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McLEMORE, ATKINS JEFFERSON, 'JEFF' REP. FROM TEXAS, 1915-1919. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL

McLEMORE, ATKINS JEFFERSON, 'JEFF' REP. FROM TEXAS, 1915-1919. HOUSE C...

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

National Airport. Control tower and landing strip at National Airport

National Airport. Control tower and landing strip at National Airport

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Control board on 9th floor of Potomac Electric Power Co. I

Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Control board on 9th floor of Pot...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Int. [i.e., international] broadcasting station, Ramallah. Room & control board

Int. [i.e., international] broadcasting station, Ramallah. Room & cont...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

WISCONSIN GIRL RECEIVES GORGAS AWARD FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 5. MISS HELEN MAE COLLENTINE, A SENIOR STUDENT AT MESSMER HIGH SCHOOL, MILWAUKEE, WI, RECEIVING FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY THE FIRST HENRY L. DOHERTY PRIZE OF$500 IN THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GORGAS ESSAY CONTEST. THE SUBJECT ASSIGNED WAS 'GORGAS CONTROL OF TRANSMISSIBLE AND [...] PREVENTABLE DISEASES.' THOUSANDS OF JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS REPRESENTING HIGH SCHOOLS IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES PARTICIPATED IN THE CONTEST WHICH IS CONDUCTED BY THE GORGAS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE AS PART OF ITS HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM. THE AWARD ALSO INCLUDED $200 FOR MISS COLLENTINE'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: MISS COLLENTINE, MRS. HENRY DOUHERTY; ADMIRAL CARY GRAYSON, DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS; AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

WISCONSIN GIRL RECEIVES GORGAS AWARD FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WASHING...

A group of people standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ass't. Sec. Brown & Crop Control board members, 9/10/37

Ass't. Sec. Brown & Crop Control board members, 9/10/37

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

Preparing poison bait in grasshopper control program. Forsyth, Montana

Preparing poison bait in grasshopper control program. Forsyth, Montana

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

U.S. FSA (Farm Security Administration), later U.S. Office of War Information, photograph laboratory in the Auditor's Building. Washington, D.C. Drying room with water conditioner control system

U.S. FSA (Farm Security Administration), later U.S. Office of War Info...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Frankford Arsenal. Checking a fire control instrument. This instrument is used together with sound locators to time the firing of an anti-aircraft gun battery

Frankford Arsenal. Checking a fire control instrument. This instrument...

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

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Nearly ready to take its place in the battle for humanity, this control car for a naval non-rigid airship is receiving the finishing touches at the huge airship dock of an Ohio rubber company. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Nearly ready to take its place in the b...

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.

Control wheel in seed mill. Ontario, Oregon

Control wheel in seed mill. Ontario, Oregon

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

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

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

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Collecting anopheles mosquitoes in malaria control area

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Collecting ano...

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

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. The metal structure for a rudder on a B-25 bomber is assembled by North American employees in the control surface department at Inglewood, California. The part will next move to the covering department for its fabric cover. Women are fast taking the places of men in this department. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mutchell") bomber used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. The metal structure for a r...

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.

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...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farmers, vendors, store, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Food control. In Notre Dame kitchen

Food control. In Notre Dame kitchen

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Dusting plane. Dust or insecticide is spread by low flying planes onto crops to control various insect pests

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Dusting plane. Dust or insectici...

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

Rent control. Protection for the home front. But the hardest hit were the inhabitants themselves. In a Texas town, an old widowed lady living on a small pension had paid $17.50 a month for a small home in which she and her daughter had lived for years. Threatened with a rent boost to $50, she wrote to the White House: "Please Mr. President, can't you stop this unlawful raising of rent on us? We don't even have $50 a month."

Rent control. Protection for the home front. But the hardest hit were ...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Workmen at control board of a stranding machine

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Workmen at contr...

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

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The fabric department at Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation is the only department that had women employees before the war. Here, women sew the covering and control surface parts for bomber and fighter planes. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. The fabric department at In...

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

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Typical ride group: Don, a shopworker; Sheila, one of the factory girls who has taken over a man's job; Walt, production control; and Mary, stenographer. They are waiting for driver, Jerry, an engineering employee

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Typical ride group: Don, a shopworker; S...

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

Press conference on meat rationing. J.H. Westing (left), assistant director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, and Leon Bosch, head of Point Control Development show reporters, at press conference held March 20, papier-mache meat cuts to illustrate point values

Press conference on meat rationing. J.H. Westing (left), assistant dir...

