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Harvesting grapes near La Monte. Kern County, California. Lithuanian contract labor

Harvesting grapes near La Monte. Kern County, California. Lithuanian c...

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The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The family was forced to move from the place they were buying to this shack because of inability to pay three dollars monthly which was the basis of the contract. In moving from one county to another they have jeopardized their qualifications for receiving relief

The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The famil...

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Richwood, West Virginia. Sixteen year old high school boy making a contract to help in the harvest in upper New York state

Richwood, West Virginia. Sixteen year old high school boy making a con...

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Summersville, West Virginia. Oldsters examining the FSA (Farm Security Administration) contract for migratory labor

Summersville, West Virginia. Oldsters examining the FSA (Farm Security...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado...

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

Charles P. Cochrane Co., 295 5th Ave., New York City. Contract department, general view

Charles P. Cochrane Co., 295 5th Ave., New York City. Contract departm...

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Robert Morris and La Ferme Generale, January 11, 1785, Text of Tobacco Trade Contract; in French

Robert Morris and La Ferme Generale, January 11, 1785, Text of Tobacco...

Text of Tobacco Trade Contract; in French

Contract for bounty land sale or assignment

Contract for bounty land sale or assignment

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New Maritime Commission acts for first time, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. The newly created Maritime Commission meeting for the first time today sent telegrams to West Coast shippers and union officials asking that working contract, which expire today, be extended for 60 days in an effort to prevent a maritime tieup. In the photograph, left to right: George Landick, Jr., Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U.S.N., retired named temporarily to the commission in place of Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, who will not take office until after Oct. 1

New Maritime Commission acts for first time, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29...

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Floyd B. Odlum, Director of Contract Distribution, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Floyd B. Odlum, Director of Contract Distribution, Office of Productio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, 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...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. United States employment agent writing out the contract for John Hanby, freeholder farmer who has contracted for pickers

Bridgeton, New Jersey. United States employment agent writing out the ...

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Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado...

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

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of beets, working their 9 and 10 yr. old girls hard at piling and topping (altho[ugh] they are not rugged) and they will not return until November. The little girl said, "Piling is hardest, it gets your back. I have cut myself some, topping." The older girl said, "Don't you call us Russians, we're Germans," (although they were most of them were born in Russia). Family been in this country eleven yrs. (See photo 4041.) Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family...

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[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap holding 1818 Nathan Starr Contract cavalry saber]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap holding 1818 Nat...

Case: Rinhart, no. 54. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field. Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painters go on stike at new Internal Revenue building. Washington, D.C., July 19. Bryce P. Holcombe, Painters Union Business Agent, issues instructions to Albert Giacalone[?], striking Union Painter as he began picketing of Union Painters. Cause of the strike is the employment of non-union men by the firm holding the contract for the job. Today's walkout means that Union Painters have stopped work on all federal projects and the situation might devlop into a complete strike on government buildings in the Capitol, 7/19/37

Painters go on stike at new Internal Revenue building. Washington, D.C...

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Monopoly Committee told Ball Fruit Jar Corp. is protected patents. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. The manufacturer of mason fruit jars, Frank C. Ball of Muncie, Ind., today told the Monopoly Investigating Committee that his contract for patented glass-making machinery prevents issuance of licenses to new fruit jar manufacturers. He said the contract, with the Hartford Empire Company, owner of Vital Glass-Making Machinery Patents, was taken out in 1932 carrying a provision that Hartford would grant no further licenses for domestic fruit jar manufacture beyond those then in effect, 12/15/38

Monopoly Committee told Ball Fruit Jar Corp. is protected patents. Was...

A black and white photo of a man giving a speech. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. Gang labor. Harvests on contract by the crate. On these large ranches immediately adjacent to the border, Mexican pickers cross daily into the United States to work. Imperial Valley has developed large-scale farming and migratory labor in the most extreme form

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. G...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. These steel sleeves, machined to perfection, soon will be part of aircraft repair assemblies, a portion of the Carr shop's contribution to the De Land, Florida pool contract

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. These steel sleeves, machined to pe...

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Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado...

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

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of beets, working their 9 and 10 yr. old girls hard at piling and topping (altho[ugh] they are not rugged) and they will not return until November. The little girl said, "Piling is hardest, it gets your back. I have cut myself some, topping." The older girl said, "Don't you call us Russians, we're Germans," (although they were most of them were born in Russia). Family been in this country eleven yrs. (See photo 4041.) Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family...

