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R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Heat treatment

R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Heat treatment

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R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Power shear

R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Power shear

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ledkote. TWA plane at La Guardia hangar

Ledkote. TWA plane at La Guardia hangar

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Jig taking

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Jig taking

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B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Framework subassembly

B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Framework sub...

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Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Capital City Airport, Francis Aviation, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Francis Aviation, North side of Grand River Aven...

Significance: The Francis Aviation buildings are significant for two reasons, the first being that one of the hangars in the complex is the second oldest hangar erected at the Capital City Airport, after the Cl... More

Pour it on! / Garrett Price., World War II photo

Pour it on! / Garrett Price., World War II photo

Giant metal worker pouring airplanes from ladle. No. A14. U.S. Government Printing Office : 1942-0-476539.

Pour it on! / Garrett Price.

Pour it on! / Garrett Price.

Giant metal worker pouring airplanes from ladle. No. A14. U.S. Government Printing Office : 1942-0-476539.

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport i...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glenn L. Martin Co. airplane factory. View of airplane factory complex across field

Glenn L. Martin Co. airplane factory. View of airplane factory complex...

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North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif

North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside ass...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 bombers as they move down the assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Cowling and control rods are added to motors for North American B-25 b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Bea...

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Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Transport plane takes off on test flight, Consolidated Aircraft Corp.,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval Air Base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan; Corpus Christi, Texas

Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Assembly and repair department. Mrs. Davis' training will enable her to take the place of her husband should he be called by the armed service

Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made a...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, worki...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly and installation work, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Repair Dept. at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Bowen and Olsen, a riveter and her supervisor, in the Assembly and Rep...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansas

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansa...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Aviation cadets in training at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Tex...

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An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. 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

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor

Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Ir...

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

Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made arrangement for the care of her two children during the day and joined her husband at work in the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Both are employed under Civil Service in the Assembly and repair department. Mrs. Davis' training will enable her to take the place of her husband should he be called by the armed service

Answering the nation's need for womanpower, Mrs. Virginia Davis made a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. Side, showing glass windows

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. Side, showing glass window...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. View showing administration building and plant

Curtiss Wright Corp., Caldwell, New Jersey. View showing administratio...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Lobby, to receptionist

Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Lobby...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a modernist architecture building, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Ceiling detail

Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Bayshore, Long Island, New York. Ceili...

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B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Cutting machine

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Cutting machine

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. P1 oil tank

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. P1 oil tank

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Presses

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Presses

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Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Rockwell machine

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Rockwell machine

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Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Group of presses

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Group of presses

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angel...

Significance: Primarily developed between 1941 and 1953 and in continuous use to the present, the subject structures of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City plant, constitute a unique and remarkably intact ... More

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angel...

Significance: Primarily developed between 1941 and 1953 and in continuous use to the present, the subject structures of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City plant, constitute a unique and remarkably intact ... More

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Employees on the "Sunshine" assembly line at North American's plant put the finishing touches on another B-25 bomber, Inglewood, Calif. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Employees on the "Sunshine" assembly line at North American's plant pu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Inglewood, Calif.

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the ...

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Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashville, Tennessee

Working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Vultee [Aircraft Inc.], Nashvill...

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

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-12 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate

It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic at the Naval Air Base, in the Assembly and Repair Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic ...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane in construction, North American Aviation, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane in construction, North American Aviatio...

Probably the plant in Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb. Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. 12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs... More

A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before ...

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

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, carries one of the greatest human and cargo loads of any plane now in mass production

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed on a Navy plane, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Jesse Rhodes Waller, A.O.M., third class, tries out a 30-calibre machi...

Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NYA employees receiving training in the Assembly and Repair Dept., U.S. Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

NYA employees receiving training in the Assembly and Repair Dept., U.S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...

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

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on the side of the fuselage of a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee

A candid view of one of the women workers touching up the U.S. Army Ai...

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

As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas

As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is l...

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Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate

It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a...

Public domain photograph of jet aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Lot 120... More

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., Bethpage, Long Island. General exterior

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., Bethpage, Long Island. General ext...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edo Aircraft Corporation, 14th Ave., Whitestone, Long Island. Interior III

Edo Aircraft Corporation, 14th Ave., Whitestone, Long Island. Interior...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of an industrial building, factory or warehouse, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Liberty Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, Long Island. Exterior, at night

Liberty Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, Long Island. Exterior, at night

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Liberty Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, Long Island. General exterior II

Liberty Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, Long Island. General exterior II

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Cleaner

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Cleaner

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B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Tensile testing machine

B & H Aircraft, Farmingdale, Long Island. Tensile testing machine

Public domain photograph - American industrial history, 1930s-1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Punch press

R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Punch press

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Jig I

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Jig I

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Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Inspection

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Inspection

Public domain photograph of midcentury American office, workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Welding department

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Welding department

Public domain photograph of midcentury American workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Setting up molds

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Setting up molds

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Inner skin

B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Inner skin

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Subassembly manifold

B & H Aircraft, Eastern Pkwy., Farmingdale, Long Island. Subassembly m...

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angel...

Significance: Primarily developed between 1941 and 1953 and in continuous use to the present, the subject structures of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City plant, constitute a unique and remarkably intact ... More

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Hughes Aircraft Company, 6775 Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angel...

Significance: Primarily developed between 1941 and 1953 and in continuous use to the present, the subject structures of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City plant, constitute a unique and remarkably intact ... More

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA

Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-154 Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1916 Subsequent Work

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp. plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Working on wing of Consolidated Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraf...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside ass...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mr...

Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., a woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., a woman i...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women w...

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

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background

A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, ...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Assembling Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming ...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircra...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembly in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. 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

Bomb bay gasoline tanks for long flights of B-25 bombers await assembl...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif

F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long B...

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine i...

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A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the south Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men -- and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant...

12002-39. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to completion, North American Aviation, Inglewood, Calif

On North American's outdoor assembly line, employees rush a B-25 to co...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

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