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Art training is sponsored by the Good Shepherd Community Center. Chicago, Illinois

Art training is sponsored by the Good Shepherd Community Center. Chica...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Family living in an area which is to be taken by the Army

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Family living in an area which is to ...

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Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Thousands of trousers line up in packing cases for shipment to the expanding defense Army. Each case holds 75 trousers of a given size. This plant produces 1300 trousers a day in both khaki and wool serge

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisvil...

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War housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to house civilian workers employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. These homes, constructed at a cost of $1,114,748 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority) through the local housing authority, are permanent and are expected to continue after the emergency as part of the local authority's low-rent housing project. Rents are divided into three groups which run from a low of $19 to a high of $39 a month. The project completed on February, 1941, consists almost entirely of apartment-type dwellings

War housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to h...

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Driver of truck of the Walla Walla Grain Growers. Walla Walla County, Washington

Driver of truck of the Walla Walla Grain Growers. Walla Walla County, ...

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"Tooled Up" with somewhere to go. Part of the vast machine shop at an eastern Navy yard, where machine-tools that took months to build are now stepping out with production parts and materials needed for Navy expansion

"Tooled Up" with somewhere to go. Part of the vast machine shop at an ...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one one-thousandth of the manpower engaged in the construction of Uncle Sam's new 70,000,000 battleship the USS Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. Approximately 3000 men are working to complete this mighty mistress of the seas. The men above are skilled shipfitters

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one one-thousandth of the ma...

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The men behind the fleet. Skilled workers at an eastern Navy yard, chosen after the most rigid tests of loyalty and ability, help the nation create the world's greatest Navy

The men behind the fleet. Skilled workers at an eastern Navy yard, cho...

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Street near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia

Street near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Their helmets hoisted on their heads, these two welders take time out for a smoke and breath of fresh air. Hundreds of welders are employed in the building of Uncle Sam's new Navy craft

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Their helmets hoisted on their heads, the...

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Men eating at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Men eating at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

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Langdon Tent and Awning Company, Wichita, Kansas. Massachusetts production of 1500 "pup" tents a day for the expanding defense Army. A high speed cutting machine cuts through 190 layers of cloth at one time

Langdon Tent and Awning Company, Wichita, Kansas. Massachusetts produc...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty of this worker in the plate shaping shop. The sledgehammer is still an important tool in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's giant new fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty o...

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Electric Institute of Washington. War Department Building

Electric Institute of Washington. War Department Building

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B. T. Bonnot, Assistant to the Chief of Contract Distribution Branch, War Production Board (WPB)

B. T. Bonnot, Assistant to the Chief of Contract Distribution Branch, ...

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These women are doing the final finishing work on bullet-sealing fuel tanks, a new development vitally important to the safety of military aviators. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, b...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs are shown answering call to assembly. Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 1942

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACs are shown answering call to assemb...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. The muzzle break of a machine gun for the Air Corps must be right. An inspector in a big auto plant now converted to war work examines each piece as it travels down the production line. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. The muzzle break of a machi...

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Washington, DC. International student assembly. Roden Kadir, delegate from the East Indies, a student at Catholic University, addressing on "Indonesian students in the war"

Washington, DC. International student assembly. Roden Kadir, delegate ...

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Mrs. Edward Harkness, residence at 1 E. 75th St., New York City. Mrs. Harkness' desk and portrait

Mrs. Edward Harkness, residence at 1 E. 75th St., New York City. Mrs. ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The sculptor's art plays an important part in making dies for the production of modern airplanes. An old master at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated works with plaster mixed to the proper consistency by a young woman assistant. From his plaster models will be made the metal dies with which plane parts are formed in hydraulic presses. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The sculptor's art plays a...

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Carrots are carried to town packing plants in these large truck-trailers. Imperial County, California

Carrots are carried to town packing plants in these large truck-traile...

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Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. There's plenty of traffic on the runways of a bombardment squadron base. A plane taxis in after landing at Langley Field, Virginia. In the foreground is a giant YB-17 bomber with the transparent gunner's port and two of the four powerful engines showing

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. There's plenty of...

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Dover, England. A scene from "Twenty-one Miles" produced by the British Army film unit and released by the Ministry of Information. The film shows how the town of Dover on the English coast, looks and lives today, with the enemy just across the channel, twenty-one miles away

Dover, England. A scene from "Twenty-one Miles" produced by the Britis...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas at his trunk in the barracks

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Woman riveter at work on the fuselage of a bomber at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Woman riveter at work on the fuselage of a bomber at the Vultee Aircra...

