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Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works in were both accustomed to a different kind of work in times of peace. A former silk weaver and loom repairman, this worker now assembles thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts in a plant which made safe and locks before Pearl Harbor. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works in were both accustomed to a different kind of work in times of peace. A former silk weaver and loom repairman, this worker now assembles thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts in a plant which made safe and locks before Pearl Harbor. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works in were both accustomed to a different kind of work in times of peace. A former silk weaver and loom repairman, this worker now assembles thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts in a plant which made safe and locks before Pearl Harbor. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

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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.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Hollem, Howard R., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

York (Pa.), 39.96250, -76.72778

Google Map of 39.962500000000006, -76.72777777777777

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Library of Congress

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