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The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book. "Spanish soldier, a modern Jap., o'enry, Egypt[ian]"

The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book. "Spanish soldier,...

Frenchman exclaiming "Mon Dieu" at sight of model of Paris, and man too fat to fit thru entrance gate. Caricatures of people at the Phila. Centennial Exhibition.

Cinch straps, bits, halters and chains in ranch supply store. Alpine, Texas

Cinch straps, bits, halters and chains in ranch supply store. Alpine, ...

Public domain photograph of industry and equipment, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Bits and parts. The members of the De Land, Florida pool solved their welding problem on their first war contract with typical American ingenuity. F.W. Casey had to have a welding generator and couldn't buy one. So he took an old Overland chassis, mounted a Dodge motor on it, attached a Studebaker radiator, and connected a second-hand generator to the engine. The outfit performs with the same efficiency as a five hundred dollar factory job

De Land pool. Bits and parts. The members of the De Land, Florida pool...

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these figures for merry-go-rounds, peacetime product of this New York state plant, now turning out bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these...

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

In Memphis, Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near the bridge every morning at daylight in hopes of work chopping cotton on a plantation. They are hauled to and from work on trucks. Reduced cotton acreage has made employment scarce for this class of seasonal labor in all towns. "You can't live the commonest way on six bits a day. Not alone nor no way. A man like me can't get no foothold. It's a mighty tough old go. The people here in the morning are hungry, raggedy, but they don't make no hungry march"

In Memphis, Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near th...

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

Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. The big "shoes" of a carryall scraper, working on a new access road at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are given the best of care. A mechanic removes nails and bits of glass and metal from a costly tire that must give many more miles of service

Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. The big "shoes" of a carryall scrap...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these figures for merry-go-rounds, peacetime product of this New York state plant, now turning out bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these...

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

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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

Bits of garments as votive offerings in window of el-Aksa [i.e., al-Aqsa Mosque]; devotional threads

Bits of garments as votive offerings in window of el-Aksa [i.e., al-Aq...

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

Bits and pieces. Template with cornerholes punched; staple machined and formed; completed hasp

Bits and pieces. Template with cornerholes punched; staple machined an...

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

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making bits for a pneumatic drilling machine is to heat a rod of the proper size; this rod is placed into machine which punches and forms the bit; this process is called drop forging. Bit plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making b...

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

Metal Cheek Plate Patterns. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Metal Cheek Plate Patterns. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collectio...

Maker: Faupel, Leonard, Winnemucca, Nevada Pattern at right cut from coffee can, others from sheet zinc and a tobacco tin The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by... More

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Various types, etc. Bits of garments as votive offerings.

Various types, etc. Bits of garments as votive offerings.

Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spurs and bits in ranch supply store. Alpine, Texas

Spurs and bits in ranch supply store. Alpine, Texas

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

Bits and pieces display. O.C.D. small parts display at WPB (War Production Board) office, 122 E. 42nd Street, New York City

Bits and pieces display. O.C.D. small parts display at WPB (War Produc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Photo of Cheek Plate Patterns - Public domain dedication

Photo of Cheek Plate Patterns - Public domain dedication

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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

A black and white photo of men working on a boat, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of men working on a boat, Texas, during Great ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Oil field workers talking together with bits in front of them, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field workers talking together with bits in front of them, Kilgore...

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

Jim Eckles, water pumper, "backup man," with drill bits used in oil well in C.C. Graber pool, Continental oil company. Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas

Jim Eckles, water pumper, "backup man," with drill bits used in oil we...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos process of reclaiming scrap in a Midwest plant, rubber is forced through a screen by a large worn screw, and bits of metal and fiber are removed. Ropy lengths of rubber, ready for the final refining operation, are extruded. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos pr...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. The worker is machinist Fred Luther, whose skill was formerly used to amuse children, is now aiding in the job of protecting children and assuring them a life in which amusement will be as much a part as before the rise of a fascism. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe use...

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

Ramasco Jewelry Store Interior with Cowboy Sculpture

Ramasco Jewelry Store Interior with Cowboy Sculpture

With cowboy sculpture, bits, and jewelry on counter Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Machines. Steel bits, Washington DC

Machines. Steel bits, Washington DC

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

Oil drillers talking with bits in front of them and drilling equipment in background, Kilgore, Texas

Oil drillers talking with bits in front of them and drilling equipment...

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration is this stock of figures for merry-go-rounds. The New York state plant which formerly turned them out is now engaged in the production of bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration is this ...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De Land, Florida industrial pool, couldn't make a certain washer fast enough for the contract. So F.W. Casey took parts from a junk heap and built the speed press pictured above. Now it sits in the yard, because of insufficient room in the little shop, and turns out eight washers a minute for the war machine. Operating it is young Norman Bane, who was an automobile mechanic up until six months ago, when he apprenticed as a machinist under Casey

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De L...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cheek Plates with Inlays and Blank

Cheek Plates with Inlays and Blank

Maker: Faupel, Leonard, Winnemucca, Nevada Bottom cheek plate blank in popular "Lady's Leg" pattern; top "Chileno" cheek plate displays silver inlay on the high arch; middle cheek plate blank made of 3/16-inch ... More

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making bits for a pneumatic drilling machine is to heat a rod of the proper size; this rod is placed into machine which punches and forms the bit; this process is called drop forging. Bit plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making b...