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

Abbott Laboratories, 1350 Cote de Liesse, Montreal, Canada. Control laboratories, general view

Abbott Laboratories, 1350 Cote de Liesse, Montreal, Canada. Control la...

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Rocky Flats Plant, Access Control Building, North of building 771, in parking area 71, just south of North Perimeter Road, Golden, Jefferson County, CO

Rocky Flats Plant, Access Control Building, North of building 771, in ...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... More

Apprentice Jim McComiskey and Bob Dale working on the control panel for the rotary take up.

Apprentice Jim McComiskey and Bob Dale working on the control panel fo...

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Eugene Turin and Bob Dale make final checks on control panel of the rotary take-up.

Eugene Turin and Bob Dale make final checks on control panel of the ro...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 15, 1994.

St. Lucie Canal, Lock No. 1, Control Station, St. Lucie, Cross State Canal, Okeechobee Intracoastal Waterway, Stuart, Martin County, FL

St. Lucie Canal, Lock No. 1, Control Station, St. Lucie, Cross State C...

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

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Center, LCC Road, East of Kennedy Parkway North, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Ce...

Significance: The LCC was listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 21, 2000. Originally nominated in the context of the Apollo Program, ca. 1961 through 1975, the LCC has since gaine... More

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Center, LCC Road, East of Kennedy Parkway North, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Ce...

Significance: The LCC was listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 21, 2000. Originally nominated in the context of the Apollo Program, ca. 1961 through 1975, the LCC has since gaine... More

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Center, LCC Road, East of Kennedy Parkway North, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Ce...

Significance: The LCC was listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 21, 2000. Originally nominated in the context of the Apollo Program, ca. 1961 through 1975, the LCC has since gaine... More

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Center, LCC Road, East of Kennedy Parkway North, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Launch Control Ce...

Significance: The LCC was listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 21, 2000. Originally nominated in the context of the Apollo Program, ca. 1961 through 1975, the LCC has since gaine... More

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Weigh & Control Building, Edwards Air Force Base, Boron, Kern County, CA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Weigh & Control Building, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N688 Survey number: HAER CA-163-N

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Control Tower & Aviation Operations Building, Near intersection of runways between Hangar 110 & Building 115, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Control Tower & Aviation Operations B...

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Wyoming Valley Flood Control System, Woodward Pumping Station, East of Toby Creek crossing by Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA

Wyoming Valley Flood Control System, Woodward Pumping Station, East of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Security Central Control Building, Quesada Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Security Central...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: Constructed in 1952, the RAFS Security Central Control Building is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Security Central Control Building, Quesada Drive, Blackhawk, Meade County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rushmore Air Force Station, Security Central...

This structure was demolished in 1996. Significance: Constructed in 1952, the RAFS Security Central Control Building is significant for its association with American military policy during the Cold War years of... More

Edwards Air Force Base, South Base Sled Track, Firing & Control Blockhouse for 10,000-foot Track, South of Sled Track at midpoint of 20,000-foot track, Lancaster, Los Angeles County, CA

Edwards Air Force Base, South Base Sled Track, Firing & Control Blockh...

Survey number: HAER CA-234-G Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edwards Air Force Base, South Base Sled Track, Firing & Control Blockhouse for 10,000-foot Track, South of Sled Track at midpoint of 20,000-foot track, Lancaster, Los Angeles County, CA

Edwards Air Force Base, South Base Sled Track, Firing & Control Blockh...

Survey number: HAER CA-234-G Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Support Building, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-A Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Support Building, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-A Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

Newport NIKE Missile Battery D-57/58, Integrated Fire Control Area, Newport Road, Carleton, Monroe County, MI

Newport NIKE Missile Battery D-57/58, Integrated Fire Control Area, Ne...

Significance: The Newport NIKE Missile Battery D-57/58 Integrated Fire Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery. It was in this area that the radar systems used to identify and ... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Relay Control Building, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Relay Control Building, U.S. Highway 93, Bould...

Significance: It was a critical element of the Hoover Dam electrical generation and transmission system. Although it was associated by name with the Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light 387.5/275 switchyard, t... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of ...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that all radar facilities were placed which were used to launch m... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of ...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that all radar facilities were placed which were used to launch m... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of ...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that all radar facilities were placed which were used to launch m... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of ...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that all radar facilities were placed which were used to launch m... More

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of State Route 101, Foster, Providence County, RI

NIKE Missile Battery PR-79, Control Area, Tucker Hollow Road south of ...

Significance: The Foster NIKE Missile Battery PR-79 Control Area contributes to the significance of the NIKE Missile Battery because it was here that all radar facilities were placed which were used to launch m... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, County Road CS23A, North of Exit 127, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Control Facility, Count...

