecticut

A drill press in operation at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. East Hartford, Connecticut

Engine assembly room. Pratt and Whitney propeller plant at East Hartford, Connecticut

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

Working on the final assembly of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft motors at the plant in East Hartford, Connecticut

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01/01/1940
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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Library of Congress
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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

label_outline Explore Whitney, Hartford, East Hartford

A special drill press cuts a great number of holes simultaneously in casings for engines at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. East Hartford, Connecticut

A man sitting on top of a pile of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Crown & Eagle Mills, 123 Hartford Avenue East, North Uxbridge, Worcester County, MA

Omar Abukharma installing motors on a pay-off machine.

A couple of men sitting on top of a wooden bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Congestion outside Pratt and Whitney United aircraft plant at afternoon change of shift. East Hartford, Connecticut

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of lumber. Office of War Information Photograph

Suckering shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect it from the sun. Near Hartford, Connecticut

Finished propellers. Hamilton propeller plant. East Hartford, Connecticut

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

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