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

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Tempering bits to be used for pneumatic drilling machines in a copper mine

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Tempering bits to be u...

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

Miller and Tietjen Catalogue. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Miller and Tietjen Catalogue. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collect...

"Catalogue No. 6," source of supply and design for Leonard Faupel's handmade bits and spurs; ca. 1950 Source: Faupel, Marguerite and Wesley Maker: Miller and Tietjen, Reno, Nevada The Paradise Valley Folklife ... More

Bridle with Curb Bit. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Bridle with Curb Bit. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Stewart, Leslie and Marie "Salinas" type curb bit made by Garcia, bridle has flat split reins with romal, a kind of attached quirt Maker: Garcia Bit and Spur, Elko, Nevada The Paradise Valley Folklife ... More

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this carload of scrap metal. Steel mills operating at capacity cannot afford to run short of these precious bits of cast away metal. The charging boxes foreground, will carry the scrap to the furnace for remelting

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Personnel Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatman's Bank Building in St. Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, the Navy, and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become under contracts or subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibits. Similar exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

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.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are landing gear housings for war planes. They are turned out by a New York state plant which formerly made merry-go-rounds and now makes numerous bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are landing gear housings for ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto to [sic] other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (fifty cents) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found in Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve y...

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

Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job. He takes the slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them on an inguarded [i.e., unguarded] circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day" (fifty cents). Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride s...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a bunch of tools, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a bunch of tools, Texas, during Great Depre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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

Metal Cheek Plate Blanks - Public domain engraving

Metal Cheek Plate Blanks - Public domain engraving

Maker: Faupel, Leonard, Winnemucca, Nevada Two steel blanks with areas outlined for silver inlay, one steel blank inlaid with silver, one plate cut from a silver sheet and engraved for use as overlay

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book

The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book

Wading thru mud, napping at a refreshment area, selling cigars, man with eyeballs all over his head in order to "see everything in a day". Caricatures of people at the Phila. Centennial Exhibition.

Kairouan. Doorway between two courtyards in the Mosque of the Barber, showing details of the Moorish tiles and fine bits of Arabic stucco work above the door which is chiselled out of hard cement by hand / Lehnert et Landrock, Tunis.

Kairouan. Doorway between two courtyards in the Mosque of the Barber, ...

Blind stamp: Lehnert et Landrock, Tunis. No. 523. No. 13. Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Man from river bottoms shack town, Iowa. He collects scrap iron, bits of metal, etc., from the city dump. Note the burlap sack

Man from river bottoms shack town, Iowa. He collects scrap iron, bits ...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New machine to speed up statistics of census of 1940. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Back in 1870, it took 7 years to compile statistics from the facts taken by census takers, but in the next 10 years, Herman Hollerith invented a 'unit tabulator,' shown on left of photo being operated by Operator Ann Oliver. This machine is fed cards containing census information at the rate of 400 a minute and from these, 12 separate bits of statistical information is extracted. Not so long ago, Eugene M. La Boiteaux, Census Bureau inventor, turned out a smaller, more compact machine, which extracts 58 statistics from 150 cards per minute. This machine is shown on the right and is being operated by Virginia Balinger, Assistant Supervisor of the current Inquiry Section. With the aid of this machine, statistical information from the 1940 census is expected to be compiled in 2 1/2 years. The secret of the machine lies in the cards. The written information taken by census takers is brought in and the data translated into code numbers which are punched on the card, and the legible data is locked up in vaults away from prying eyes. Cards are fed into the machine, sensitive steel fingers feel out the punches, set up electrical impulses, and in no time at all, the card has set down on the large sheet just what statistic from each individual goes in what place

New machine to speed up statistics of census of 1940. Washington, D.C....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bits and pieces. Cutting plywood for office desk

Bits and pieces. Cutting plywood for office desk

Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. All bits and drills and most hand tools in the tool store were imported under the land lease program

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

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

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Bits for the pneumatic drilling machines are classifed as to length of shaft in this automatic machine; a segregation of bits to one-thirty-secondth of an inch is maintained

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Bits for the pneumatic...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a woman working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a woman working in a factory. Office o...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Andrews County, Texas. Bit at end of drill pipe. In going through hard structures these bits sometimes wear out in three or four hours

Andrews County, Texas. Bit at end of drill pipe. In going through hard...

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

Conservation of durable goods. There won't be any more of these for many months, so see that yours stays in good condition. Keep the brush clean, see that the vacuum is not forced to inhale pins, bits of wire, metal. The brush in place is free of hair, strings, etc.

Conservation of durable goods. There won't be any more of these for ma...

Latch Made from Bit on Horsehoe Gate

Latch Made from Bit on Horsehoe Gate

Maker: Pedroli, Pete Handmade, ca. 1950 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets a chance. He is exposed, not only to the above dangers, but to the weather, no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

Public domain image of a group of people, ceremony, event, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A Chance coal separator in operation in the Saint Nicholas breaker. The cone vat, filled with sand and water and kept in solution by agitation, causes the coal to float above the rock, allowing the rock to be taken from the bottom of the cone. Bits of timber and other debris float on top and are skimmed off

Gilberton, Pennsylvania. A Chance coal separator in operation in the S...

