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Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot subchasers at an Eastern boatyard. The big oak pieces are shaped with a saw and adze, then planed to a beautiful smooth finish. Each keel is a load for fourteen men. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Getting out keel timbers for 110-foot s...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Minesweepers. House carpenters turn shipbuilders - and do a good job of it. The man shaping the stem of a new minesweeper's box with an adze has become proficient at an ancient but still indispensible art. Location: an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. House carpenters turn shipbuilders - and do ...

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

Portion of  Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashioned and home-made tools, including an adze with his name inscribed on it, an axe, and a mattock, also known as a "'seng" hoe, used in digging ginseng

Portion of Bruce Jarrell's collection of old-fashioned and home-made ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adze & cleaver - Public domain  drawing

Adze & cleaver - Public domain drawing

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Dec. 1878. From the "Construction" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints an... More

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workman using an adze

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workman using an a...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description