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Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Victory Corps boy learning bench metal mathematics

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Victory Corps b...

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Montgomery County, Maryland. Farmers sharing a car on market day

Montgomery County, Maryland. Farmers sharing a car on market day

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Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Road to Victory XX, Soldiers

Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Road to Victory X...

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Inventory at war production clinic, San Francisco, California, reveals over 3,000 items on display needed by government agencies and prime contractors. Pictured here is a U.S. Army assault boat wanted by Army engineers. Marion Bauman and Florence Carr aid Ray Hawksley, exhibit manager, with inventory

Inventory at war production clinic, San Francisco, California, reveals...

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Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good ignition job on an army truck. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic at Fort Knox, Kentucky, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. A good ignition job on an army truck. This...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Ceremonies at the presentation of the Army and Navy E award to the Briggs manufacturing company. Presentation of individual excellence awards to workers

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Ceremonies at the presentation of the Ar...

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Setting up exercises at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Setting up exercises at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. Full battle gear makes the Marine infantryman a figure that will be decidedly unpopular in the best Axis circles. Four leathernecks, taking advantage of foliage cover, emerge from a thicket during war exercises at New River, North Carolina. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. Full battle gear makes...

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Schoolchildren who have collected scrap metal for war. San Juan Bautista, California

Schoolchildren who have collected scrap metal for war. San Juan Bautis...

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Aluminum paint is a civilian scarcity these days, but Uncle Sam still uses lots of it. These one and five gallon containers are ready to be filled in a large Midwest aluminum factory now producing army essentials under army contract. Aluminum Industries

Aluminum paint is a civilian scarcity these days, but Uncle Sam still ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Hundreds of dies for the making of war planes, stand ready to be moved to the hydraulic press department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. This plant produces battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Hundreds of dies for the ma...

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America's production chief. Keeping tabs on the fighting fronts is an important part of Donald Nelson's job as War Production Board (WPB) chairman. He selects a morning paper to read in his car before departing for his office. Later in the day, he will go through the file of metropolitan papers in his office

America's production chief. Keeping tabs on the fighting fronts is an ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Mr. Casement, farmer in the area bought by the Army for construction. He has bought a farm nearby

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Mr. Casement, farmer in th...

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Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Factory men inspecting the ship

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Soon they'll be part of a fighting ship. These steel and copper tubing shapes will be installed in U.S. Navy vessels now under construction in a Southern shipyard

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Soon they'll be part of a fightin...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Tin smelting. A new furnace building under construction at a Southern tin smelter. Pure tin will be produced here from South American ore to meet the countless war needs of the United Nations. This smelting operation, the first of its magnitude in the United States, has already achieved a heavy output of the invaluable pure metal

Production. Tin smelting. A new furnace building under construction at...

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Chaplain school students in dress formation. U.S. Army chaplain school, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Chaplain school students in dress formation. U.S. Army chaplain school...

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Marines dress parade. The Marines paraded in honor of Colonel William T. Clement when he was presented the Navy Cross for distinguished service in the Philippines. The presentation was made on July 17, 1942, in the courtyard of the Marine barracks in Washington, D.C.

Marines dress parade. The Marines paraded in honor of Colonel William ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jewett City, Connecticut (vicinity). Relatives of Estonian farmer. These relatives have not been heard from since the war started

Jewett City, Connecticut (vicinity). Relatives of Estonian farmer. The...

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Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Turning one of the heavy tracks of an M-3 tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Army keeps a large force of trained mechanics busy at the job of servicing and repairing all its motorized equipment

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Turning one of the hea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Museum of Modern Art. Defense housing exhibit, education section

Museum of Modern Art. Defense housing exhibit, education section

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Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welder's help getting a drink of water

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

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Washington, D.C. Mrs. Hurley, wife of our envoy to New Zealand (?) with Mrs. Nash, wife of the minister from New Zealand, examining a knitting bag on sale at the opening of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) exhibit at the Bundles for Britain headquarters

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Hurley, wife of our envoy to New Zealand (?) wit...

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Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welder and helper

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

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Shoppers reading US Army exclusion order No. 20 directing evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry, San Francisco

Shoppers reading US Army exclusion order No. 20 directing evacuation o...

