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Buffalo, New York. All "hookers" in the processing department of Republic Steel are women. Resting on a pile of billets, they are eating lunch on the job

Buffalo, New York. All "hookers" in the processing department of Repub...

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Dr. Bair, college professor and inventor, saws steel billets to swell the volume for victory. He and his son use a homemade cart to wheel billets to power saws

Dr. Bair, college professor and inventor, saws steel billets to swell ...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Bair. College professor turns war worker. Dr Bair, holder of eleven college degrees, engineer, poet and inventor, lubricates the power hacksaw he uses to saw billets of steel for a war production plant

Dr. Bair. College professor turns war worker. Dr Bair, holder of eleve...

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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are billets of stainless steel, ready to through the hot rolling mills to be pressed into strips. The chipping and grinding on the surfaces of these billets is designed to remove all contamination and defects, so that the steel may meet the high quality requirements of being able to resist corrosion

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are bil...

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Dr Bair. Scientist becomes workman to aid the War Production Drive. Dr. Bair, holder of eleven college degrees and sixty U.S. patents, saws steel billets on a power hacksaw

Dr Bair. Scientist becomes workman to aid the War Production Drive. Dr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man sitting on top of a pile of metal pipes. Office of War Information Photograph

A man sitting on top of a pile of metal pipes. 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

American troops who work on the railway taking supplies to Russia washing out their clothes outside their billets somewhere in Iran

American troops who work on the railway taking supplies to Russia wash...

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

Conservation of used material bears heavily on the progress of the defense program. From Western Electric's distributing houses used wire and cable is shipped to the Nassau Smelting and Refining Company, where its components are preserved and cast into ingots and billets that find their way back to industry again. At the Atlanta distributing house, a new battery-driven lift and dumptruck speeds the local conservation program

Conservation of used material bears heavily on the progress of the def...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod coming from the extrusion machine. Red hot brass billets (solid cylindrical castings) are pushed by tremendous force through a steel die in the extrusion press to form rods of various shapes, or hollow shells that are subsequently made into tubing. The metal is ejected from the extrusion press like tooth paste from a tube. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod ...

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

Dr. Bair. Scientist contributes brawn as well as brain to the war production drive. Dr. Bair, holder of eleven college degrees and sixty U.S. patents, helps his son transfer steel billets to the power saws in his small machine shop

Dr. Bair. Scientist contributes brawn as well as brain to the war prod...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dr. Bair. Scientist, now turned war worker, checks over fire-scarred models of some of his inventions. Dr. Bair, once a college professor and inventor, is aiding the production drive by sawing steel billets to sizes required by a large forging company. A fire destroyed his house and his valuable library several years ago

Dr. Bair. Scientist, now turned war worker, checks over fire-scarred m...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wilson inspecting billets, France

Wilson inspecting billets, France

An old photo of a man on a ladder. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This worker is at the controls of an extruding machine, a powerful piece of apparatus in a brass and copper mill that pushes billets of metal usually heated red hot, through a die to form rods, tubes, angles, channels and other shapes. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This worker is at the control...

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

Dr. Bair, college professor and inventor, saws steel billits to swell the volume for victory. He and his son use a homemade cart to wheel billets to power saws

Dr. Bair, college professor and inventor, saws steel billits to swell ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. A mechanical feeder is here shown running billets of brass into an electric furnace, where they will be heated at a high temperature. Then the heated billets will be pushed with tremendous force through the die of an extrusion machine to form rods, tubes, angles or other shapes. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. A mechanical feeder is here s...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Here is a stock of billets, or solid cylindrical brass or copper castings, which have been sawed to length. These billets will be heated and put through a powerful extrusion machine, which will extrude rods, tubes or other special shapes from them. Billets are cast six inches to eight inches in diameter and usually from four to ten feet long. These are sawed to shorter lengths before they go to the extrusion machines. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Here is a stock of billets, o...

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.

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

A black and white photo of a factory. Office of War Information Photog...

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

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. A heated ingot of steel is removed from the soaking pit. In this pit ingots are thoroughly heated to the extremely high temperature required for conversion into slabs, billets or sheet bars for further conversion

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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

Prêtez vos billets de banque à la France. Prenez des bons de la défense nationale / Andrée Ménard, élève.

