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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A gear for a Pratt and Whitney engine is tested for hardness on a Rockwell machine in a large Eastern plant now producing a steady flow of airplane motors for the planes that will help us bring victory. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A gear for a Pratt and...

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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From piano keys to parts for trainer planes. Lorraine Avezzano, pictured at work in a Chicago piano factory prior to its conversion to war production. She uses the same boring machine today to process parts for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From piano keys to parts for tr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Norwegian-born Edward Groe has been employed by a Chicago piano factory since 1909, regulating keys of electric organs. With the plant's conversion to the production of trainer-plane motors, this master mechanic has discarded instruments of peace, such as this electric organ, for weapons of war. He now regulates pneumatic motors of trainer planes which are used for instruction of America's flying forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Norwegian-born Edward Groe has ...

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

A woman is working on a musical instrument. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman is working on a musical instrument. Office of War Information ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high school students are making a record among the vocational schools of the state in the speed with which they are picking up the mechanics of repairing airplane motors. Dewey Stewart, nineteen, is checking the valve adjustment on a Wright J-5 in the motor room of the Volusia County Vocational School, operating on the dance floor of a revamped nightclub

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high...

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

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A gear for a Pratt and Whitney engine is tested for hardness on a Rockwell machine in a large Eastern plant now producing a steady flow of airplane motors for the planes that will help us bring victory. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A gear for a Pratt and...

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

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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 availabl... More

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for a nation of jitterbugs has given way to the preparation of trainer-plane motors for a nation dedicated to victory, in this Chicago factory now converted to war production. Bernice Strutz (left) and Clara Bernas are pictured at their pre-war work of installing regulating screws in a piano keyboard. Today they assemble pneumatic motors for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for ...

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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. The lost chord won't be found till the war is over! One of the last electric organs to be made for the duration comes off the line in a Chicago factory now converted to war production. Note octagonal trainer-plane motor in background already undergoing assembly. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. The lost chord won't be found t...

Public domain photograph related to electrical equipment, industrial development, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of electric motor, free to use, no c... More

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Erstwhile piano keyboard assemblers, Clara Bernas (left) and Bernice Struts, employees of a Chicago piano factory which has been converted to war production, now assemble crank bearings for pneumatic trainer-plane motors. Bernice operates the electric screwdriver. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Erstwhile piano keyboard assemb...

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.

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Prior to the conversion of a Chicago piano factory to the manufacture of parts for trainer planes, Lorraine Avezzano operated this boring machine to prepare piano keyboards for further assembly. Today she uses the same machine to process connecting rods for trainer-plane motors. More than 1,000 of these rods pass through her hands each day. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Prior to the conversion of a Ch...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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.

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes place in one of the Midwest's largest airplane plants. These engines will see duty over Berlin, Tokyo and other points of vital interest to the United Nations

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture D... More

Production. Aircraft engines. Reconditioning used spark plugs for reuse in testing airplane motors, Mighnon Gunn operates this small testing machine with speed and precision although she was new to the job two months ago. A former domestic worker, this young woman is now a willing and efficient war worker, one of many women who are relieving labor shortages in war industries throughout the country. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Reconditioning used spark plugs for reus...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it. As vital as iron and steel to the war effort, reclaimed tin is used to make the bushings of airplane motors and machine-gun mounts, and for other war equipment. First step in preparing cans for your government is to remove both ends (or leave attached by no more than one-half inch).

Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it....

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Prior to the conversion of a Chicago piano factory to the manufacture of parts for trainer planes, Lorraine Avezzano operated this boring machine to prepare piano keyboards for further assembly. Today she uses the same machine to process connecting rods for trainer-plane motors. More than 1,000 of these rods pass through her hands each day. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Prior to the conversion of a Ch...

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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From piano keys to parts for trainer planes. Lorraine Avezzano, pictured at work in a Chicago piano factory prior to its conversion to war production. She uses the same boring machine today to process parts for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From piano keys to parts for tr...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. John Brown used to weld rails for merry-go-round. The carrousel plant in which he worked is now engaged in producing parts for a war production program under several subcontractors. He finds the transition to the welding of steel shipping frames for airplane motors an easy one. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. John Brown used to weld rails for me...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Operating an electric screwdriver, Bernice Strutz assembles parts for the pneumatic motors of Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Employed by a Chicago piano factory which is now converted to airplane motor production, Miss Strutz formerly operated a boring machine to assemble piano keyboards

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Operating an electric screwdriv...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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 availabl... More

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto a truck. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto a truck. They are ...

Public domain photograph of loading, unloading, warehouse, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of two women working on a keyboard. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two women working on a keyboard. Office of ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Two women working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Two women working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press which once assembled piano parts, this employee of a Chicago firm now installs gears in the pneumatic motors of trainer planes. The factory has stopped piano production for the duration and now produces trainer-plane motors for America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press whic...

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

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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 availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for a nation of jitterbugs has given way to the preparation of trainer-plane motors for a nation dedicated to victory, in this Chicago factory now converted to war production. Bernice Strutz (left) and Clara Bernas are pictured at their pre-war work of installing regulating screws in a piano keyboard. Today they assemble pneumatic motors for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for ...

Public domain photograph of musical instrument, musician, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile production, these dust pipes, ventilators of spray booths and other relics of pre-war days are relegated to the dump heap, useless now that the plant is one hundred percent converted to production of airplane motors. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile producti...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it. As vital as iron and steel to the war effort, reclaimed tin is used to make the bushings of airplane motors and machine-gun mounts, and for other war equipment. First step in preparing cans for your government is to remove both ends (or leave attached by no more than one-half inch)

Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it....

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture D... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Tests motors by synthetic cold. C.D. Bruce, of the automotive power plant section of the Bureau of Standards, makes a test of airplane motors to show how much coldness they can stand due to high altitude. The testing pipes get as cold as 53 degrees below zero. 12/30/30

Tests motors by synthetic cold. C.D. Bruce, of the automotive power pl...

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes place in one of the Midwest's largest airplane plants. These engines will see duty over Berlin, Tokyo and other points of vital interest to the United Nations

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes ...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of women working on some type of machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women working on some type of machine. Office of War Infor...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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 availabl... More

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are being shipped to Macon, Georgia for repairs

Gunter Field, Alabama. Loading airplane motors onto trucks. They are b...

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 availabl... More

Tests motors by synthetic cold. C.D. Bruce, of the automotive power plant section of the Bureau of Standards, makes a test of airplane motors to show how much coldness they can stand due to high altitude. The testing pipes get as cold as 53 degrees below zero. 123030

Tests motors by synthetic cold. C.D. Bruce, of the automotive power pl...

A black and white photo of a man in a room, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line. Gift; Harris & ... More

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high school students are making a record among the vocational schools of the state in the speed with which they are picking up the mechanics of repairing airplane motors. Dewey Stewart, nineteen, is checking the valve adjustment on a Wright J-5 in the motor room of the Volusia County Vocational School, operating on the dance floor of a revamped nightclub

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Daytona Beach, Florida high...

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 availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a factory. Office of War Informati...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile production, these dust pipes, ventilators of spray booths and other relics of pre-war days are relegated to the dump heap, useless now that the plant is one hundred percent converted to production of airplane motors. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile producti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Reconditioning used spark plugs for reuse in testing airplane motors, Mighnon Gunn operates this small testing machine with speed and precision although she was new to the job two months ago. A former domestic worker, this young woman is now a willing and efficient war worker, one of many women who are relieving labor shortages in war industries throughout the country. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Reconditioning used spark plugs for reus...

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 availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck. Office of W...

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 availabl... More