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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

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[Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, pulling beets. The overalls are used by many girls and women. They said they begin sometimes at 5 A.M., usually about 6 or 7, -and work until 6 P.M. with an hour off at noon. An 8 yr old sister works some. These 4 children, with the father and mother, work a large plot of beets on contract for W.E. Damm, near Sterling Colo. Mr. Damm said this family would make from $800 to $900 this season, with two or three hundred dollars out for expenses] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / [Photo by Hine. Oct. 21/15]

[Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, p...

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Women Ask President for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent members of the New National Woman's Party called at the White House today to ask the president's aid in passing an "Equal Rights Bill" in the next Congress. The bill would give women full equality in the government service, give married women citizenship in their own right and make women of the District of Columbia eligible to serve on juries, equal guardianship rights, and equal rights of inheritance and contract. Photograph shows suffragists with President Harding at the White House.

Women Ask President for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent memb...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members with President Harding on the lawn in front of the White House.

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contraction, like paper and other sheet materials made from cellulose, films expand as they take up moisture and contract as they lose it, and the extent of the change is different in the two directions of them. This may cause some distortion of the image, and therefore is of particular importance where the image must be true to scale, such as in aerial photography. C.O. Pope is shown with a type of expansiveity tester used and which was designed by the Bureau of Standards. Long strips of film are suspended under constant tension in the [cabinet?] in which the humidity is varied by means of [...] solutions. The change in length is indicated [...continuously?] on a scale by means of an optical-level arrangement, 7/8/38

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contra...

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Production. Aircraft. An engineer in the laboratory of a large Western aircraft plant tests a standard Army weld sample. At irregular intervals every welder working on Army contract material must make the "tee" weld shown here. This sample has failed, as part of the break has occurred in the weld rather than in the parent material. The welder must now produce a satisfactory weld sample before he can again work on Army aircraft material

Production. Aircraft. An engineer in the laboratory of a large Western...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander-in-chief of the La Roe family war production army at Eustis, Florida, used to be an automobile mechanic. He came from Akron, Ohio in 1920. He is drilling a much needed gear for the De Land community pool's million-dollar war contract. Eight machines work at full speed in his three-car-garage; all of them operated by his wife, sister, both grandmothers, his son, and one helper

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Fifty-three-year-old Earl La Roe, commander...

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Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado...

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

Plan and contract for the Catholic Chapel of Louisville, Kentucky

Plan and contract for the Catholic Chapel of Louisville, Kentucky

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The four years contract and its progress

The four years contract and its progress

One of three anti-Lincoln satires published by Nichols in Boston at around the same time. (It was deposited for copyright on June 30, 1863, along with "Oppression!! Suppressing the Press" and "The Great America... More

Cultivators on Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton, and Vineland, New Jersey. This farm with several thousand acres of its' own and more thousands under contract, grows such truck crops as beans and peas almost entirely by mechanical means for its own large cannery for rapid freezing and lots for the market of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington

Cultivators on Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton, and Vineland, New Je...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Robert L. Mehornay, chief, Defense Contract Service, Production Division. President of North-Mehornay Furniture Company, Kansas City, Missouri

Robert L. Mehornay, chief, Defense Contract Service, Production Divisi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Floyd B. Odlum, Director of Contract Distribution, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Floyd B. Odlum, Director of Contract Distribution, Office of Productio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Interior of the La Roe garage shop at Eustis, Louisiana, showing the precision machines on which the La Roe family is turning out vital parts for a million-dollar pool war contract centering at De Land, Florida

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Interior of the La Roe garage shop at Eusti...

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small...

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

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have a shop big enough to fulfill a two-million-dollar contract for gliders. So it took over the county fairgrounds, formerly winter quarters for a circus, and built an assembly line through its seventeen roomy buildings. The pool's first machines are shown being moved into the fairgrounds building

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have...

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Production. Airplane manufacturers, general. Overlooking the Inglewood, California airport of North American Aviation, Incorporated, the secretary in the contract test flight office records the takeoff and landing times of all the planes put through routine flight tests by company pilots. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber used in General Dolittle's raid on Tokyo and the F-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacturers, general. Overlooking the Inglewood...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, Carr's repair plant in De Land, Florida, is now subcontracting on war production. When De Land organized its machines and manpower into a community pool to handle war work, it was discovered Carr's had two things: first class machinery that would work tolerances down to a split hair and first class machinists. Now, much of the precision work on the pool's contract is handled in his plant

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, ...

