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Map of Erie County, Pennsylvania : from actual surveys /

General-content county map also showing rural buildings and householders' names; some borough insets also show real-property tracts, tract numbers, and landowners' names. Hand col. to emphasize township boundar More

Republican ticket. For President, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. For Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. [Ohio Campaign ticket]

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Bird's eye view of the city of Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania 1870.

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Painting "Literature" in north atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Henry (Heinz) Meixner, ca. 1899. Oil, 7' high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred More

Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 48" x 182.6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog More

Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 48" x 182.6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog More

Painting "Science" in west atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Henry (Heinz) Meixner, ca. 1899. Oil, 7' high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred More

Painting "Poetry" in south atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Henry (Heinz) Meixner, ca. 1899. Oil, 7' high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred More

Painting "Author's Frieze" second floor, interior hallway, Federal Complex, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Elmer E. Garnsey, ca. 1899. Oil, dimensions: 48" x 182.6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photog More

City of Erie (Pennsylvania). Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

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Anchor Line docks and Penna. R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] coal & ore docks, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Coal trestle and car dumping plant, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Oil painting "The Echo" located at the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania

Artist: Gustave Henry Mosler, ca. 1900. Dimensions: 50 x 71 inches. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photo More

Whirleys unloading ore, Penna. R.R. [Pennsylvania Railroad] docks, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Birdseye view of Erie, Penna. 1909. - Public domain map

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Panoramic photo of Erie, Pennsylvania, Panoramic Photograph

J173391 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; September 19, 1912. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

1813-1913. Perry centennial celebration. Oliver Hazard Perry. ... Copyrighted, 1913 by C. B. Wingenroth.

Perry, Oliver Hazard.; On verso, Copy 1 and Copy 2: {stamp} Feb 8 1913; On recto, Copy 1: {stamp} [copyright] CI. A333459 C R. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsi More

Benjamin Whitman House, Ninth & Peach Streets, Erie, Erie County, PA

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Strong House, Perry Highway, Erie, Erie County, PA

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Arbuckle House, Carriage House, 140 East Fifth Street, Erie, Erie County, PA

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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cutter preparing noonday meal in kitchen of their trailer home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A dividing head provided with a clamp which fits over the muzzle end of the tube has been adopted for indexing. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

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A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Cutting sheeting to size with power driven hand saws speed up the work of the sheeting crew

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This carpenter said he considered the defense homes built in Erie, Pennsylvania, to be the best examples of efficient workmanship and sound lasting construction that he had yet seen

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. In tight corners the old hand saw still finds a spot. Pre-fabricating is not carried to time-wasting extremes, and there are a few places where hand cutting on the spot can do the job faster

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen of the Rogan's new war home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at a nearby plant which is is working three shifts on defense contracts. Mr. Rogan earns $42.50 a week, and spends about twenty percent of his income for rent

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Concrete flooring is poured over the wire reinenforcements. The large container shuttles from the mixer to the desired location, supported by a movable crane. Three men, aided by a crew of levelers, can lay a floor of four-unit building in a few hours

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. As the wall sheeting is completed, men are already starting the sheeting of the roof

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General Electric worker from Alabama at dinner with family in trailer home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and young son inspect the gas operated refrigerator of their new defense home, while J.P. Kane, housing manager, looks on

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A central utility building (right) with toilets, showers, and laundry facilities is maintained for every sixty trailers on the site. Each trailer, with its 25 x 50 foot plot of ground, is assured of privacy and plenty of sun and fresh air. Each trailer is equipped with a gasoline pressure stove, ice-box, davenport beds and gate leg tables. Each can accommodate up to four people

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Another family moves into the defense trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania. Over 150 workers a week are brought in to the General Electric plant, one of the ten defense industries located there, creating an acute housing shortage. Preference is given to General Electric employees, since G.E. employs over 10,000 men on important Naval contracts

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

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Wife of defense worker setting table for dinner in trailer home. Trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interior of the laundry of one of the central utility buildings of the defense trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania. Complete laundry facilities, including tubs, ringers, ironing boards and drying lines are provided. Also located in the building are showers, wash basins, and toilets. All facilities are included in the weekly trailer rental of six dollars per week

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricians wiring defense homes at Franklin Terrace housing project. Defense homes are provided with electricity, sewage, police and fire protection. In many cases, a lump sum for all services is paid to the city in lieu of taxes

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Each group of ten trailers in the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp at Erie has a "trailer service unit," water faucet, slop sink, and garbage pail

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

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Jack Cutter and family at dinner. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Stud spacings are filled in as recommended by Fire Underwriters Board to eliminate the chimney-like fire path that would otherwise be created

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A good filling bed of rock-like material is laid on the graded street surface

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Milton Ackerman, manager of the Defense Trailer Project at Erie Pennsylvania, receives an application from Mrs. George Cole. Her husband is employed in the General Electric plant, which holds large defense contracts. Seated at the desk is Ackerman's assistant, who handles mail, and telephone inquires for tenants

