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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. No more floor polishers will be produced by this small Eastern manufacturing company, whose entire resources are being converted to defense Production. Bench workers will henceforth be women, if the owner's plans are realized, so that his male operators can be released for heavy-duty machine work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. No more floor polishers will be produce...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. The Deerfield packing company

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. The Deerfield packing company

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Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing electric wiring in a fuselage

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Installing electric wir...

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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...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Building in the reverberatory furnace

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Building in...

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Production. Mercury. Timbering crew setting new supports at the New Idria, California mercury mine of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. Triple-distilled mercury is produced from cinnabar, an ore containing sulphur and mercury mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Timbering crew setting new supports at the New Id...

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Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. Lining up a milling machine fixture in the shop of an Eastern subcontractor working on the production of bogie-wheel assembly parts. The particular operation shown is the milling of a slot in a rubbing plate. Painesville Machine Company

Subcontracting. Bogie-wheel assembly. Lining up a milling machine fixt...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Sandbags protect vital plant areas of the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, against air raids. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Sandbags protect vital plant...

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New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas

New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks guns such as those shown in the foreground is the present work of this lathe, formerly used in the production of cube steak machines in a New England plant which is now turning out a number of parts for war machinery on subcontract. Conversion of this machine, and the stepping up of its speed required only a few hours. The operator, Ralph Hutchings, has also turned his skill to war work. He formerly operated a lathe in the production of cube steak machinery. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks gun...

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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

Production. Copper. An ore train on its way to a large copper smelting operation at the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona, which is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. An ore train on its way to a large copper smelting...

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Employees of the Pacific Parachute Company checking in for work. San Diego, California

Employees of the Pacific Parachute Company checking in for work. San D...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Mechanics fuel a new A-20 attack bomber for its trial flight from the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Mechanics fuel a new A-20 attack bomb...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of Victory. In a factory which formerly manufactured safes and locks, Uncle Sam's armed forces are being provided with thirty-seven-millimeter guns and gun mounts to blast the Axis off the map. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of Victory. ...

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Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refinin...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Coming off a ship at the end of the shift

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Coming off a ship at t...

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Posters displayed on this large, well-lighted bulletin board drive home the urgency of more and better production to employees of the Columbia Steel Company, Provo, Utah. Some of the posters were supplied by war production drive headquarters, some by the local labor-management committee

Posters displayed on this large, well-lighted bulletin board drive hom...

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New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas

New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by el...

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Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on ...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Top of one of the multiple-hearth roasting furnaces. The concentrates move by gravity from one hearth to another; in one hearth the material is moved from circumference to center and on the next hearth vice versa

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Top of one ...

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Washington, D.C. Laborer listening to instructions of wrecking company foreman on Independence Avenue

Washington, D.C. Laborer listening to instructions of wrecking company...

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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Fourteenth Street coal dock of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Fourteenth S...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. Here Allen is drilling bearing caps for cube steak machines. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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Production. Copper. Electric shovel in operation at open-cut copper mine of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona, supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Electric shovel in operation at open-cut copper mi...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, ...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee in the Dodge Plant of the Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, speaking on behalf of the Honor Group at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB) following the White House Ceremony. Seated left to right are; William G. Marshall, Chairman of the War Production Drive and Mr. Nelson

Citation winners. Citation winner, Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee in t...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Adjusting the rolls on the rolling machine in order to change the thickness of an aluminum rod

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Adjusting the rolls on th...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barges under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Barges under construct...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. "Spanking," or forming the edge of a steel army helmet. This operation, performed on a medium-sized press in a converted auto radiator plant, is part of the process of making helmets from flat sheets of steel. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. "Spanking," or forming th...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. A header for a new high-pressure boiler is drilled through a jig. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. A header for a new high-press...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Guard at copper mine

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Guard at copper mine

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Interesting patterns are formed by the wings of A-20 attack bombers, waiting their turn on the assembly lines of the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Interesting patterns are formed by th...

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Baker, Florida. Former bank of Baker, now a barbershop. Baker was a big center in the lumbering days; it was on the Falco Lumber Company rail line, but they tore up the tracks in 1923 and Baker's population began to dwindle

Baker, Florida. Former bank of Baker, now a barbershop. Baker was a bi...

