De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe family of Eustis, Florida, after a day's work for the De Land pool. Left is Mrs. La Roe with her two-year-old granddaughter, next is four-year-old Eugene, Clarence La Roe's son, and Mr. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Seventy-five-year-old Mrs. Katie La Roe, great-grandmother of the family, does the cooking for the La Roe production group at Eustis, Florida to give other members of the family more time for war work in their garage machine shop. The La Roe family forms an important unit in the De Land, Florida industrial pool.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a grandmother with two sons in the army, doing her daily shift in the family's garage workshop. She is cutting worm gears needed for the army aircraft equipment made by the De Land, Florida industrial pool

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot

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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
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De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot

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