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Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of Defense Transportation

Garage mechanic near Newark, N.J. Badge denotes member of Office of De...

12002-63. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Transportation hopes may soon be helping to solve the oil shortage in the East. The car is a standard automobile-type steel box car fitted with four steel tanks enclosed in wooden boxes. It has a capacity of 12,200 gallons--considerably more than the average tank car serving the East

New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Trans...

Public domain photograph of a train, railroad, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

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

ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and tabulator operator in the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the punched tape through the machine that marks the cards on traffic movement

ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for Defense transportation. These trailers are eqipped with a combination platform stake body and are intended for general use in Army camps and depots. They carry a payload of 7,000 pounds. This worker is attaching reflectors to the rear of the trailer frame

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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.

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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

Conservation. Truck tires runs 146,000 miles. This truck tire has run 146,000 miles. It is now planned to retreat it with a life expenctancy of at least half the original mileage. The tire is size 9.75 x 20, weighs 129 pounds and was run at an air pressure of 70 pounds. Miss Jean Spanitz, stenographer in the Division of Motor Transportaion, Office of Defense Transportation, poses with the tire

Conservation. Truck tires runs 146,000 miles. This truck tire has run ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. Left to right: Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, which made the vehicle; Mr. Eastman; Frank H. Shepard, Special Assistant in the Office of Defense Transportation's Local Transportation Division; Guy A. Richardson, Director of the Local Transportation Division

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

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

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Director of the Division of Motor Transport, Office of Defense Transportation, displays a still-usable truck tire which has run 146,000 miles. The air pressure in its present condition

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Di...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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

ODT system of port control. Operator Jack Keefe, in the International Businees Machine (IBM) room of the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the coded punched cards into the machine which records and tabulates by channel, section, zone and individual railroad the movement of all freight traffic

ODT system of port control. Operator Jack Keefe, in the International ...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying defense plants. It's the new, oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premiere on April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons and was designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Inspecting the new oversize bus trailer, made almost entirely of non-critical materials, are two of the men who were instrumental in its construction, Joseph B. Eastman (left), director of the Office of Defense Transportation and Frank H. Shepard (right) of the Office of Defense Transportation, Division of Local Transport. This oversize bus, with capacity of 141 persons, may solve the problem of tranpsorting defense workers to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Inspecting the new oversize bus ...

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

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of Defense Transportation (left); O.E. Peterson of Chicago, Illinois, secretary, Kiwanis International (center); and Charles S. Donley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, immediate past president, Kiwanis International

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of...

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

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven seats(twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer, built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven fixed seats (twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petroleum carrier designed to help the oil shortage in the East. It is estimated by officials of the Office of Defense Transportation that one thousand such cars could add more than 15,000 barrels to the daily receipts of petroleum by rail in the East

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petrole...

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Tiers (7.00 x 20) to equip semi-trailers of the combination platform stake type. These trailers are used for general trucking around Army Camps and depots

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the...

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

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for Defense transportation. These trailers are eqipped with a combination platform stake body and are intended for general use in Army camps and depots. They carry a payload of 7,000 pounds. This worker is attaching reflectors to the rear of the trailer frame

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and tabulator operator in the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the punched tape through the machine that marks the cards on traffic movement

ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Director of the Division of Motor Transport, Office of Defense Transportation, displays a still-usable truck tire which has run 146,000 miles. The air pressure in its present condition

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Di...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A black and white photo of three men in a bus. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three men in a bus. Office of War Informati...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

ODT system of port control. Operator Jack Keefe, in the International Businees Machine (IBM) room of the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the coded punched cards into the machine which records and tabulates by channel, section, zone and individual railroad the movement of all freight traffic

ODT system of port control. Operator Jack Keefe, in the International ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Divisi... More

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) system of port control. Henry F. McCarthy, director of the Division of Traffic Movement (right), discusses a prospective bottleneck development with assistant director Arch G. Warren, head of the Traffic Channels Section

ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) system of port control. Henry F...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. Left to right: Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, which made the vehicle; Mr. Eastman; Frank H. Shepard, Special Assistant in the Office of Defense Transportation's Local Transportation Division; Guy A. Richardson, Director of the Local Transportation Division

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Transportation Equipment Branch Staff, Office of Defense Transportation, Chief Andrew Stevenson. Left to right: David P. Beach, Assistant Chief, Maintenance and Supply Section; F.B. Robins, Chief, Maintenance and Supply Section; John O'Farrell, Assistant Chief, Maintenance and Supply Section; E.C. Hanly, Principal Technical Assistant, Motive Power Section; C.H. Creassser, Acting Chief, Motive Power Section, C.H. Helsper, Program Requirements Specialist; G.M. Cornell, Assistant Chief, Transportation Equipment Branch; Harry Warren, Assistant to the Chief, Transportation Equipment Branch; R.W. Caswell, Assistant Chief, Bus and Electric Railway Section; E.S. Pardoe, Chief, Bus and Electric Railway Section; S.F. Udstad, Assistant Chief, Rolling Stock Section; D.W. Odiorne, Chief, Rolling Stock Section; J.C. Angsten, Assistant Chief, Rolling Stock Section

Transportation Equipment Branch Staff, Office of Defense Transportatio...

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

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of Defense Transportation (left); O.E. Peterson of Chicago, Illinois, secretary, Kiwanis International (center); and Charles S. Donley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, immediate past president, Kiwanis International

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Tiers (7.00 x 20) to equip semi-trailers of the combination platform stake type. These trailers are used for general trucking around Army Camps and depots

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) system of port control. Henry F. McCarthy, director of the Division of Traffic Movement (right), discusses a prospective bottleneck development with assistant director Arch G. Warren, head of the Traffic Channels Section

ODT (Office of Defense Transportation) system of port control. Henry F...

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

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of Defense Transportation (left); Charles S. Donley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, immediate past president, Kiwanis International (center), and O.E. Peterson of Chicago, Illinois, secretary, Kiwanis International (right)

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of...

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

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for general utility use in Army camps. The trailers are equipped with combination platform and stake bodies. Trailer frames are here being electrically welded on high tensile steel jigs

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Manufacture of semi-trailers for general utility use in Army camps. The trailers are equipped with combination platform and stake bodies. Trailer frames are here being electrically welded on high tensile steel jigs

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

The committee of railroad presidents and railroad union officials forming the Railway Labor Management Conference held a session in Washington, December 18, 1942 with Office of Defense Transportation officials to discuss manpower problems. The group agreed to submit recommendations to the ailroad executives' associations and the railway labor organizations. Reading from left to right are J.J. Pelley, President, Association of American Railroads; E.E. Norris, President, Southern Railway System; L.W., Baldwin, Chief Executive Officer, Missouri Pacific Lines; S.J. Hogan, President, National Marine Engineers Association; E.W. Scheer, President, Reading Railway System; Joseph B. Eastman, Director, Office of Defense Transportation; J.G. Luhrsen, Executive Secretary, Railway Labor Executives' Association; O.S. Beyer, Director, Division of Transport Personnel; D.B. Robertson, President, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; M.W. Clement, President, Pennsylvania Railroad; B.M. Jewell, President, Railway Employees' Department; G.M. Harrison, President, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; A.F. Whitney, President, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

The committee of railroad presidents and railroad union officials form...

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

Formerly used to moved cement, this container car is the first of one hundred to go into service as a petroleum carrier. All of the hundred cars are expected to be moving kerosene from Destrehan, Louisiana, to Chelsea, Massachusetts, by mid-April, according to the Office of Defense Transportation

Formerly used to moved cement, this container car is the first of one ...

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

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of Defense Transportation (left); Charles S. Donley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, immediate past president, Kiwanis International (center), and O.E. Peterson of Chicago, Illinois, secretary, Kiwanis International (right)

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petroleum carrier designed to help the oil shortage in the East. It is estimated by officials of the Office of Defense Transportation that one thousand such cars could add more than 15,000 barrels to the daily receipts of petroleum by rail in the East

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petrole...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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