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Thomas Jefferson, 1784-89, Inventory of Toiletry Items, Writing Implements, Chemicals, and Tools

Inventory of Toiletry Items, Writing Implements, Chemicals, and Tools

Unusual- interesting - patriotic and educational items regarding Thomas Jefferson and Monticello offered to the public by National educational committee of the Thomas Jefferson memorial foundation, 115 Broadway, New York [n. d.].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 134, Folder 23. Copy scanned: 1

[Six men, possibly monks, posed for group portrait, four standing and two sitting in front, five have their heads shaved, wearing geta, some are holding items, with building in background]

No. 638. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 18] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may More

[Stairhall in John Alexander Logan home showing Native American pottery, baskets, textiles, and other items, Washington, D.C.]

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[Stairhall in John Alexander Logan home showing Native American pottery, baskets, textiles, and other items, Washington, D.C.]

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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Antique glass, stone items, etc.

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[Vendors selling items at a market on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.]

Written on back: "Sumatra - where we went in the beach wagon."

[Decorative items on display including a candleabra, boxes, and a carved animal sculpture]

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Items from Tutenchamun's [i.e., Tutankhamen's] tomb. Copies

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Canadian scenes. Sporting goods store display window with scooter bikes, fishing equipment and other items

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Miscellaneous subjects. Miscellaneous items in lost and found

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Fontana Dam in the mountains of North Carolina, famous for their scenery, will be one of the biggest of the Authority's projects, being over 500 feet tall. (As it is under construction, no photographs are available but a general perspective view is attached in two copies, one of the prints being glossy but the other having better contrast for reproduction.) The downstream face of the powerhouse is developed in part as a gigantic show window. Considerable recreational and tourist development is expected for the vicinity, the Smoky Mountains National Park being next-door neighbor of the project. Visitors will be reveived at the upper level in a small structure marked by the flagpole towrd the right, from where a steep cogwheel car, used also by the operators and for the transportation of minor items, will give access to the powerhouse

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[Grave covered with various domestic items: clock, cup, goblet, pots; gravestone reads: "Hackless Jenkins, June 15, 1878-June 25, 1926; asleep in Jesus"]

Copper-plate photogravure by Doris Ulmann. Illus. in: Julia Peterkin's, Roll, Jordan, Roll, opp. p. 282. Another copy in P&P Case X. Reference copy may be in SSF - African Americans or Cemeteries. This record c More

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have been assisted to independence. In Feburary 1936 they rented a neglected farm of forty acres planted in grapes. They had no equipment, no stock, no seed, no money. Farm Security Administration (FSA) granted a loan of one thousand two hundred and sixty one dollars to cover these items, and four months subsistence for the family. Now November 1938, they are reestablished on a successful diversified farm, with a cash crop provided by vineyard, cows, hogs, and pigs

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Army leaders questioned by House Military Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. Brig. General George P. Tyner, left, Assistant Chief of Staff, today told the House Military Affairs Committee that the U.S. Should 'not send its soldiers in the field with antiquated weapons'. He said the $110,000,000 recommended for critical items by President Roosevelt would be only sufficient to equip the present regular Army and National Guard. Maj. General C.M. Weston, Chief of Ordinance, and Maj. General R.M. Beck, right, Assistant U.S. Chief of Staff, also appeared before the committee, 1/24/39

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One year of reciprocal aid. American soldiers can obtain British and American goods in commissary sale stores (better known as post exchanges) throughout the United Kingdom. All the British made foods, including some items as candy chocolate, medicaments and note paper, are given cash-free as reciprocal aid. Such payments as the soldiers make go to the U.S. Army Finance Department

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An interior of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) experimental trailer-house, looking through the living-dining room into the kitchen. Walls, ceilings and floors are plywood, and the floor coverings are linoleum. Of the numerous built-in items of furniture and equipment in the house, the picture shows built-in seat, built-in kitchen stove,

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French village, a small settlement on Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. French-speaking children weaving straw mats in their home. These items are sold at the handicrafts cooperative

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

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Civilian defense. There's not much that is omitted in the equipment of these special gas and electrical emergency trucks. On the floor in front of the trunk are, left to right, the following items: a fitter's kit for repairing small gas leaks; a rubberized blanket for electrical work; an atmosphere testing machine; an inhalator; a Phister fire extinguisher; an air blower ; a lux fire extinguisher kit; a splicer's kit containing insulated hand tools; a fuse kit; a manhole guard rail and a rubber mat for electrical work. The worker at the left is wearing a special mask with a half-hour suplly of oxygen for use where a fresh air hose is not practical. He is also wearing rubber gloves for repair work. The man standing in the center is holding a hand operated manhole pump. The truck and its equipment were on display at Madison Square Garden, New York, as part of the huge civilian defense show held there in October

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"Bog-downs" and bottlenecks in defense plant operation are out for the duration. Maintenance crews are eternally at it to keep everything in good working order. Inspecting electrical wiring in a tunnel between two buildings is only one of innumerable items in the continuous maintenance program of a large Midwest plant now entirely on war