Photo attributed to Dorothea Lange. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-41. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information... More

Forging part of small gun. Drop forging a part of one of the smaller guns being turned out in Navy yard. This is part of the war program calling for the completion of hundreds of new warships

Forging part of small gun. Drop forging a part of one of the smaller g...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A rivet is her fighting weapon, Oyida Beaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking National Youth Administration (NYA) training to become mechanics at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks' apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the assembly and repair Department at the base

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A rivet is her fighting weapon, ...

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Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles County, California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese arriving

Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles County, California. The evac...

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Three Thirds of the Nation. Here is the cast of the War Production Board (WPB) radio program "Steel." Rehearsal is over and the cast relaxes for a few minutes before going on the air. The actors shown here are Edward Arnold, Howard McNeer, Frank Graham, Fred Shields, Janet Eberhardt, Pat McGeehan, Cy Kendall, Eric Rolf, Lou Merrill, Lucille Meredith, Joe Kearns and Glen Ford

Three Thirds of the Nation. Here is the cast of the War Production Boa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Right of way passing through the countryside

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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The plotting room of a big army camp must have alert, intelligent men on the job. It has them, all of which goes to make a truly superior army

The plotting room of a big army camp must have alert, intelligent men ...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Preparing to join a section of pipe to the main line

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Signaling to let go an Army barge and launch her

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Signaling to let go an...

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Washington, D.C. Vice President Henry A. Wallace in his victory garden

Washington, D.C. Vice President Henry A. Wallace in his victory garden

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Citation winners in the war production drive

Citation winners in the war production drive

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Waiting at the old Santa Fe station for the train which will take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Forming lucite (a shatter-proof plastic "glass") for war plane enclosures requires extreme care. Here an employee at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California plant cleans a mold with compressed air before forming the part. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Forming lucite (a shatter-...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Its aluminum body shining in the sunlight, this advanced trainer palne is taxied into the airport by a line man. Technically, this is an SNC plane, or advanced training ship

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Its aluminum body shining in th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Typical woman war worker reaching for a time card

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Typical woman war worker reac...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Production. Submarine chasers. Bending pipe fittings for new subchasers. The heating furnaces and bending floor of an Eastern boatyard are kept busy as one Navy boat after another is built and fitted. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Bending pipe fittings for new subchaser...

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Citation winner. Walter P. Hill, citation winner, employeed at the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company of Detroit, Michigan at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

Citation winner. Walter P. Hill, citation winner, employeed at the Wol...

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Preparations for launching an Army barge

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Preparations for launc...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Firing line of welders at work on the pipeline

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. East meets West. Left to right: Coast Guardsman Vincent Pope, Bronx, New York; Coast Guardsman George Gilpin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lee Ah Ding and Yee Chee Ching, Chinese seamen from a British freighter, meet at South Ferry, New York City. Lee and Yee are two of the first Chinese granted shore leave in an American port since this country entered the war

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. This special-purpose multiple drill formerly used in assembly of automobile parts, cannot readily be converted to war production. Unless some specific wartime use is found for it, the machine will be stored for the duration. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. This special-purpose multiple drill f...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft workers. Workers of various races contribute their skills to war industry. To safeguard American cities against all contingencies, these workers in an Eastern arsenal are sewing hand harness tabs on gas masks, which are being turned out in mass production volume. Edgewood Arsenal. Edgwood, Maryland

Manpower. Negro aircraft workers. Workers of various races contribute ...

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Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, a noted country day school for pupils from three to eighteen years of age. A display of art work by the pupils of the school

Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, a noted country day school fo...

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Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard operates continuously to keep our steel mills supplied with scrap metal needed to make the tools of war. Location: a large New Orleans yard

Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard o...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. Technical experts of a large Eastern silverware manufacturing company inspect a Springfield-type bayonet to be produced for the Army. Conversion to war production in this plant is already well under way. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Technical experts of a large Eastern sil...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The rim of an army helmet is formed on a press from steel rod. Finished rims are shown on the hook below the operator's right hand. The helmets are made in an Eastern plant converted by retooling from the production of automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The rim of an army helmet ...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. A line of Douglas A-20 attack bombers, just off the assembly line at the Long Beach, California, plant is ready for test flights and delivery to the Army. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. A line of Douglas A-20 attack bombers...