Significance: The Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight Launch Control Facility served as the security control center for the entire Delta Flight, and as the command post for the ten dispersed missiles of the ... More

Wendover Air Force Base, Control Tower, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT

Wendover Air Force Base, Control Tower, South of Interstate 80, Wendov...

Survey number: HABS UT-125-J Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Control Station, CA State Highway 39 at Morris Reservior, Azusa, Los Angeles County, CA

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Control Station, CA State Highway 39 ...

Significance: Morris Dam Test Facility (MDTF) was built at the Morris Dam Reservoir for the purpose of obtaining basic hydrodynamic data for use in design and development of Naval Ordinance, particularly air-to... More

Puente Blanco Bridge, Spanning Mosquito Control Channel, Barrio Palmas neighborhood, Catano, Catano Municipio, PR

Puente Blanco Bridge, Spanning Mosquito Control Channel, Barrio Palmas...

Significance: Puente Blanco is a skew, three-span, 15m.-long concrete slab bridge. The latter is a common bridge technology of the 1920s to 1940s, still used in small structures. This technology was judged as... More

Puente Blanco Bridge, Spanning Mosquito Control Channel, Barrio Palmas neighborhood, Catano, Catano Municipio, PR

Puente Blanco Bridge, Spanning Mosquito Control Channel, Barrio Palmas...

Significance: Puente Blanco is a skew, three-span, 15m.-long concrete slab bridge. The latter is a common bridge technology of the 1920s to 1940s, still used in small structures. This technology was judged as... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Equipment Building, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-C Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Control House for Dry Dock, 2900 Main Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Control House for Dry Dock, 2900 ...

Significance: The control house is a contributing structure in the United Engineering Company Shipyard historic district that has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The Unit... More

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Control House for Dry Dock, 2900 Main Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Control House for Dry Dock, 2900 ...

Significance: The control house is a contributing structure in the United Engineering Company Shipyard historic district that has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The Unit... More

Bishop Creek Hydroelectric System, Control Station, Operations Building No. 1, Bishop Creek, Bishop, Inyo County, CA

Bishop Creek Hydroelectric System, Control Station, Operations Buildin...

Significance: Building 102 Control Station (formerly Operations Building #1, Control Station) was constructed as the first operations building at the control station for the Bishop Creek Hydroelectric System in... More

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Control Building A, Waterton Canyon Road & Colorado Highway 121, Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO

Glenn L. Martin Company, Titan Missile Test Facilities, Control Buildi...

Significance: This blastproof enclosure enabled technicians to conduct and observe the captive firings at Test Stands D-1 and D-2. The Control Building also served as a training center for launch crews and as a... More

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130th Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130t...

Significance: The Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, a navigable route linking Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. The lock and co... More

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130th Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130t...

Significance: The Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, a navigable route linking Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. The lock and co... More

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130th Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130t...

Significance: The Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, a navigable route linking Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. The lock and co... More

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130th Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130t...

Significance: The Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, a navigable route linking Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. The lock and co... More

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130th Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works, East 130t...

Significance: The Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Control Works is significant as a component of the Illinois Waterway, a navigable route linking Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. The lock and co... More

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-C Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East Glacier Park, Glacier County, MT

Three Bears Lake & Dams, Water Control Box, North of Marias Pass, East...

Survey number: HAER MT-88-C Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Control & Recording Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Boron, Kern County, CA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Control & Recording Center...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N199 Survey number: HAER CA-163-J

New Haven Rail Yard, Interlocking Control Building, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

New Haven Rail Yard, Interlocking Control Building, Vicinity of Union ...

Significance: The Interlocking Control Building is significant because its console, relays and other internal components represent an early use of centralized train control on a major railroad. The console mon... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Center, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-B Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Center, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-B Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Facility November-1, 1.5 miles North of New Raymer & State Highway 14, New Raymer, Weld County, CO

Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Facility November-1, 1.5 miles North...

Significance: It was one of 20 similar installations in "Wing V" of the country's Mintueman ICBM force. Land-based ICBMs played a vital role in American strategic policy during the Cold War. With the Navy's sea... More

Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Facility November-1, 1.5 miles North of New Raymer & State Highway 14, New Raymer, Weld County, CO

Minuteman III ICBM Launch Control Facility November-1, 1.5 miles North...

Significance: It was one of 20 similar installations in "Wing V" of the country's Mintueman ICBM force. Land-based ICBMs played a vital role in American strategic policy during the Cold War. With the Navy's sea... More

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building, Northeast of Tactical Road; southeast of Tactical Road South, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building,...

