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Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

Mesta 160-Inch Plate Mill, Defense Plant Corporation, Homestead Works,...

See also HAER PA-200-F for additional documentation. Includes photographs. See also HAER PA-343 for related documentation. Includes written data. Significance: Rated with an annual capacity of six hundred thous... More

Fort Bliss, 7th Cavalry Barracks, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center & Fort Bliss, El Paso, El Paso County, TX

Fort Bliss, 7th Cavalry Barracks, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Cent...

Significance: The 7th Cavalry Barrack was part of a large enlisted men's cantonment, most of which were demolished in 1934-1935. This rectangular, one-story, brick masonry building was designed by War Departmen... More

Travis Air Force Base, Readiness Maintenance Hangar, W Street, Air Defense Command Readiness Area, Fairfield, Solano County, CA

Travis Air Force Base, Readiness Maintenance Hangar, W Street, Air Def...

Significance: The ADC Readiness Area at Travis Air Force Base (AFB) offers an extremely coherent cluster of buildings and structures. It occupies a segregated site on the base and is easily recognized as a rea... More

Travis Air Force Base, Readiness Maintenance Hangar, W Street, Air Defense Command Readiness Area, Fairfield, Solano County, CA

Travis Air Force Base, Readiness Maintenance Hangar, W Street, Air Def...

Significance: The ADC Readiness Area at Travis Air Force Base (AFB) offers an extremely coherent cluster of buildings and structures. It occupies a segregated site on the base and is easily recognized as a rea... More

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Edwin Rosskam and Milton Tinsley making the scale paste-up from the original dummy

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...

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

Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Point Wilson Light Station, Harbor Defense Way, Port Townsend, Jeffers...

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

Release all class prisoners … General Defense Committee … Chicago, Ill. … Wm. D. Haywood. [1906-07?].

Release all class prisoners … General Defense Committee … Chicago, Ill...

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 18, Folder 55b.

West Point cadets handling coast defense guns

West Point cadets handling coast defense guns

No. 1083-2. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Education, military; Univ & Colleges; Army, U.S. Art... More

[Nat. Women's Defense League Camp]

[Nat. Women's Defense League Camp]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE HEADQUARTERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE HEADQUARTERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. On souscrit à la Banque Adam

Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. On souscrit à la Banque Adam

Cannon pointing towards battleships. Clouds and sky in pattern of the American flag.

WOMAN'S COMMITTEE. COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW; IDA M. TARBELL; MRS. STANLEY McCORNICH; MAUD WETMORE; ANTIONETTE FUNK; MRS. JOSIAH COWLES; MRS. JOSEPH LAMAR

WOMAN'S COMMITTEE. COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW; ...

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

4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

The allied flags bearing down on Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). Translation of title: The 4th National Defense Loan. Signed: Abel Faivre. Another issue: POS - Fr .F35, no. 8 (same image and different text; 79 ... More

President receives delegates to Women's Patriotic Conference. Delegates of the Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, representing 38 organizations, in session ar D.A.R. Hall in Washington, were received by President Coolidge today. In the center of the photograph, left to right: Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., President Coolidge; and Mrs. Alfred J. Borsseau [White House, Washington, D.C.]

President receives delegates to Women's Patriotic Conference. Delegate...

A group of people standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

PRESIDENT ADDRESSES D.A.R. WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 21. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY ADDRESSED THE FORTY- SEVENTH CONTINENTAL CONGRESS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AT CONSTITUTION HALL. SPEAKING EXTEMPORANEOUSLY, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE CALLED ON THE MEMBERS TO EDUCATE AMERICAN YOUTH IN THE FUNDAMENTALS THAT IMPELLED 'OUR ANCESTORS TO THROW OFF THE FASCIST YOKE.' HE ALSO REAFFIRMED HIS STAND FOR ADEQUATE NATIONAL DEFENSE

PRESIDENT ADDRESSES D.A.R. WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 21. PRESIDENT ROOSE...

