Conversion. Silverware plant. As many as 10,000 gross of spoons per weeks have been produced by this Eastern company which is now undergoing conversion to production of surgical instruments vitally needed by the Army Medical Corps. The exhibit pictured here is the evolution of the spoon. Conversion of this plant with its hundreds of precision machines and staff of 3,400 skilled and semi-skilled workers is progressing rapidly. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

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Conversion. Silverware plant. As many as 10,000 gross of spoons per weeks have been produced by this Eastern company which is now undergoing conversion to production of surgical instruments vitally needed by the Army Medical Corps. The exhibit pictured here is the evolution of the spoon. Conversion of this plant with its hundreds of precision machines and staff of 3,400 skilled and semi-skilled workers is progressing rapidly. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Negative has a tape mask.
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 1934.

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