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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...

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Summersville, West Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) representative explaining the FSA contract for migratory workers on the steps of the courthouse

Summersville, West Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) repres...

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[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform and 1851 U.S. contract issue belt buckle]

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform and 1851 U.S. contra...

Case: Leather geometric scroll. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform and 1851 U.S. contract issue belt buckle]

[Unidentified soldier in Union corporal's uniform and 1851 U.S. contra...

Case: Leather geometric scroll. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library ... More

View of "Mulberry Bend" - Arrival of contract laborers for the coal mines

View of "Mulberry Bend" - Arrival of contract laborers for the coal mi...

Crowd of Italian Americans in Mulberry Street, New York City. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 66 (1888 Aug. 11), pp. 412-413.

President lashed Supreme Court in constitution address to nation. Washington, D.C., Sept. 17. Addressing the nation from the foot of the Washington Monument tonight, President Roosevelt hailed the constitution as a 'layman's document, not a lawyer's contract' and struck out at the Supreme Court when he declared its legalistic interpretations on occasions have delayed at 'terrible' cost needed social and economic reforms for 20 years or more. The speech climaxed the Commemoration Constitution Day throughout the country

President lashed Supreme Court in constitution address to nation. Wash...

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U.S. Shipping Board signing contract w/China

U.S. Shipping Board signing contract w/China

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[D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio]

[D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin (seated) and Douglas Fa...

Also shows lawyers Albert Banzhaf (left) and Dennis F. O'Brien (right) standing in the background. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

New Maritime Commission acts for first time, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29. The newly created Maritime Commission meeting for the first time today sent telegrams to West Coast shippers and union officials asking that working contract, which expire today, be extended for 60 days in an effort to prevent a maritime tieup. In the photograph, left to right: George Landick, Jr., Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U.S.N., retired named temporarily to the commission in place of Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, who will not take office until after Oct. 1

New Maritime Commission acts for first time, Washington, D.C. Sept. 29...

A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Surplus marketing administration officials sign contract for citrus concentrates

Surplus marketing administration officials sign contract for citrus co...

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Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm woman doing needlework under contract to a factory in town

Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm woman doing needlework under cont...

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"Sagebrush sailors" at war clinic. Contractors' and manufacturers' representatives dubbed themselves "sagebrush sailors" as they posed in an Army assault boat on display at the war clininc being held at the Whitcomb Hotel in San Francisco. Potential sub-contractors were invited to attend the clininc on "Nevada Day," sponsored by the contract distribution branch of the production division, War Production Board (WPB), to negotiate for war contracts. Front row, left to right, are: W.H. Medley, O.M. Dahl; Jean Putz; Harmon Walker and Ralph Mather. Back row, left to right: L.A. Brown; Bill Eldredge; L.C. Savage; Tate Williams; Walker J. Boudwin; Mrs. Tom Joyce; Tom Joyce; H.V. Nelson and E.S. Bender

"Sagebrush sailors" at war clinic. Contractors' and manufacturers' rep...

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the owner bought second-hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made thirty days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, th...

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

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field. Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tax advice to Mrs. Roosevelt routine Treasury precedent, Congressional Committee told. Washington D.C. July 28. In ruling that a radio contract did not result in taxable income for Ms. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Treasury merely followed precedents, Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney General told the Congressional Tax Committee today. Jackson is shown chatting with the Co-Chairmen, Rep. Robert L. Doughton, (left) and Senator Pat Harrison, following his appearance on the stand. 7/28/37

Tax advice to Mrs. Roosevelt routine Treasury precedent, Congressional...

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Grand Coulee Dam, Wash., completion of M.W.A.K. Co's. contract

Grand Coulee Dam, Wash., completion of M.W.A.K. Co's. contract

J 23446 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Chas. A. Libby & Son; February 5, 1938. Landmarks labeled on image. On front: "#13336, Chas. A. Libby & Son, Spokane, Wash., 1-27-'38."