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

Government defense measures on highway leading into Jerusalem from the north, Nablus Road. Closer view of the concrete road tower with British & Arab police & Jewish supernumeraries

Government defense measures on highway leading into Jerusalem from the...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 ...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

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THE PRESIDENT SHARES HIS THOUGHTS WITH HIS PEOPLE. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 26. TONIGHT AT NINE THIRTY THE PRESIDENT BROADCASTED A TALK ON THE WORLD SITUATION AND THIS COUNTRY'S TASK IN DEFENSE PLANS. HE SPOKE OF THE TROJAN HORSE, AND THE FIFTH COLUMN WHICH HE SAID BETRAYS A NATION UNPREPARED FOR TREACHERY. HIS SPEECH ENDED WITH 'I AM CERTAIN THAT OUT OF THE HEARTS OF EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN THIS LAND, IN EVERY WAKING MINUTE, A SUPPLICATION GOES UP TO ALMIGHTY GOD THAT ALL OF US BEG THAT SUFFERING AND STARVING, THAT DEATH AND DESTRUCTION MAY END, AND THAT PEACE MAY RETURN TO THE WORLD. IN COMMON EFFECTION FOR ALL MANKIND, YOUR PRAYERS JOIN WITH MINE, THAT GOD WILL HEAL THE WOUNDS AND THE HEARTS OF HUMANITY'

THE PRESIDENT SHARES HIS THOUGHTS WITH HIS PEOPLE. WASHINGTON, D.C. MA...

A man sitting at a table with a sewing machine. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustration from Office of Civilian Defense booklet "Blackout"

Illustration from Office of Civilian Defense booklet "Blackout"

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

Mr. Chester C. Davis, formerly commissioner in charge of the Agricultural Division of the National Defense Advisory Commission. Mr. Davis is also a governor of the Federal Reserve Board

Mr. Chester C. Davis, formerly commissioner in charge of the Agricultu...

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William V. Reed, Director, Standard Division, Division of Defense and Housing Coordination

William V. Reed, Director, Standard Division, Division of Defense and ...

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

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitney aircraft plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Trailer camp where many defense workers live opposite Pratt and Whitne...

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

Volunteer civilian defense / Welch.

Volunteer civilian defense / Welch.

Poster encouraging voluntary participation in civilian defense, showing airplane flying over outline of Alabama. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christ... More

Civilian protection. Members of the New York defense forces turn out for drill and demonstration with their rolling equipment. From left to right: nurses' aides and medical personnel, rescue squad, decontamination squad, demolition and clearance crews

Civilian protection. Members of the New York defense forces turn out f...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Palace mobile home. Expansion trailer for emergency defense housing demonstrated in Washington tourist camp. Washington, D.C.

Palace mobile home. Expansion trailer for emergency defense housing de...

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A black and white photo of a man and two children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and two children. Office of War Infor...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Daughters of defense worker. Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

Daughters of defense worker. Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three defense workers from Flint, Michigan, now living in Edgewater Park and working in the Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan

Three defense workers from Flint, Michigan, now living in Edgewater Pa...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian defense uniforms. Winter "parade." This girl is wearing the Motor Corps Insignia

Civilian defense uniforms. Winter "parade." This girl is wearing the M...

Public domain photograph of model, woman, photo, fashion advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Assembling print strips in the laboratory to check matching edges and tones

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian defense uniforms. Winter "parade." This girl is wearing the Motor Corps Insignia

Civilian defense uniforms. Winter "parade." This girl is wearing the M...

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of wood. Office of War Inform...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs....

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

An old black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Office o...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Time out to lunch, then back to work on ships for the defense of America. These are workers in the plate shop, where steel plate is fashioned for Uncle Sam's warcraft. There are several cafeterias on the grounds

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Time out to lunch, then back to work...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long shot of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers. San Diego, California

Long shot of FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House foundation which will be occupied by defense worker and family until spring when he will complete building. Near Detroit, Michigan

House foundation which will be occupied by defense worker and family u...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

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

Putting chickens in crate to be delivered under the "Food for Defense" program. Drigger Farm, Coffee County, Alabama

Putting chickens in crate to be delivered under the "Food for Defense"...

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

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

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

A black and white photo of a row of houses. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a row of houses. Office of War Information ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two-family unit in Merrimac Villiage. A defense housing project of the Norfolk housing authority

Two-family unit in Merrimac Villiage. A defense housing project of the...

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The farm of Dan Sampson, father of eleven children, in the Pine Camp expansion area. The family will be moved from this unproductive farm to one aquired by the New York Defense Relocation Corps in South Rutland, New York

The farm of Dan Sampson, father of eleven children, in the Pine Camp e...

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

Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift at the Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. These women are employed in the manufacture of eight-man pyramidial tents to house the expanding defense army in the field

Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift at ...