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveries of laundry, ice and grocery items from local businesses that serve the defense trailer camp twice daily. Mrs. Rogan's husband is employed by the General Electric Company as a drill press operator or defense work. Although grocery stores and milk companies deliver to the doors of the trailer town, agents, salesmen and canvassers are forbidden in the settlement. This is to see that the defense workers on the night shift may sleep during the morning or early afternoon

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A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze air craft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter inch to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Left, oil relief valve cap; right, cap nut

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A Detroit manufacturer of aircraft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze aircraft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Top left, bolt; top right, retainer; bottom, cylinder head stud

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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

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Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Converted from the production of such items as soft drink dispensers and game boards, this Eastern manufacturing firm now produces precision tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other essentials for the armed forces. Personnel has jumped from 12 to 76 workers. In this machine shop different types of measuring gauges, bullet tools, dies and punches for use in America's arsenals are produced. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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Price control. Anti-inflation window display. Well designed because it is easily read, this poster illustrates the correct method for displaying ceiling price items on the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) cost-of-living commodity list, established for all goods essential to the daily requirements of the average family. These lists must clearly identify each item, stating size or quantity and ceiling price

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Converted from the production of such items as soft drink dispensers and game boards, this Eastern manufacturing firm now produces precision tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other essentials for the armed forces. Here workmen are inspecting a new internal grinder, a precision machine for the manufacture of precision tools and parts. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company made metal screens for doors and windows and a number of related items before beginning production of equipment for the Air Corps

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Price control. Anti-inflation window display. The "Wise Old Owl" display not only boosts sales in this drugstore, but stresses cooperation between government and merchant to control prices of items essential to the war effort. The "Save Your Money" theme is a clever merchandising angle informing the customer that ceiling prices vary in different stores

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Closeup of products now manufactured by an Eastern plant which once made such civilian items as orange juice squeezers, game boards, etc. These objects are far more vital to Uncle Sam. All are different aspects of one production job: a master chamber gauge, a bullet die, and 3-caliber cartridge. Although this company does not actually make cartridges, they produce the gauge and dies essential to cartridge production. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. High speed grinding of a bullet punch goes on twenty-two hours a day in an Eastern manufacturing company converted from the manufacture of civilian items to one hundred percent production for war. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Air Corps are welded at an Eastern plant that used to make metal screens for windows and doors. Among the items now produced are junction boxes, switch boxes for airplane tow targets and navigator windows for bombers

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. Employees crowd from suburban trains through factory gates to take their places in the vast clockwork of war production. The plant in which they work turns out essential war items: tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. These containers hold nuts, bolts, rivets and parts that go into assemblies at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation. Employees are urged to conserve on all items. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operated a pneumatic numbering machine in the sheet metal department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. All items are given index numbers. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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Stock at the Hardwick Victory store overflows at times onto the lawn and even front railing serves as vantage point for display of such items as carpets and mattresses. Reopened May first, the store is again the center of trade in Hardwick

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Washington, D.C. A crowd surrounding an auctioneer selling kitchen utensils and other items at the Adam A. Weschler & Son auction store

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into the Westchester Auto Wrecking Company yard at 1400 Blondell Avenue in the Bronx. Shown in the photo pushing the car are Scouts of Troop #121 while Edward G. Bellmaire, Scoutmaster, David Lanoff of the wrecking company, and Frank O. March, Vice Chairman of the Bronx Salvage Campaign Committee look on

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Production. War housing trailers. A sink board is secured in place as a war housing trailer takes final form in the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Cook stove, heater, sink, icebox and beds are subcontracted items

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volume for victory. His skill in the making of luxury items is an asset for a Kentucky watch case factory now producing compass cases, fuse baffles, gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. Employees crowd from suburban trains through factory gates to take their places in the vast clockwork of war production. The plant in which they work turns out essential war items: tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for Uncle Sam instead of manufacturing such civilian items as soft drink dispensers and game boards. Inspecting operation of a tool room lathe are officials of this company which is producing tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other war essentials. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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DeLand pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, down by the railroad tracks in De Land, Florida, is one of the strongest members of the Volusia County pool, now starting on its third million-dollars worth of war production without a single rejection. F.W. Casey, owner of the shop, looks over some of the miscellaneous items in his yard from which he makes many of the machines he uses. He's inspecting a woodworking machine with an eye to the pool's next contract. An old dough mixer at the right of the window will supply some parts for the next job

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One of North American's women employees operates a pneumatic numbering machine in the sheet metal department. All items are given index numbers

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Aluminum casting. These castings are being loaded onto a sandblast table prior to the actual sandblasting operation. Conversion of this large Midwest aluminum foundry to production of war essentials has already taken place. This factory is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret, but they'll probably end up as jeeps and airplane engines. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

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Hardwick's unique victory store, again open for business, is seen here with a few of the hundreds of items which are being donated and sold to the public with proceeds going to aid civilian defense and other community war activities

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On cost of living items, the retailer must show his ceiling prices. Government price controls, taking effect May 18 for retail sales, requires a storekeeper to display his ceiling prices on cost of living items. One way for the retailer is to stamp the ceiling right on the price tag itself