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A built-up flat roofing is applied to the individual unit. Here workmen are laying the last covering before the finished coat

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Wife of defense worker washing clothes in utility building at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A member of the Visiting Nurse Association pays a call to one of many young tenants of the defense trailer camp. High standards of sanitation are maintained, and every precaution is taken to guard against epidemic and disease

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Window and door frames are pre-fabricated at the site by specialized crews. They are given a primer coating of paint before being assembled into the structure

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricians wiring defense homes at Franklin Terrace housing project. Defense homes are provided with electricity, sewage, police and fire protection. In many cases, a lump sum for all services is paid to the city in lieu of taxes

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Milton B. Ackerman, manager of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers at Erie, Pennsylvania

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp near General Electric Plant, Erie, Pennsylvania. These are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one and two children

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. B.J. Rogan and a fellow worker enjoy a quiet evening of cards in his defense trailer home. The seats pull out, pullman fashion, to form a bed by night. Notice the gasoline pressure stove and heater at left

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp of 200 family units for defense workers. Erie, Pennslyvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Painters finished up window frames on defense homes in Erie, Pennsylvania. No painting is required on the cement-asbestos shingles, since their natural finish is light, durable and attractive

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Laundry wagon calling at trailer in FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania. There are no stores or shops in the neighborhood. Groceries, milk, etc., are brought in by truck. General Electric plant in background

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

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Defense worker from Alabama in trailer home with family. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second floor nears completion. Buildings of the plant where are employed many of the defense workers who will move into these homes, can be seen in the background

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A good filling bed of rock-like material is laid on the graded street surface. Slag from nearby steel mills is sometimes used for this filling material

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A sheeting crew of fourteen men follows on the heels of the stud and jointing crew. In an amazingly short time this crew sheets the outside walls, the floors, and the roof. Here the crew is well along on the walls a few hours after taking over

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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Cores for generators at General Electric plant. Erie, Pennslyvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sewage pipes are placed for the 300 defense homes at the Franklin Terrace housing project. Sewage, water, police and fire protection are provided by the city for a lump sum paid in lieu of taxes

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. George Miller, plumber, is foreman of the central plumbing assembly shop. He and his helpers assemble most of the plumbing for this 300-unit defense housing project

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Tuning in radio in trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Employee at General Electric plant getting ready to work. Trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The old and the new. At the right is pictured one of the new defense homes now under construction, while in the background is shown one of the apartment homes built for the defense workers during World War I. Where as many of the latter homes were disposed of due to private concerns after the war, it is expected that many of the new defense homes now being built will eventually become part of the overall slum clearance program. Others will help fill the urgent peace time need in America for low cost homes

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A row of seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers being assembled in the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant while inspectors watch. A total of twenty-three are shown. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. One part of the crew sheets the flooring as the walls are going up. The progress of the work is checked frequently against the working blueprints

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, Erie, Pennsylvania. Flag and flagpole were donated by the General Electric plant

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A member of the Visiting Nurse Association pays a call to one of many young tenants of the defense trailer camp. High standards of sanitation are maintained, and every precaution is taken to guard against epidemic and disease

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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Housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electrician wiring defense homes at the Franklin Terrace housing project. Homes are provided with electricity, sewage, police and fire protection. In many cases, a lump sum for all services is paid to the city in lieu of taxes

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

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Mrs. Jack Cutter and two children in their trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennslyvania. Her husband is at work on the night shift in the General Electric plant

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interiors of defense homes are attractively finished. Although economyis imperative, no jerry-building or shoddy construction is allowed

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers at night. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Plumbing is secured into position preparatory to filling in base with cinders. Most of the plumbing is pre-fabricated at a central shop on the construction site, then moved in one piece to the desired location

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Fitting diagonal wall sheeting into place. The crew works on several sides of the unit at the same time. This work is so divided that there are just enough men at each spot to do the job efficiently

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Jack Cutter and family. Have lived in the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp about two weeks. They came from Indiana for a job in the General Electric Plant. Erie, Pennsylvania

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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General Electric employee applying for trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp office. Milton Ackerman, camp manager, is interviewing him. Erie, Pennsylvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a drill operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A shingling crew moves in. Exteriors are finished with an abestos cement composition shingle which provides insulation and weather-proofing. Shingles are secured over a tar-paper insulation with bronzed, rust resisting nails

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As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in each howitzer to check the breech mechanism. The firing is pictured. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being manufactured at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant, largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

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General Electric workers leaving the plant at 4:00 p.m. Another shift comes on immediately; they are running twenty-four hours. About 10,000 are now employed here and the figure is going up each week. Erie, Pennsylvania

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One of Jack Cutter's two children in doorway of trailer home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Mrs. Jack Cutter putting children to bed. The dining room of the trailer is converted into a bed. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

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One of the three utility buildings at FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. These house showers, toilets, public telephone, and laundry room. Erie, Pennsylvania

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