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. One of 600 skilled workers employed in the construction of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C. Photo shows carpenter fitting window

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. One of 600 skilled worker...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Production. Aircraft. A test engineer runs a spectrographic test on metal for aircraft construction in the laboratory of a big Western plant. Tests on all aviation construction metals are constantly made to ensure consistently high quality of materials

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer runs a spectrographic test on me...

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Chrysler Corporation. Dodge truck plant. Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Dodge Army trucks and ambulances awaiting delivery to the Army

Chrysler Corporation. Dodge truck plant. Detroit, Michigan (vicinity)....

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A Navy wife works to keep HIM flying. She has been trained to recondition spark plugs in the assembly and repair department of the Corpus Christi, Texas, naval air base. Her job is under civil service

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A Navy wife works to keep HIM f...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Teams of men and women work efficiently to prepare a C-47 transport plane for riveting operations at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Teams of men and women work efficie...

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Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Lifting a wooden manhole cover into place is Colonel Carl H. Reeves, superintendent of the Los Angeles County, California, Maintenance Department. Treated to resist termites and decay, each wooden cover saves 500 pounds of metal. It may be manufactured without the use of extensive fabricating equipment. A War Production Board (WPB) order prohibits the use of iron and steel for manhole covers

Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Lifting a wooden manhole cover in...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welder at work

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Mary Homans, John Staley and Edward Till, working on a model of a proposed NYA (National Youth Administration) training camp at the Landscape Architectural School. Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Mary Homans, John Staley and Edward Till, working on a model of a prop...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed i...

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The stories they've told! Another load of RKO Radio typewriters is turned in to the government for war work. Somewhere in the lot is Maureen O'Harra's personal typewriter which she added to the pile before she would pose in the picture. The machines come from the script department where each one has played its role in recording countless memorable senes for screenplays. Taking time off between the shooting of scenes at the RKO Studios in Hollywood, Miss O'Harra helped collect more than seventy typewriters for future use by the Army, Navy, and Marines

The stories they've told! Another load of RKO Radio typewriters is tur...

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Gladstone, North Dakota. County agent addressing group of farmers at Food for Victory meeting

Gladstone, North Dakota. County agent addressing group of farmers at F...

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A bulletin board serves as a central source of up-to-date war production drive information at Link Aviation Devices, Binghamton, New York. A poster urges employees to contribute ideas for speeding up production. A lunch box painted in red, white and blue is used for suggestions

A bulletin board serves as a central source of up-to-date war producti...

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Conversion. Paper money to plant wing parts. Gear blanks for machine tool head stocks are turned in the Eastern plant of a former paper machinery manufacturer. Naval sights and other war essentials are also made in this plant

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Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where automobiles were manufactured twenty-four hours a day up until a few weeks ago. This giant will soon be converted to production of tanks for Uncle Sam's army. If conversion is not practical, the machine will be pooled or stored. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where auto...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas at the supply pigeon holes

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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War production drive. The enthusiasm generated by the War Production Drive is graphically shown by this picture of Westinghouse employees attending a rally sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) Joint Committee. Army, Navy and union officials spoke and a returned war correspondent told of his experiences on the war front

War production drive. The enthusiasm generated by the War Production D...

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Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans is to wash them thoroughly inside and out and remove label. When this can is processed in a detinning plant, enough tin will be reclaimed from it to plate the cannister of a gas mask

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans i...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. More essential to America's war effort than this attractive nightgown are millions of yards of mosquito netting now being made by an Eastern mill. Conversion of the plant from manufacture of hosiery and gloves to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy involved changing the pattern cam and driving gears on a Tricot-warp-a knit machine. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. More essential to America's war effort th...

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Blue Ball, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Progressive order of Mennonite, known as the "Car Mennonites," coming out of Sunday service. They use cars, but usually paint all nickel trim black

Blue Ball, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Progressive order of Mennonite, kn...

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The father of a Swedish-American selectee from Minnesota in the U.S. Army

The father of a Swedish-American selectee from Minnesota in the U.S. A...

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A poster comes to life. A reciprocal engagement is carried out at Sergeant Vineyard's army post, where welder George Woolslayer and Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (right) learn about life in the Army. Woolslayer was invited to the post after he had shown the servicemen through the steel mill where he works. In this way, the colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster learned about one another, and gained new respect for the part each plays in the war against the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. A reciprocal engagement is carried out at Serg...

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