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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel mill is delivered by motor truck. The melting of alloy steel for defense production necessitates constant delivery of scrap iron and steel to the mills. The overhead magnet will deposit the steel in a loader, which then carries it to an open hearth or electric furnace. In the neighborhood of forty percent of all steel produced comes from scrap metal

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel m...

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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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Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limestone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these are mighty important factors in the maintenace of defense production. Here workers are loading the pigs into charging boxes, which will carry them into the open hearth furnace for melting

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant (left) has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor w...

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Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies of junked automobiles, rotting in ugly auto graveyards from coast to coast. They will now provide some of the millions of tons of scrap steel so badly needed for defense production. They are baled up in this manner to prevent their burning away when they are thrown into the blazing inferno of an open hearth steel furnace. Open hearth furnaces are fed with approximately 50 percent scrap steel

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies ...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor w...

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.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These inspectors are trained to look for even the slightest imperfection in sheets of stainless such as this. All the high quality steel steel used in defense production is inspected and thrown back into the furnaces in case of any imperfection

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These inspectors are trained to l...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and piping will eventually be used to convey, refine or distill elements used in defense production. Expensive alloy steels are used, particularly for chemical piping. Special alloys have been devised to resist specific chemicals

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and pip...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An attractive young lady operating an ingenious machine contributes her share to defense production. With a specially designed "gun" this girl sprays cement inside a "U" shaped rubber channel into which the glass for the rear window of truck cabs is inserted. The rubber channel makes the window water-tight

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An attractive young lady operating an ...

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.

Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that control power transformers, this employee of a large Eastern electrical plant has a job that's vital to America's war effort. Transformers are essential to almost every industry engaged in defense production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that contro...

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.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Sheets of finished stainless steel on their way to the warehouse and shipping rooms. All stainless steel for defense production is subject to rigorous inspection before acceptance

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Sheets of finished stainless stee...

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Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the men upon whom depends the success of our effort to produce for the boys in uniform. He is a steel mill maintenance man on his way to repair a breakdown. It's his job to see to it that nothing interferes with our defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the men upon whom ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These bench operators of a small Eastern floor-waxing equipment company are working on defense production, all but the worker at left. He's completing assembly of one of the few waxing machines left in the factory. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These bench operators of a small Easter...

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

Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that control power transformers, this employee of a large Eastern electrical plant has a job that's vital to America's war effort. Transformers are essential to almost every industry engaged in defense production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that contro...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Aluminum collection. A store window display in Rutherford, New Jersey, promoting the National Defense Aluminum Collection (July 21-29, 1941). This collection was conducted by the Office of Civilian Defense and some of the aluminum obtained will be for use in industries producing for national defense. Much of the lower grade aluminum collected which cannot be used directly for this purpose will be used to replace new aluminum in the manufacture of consumer goods, and hence release this new aluminum for use in defense production

Aluminum collection. A store window display in Rutherford, New Jersey,...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Sheets of finished stainless steel on their way to the warehouse and shipping rooms. All stainless steel for defense production is subject to rigorous inspection before acceptance

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Sheets of finished stainless stee...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor w...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These bench operators of a small Eastern floor-waxing equipment company are working on defense production, all but the worker at left. He's completing assembly of one of the few waxing machines left in the factory. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These bench operators of a small Easter...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are used to extend short lengths of pipe for many miles. Steel piping is used to convey solutions and gases in numerous plants engaged in defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is a billet of alloy steel entering a mill in which it will be converted into the desired shape. It will emerge as a bar, perhaps round, perhaps square, and will eventually find its way into one of thousands of uses to which steel is put in our defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is a billet of alloy steel e...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boilers represent a potential source of tons of steel for national defense production. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel scrap that can be converted into steel to alleviate threatened shortages of this vital defense material (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boiler...

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limestone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these are mighty important factors in the maintenace of defense production. Here workers are loading the pigs into charging boxes, which will carry them into the open hearth furnace for melting

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These inspectors are trained to look for even the slightest imperfection in sheets of stainless such as this. All the high quality steel steel used in defense production is inspected and thrown back into the furnaces in case of any imperfection

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These inspectors are trained to l...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and piping will eventually be used to convey, refine or distill elements used in defense production. Expensive alloy steels are used, particularly for chemical piping. Special alloys have been devised to resist specific chemicals

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and pip...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Jalopies for defense. The press is closing in on this old auto body. Powerful hydraulic bailing presses are used to compress the sheet metal of the auto body into small compact bundles. Discarded automobiles provide an average of more than 1500 pounds apiece of the huge quantities of scrap metal needed for defense production

Jalopies for defense. The press is closing in on this old auto body. P...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limesone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these mighty important factors in the maintenance of defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production

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

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boilers represent a potential source of tons of steel for national defense production. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel scrap that can be converted into steel to alleviate threatened shortages of this vital defense material (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boiler...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building interior, power generator, furnace, boiler, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant (left) has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor w...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More