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[The students at the Imperial Military Academy doing a sword drill] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

[The students at the Imperial Military Academy doing a sword drill] / ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 33. No. 318. In album: Imperial military and medical schools, with student and teacher portraits and activities, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms par... More

U.S.S. Boston, land drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

U.S.S. Boston, land drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The 24th U.S. Infantry at drill, Camp Walker, Philippine Islands

The 24th U.S. Infantry at drill, Camp Walker, Philippine Islands

African American unit. Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves (The Universal Photo Art Co.). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Light artillery drill, Horse Battery, mounting, [United States Military Academy], West Point, N.Y.

Light artillery drill, Horse Battery, mounting, [United States Militar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Siege battery drill, aiming [United States Military Academy], West Point, N.Y.

Siege battery drill, aiming [United States Military Academy], West Poi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Skirmish drill - Annapolis - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Skirmish drill - Annapolis - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows drill in front of Bancroft Hall on the campus of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

15th U.S. Calvary at drill, 1913

15th U.S. Calvary at drill, 1913

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

NATIONAL GUARD OF D.C. DRILL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

NATIONAL GUARD OF D.C. DRILL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grade school drill, Bull Park, 1915

Grade school drill, Bull Park, 1915

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

103rd U.S. Infantry, drill field, Camp Bartlett, Westfield, Me., Sept. 12th, 1917

103rd U.S. Infantry, drill field, Camp Bartlett, Westfield, Me., Sept....

Copyright deposit; A. F. Orr; September 15, 1917; DLC/PP-1917:45879. Copyright claimant's address: Old Town, Maine. Location of Camp Bartlett not confirmed.

Drilling crew connecting rotary drill pipe preparing to deepen oil well, Santa Fe Springs, Calif.

Drilling crew connecting rotary drill pipe preparing to deepen oil wel...

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

Debutants drill team, 4/23/24 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Debutants drill team, 4/23/24 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

Jerusalem Y.M.C.A. activities. Gymnasium, boys' drill

Jerusalem Y.M.C.A. activities. Gymnasium, boys' drill

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

Oil field worker applying grease to drill stem, oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field worker applying grease to drill stem, oil well, Kilgore, Tex...

Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Blasting crew going into ore vein with horizontal drill. Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota

Blasting crew going into ore vein with horizontal drill. Mahoning pit,...

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

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

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching clamps to a section of drill pipe

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching clamps to a section of drill pipe

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Part of the Lititz fire department called out during an air raid drill

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Part of the Lititz fire department called out du...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. New tooling and a large drill have fitted this press for the drilling of screw machine parts needed in new machine tools for war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being done by these women cutoff machine operators who are processing small machine parts in a Midwest drill and tool plant. Although this work is relatively unskilled, industrial experience was new to most of the women, many of whom had previously been waitresses, schoolteachers, or saleswomen. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being ...

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

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the production front is this pneumatic drill that anthracite miners use to produce hard coal. Servicemen learned how anthracite is mined at a miners' rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the produ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Leaving the school building during a fire drill at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Leaving the school building during a fire drill at Wo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning close order drill on the parade ground

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning close order drill...

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Returning to the building after a fire drill at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Returning to the building after a fire drill at Woodr...

Public domain photograph related to Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. A drill officer with his men on the drill field

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. A drill officer with his men ...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joe Kachler using a jig to drill holes in a small shaft while it is mounted on the drill press.

Joe Kachler using a jig to drill holes in a small shaft while it is mo...

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 6, 1994.

[Cadet drill on parade ground, West Point, N.Y.]

[Cadet drill on parade ground, West Point, N.Y.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, parade, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The straw rick which was recently constructed within the drill hall of the barracks of the Fire Brigade]

[The straw rick which was recently constructed within the drill hall o...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. In album: Police stations, Ministry of War buildings, and other structures, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-H... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constan...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 10. No. 614. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The students at the Imperial Military Academy doing sword drill] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

[The students at the Imperial Military Academy doing sword drill] / Ab...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 32. No. 326. In album: Imperial military and medical schools, with student and teacher portraits and activities, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms par... More

U.S.S. Newark, boat drill in Hampton Roads

U.S.S. Newark, boat drill in Hampton Roads

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

Artillery drill, U.S. Naval Academy

Artillery drill, U.S. Naval Academy

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: cutter drill, under oars

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: cutter drill, under oars

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Siege Battery drill, sponging before loading, [United States Military Academy], West Point, N.Y.