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into the Westchester Auto Wrecking Company yard at 1400 Blondell Avenue in the Bronx. Shown in the photo pushing the car are Scouts of Troop #121 while Edward G. Bellmaire, Scoutmaster, David Lanoff of the wrecking company, and Frank O. March, Vice Chairman of the Bronx Salvage Campaign Committee look on

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. In the background is a cube steak machine, normal product of a New England plant now doing work on various war subcontracts. In the foreground are twenty-four items typical of those this plant has been doing to turn out for the war effort after certain retooling and conversion work had been done on its machinery. These changes are necessarily simple, for this company is still filling army and navy orders for the cube steak machine. Including among the twenty-four items are aluminum crankcases, steel spouts for anti-tank guns, bronze flanges, nuts and various screw machine parts. Cube Steak Machines Company, Boston, Massachusetts

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Now converted to production of war essentials, this Eastern plant once manufactured such civilian items as this soft drink dispenser, the precision mechanism of which is undergoing inspection by a designer. It was this type of high grade precision workmanship which enabled the company to obtain specialized precision contracts and subcontracts from the government. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

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On cost of living items, the retailer must show his ceiling prices. Government price controls, taking effect May 18 for retail sales, requires a storekeeper to display his ceiling prices on cost of living items. One way for the retailer is to stamp the ceiling right on the price tag itself

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 More

Every retailer has his own set of ceiling prices. Ceiling prices are based on the highest prices in each store during March and therfore vary from store to store. In any store where all items on a counter or shelf have the same ceiling price, one sign may be used to show the maximum price for all the articles in the group

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-auto mechanic pictured at work in ex-lock factory. Merril Darr, twenty-five, works on breech ring for a thirty-seven-millimeter gun. These guns and thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts are now produced in a plant which formerly manufactured items for civilian use. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

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Inventory at war production clinic, San Francisco, California, reveals over 3,000 items on display needed by government agencies and prime contractors. Pictured here is a U.S. Army assault boat wanted by Army engineers. Marion Bauman and Florence Carr aid Ray Hawksley, exhibit manager, with inventory

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Forty-two keys to victory. This man was once a skilled worker in a typewriter factory. He's still a skilled worker in the same factory, but instead of typewriters he's now assembling war items. Although Army and Navy demands for typewriters are increasing, the manufacute of these machines will have ceased by the end of the year. That's why the government needs your typewriter -- if it's of standard size and a model made no earlier than 1935

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Displaying ceiling prices for a line of branded goods related items. Under the government's universal price ceiling, which takes effect Monday, May 18 at the retail level, storekeepers may display the ceiling price for a line of branded goods, such as drugs, foods or tobacco simply by a display card attached to the shelf, placed on the counter or located on a convenient nearby spot

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It's easy to do mark-downs. Government price regulations place the ceiling for each store at the store's highest March prices. Signs like this will be common to advertise cost of living items that are substantially below the store's maximum

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West Danville, Vermont. The shelves in G. S. Hastings's general store, holding 8,000 to 10,000 items which are clearly marked with "calling price"

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Drawings. Ceiling prices. Here a furniture store printed special tags with space to show a sale price below the ceiling established by the government's General Maximum Price Regulation. Ceiling prices must be shown on all cost-of-living items. The ceilings apply to retail sales beginning May 18

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A cartoon of a chef holding a roll of paper. Office of War Information Photograph

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 More

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

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Consumers, of course, usually buy rationed items in the form described in the consumer table and use points accordingly. But if a consumer wishes to buy an item in the larger form described in the trade table, he may do so. In that case he pays points on the basis of the trade table

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Chicago, Illinois. Subsistence research laboratory of the U.S. Army quartermaster depot. Five-in-one ration. This ration so designed so that five servicemen starting on a mission can throw the ration in the back of a jeep and proceed with assurance that they will have three square meals. Besides the canned food showing, there are numerous other items in the large container, such as coffee, instant rice, tea, lemon juice powder, hard candy, grape juice powder, cocoa with sugar and biscuit squares

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A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 More

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 items are kept on hand here

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

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Not only retailers, but institutions, industrial users, wholesalers, and primary distributors will usually buy rationed items in the form listed in the trade table and pay the points required by this table. However, when a retailer or anyone else wishes to buy a rationed item in the form listed in the consumer table, he will pay points on the basis of the consumer table

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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

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New York, New York. Miss Bloomfield, a saleslady in the Lighthouse store showing a customer knitted items for children made by the blind at the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East Fifty-ninth Street

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Mrs. Lawrence J. Ullman, business in Tarrytown, New York. Various items

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[Man buying items from coffee and snack vendor in shop along a street, Gangtok, Sikkim]

On slide: "G-40". Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 124 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2 More

Cluttered desk at the historic Harrison Brothers Hardware in Huntsville, Alabama, whose shelves, resembling an old-time general store, are equally crammed with an assortment of vintage as well as present-day items

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"Amish" souvenir items are plentiful in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Items received for copyright deposit at the Library of Congress Madison Building, Washington, D.C.

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