Prêtez vos billets de banque à la France. Prenez des bons de la défens...

A French soldier's helmet crowned with holly. Underneath it are bank notes. Translation of title: Lend your bank notes to France. Take war bonds. From a group of posters designed by school children and others, ... More

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. A heated ingot of steel is removed from the soaking pit. In this pit ingots are thoroughly heated to the extremely high temperature required for conversion into slabs, billets or sheet bars for further conversion

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Weighing brass scrap. The war program calls for the use of such vast amounts of brass and copper among other metals, that all available scrap must be utilized. Here a truckload of brass trimmings from a sheet mill is being weighed. From here it will go to the casting shop, where it will be remelted and cast again into billets. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Weighing brass scrap. The war...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing fixtures were formerly processed, hot billets, soon to become shells, are rolled from a butane gas furnace by a water cooled hook. The red-hot billets will next be transferred to hydraulic presses for further processing (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing...

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

Production. Marine boilers. Cutting large billets on a circular cold saw. The pieces are for use in the forging plant of a large Midwest plant producing heavy hydraulic fittings for the Army

Production. Marine boilers. Cutting large billets on a circular cold s...

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

Dr. Bair aiding the war production drive by sawing steel billets is engineer, philosopher, psychologist, poet, inventor and sub-contractor! He lives with his son's family near the shop where he reduces steel billets to sizes required by a large forging plant

Dr. Bair aiding the war production drive by sawing steel billets is en...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Bair. College professor and inventor saws steel billets to swell the volume for victory. He and his son use a homemade cart to wheel billets from the unloading point to power saws

Dr. Bair. College professor and inventor saws steel billets to swell t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American troops working on their billets somewhere in Iran. Left to right: Private Irvin George Wood of Oil Field, Kansas; Private Paul Robinette of Youngstown, Ohio; Private Russell Luther of Clay City, Indiana; Private Edward McBride of Columbus, Ohio

American troops working on their billets somewhere in Iran. Left to ri...

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Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

music by Van W. Anderson ; words by Edward Melbourne (W. N. Hodgson M. C.) Lieut Devon Regiment. (statement of responsibility) Manuscript in ink. For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

music by Van W. Anderson ; words by Edward Melbourne (W. N. Hodgson M. C.) Lieut Devon Regiment. (statement of responsibility) Manuscript in ink. For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

music by Van W. Anderson ; words by Edward Melbourne (W. N. Hodgson M. C.) Lieut Devon Regiment. (statement of responsibility) Manuscript in ink. For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are billets of stainless steel, ready to through the hot rolling mills to be pressed into strips. The chipping and grinding on the surfaces of these billets is designed to remove all contamination and defects, so that the steel may meet the high quality requirements of being able to resist corrosion

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are bil...

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

Billets and blooms, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania

Billets and blooms, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing fixtures were formerly processed, hot billets, soon to become shells, are rolled from a butane gas furnace by a water cooled hook. The red-hot billets will next be transferred to hydraulic presses for further processing (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing...

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

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

Back to rest billets - Public domain World War One sheet music

music by Van W. Anderson ; words by Edward Melbourne (W. N. Hodgson M. C.) Lieut Devon Regiment. (statement of responsibility) Manuscript in ink. For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Repairing the road around the billets of American troops who will work at the railroad yard where supplies for Russia pass. Somewhere in Iran

Repairing the road around the billets of American troops who will work...

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

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. A heated ingot of steel is removed from the soaking pit. In this pit ingots are thoroughly heated to the extremely high temperature required for conversion into slabs, billets or sheet bars for further conversion

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Gladys Chase, thirty-five, was a beautician for thirteen years before becoming a scarfer. Scarfing is the removing of breaks, seams, cracks, lap wells and defects from steel billets by the use of a burning torch and takes six months to learn this process which is called scarfing

Buffalo, New York. Gladys Chase, thirty-five, was a beautician for thi...

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Buffalo, New York. All "hookers" in the processing department of Republic Steel are women. Resting on a pile of billets, they are eating lunch on the job

Buffalo, New York. All "hookers" in the processing department of Repub...

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