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Production. Copper (mining). Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Company at Bingham Canyon, Utah. This is the Carr Fork side from which the company obtains huge amounts of ore. The Carr Fork Bridge and main shops appear in the foreground

Production. Copper (mining). Open-pit workings of the Utah Copper Comp...

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Seneca, Oregon. Agent of the metal reserves company weighing in chrome ore at the ore purchasing depot

Seneca, Oregon. Agent of the metal reserves company weighing in chrome...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. Machines that once turned out hoods and fenders for the family sedan are undergoing transformation to accomodate a far more important product. This plant is being converted from automobile body manufacture to production of airplanes. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. Machines that once turned out hoods and f...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Miners' wives learning first aid

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Bingham Canyon, Utah. Blasting at an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company

Bingham Canyon, Utah. Blasting at an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper ...

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Employees of the Pacific Parachute Company, checking in for work. San Diego, California

Employees of the Pacific Parachute Company, checking in for work. San ...

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Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Copper rods

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Copper rods

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into the Westchester Auto Wrecking Company yard at 1400 Blondell Avenue in the Bronx. Shown in the photo pushing the car are Scouts of Troop #121 while Edward G. Bellmaire, Scoutmaster, David Lanoff of the wrecking company, and Frank O. March, Vice Chairman of the Bronx Salvage Campaign Committee look on

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to colle...

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Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Stitching sleeve and body of jacket together

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Stitching sleeve and body of jacket to...

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Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Forest Service man marking a tree for sale to Hines lumber company

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Forest Service man mark...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Bales of mosquito netting lie ready to be packed in crates for shipment to ordnance officers throughout the country. Women's hosiery was once the chief product of this Eastern mill which is now forty-percent converted to the production of netting for American troops. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Bales of mosquito netting lie ready to be...

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Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Tapping a heat of iron in the cast house of the blast furnace

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Tapping a heat of iron in the...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the ...

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Drag lines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Drag lines are working day and...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Chemical control by means of titration is used in the flotation process

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Chemical co...

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Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by e...

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Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Tying up roll of copper wire

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Tying up roll o...

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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The ten-ton bucket used for coal on the bridge of the Fourteenth Street dock of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The ten-ton buck...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. As extruded rod comes from the extrusion machine, it is too hot to handle. It is put under a cold water spray, then sent to the saws to be cut to shorter lengths for further operations. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. As extruded rod comes from th...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Part of the smelter

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Part of the...

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding pipes on a power transformer tank. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been called to armed service, many young girls like 19-year-old Jewel Halliday are taking jobs never before held by women. Her job is shuttling workers between two Midwest war plant. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Excess metal is chipped away on a welded seam on the inside of a high-pressure boiler drum. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Excess metal is chipped away ...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. With no previous industrial experience, Thelma Lilly learned to operate this burring machine three months ago and today is working full-time on Y's for America's battleships of the air. Despite crippling effects of arrested tuberculosis of the spine, Miss Lilly is one of America's invaluable women "behind the men behind the guns." She's one of a group of physically handicapped women at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. With no previous industrial experience,...

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New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas

New York, New York. R. H. Macy and Company department store during the...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Little giants. Tiny fuse baffles, vital to victory, are produced for the Picatinny Arsenal in a Kentucky plant that formerly made watch cases. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Little giants. Tiny fuse ba...

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Production. Mercury. Collecting mercury by hand from soot deposited in condenser chamber at a New Idria, California extraction plant. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur and mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Collecting mercury by hand from soot deposited in...

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Private First Class Norman Diamond of Brooklyn, New York gives a congratulatory pat to "Staff Sergeant Basic" and "Private First Class Adler," who have just received promotions under authority of DL (Dog Land) regulation 0000-900. They are mascots of a U.S. Signal Service company somewhere in India

Private First Class Norman Diamond of Brooklyn, New York gives a congr...

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New Idria, California. A rotary kiln at the mercury extraction plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. A 1200 degree Fahrenheit heat drives off the sulphur and vaporizes the mercury, later condensed

New Idria, California. A rotary kiln at the mercury extraction plant o...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes from the rolls, is usually in strips too long for convenient handling. Here motor-driven shears cut the strip to shorter lengths. At the same time the metal is carefully inspected for surface defects. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes ...

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Cement plant which furnishes building material for a new steel mill under construction

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Cement plant which furnishes b...

