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Civilian defense. A police emergency worker shows how Warsop asoline rockbreaker works. The two-cycled engine delivers 2300 blows per minute, and can be used to break through walls to release trapped persons. The demonstration was at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York

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Civilian defense. A police emergency worker shows how Warsop asoline rockbreaker works. The two-cycled engine delivers 2300 blows per minute, and can be used to break through walls to release trapped persons. The demonstration was at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York

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Summary

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Photographed by Afred T. Palmer or Howard Hollem.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 629.

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Date

01/01/1941

place

Location

new york

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Source

Library of Congress

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https://www.loc.gov/

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Public Domain