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

Defense worker. Portsmouth, Virginia

Defense worker. Portsmouth, Virginia

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New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, designed by the Farm Security Administration, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, in the shop of a contractor. Cutting out plywood letters used for the text

New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, desig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Prefabricated defense housing under construction near airport, Hartford, Connecticut. Constructed and managed by FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Prefabricated defense housing under construction near airport, Hartfor...

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

Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to house civilian workers employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. These homes, constructed at a cost of $1,114,748 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority) through the local housing authority, are permanent construction and are expected to continue after the emergency as part of the local authority's low-rent housing project. Rents are divided into three groups which run from a low of $19 to a high of $39 a month. The project completed on February, 1941, consists almost entirely of apartment-type dwellings

Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second floor nears completion. Buildings of the plant where are employed many of the defense workers who will move into these homes, can be seen in the background

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second f...

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

Nailing up asbestos rock wall board on emergency defense office space construction project. Washington, D.C.

Nailing up asbestos rock wall board on emergency defense office space ...

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

A couple of men sitting next to a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men sitting next to a truck. Office of War Information Pho...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A demonstration of Farm Security Administration trailers. Trailer for defense workers. Washington, D.C.

A demonstration of Farm Security Administration trailers. Trailer for ...

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

Service on the home front There's a job for every Pennsylvanian in these civilian defense efforts.

Service on the home front There's a job for every Pennsylvanian in the...

Poster encouraging participation in civil defense efforts, showing family prepared for work.

Children of defense workers playing outside their home in Sunset Village, FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project. Radford, Virginia

Children of defense workers playing outside their home in Sunset Villa...

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

Truckers bringing supplies, people performing essential services, anyone with a legitimate reason can enter a defense plant, but he and his business must first be known. During his visit he must wear an identification badge issued by the plant police. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Truckers bringing supplies, people performing essential services, anyo...

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

Defense worker's home on Carson Street. Sunset Village, Radford, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) project

Defense worker's home on Carson Street. Sunset Village, Radford, Virgi...

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Construction materials at the Kearney-Mesa defense housing project. San Diego, California

Construction materials at the Kearney-Mesa defense housing project. Sa...

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Join now The office of civilian defense needs you for decontamination squads / / John McCrady.

Join now The office of civilian defense needs you for decontamination ...

Poster encouraging civilians to join civil defense squads, showing a man in uniform spraying a building. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

A couple of people standing next to a trailer. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of people standing next to a trailer. Office of War Informati...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Excavating work, construction of sewage lines and sewage disposal plant, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) national defense project sponsored by the city of San Diego. All excavating on this project up to date has been done by hand--but big equipment is now being moved in. San Diego, California

Excavating work, construction of sewage lines and sewage disposal plan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the chicks delivered at the Greensboro depot in connection with the FSA (Farm Security Administration) Food for Defense program. Greene County, Georgia

One of the chicks delivered at the Greensboro depot in connection with...

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

Prefabricated defense housing under contruction, near airport. Hartford, Connecticut. Constructed and managed by FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Prefabricated defense housing under contruction, near airport. Hartfor...

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Mr. Ralph Secor, moved by the New York defense relocation corporation from the Pine camp expansion area to a farm near Ellisburg, New York

Mr. Ralph Secor, moved by the New York defense relocation corporation ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A sheeting crew of fourteen men follows on the heels of the stud and jointing crew. In an amazingly short time this crew sheets the outside walls, the floors, and the roof. Here the crew is well along on the walls a few hours after taking over

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A sheeting crew of fourteen men f...

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

Civilian defense. Here is a portable electric power saw to cut flooring and heavy beams. It is part of the equipment of the New York City Emergency Service truck displayed in October at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden by the New York Police Department. This saw, which operates on 110-volt direct current generated by the truck, can be used as far as 2000 feet from the truck

Civilian defense. Here is a portable electric power saw to cut floorin...

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.

Modern kitchen in a Tennessee Valley Authority house. Kitchen equipment for one of the new demountable houses, which the TVA is building for defense workers in the Muscle Shoals area in northern Alabama, includes electric range, water heater, and refrigerator. The TVA, acting as an agent of the Federal Works Administrator, is building

Modern kitchen in a Tennessee Valley Authority house. Kitchen equipmen...

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Prefabricated defense housing under contruction, near airport. Hartford, Connecticut. Constructed and managed by FSA (Farm Security Administration)

Prefabricated defense housing under contruction, near airport. Hartfor...

