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Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn

12002-52. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add More

The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an eastern factory, Manchester, Conn. Their work is under constant close supervision. Pioneer Parchute Company

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Making harnesses, Mary Saverick stitching, Pioneer Parachute Company Mills, Manchester, Conn.

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Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied France, Mrs. Delia Raymond makes careful inspection of flare parachutes which she hopes will help free her relatives. Of her work she says, "I like it. It's something so vital--it means so much and is so interesting. The country needs these parachutes, and I'm proud to be able to help make them. We keep hoping all the world will be free someday." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Two of her brothers are in the Army, two brothers are World War I veterans. Perhaps that's why Bonnie Bonness finds attaching shroud cords to parachute straps in this Eastern factory more important than her former profession: dancing in New York's Greenwich Village nightclubs. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. Parachute making. The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an Eastern factory. Their work is under constant close supervision. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department store lingerie counter is actually pilot chutes lined up for inspection at an Eastern parachute factory. A pilot chute is hooked up to every parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. Every stitch on this basting machine means as much to Eva Matties as the parachutes she is sewing may mean to her fiance in the Army. Miss Matties also has two brothers in the service, one stationed at an air base, the other in an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Pacific. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. First-generation Americans whose parents represent Italy, Greece, and England, these three girls work side by side at the punching machine in an Eastern parachute factory. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. As these two girls thread shroud cords through the material, these yards of silk become more nearly recognizable as one of the parachutes turned out by this Eastern plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. This machine, operated by Joyce Puopolo, sews four parachute canopy seams at one time. Before joining the war production army, Miss Puopolo was a motorcycle stunt rider in Hollywood. Her husband, who also worked in movie thrillers, is now at a naval air base. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Parachutes, back from a test flight, are inspected in this manner in an Eastern plant. A certain percentage of all parachutes produced are dropped from planes, then returned to the plant for inspection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. As Louis Nerkin guides this cutting machine along the pattern lines, these layers of silk come one step nearer completion as parachutes. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. German-born Reinhard Lehman left his family in charge of his farm so that he could make these parachute harnesses in an Eastern plant. One of his sons is in the Marines, a nephew is in the Army. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. What a boomerang these shroud lines may turn out to be! Made partly from Japanese silk, they are being layed out for marking and cutting. The marker is Charles Baggott, at one time an English butler at the British Embassy in Washington. The parachutes he is helping to produce hold a personal interest for him since his mother and four sisters are in England and his brother is a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot instructor in Canada. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

A couple of women standing next to each other. 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

Production. Parachute making. Mother of a sergeant in the Army, wife of a World War I veteran, Mrs. Emilia Gworek is a soldier in her own right. Here she sews parachute seams during the night shift of an Eastern plant. In the daytime, she is active in Red Cross work and is president of her American Legion Auxiliary. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa More

Production. Parachute making. Not taking a tuck in a wedding gown but sewing up a seam of a flare parachute! This is a joining operation in which sixteen panels, or gores, of the parachute are sewn together. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. Mother of a sergeant in the Army, wife of a World War I veteran, Mrs. Emilia Gworek is a soldier in her own right. Here she sews parachute seams during the night shift of an Eastern plant. In the daytime, she is active in Red Cross work and is president of her American Legion Auxiliary. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fall are these yards and yards of silk, here being stitched together in an Eastern parachute manufacturing plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will see a lot of action is being made as this operator in an Eastern factory does zig-zag stitching with her machine. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. First-generation Americans whose parents represent Italy, Greece, and England, these three girls work side by side at the punching machine in an Eastern parachute factory. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Doing her part, as her brother in the Navy is doing his, this operator is assembling packs for parachutes in an Eastern plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is as important to this worker as inspection of parachutes that will carry "live cargo." Location: an Eastern parachute plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. Doing her part, as her brother in the Navy is doing his, this operator is assembling packs for parachutes in an Eastern plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. As Louis Nerkin guides this cutting machine along the pattern lines, these layers of silk come one step nearer completion as parachutes. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Rolls of silk, destined for action as parachutes for the U.S. Air Force, shown here on the laying-out and cutting table of an Eastern manufacturing plant. The folder machine folds layer upon layer of silk for the cutting operation. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department store lingerie counter is actually pilot chutes lined up for inspection at an Eastern parachute factory. A pilot chute is hooked up to every parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together into flare parachutes, a task which requires just as much care and skill as does working on parachutes that will bear men. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. What a boomerang these shroud lines may turn out to be! Made partly from Japanese silk, they are being layed out for marking and cutting. The marker is Charles Baggott, at one time an English butler at the British Embassy in Washington. The parachutes he is helping to produce hold a personal interest for him since his mother and four sisters are in England and his brother is a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot instructor in Canada. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together into flare parachutes, a task which requires just as much care and skill as does working on parachutes that will bear men. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. Two of her brothers are in the Army, two brothers are World War I veterans. Perhaps that's why Bonnie Bonness finds attaching shroud cords to parachute straps in this Eastern factory more important than her former profession: dancing in New York's Greenwich Village nightclubs. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa More

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is as important to this worker as inspection of parachutes that will carry "live cargo." Location: an Eastern parachute plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Parachutes, back from a test flight, are inspected in this manner in an Eastern plant. A certain percentage of all parachutes produced are dropped from planes, then returned to the plant for inspection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. Rolls of silk, destined for action as parachutes for the U.S. Air Force, shown here on the laying-out and cutting table of an Eastern manufacturing plant. The folder machine folds layer upon layer of silk for the cutting operation. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will see a lot of action is being made as this operator in an Eastern factory does zig-zag stitching with her machine. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. This machine, operated by Joyce Puopolo, sews four parachute canopy seams at one time. Before joining the war production army, Miss Puopolo was a motorcycle stunt rider in Hollywood. Her husband, who also worked in movie thrillers, is now at a naval air base. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. German-born Reinhard Lehman left his family in charge of his farm so that he could make these parachute harnesses in an Eastern plant. One of his sons is in the Marines, a nephew is in the Army. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied France, Mrs. Delia Raymond makes careful inspection of flare parachutes which she hopes will help free her relatives. Of her work she says, "I like it. It's something so vital--it means so much and is so interesting. The country needs these parachutes, and I'm proud to be able to help make them. We keep hoping all the world will be free someday." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fall are these yards and yards of silk, here being stitched together in an Eastern parachute manufacturing plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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

Production. Parachute making. German-born Reinhard Lehman left his family in charge of his farm so that he could make these parachute harnesses in an Eastern plant. One of his sons is in the Marines, a nephew is in the Army. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute making. The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an Eastern factory. Their work is under constant close supervision. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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