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

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Sharpening bits to be used in pneumatic drills in the copper mines

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Sharpening bits to be ...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Another scene in the runoff line where three-inch shells are being run through a centerless grinding machine which grinds them to exactly correct roundness, size, straightness and smoothness. Designed to be blown to bits as soon as possible, each shell must nevertheless be made and finished as carefully as if it were to last as long as the piston of an automobile engine

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Another scene in th...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of a mistreated vacuum cleaner. It's in the repair shop because it inhaled bits of metal, pieces of wire, hairpins,and other harmful objects. Keep the machine away from such things, clean the brushes and belt regularly, and empty the bag at least once a week

Portrait of a mistreated vacuum cleaner. It's in the repair shop becau...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

With Favorite Bridle, Copper Snaffle, and Braided Cotton Reins

With Favorite Bridle, Copper Snaffle, and Braided Cotton Reins

People in photograph: Wheelock, Chuck Horse gear Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

High Curb Bit. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

High Curb Bit. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Miller, Alvin Iron bit marked "Buermanns," was so inexpensive in the 1930s that it was called the "dollar and a half" The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertake... More

Temple area, Mosque of Omar [i.e., Dome of the Rock], etc. Bits of garments as votive offerings in window of el-Aksa [i.e., al-Aqsa].

Temple area, Mosque of Omar [i.e., Dome of the Rock], etc. Bits of gar...

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

A couple of men sitting on top of a wooden platform, Texas, during Great Depression

A couple of men sitting on top of a wooden platform, Texas, during Gre...

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

Spade Bit with Lady's Leg Design

Spade Bit with Lady's Leg Design

Source: Miller, Alvin Steel spade bit with silver facing engraved to represent a woman's gartered leg on cheek plate Maker: Staunton Co., Winnemucca, Nevada

With Favorite Bridle, Copper Snaffle, and Braided Cotton Reins

With Favorite Bridle, Copper Snaffle, and Braided Cotton Reins

People in photograph: Wheelock, Chuck Horse gear Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Hats and Bit. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Hats and Bit. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Miller, Alvin Hats belonged to Alvin Miller (2), Miller's Uncle Lawrence Miller, and Nevada pioneer Paul Tobin The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project un... More

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe use...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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A hint from the cits, who beg to hear no more of tit bits

A hint from the cits, who beg to hear no more of tit bits

Poem and British cartoon urging young women not to marry old men. Hand-colored etching by George Cruikshank, publ. by William Sharp. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Marriage 181-. This record contains unver... More

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling production speed on a certain type of washer needed for the De Land, Florida pool aircraft contract, F.W. Casey went to his scrap heap. He took a two-cylinder gas engine from a spray machine used in an orange grove, a pump from the hydraulic lift of a dump truck, another pump from a steam engine cylinder, and built his hydraulic speed press. Too big for his little machine shop, the machine was set up in the yard, where it produces eight parts a minute for the war machine. Operating it is Norman Bane, Casey's one-man crew

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling produ...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book. Photographing a "deadhead"

The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book. Photographing a "...

Workers uncrating broken statuary. Caricatures of people at the Phila. Centennial Exhibition. Sketches by C.S. Reinhart. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 June 3, p. 452. Reference copy may be in LOT 4435A. This... More

A couple of men sitting on top of a boat, Texas, during Great Depression

A couple of men sitting on top of a boat, Texas, during Great Depressi...

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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. This lathe at the Beery and Sons shop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is being fitted for production of a small part needed by a war contractor. To the left of the lathe are some of the hurriedly constructed jigs and chucks turned out at the shop to speed delivery of various bits and pieces, often cutting the schedule as high as ninety-percent

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conver...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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An old photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

An old photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information ...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Cheek Plates and Blanks with Stars

Cheek Plates and Blanks with Stars

Maker: Faupel, Leonard, Winnemucca, Nevada One steel plate with silver inlay on edge of shank; two steel blanks with star pattern

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets a chance. He is exposed, not only to the above dangers, but to the weather, no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Personnel Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatman's Bank Building in St. Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, the Navy, and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become under contracts or subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibits. Similar exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making bits for a pneumatic drilling machine is to heat a rod of the proper size; this rod is placed into machine which punches and forms the bit; this process is called drop forging. Bit plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making b...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Resident of shack town along river bottoms. Dubuque, Iowa. He scavenges the city dump daily for scrap iron, bits of metal, etc.

Resident of shack town along river bottoms. Dubuque, Iowa. He scavenge...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with illustrations by Reed; Bits of Camp Life, by C. W. Reed and Louis K. Harlow, c1888

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in De Land, Florida doesn't have fluorescent lighting or air conditioning, but it does have the close tolerance machinery needed to make war weapons. Casey and his one-man crew are shown here as they turn out repair racks for airplanes

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop in De Land, Florida...

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