Pan American awarded New York-Bermuda airmail contract. Washington, D.C., Jan. 15. Submitting the only bid, Pan American Airways today was awarded the contract to carry air mail from New York to Hamilton, Bermuda. In announcing the bid the Post Office Department said the following rates would prevail --.00001 cents per pound for a specified load of 800 pounds and .000005 cents per pound over 800 pounds. In the photograph, left to right: William L. Slattery, P.O. Dept. Comptroller; J. Carroll Cone, Atlantic Manager for Pan American; Roy M. North, Acting 3rd Assistant Post Master General; Harlee Branch, 2nd Assistant Post Master General in charge of air mail operations; and George H. Grayson, Asst. Director of the Division of International Postal Service, 1/15/38

Pan American awarded New York-Bermuda airmail contract. Washington, D....

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Mill workers who lived largely in rural areas being taken through CIO picket line at a textile mill in Greensboro, Georgia. The lockout lasting about three months ending in a signed contract

Mill workers who lived largely in rural areas being taken through CIO ...

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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.

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. Two workers here lathe the cylinder of an airplane motor. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herculean efforts of management and labor completed the conversion this spring. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many air...

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.

Charles P. Cochrane Co., 295 5th Ave., New York City. Contract department detail

Charles P. Cochrane Co., 295 5th Ave., New York City. Contract departm...

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Contract between RCA Manufacturing Company and Woody Guthrie, April 24, 1940

Contract between RCA Manufacturing Company and Woody Guthrie, April 24...

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap holding 1818 Nathan Starr Contract cavalry saber]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap holding 1818 Nat...

Case: Rinhart, no. 54. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

Abstract of provisions, issued from the to the troops of the United States, stationed at by under special contract. [Nashville, Tenn. 1819].

Abstract of provisions, issued from the to the troops of the United St...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 174, Folder 8. Copy scanned: 2

Contract between Daniel Nagrin and Bill T. Jones

Contract between Daniel Nagrin and Bill T. Jones

Contract between Daniel Nagrin and Bill T. Jones for the transfer of the dance "Path", which Nagrin choreographed in 1965. (General)

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. Gang labor harvest on contract by the crate

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. G...

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Nine year old Negro boy receiving twenty-cents for hamper of beans he picked for contract farmer. Homestead, Florida

Nine year old Negro boy receiving twenty-cents for hamper of beans he ...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine-gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the plant's owner bought second hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made 30 days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine-gun cover plates, th...

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

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torches has replaced the soft lights of a nightclub in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over for a vocational school to train war workers for Florida's pooling program. Pictured above is C.C. Gravelge, welding instructor, showing one of his classes the difficult art of overhead welding in preparation for their initiation into aircraft welding jobs on the De Land pool's war contract

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torche...

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Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado...

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Pierre Tourtille Sangrain, May 8, 1785, Contract for Street Lighting with Whale Oil; in French

Pierre Tourtille Sangrain, May 8, 1785, Contract for Street Lighting w...

Contract for Street Lighting with Whale Oil; in French

Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe /

Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and cont...

Relief shown by hachures. From the Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers in LC Manuscript Division. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance list. Acquisitions cont... More

Relief labor more costly than private contract, House committee told. Washington D.C. Testifying before the House Agricultural Committee today, Resettlement Administrator W.W. Alexander said that construction of improvements on farms in the south, if done with relief labor, would cost nearly twice as much as if done under private contract. The Committee is considering the Jones-Bankhead Farm Tenancy Bill which would set up a federal corporation to loan money to tenant farmers to enable them to buy and improve land

Relief labor more costly than private contract, House committee told. ...

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Washington, D.C., June 24. A written contract with the C.I.O "is not worth the paper it is written on," Tom Girdler, Board Chairman of the Republic Steel Corporation, told the Seante Post Office Committee today, 6/24/37

Washington, D.C., June 24. A written contract with the C.I.O "is not w...

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Washington, D.C., June 24. A written contract with the C.I.O "is not worth the paper it is written on", Tom Girdler, Board Chairman of the Republic Steel Corporation, told the Seante Post Office Committee today, 6/24/37

Washington, D.C., June 24. A written contract with the C.I.O "is not w...

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"Catskinner" and bulldozer. They work on contract. Western Washington, Lewis County, near Vader, Washington. See general caption number 41

"Catskinner" and bulldozer. They work on contract. Western Washington,...

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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...

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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Experts said they couldn't make precision aluminum and brass castings in this improvised Florida foundry, but it's being done to the exact specifications of a war contract. In Daytona Beach's three-man foundry. A city fireman, a young electrician, and a foundryman are casting important aircraft equipment for the DeLand industrial pool. City fireman J.L. Clayton became curious about the melting of aluminum and brass, and built himself a hobby workshop in the back of the Daytona fire station. It grew into this foundry on the edge of town where, in addition to pool castings, they are turning out a new type of air raid siren

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Experts said they coul...