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Civilian defense uniforms. Office indoor staff. This girl wears the staff insignia

Civilian defense uniforms. Office indoor staff. This girl wears the st...

Public domain photograph of model, woman, photo, fashion advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emergency defense office construction work. Washington, D.C.

Emergency defense office construction work. Washington, D.C.

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

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Checking over a dummy of hiArsenal of Democracy panel is the eminent posters artist Jean Carlu. The panel, which measured 15 by 30 feet, is on exhibit now at the National and Civilian Defense Exposition at Grand Central Palace, New York along with another of the same size representing the Four Freedoms. Shown under the auspices of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), they will shortly be seen in a number of cities from coast to coast

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Checking over a dummy ...

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

Civilian defense. Communications vital to civilian defense. The New York City Emergency Services truck displayed at the ivilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York, in October, is equipped with a dispatcher's desk and telephone facilities for workers sent out from the truck. It is also equipped for two-way communication with a central office

Civilian defense. Communications vital to civilian defense. The New Yo...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Copying the exact scale paste-up to produce the negative for the final enlargements; this work was done in the laboratory of the United States Coast and Geodetic Society

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vallejo, California. Entrance to FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitory for defense workers

Vallejo, California. Entrance to FSA (Farm Security Administration) do...

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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...

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

Defense bond display. Grand Central Station, New York City

Defense bond display. Grand Central Station, New York City

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Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. employment office advised John Jones to enroll in a defense training course in his own community. There were vocational courses in local schools to choose from or opportunites for training right on the job through the Office of Production Management's (OPM) training within industry program. Training within industry has been installed in nearly 2000 defense plants employing over 2,000,000 workers

Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. emplo...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A meeting to discuss defense and agricultural problems being held at the county agents office in Greensboro, Greene county, Georgia

A meeting to discuss defense and agricultural problems being held at t...

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

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Fabrication of air-craft parts with high speed tools. Aluminum is a vitally important material in the production of the huge quantities of planes required under the national defense program

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Fabrication of...

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Inspecting newly-arrived chicks for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) Food for Defense program at the depot in Greensboro. Greene County, Georgia

Inspecting newly-arrived chicks for the FSA (Farm Security Administrat...

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

Defense housing. Ferguson Park, Newport News, Virginia. A 1200-unit project built by the Navy at a cost of $3,500,882 to house civilian workers employed in the shipbuilding yards. Units have from one to four bedrooms and rentals range from $30 to $35 a month, including up to $3.70 worth of utilities

Defense housing. Ferguson Park, Newport News, Virginia. A 1200-unit pr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including s...

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Mother and children from North Carolina farm. They came to Norfolk, Virginia so husband and older sons could get employment in defense industries

Mother and children from North Carolina farm. They came to Norfolk, Vi...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sewage pipes are placed for the 300 defense homes at the Franklin Terrace housing project. Sewage, water, police and fire protection are provided by the city for a lump sum paid in lieu of taxes

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sewage pipes are placed for the 3...

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New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, designed by the Farm Security Administration, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, in the shop of a contractor. Stripping out overlaps during the mounting of a section

New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, desig...

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

A couple of men standing on top of a wooden platform. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing on top of a wooden platform. Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A large playground with slides and swings is provided for children of the defense trailer camp. Proceeds from candy and cigarette vending machines located in the central utility buildings maintain the playground

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A large playground with slides an...

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

Childersburg, Alabama. WPA (Works Progress Administration) day nursey for defense workers' children

Childersburg, Alabama. WPA (Works Progress Administration) day nursey ...

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Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech of a sixteen-inch at Fort Story, Virginia

Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech of a sixteen-inch at Fort...

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Civilian defense in the United States

Civilian defense in the United States

Civilian defense in the United States

Civilian defense in the United States

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mail racks at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing dormitories at Vallejo, California

Mail racks at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing d...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Story coast defense. Tracking the target on one of Fort Story's giant guns

Fort Story coast defense. Tracking the target on one of Fort Story's g...

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A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an automobile plant and put on war Production. When workmen have finished their conversion job, the big fellow began shaping crankshafts for defense. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an au...

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Marietta, Ohio. Housewives signing up for civilian defense in basement of the courthouse

Marietta, Ohio. Housewives signing up for civilian defense in basement...

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Civilian defense in the United States

Civilian defense in the United States

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

Civilian defense in the United States

Civilian defense in the United States

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