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Skiving part of upper which fits onto heel of boot. Skiving is done in order to have small seams. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

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A black and white photo of a person cutting paper, Texas, during Great Depression

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Detroit, Michigan. Girl putting on lipstick and another girl straightening seams in her stocking

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Cementing with a paint brush. This worker is a fabric cementer busy applying a rigging patch to the side of a new barrage balloon. Although the fabric looks mussed at the moment, it will be stretched tight and smooth when the new piece of fabric is added. Seams are triple protected against leaks, folded over, cement-welded, taped on both sides with overlapping rubber adhesive tape. Such seams will never pull apart under pressure. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

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Army tent manufacture. Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. Some of the ninety-five eight-man pyramidal tents being manufactured per day by this small plant. In the background workers are sewing the sod cloths for these tents. Each tent is made to rigid Army Quartermaster Corps specifications which include such details as the length of stitches and the width of seams

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Detroit, Michigan. Girl straightening seams in her stockings and another girl combing her hair in a mirror

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Lineup of cementers. Assembling patterns into gores which in turn are assembled into balloon sections, these workers are charged with making seams strong and gas-tight, since the full tug of gas from the inside, and rigging on the outside is exerted on these sections. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This barrage balloon builder has come to the company's storehouse to obtain more reinforcing tape to fasten the seams of a barrage balloon. Small, but vital to production, every piece of material must pass over this counter and be recorded before issuance. The storekeeper is the only man who knows the secret formula for mixing the rubber cement combination which works most effectively in making air-tight seams. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

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Production. Marine boilers. Grinding of welded seams inside the drum of a large marine boiler at a Midwest plant which has converted its facilities to war production

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"How do I look?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from that old housedress with the splitting seams, and junior's first long pants (no cuffs) can be cut from father's old overcoat. With shortage of wool and other materials needed by the armed forces, it's a wise mother who conserves clothing by altering and remodelling used garments for other members of the family

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

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"Can I wear it today?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from that old housedress, the one with the splitting seams, and Junior's first long pants (no cuffs) can emerge from father's old overcoat. With shortages of wool and other materials that are needed by the armed forces, it's wise, mother, to conserve clothing by altering and

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Erstwhile sewer of fine seams, Minnie Rost, crippled by infantile paralysis, has a new job which is vital to America's war effort. She's hand-burring Y's for aiplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

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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

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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

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Working on the main seams of pilot parachutes, Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California. A double-needle sewing machine is used

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Painting the bottom shell seams

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Cynthia stiches basic seams before fitting, a principle of simplified sewing. While no new sewing machines are being made and the factories are turning out war goods (WPB (War Production Board) assures an adequate supply of machine repair parts for home dressmakers. To fully utilize existing machines, many women form communiuty pools, make machines available to those who would like to buy them and can't

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Buffalo, New York. Gladys Chase, thirty-five, was a beautician for thirteen years before becoming a scarfer. Scarfing is the removing of breaks, seams, cracks, lap wells and defects from steel billets by the use of a burning torch and takes six months to learn this process which is called scarfing

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Painting the bottom shell seams

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming the bottom shell seams

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Cynthia stiches basic seams before fitting, a principle of simplified sewing. While no new sewing machines are being made and the factories are turning out war goods (WPB (War Production Board) assures an adequate supply of machine repair parts for home dressmakers. To fully utilize existing machines, many women form communiuty pools, make machines available to those who would like to buy them and can't

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Her sewing keeps the country from coming apart at the seams

"As seen in The New York Times Magazine March 26, 1972." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.