Significance: It is believed that the plans for deployment and initiation of construction of this facility were instrumental in obtaining Soviet agreement to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and a subsequent d... More

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building, Northeast of Tactical Road; southeast of Tactical Road South, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building,...

Significance: It is believed that the plans for deployment and initiation of construction of this facility were instrumental in obtaining Soviet agreement to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and a subsequent d... More

Washington Airport buildings to allow full vision over 750 acre landing field. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. The model here being inspected by Col. Sumpter Smith, Chairman of the Washington National Airport Commission, shows a portion of the field as it will look upon completion. It shows the buildings which are so situated that observers in the control tower will be enabled to see the entire 750 acres of the airport. The building houses a dining room, a concourse, coffee shop offices, and some repair and maintainance shops

Washington Airport buildings to allow full vision over 750 acre landin...

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

Academy of Sciences, plant control

Academy of Sciences, plant control

Public domain photograph of cabinet, bureau, office, 1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene in canning factory showing a 7-year old girl who shucks 3 pots of oysters a day, and works regularly, and her 6-year old brother who helps some. Also a 11-year old boy who does six pots a day. Several others here under 12 years, but there were more last month. Mostly negro workers. The boss said "We keep only enough whites so we can control the negroes and keep them agoing." Lowden Canning Co.  Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Scene in canning factory showing a 7-year old girl who shucks 3 pots o...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Allied passport commission and control. The last of the Mohicans. An Englishman, Frenchman (2) and two Italians

The Allied passport commission and control. The last of the Mohicans. ...

Photographs show boats around Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1362 (top image) and no. 1363 (bottom image). Text under image no. 1363: Same as 1362. In album: Euro... More

Tax cut is seen after White House parley. Washington, D.C., Aug.13. A prediction that taxes will not be increased within the next year and may in fact, be "slightly reduced," was made today by congressional tax leaders following a last-minute conference with President Roosevelt at the White House just before the Chief Executive left on his flood control inspection tour. Rep. Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina, chairman of the House Means Commitee, and Senator Pat Harrison, Miss., chairman of the Senate Finance Commitee, are shown leaving the White House after the conference

Tax cut is seen after White House parley. Washington, D.C., Aug.13. A ...

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One of the many poison bait pens for jackrabbit control on Idaho land use grazing project. Rabbits can easily reach the bait, but cattle and deer are kept away by the pens
Control and sampling tower of beet unloading machine, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Control and sampling tower of beet unloading machine, East Grand Forks...

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50 years for the I.C.C. Washington, D.C., April 7. Carroll Miller, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is shown looking over the model of the first boiler ever made by one of the men of the Commission back in 1911. This is one of the safety appliances with glass windows and gauges so that the operator has control over the steam and the flow of water at all times. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the I.C.C., 4/7/1937

50 years for the I.C.C. Washington, D.C., April 7. Carroll Miller, Cha...

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General Motors head before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. The drop last November in auto sales was the most sever in history and entirely beyond our control, William S. Knudsen, President of General Motors, told the Special Senate Committee investigating unemployment,1/6/38

General Motors head before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6....

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Migrant woman from Arkansas living in contractor's camp near Westley, California. She would prefer to live in a government camp, but the contractor system prevents, because of control over allocations of work

Migrant woman from Arkansas living in contractor's camp near Westley, ...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

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

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A new electrical control board just installed to take the place of the old manual one. In the airport control room. Washington D.C. municipal airport

A new electrical control board just installed to take the place of the...

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All conversations between airliners and airport control room are recorded on these dictaphones. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

All conversations between airliners and airport control room are recor...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Loading dust into a plane. Dust or insecticide is spread by low flying planes onto crops to control various insect pests

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Loading dust into a plane. Dust ...

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are working on an electrical control panel

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West...

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Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin smelter performs delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin sme...

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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Loading insecticide into plane used in malaria control work

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Loading insect...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal plane parts are formed daily in the drop hammer department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. Hemp rope and the rubber in the mold on the press are used to snub and control the impact of the hammer. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal pl...

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Control room, to panel board

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Control room, to p...

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U.S. Office of Defense Transportation system of port control and its traffic channel control

U.S. Office of Defense Transportation system of port control and its t...

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Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program for price control (first meeting), December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program...

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Camp Lee, Virginia. A P-40 airplane out of control crashed so near these musicians on the parade ground as to endanger their lives. Flight officer Clayton W. Huntsman lost his life when he jumped, but only after he had maneuvered his plane so that it would not hit them

Camp Lee, Virginia. A P-40 airplane out of control crashed so near the...

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Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Students and instructor. Control tower in background

Fort Worth, Texas. Meacham Field. Students and instructor. Control tow...

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