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Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenuity transformed the basement of this appliance shop at 2622 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, into a war industry, smiles. Dockas today was packaging the last of 150 radio control devices manufactured for the U.S. Army Signal Ccorps, while W.R. Stephens, left, Minnesota manager of the War Production Board (WPB) contract distributions branch, and H.C. Timberlake, former manager who helped Dockas get his contract, look on

Minneapolis. The job's done and Peter Dockas, right, who by his ingenu...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a tie. Office of War Information P...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversi...

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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

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Robert L. Mehornay, chief, Defense Contract Service, Production Division. President of North-Mehornay Furniture Company, Kansas City, Missouri

Robert L. Mehornay, chief, Defense Contract Service, Production Divisi...

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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) contract service clinic at the Mayo Hotel, Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 22, 1941

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) contract service clinic at the Ma...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida went to school with their men-folk to learn welding and aircraft fabric work in preparation for the De Land million-dollar war contract. Above Mrs. Ruby Shie, left, former nurse with a husband and one child, and Mrs. William Tomlinson, former bookkeeper and secretary with one child, are getting ready for the time when they will take their place on the plant assembly line to turn out fighter planes for the Air Corps

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Women of De Land, Florida w...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production pools come from all walks and ways of life. Painter on the De Land war contract is Curtis Yelvington, forty-five, born and reared in De Land. He has one son in the coast artillery and another in the Navy, both volunteers. He says, "We are doing everything in our power to help win this war." In the last war, Yelvington tried to enlist three times and finally made it - the day before the armistice was signed

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production p...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by infantile paralysis, pretty Mary Elizabeth Conway, twenty-one, does a war job for Uncle Sam, and loves it. She's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on a contract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by inf...

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Lease lend loadings. Destined, perhaps, to aid in keeping aggressors from peaceful soil, the barbed wire is being carted from pier to ship's hold where it will cross the ocean under lend-lease contract

Lease lend loadings. Destined, perhaps, to aid in keeping aggressors f...

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Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado...

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A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of beets, working their 9 and 10 yr. old girls hard at piling and topping (altho[ugh] they are not rugged) and they will not return until November. The little girl said, "Piling is hardest, it gets your back. I have cut myself some, topping." The older girl said, "Don't you call us Russians, we're Germans," (although they were most of them were born in Russia). Family been in this country eleven yrs. (See photo 4041.) Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family...

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Floyd B. Odlum, Director of Contract Distribution, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Floyd B. Odlum, Director of Contract Distribution, Office of Productio...

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Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Books; A Story of the Red Cross; Contract, 1904, undated

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Books; A S...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Pierre Tourtille Sangrain, May 8, 1785, Contract for Street Lighting with Whale Oil; in French

Pierre Tourtille Sangrain, May 8, 1785, Contract for Street Lighting w...

Contract for Street Lighting with Whale Oil; in French

Contract between George Rogers Clark, Alexander Skinner, and John Saunders

Contract between George Rogers Clark, Alexander Skinner, and John Saun...

Julius Rockwell to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, July 09, 1861 (Contract for army supplies)

Julius Rockwell to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, July 09, 1861 (Contract ...

James M. Scovel to John G. Nicolay, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Government printing contract with Philadelphia Evening Bulletin)

James M. Scovel to John G. Nicolay, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Gover...

Plan and contract for the Catholic Chapel of Louisville, Kentucky

Plan and contract for the Catholic Chapel of Louisville, Kentucky

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Orders for regulating the drawing and issuing of provisions at the several posts supplyed by contract. [Newburgh 1781?].

Orders for regulating the drawing and issuing of provisions at the sev...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 111, Folder 3.

Post Office, 1791, Virginia Mail Contract

Post Office, 1791, Virginia Mail Contract

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Chiriqui Improvement Co., Friday, August 09, 1861 (Memorandum on proposed contract)

Chiriqui Improvement Co., Friday, August 09, 1861 (Memorandum on prop...

Adjutant General's office, Columbus, 10th April, 1838. To Sir: By a resolution of the last General Assembly, I am directed to contract with Captain S. Cooper of the United States' army, for a late work of which he is the author ... The number of

Adjutant General's office, Columbus, 10th April, 1838. To Sir: By a re...

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