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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Kay Lamphear, half American Indian and half Scotch-Norwegian, has joined the growing army of American women war workers. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this 21-year-old former costumes model operates a punch press, machining diaphragm blades for airplane engines. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Kay Lamphear, half American ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few weeks! That's the story of Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor company's many women employees who are now operating machines recently converted to production of war essentials. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few w...

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.

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: Be Ye Doers of the Word and Not Hearers Only;" with shells, blades]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: B...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Finished propeller blades. Hamilton propeller plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Finished propeller blades. Hamilton propeller plant, East Hartford, Co...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Worker attaching wire cable preparatory to lifting a cast propellor for a C-3. Formerly propeller blades were bolted on to the shaft, but today the propeller is cast in one piece

Newport News, Virginia. Worker attaching wire cable preparatory to lif...

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: Be Ye Doers of the Word and Not Hearers Only;" with shells, blades]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: B...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Turbine blades at Benning plant I

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Turbine blades at Benning pl...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Turbine blades at Benning plant III

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Turbine blades at Benning pl...

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Production. Airplane propellers. Ed Dimlow, makes a final inspection of a two-blade airplane propeller in the vertical position. The Hartford, Connecticut, plant that produces these blades supplies them to our air forces in combinations with two, three or four blades, and with hydromatic mechanisms that permit adjusting blade pitch while planes are in action

Production. Airplane propellers. Ed Dimlow, makes a final inspection o...

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: Be Ye Doers of the Word and Not Hearers Only;" with shells, blades]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: B...

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Rotors and blades. A Cleveland manufacturer making aircraft fuel pumps is seeking subcontractors who can furnish steel rotors and rotor blades

Rotors and blades. A Cleveland manufacturer making aircraft fuel pumps...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Production. Airplane propellers. New Hamilton propeller blades are inspected after face and camber profiling operations in a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. R. Ten Eyck checks the records and F. Breen, with a hammer and stamping die, puts the mark of approval on the butt of the blades

Production. Airplane propellers. New Hamilton propeller blades are ins...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Safety razor plant. He used to make razor blades, but now he's a vital cog in Uncle Sam's war production machine. Charles Taylor, inspects steel part on converted horizontal grinder. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. He used to make razor blades, but now ...

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Production. Airplane propellers. Finished propeller blades ready for assembly at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. These blades will later be mounted in combinations of two, three and four in hydromatic mechanisms that permit adjustments of blade pitch while planes are in action

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished propeller blades ready for a...

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Production. Airplane propellers. Propeller blades that will soon be driving American warplanes are stored after final dimensional inspections at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. The various blades will later be mounted, in sets of two, three, and four in the mechanism that will permit adjustment of pitch while planes are in action

Production. Airplane propellers. Propeller blades that will soon be dr...

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[Turning helicopter blades blow a strong wind on First Lady Rosalynn Carter and unidentified men as they wave goodbye to President Jimmy Carter departing from the White House lawn, Washington, D.C.]

[Turning helicopter blades blow a strong wind on First Lady Rosalynn C...

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

To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved [sic] rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.

To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate rep...

Print shows an interior view of a "scutch" mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fiber. Plate V. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Perdeum et F... More

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to relatives off to the Land of Opportunity, the U.S.A. On the S.S. Conte Verde a new luxurious Italian express steamer of the Lloyd Sabaudo Co. two extra propeller blades are carried. This one [text missing] ; Showing the height of the propeller blade on the S.S. Conte Verde. Mr. Carpenter in the picture.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...

On page: no. 1568 (top image), no. 1570 (bottom left image) and no. 1571 (bottom right image) Text under image no. 1568: "Same as 1565". Text under image no. 1570: "Same as 1569". In album: European pictures (... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: Be Ye Doers of the Word and Not Hearers Only;" with shells, blades]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Turbine blades at Benning plant II

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Turbine blades at Benning pl...

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

A black and white photo of a bunch of knives. Office of War Informatio...

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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Richon le Zion. Okava safety blade factory. Printing on the blades

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bale of raw rubber is now being squeezed against the knife blades on the left under terrific pressure. These blades fan out into eight selections, cut the rubber into eights like an orange divides into sections. General Tires (Firestone), Akron, Ohio

The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bal...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. A batch of propeller blades is rushed from one operation to another by one of the many Negro workers in a large Eastern airplane propeller plant. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. A batch of propeller blade...