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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...

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Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Charging sheets of copper, produced by electrolysis, into a reverbatory furnace

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Charging sheets of copp...

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Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing mill where copper wire bars are reduced to copper rods by running them through a series of rolls. From this mill the rods are coiled and are then treated with a dilute solution of sulphuric acid and washed with water after which they are ready to be drawn into wire

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing m...

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Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing mill where copper wire bars are reduced to copper rods by running them through a series of rolls. From this mill the rods are coiled and are then treated with a dilute solution of sulphuric acid and washed with water after which they are ready to be drawn into wire

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing m...

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Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour Number Four mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Miners in the room where lamps are kept

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour Number Four mine of the P...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Flotation machine in which particles of copper sulphide ore are attracted to the oily bubbles which retain the minerals by the process of adsorption; the ore floats and is skimmed off from the gangue, which remains submerged and it (the gangue) is waste material

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Flotation m...

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Production. War housing trailers. Completely painted and baked hard in an oven, a war housing trailer rolls onto the final assembly finishing line of Western Trailer Company at Los Angeles. High-grade inlaid linoleum floor covering, lacking only the familier burlap backing of pre-war linoleum, is applied

Production. War housing trailers. Completely painted and baked hard in...

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Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

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Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, Decatur, Alabama. Stern of an Army barge

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Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped on molds, are moved up for placement on the keel of a new minesweeper. Part of the keel and stem of the new vessel are shown in the background. Location: an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped o...

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Production. War housing trailers. The top of a war housing trailer comes in for attention at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. High catwalks give easy access to the top as blue wadding is laid over the entire surface. The spongy softness of this material will compress under the final fabric top. The wadding covers all nail and screw heads and any possible rough edges, ensuring a smooth final job

Production. War housing trailers. The top of a war housing trailer com...

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New Idria, California. A rotary kiln at the mercury extraction plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. A 1200 degree Fahrenheit heat drives off the sulphur and vaporizes the mercury which is later condensed

New Idria, California. A rotary kiln at the mercury extraction plant o...

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Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Variety of junk-bearing vehicles parked outside. District retail junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Variety of junk-beari...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Ordnance equipment ready to be shipped from a plant in the Tennessee Valley Authority area. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Ordnance equipment ready to b...

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New York, New York. Trying a hobby horse in the toy department at R. H. Macy and Company department store during the week before Christmas

New York, New York. Trying a hobby horse in the toy department at R. H...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A shipfitter's helper

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A shipfitter's helper

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New Idria, California. A mining car used at the workings of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company to haul cinnabar, an ore containing mercury

New Idria, California. A mining car used at the workings of the New Id...

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New Idria, California. Aerial tramway which carries cinnabar ore from mines to the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company's mercury extraction plant close by

New Idria, California. Aerial tramway which carries cinnabar ore from ...

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Subcontracting. Machine gun recoil plate. A slot is milled in a machine gun recoil plate, and the plate itself is cut to length in the machine shop of an Eastern subcontractor. Painesville Machine Company

Subcontracting. Machine gun recoil plate. A slot is milled in a machin...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Hoist in the tipple house

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

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Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the fuselage assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the fuselage assembl...

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Seneca, Oregon. Agent of the metal reserves company samples specimens for assaying

Seneca, Oregon. Agent of the metal reserves company samples specimens ...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Tipple and slate conveyor

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The town is dominated by headframes of various copper mines

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The town is dominated ...

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Production. War housing trailers. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles has also undertaken the construction of prefabricated houses. Known as the "Westcraft home," it is the conception of James H. Thomas Richards, designer

Production. War housing trailers. Western Trailer Company of Los Angel...

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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The car loading end of a bridge at the Seventeenth Street dock of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company. The bucket drops coal into the hopper at the top, it is sized over screens, the proper size coal goes down the chute on the left into the car, and the rest goes down the chute on the right back on the coal pile

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The car loading ...

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Partly finished open hearth fu...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Storage tank along the side of one of the pot rooms

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Storage tank along the si...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Even scraps of rope are reclaimed for remaking into sturdy new lines at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircrafts made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Even scraps of rope are recl...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Timbering

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchildren fold cartons so that they will pack flat and can be tied in bundles which are collected by paper company truck once a week

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington s...

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