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

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Surface irregularities on the blades of manganese bronze ship propellers are chipped off with a pneumatic hammer in the machine shop of a large Eastern plant now engaged wholly in war Production. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Surface irregularities on the blades...

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

To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved [sic] rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.

To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate rep...

Print shows an interior view of a "scutch" mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fiber. Plate V. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Perdeum et F... More

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to relatives off to the Land of Opportunity, the U.S.A. The port of Genoa with the city climbing the hillsides to low forts built by Napoleon ; On the S.S. Conte Verde a new luxurious Italian express steamer of the Lloyd Sabaudo Co. two extra propeller blades are carried. This is one.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...

Photographs the port of Genoa, Italy, and two boys standing next to propeller blades on the S.S. Conte Verde. On page: no. 1565 (top left image), no. 1566 (top right image), no. 1567 (bottom left image) and no... More

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Surrounded by the blades of huge manganese bronze ship propellers, workman of a large war production plant chip off surface irregularities with pneumatic hammers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Surrounded by the blades of huge man...

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Hamilton propeller blades for our warships of the air are placed into a Barnes multiple drill by Frank Krupczak at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. This machine performs the precise boring operations required before fitting to spiders in sets of two or three

Production. Airplane propellers. Hamilton propeller blades for our war...

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

[Helicopter blades begin turning as First Lady Rosalynn Carter and unidentified men wave goodbye to President Jimmy Carter as he departs from the White House lawn, Washington, D.C.]

[Helicopter blades begin turning as First Lady Rosalynn Carter and uni...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Carter departs White House for Europe. WKL. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Checking the blades in a turbine rotor assembly

Checking the blades in a turbine rotor assembly

Assembling propeller blades to hub. Hamilton propeller plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Assembling propeller blades to hub. Hamilton propeller plant, East Har...

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Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitation)

Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitatio...

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Balancing a giant ship propeller is a difficult job that must be done accurately. Two workmen, their eyes protected by goggles, chip away areas of the manganese bronze blades so that the power of the ship may be put to work efficiently. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Balancing a giant ship propeller is ...

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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Richon le Zion. The Okava Safety Blade Factory. Cutting out safety blades

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished propeller blades ready for assembly at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. These blades will later be mounted in combinations of two, three and four in hydromatic mechanisms that permit adjustments of blade pitch while planes are in action

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished propeller blades ready for a...

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Final assembly of blades into a two-way controllable Hamilton propeller for one of America's warships of the air. Leo Diana and George O'Meara are among the speedy, expert workers of the Hartford, Connecticut, plant, which is producing these propellers in great numbers

Production. Airplane propellers. Final assembly of blades into a two-w...

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

Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitation)

Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitatio...

Production. Airplane propellers. Frank Geary uses an electro-limit gauge at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant to make final inspections of a three-way hydromatic spider that form part of the mechanism which varies the pitch of airplane propeller blades while planes are in action. At this plant propellers are made with combinations of two, three and four blades

Production. Airplane propellers. Frank Geary uses an electro-limit gau...

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Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitation)

Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitatio...

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Checking dimensions of completed V-block, shop supervisor George Cole explains testing processes to Edith Krause. Both these workers have graduated from razor blades to tool posts because of the company's subcontract for production of war tools

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Checking dimensions of completed V-blo...

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.

Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitation)

Frank Blades to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, August 26, 1858 (Invitatio...

Rotors and blades. A Cleveland manufacturer making aircraft fuel pumps is seeking subcontractors who can furnish steel rotors and rotor blades.

Rotors and blades. A Cleveland manufacturer making aircraft fuel pumps...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, 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...

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished propeller blades ready for assembly at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. These blades will later be mounted in combinations of two, three and four in hydromatic mechanisms that permit adjustments of blade pitch while planes are in action

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished propeller blades ready for a...

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

A black and white photo of a bunch of skis. Office of War Information ...

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished stationary cams for the hydraulic mechanism that adjust the pitch of airplane propeller blades while planes are in action. The Hartford, Connecticut, plant, where they are stored in turning out great numbers of two- three- and four-blade propellers

Production. Airplane propellers. Finished stationary cams for the hydr...

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