Siege Battery drill, sponging before loading, [United States Military ...

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

Naval training station, Newport, boat drill

Naval training station, Newport, boat drill

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

Sailor's shore drill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Sailor's shore drill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Boat drill KAISER WILHELM II - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Boat drill KAISER WILHELM II - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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

BOY SCOUTS FIRE DRILL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

BOY SCOUTS FIRE DRILL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military subjects. Cadets or soldiers getting in drill formation between tents

Military subjects. Cadets or soldiers getting in drill formation betwe...

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

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan and their small son, Bernie, at home in the living room of their new defense home in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant. He earns $42.50 a week, and pays about twenty percent of his income for rent. Before moving into a newly constructed defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project, he lived in a remodeled attic, and then in a trailer. For the latter he paid 6 dollars a week, including all utilities

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan and their...

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

Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn out for drill. These two groups make up the personnel of stretcher bearers, first aid squads, casualty clearance stations, and first aid posts. Both are also assigned to hospital work in a rigorous course of training and hospital experience which is necessary to become members of their groups

Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn ou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten years; cutting tool joints off a drill pipe in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan and their small son, Bernie, at home in the living room of their new defense home in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant. He earns $42.50 a week, and pays about twenty percent of his income for rent. Before moving into a newly constructed defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project, he lived in a remodeled attic, and then in a trailer. For the latter he paid 6 dollars a week, including all utilities

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan and their...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. Sharp eyes and agile fingers make these young women ideal machine operators. They're conditioning and reshaping milling cutters in a huge Midwest drill and tool company. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Sharp eyes and agile fingers make...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. During an air raid drill, the fire department was also called out

Lititz, Pennsylvania. During an air raid drill, the fire department wa...

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

Production. Aircraft. This Negro worker using a portable electric drill on a YP-38 subassembly in a large Western aircraft plant was trained in a very short time to do fast, accurate work

Production. Aircraft. This Negro worker using a portable electric dril...

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

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Some WAACs go right to the mess kitchen after march drill, as these three shown preparing food. Fort Des Moines, Iowa, 1942

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Some WAACs go right to the mess kitchen ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assistant sanitation officer, demonstrating to members of the nurse corps of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command the proper way to put on the gas mask

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assi...

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

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take note! Her finger made superbly flexible by years of piano practice, this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant finds her musical training of great assistance in her war job. The operation of this drill press demands constant, rapid hand and wrist movement--and that's where those hours of do-re-mi are paying dividends. She's countersinking six holes in a bolt, an operation requiring great precision, speed and skill

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a gas mask drill of the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a ...

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

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This drill press operator is one of many efficient workers producing steel ramp boats which will be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on enemy shores. The yard is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This drill press operator is one of many e...

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.

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

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

In the material preparation department, this woman employee uses a router to drill holes in a dozen sheets of metal at once with a master template

In the material preparation department, this woman employee uses a rou...

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

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied by apprentices in an eastern arsenal. Instructors explain the operation of a radical drill

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied ...

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

Moore County, Texas. Preparing to add a length of drill pipe to drill stem during rotary drilling operations

Moore County, Texas. Preparing to add a length of drill pipe to drill ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. A drill officer with his men on the drill field

Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. A drill officer with his men ...

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

Joe Kachler drilling holes in small shafts using the drill press.

Joe Kachler drilling holes in small shafts using the drill press.

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 9, 1994.

Militia drill thirty years ago - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Militia drill thirty years ago - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Johnston, D.C.

Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by means of a heavy pipe wrench, Kilgore, Texas

Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by me...

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

Pulling clamp of elevator in place to being up section of drill pipe, oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Pulling clamp of elevator in place to being up section of drill pipe, ...

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

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constan...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. No. 595. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The students at the Imperial Military Academy doing a sword drill] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

[The students at the Imperial Military Academy doing a sword drill] / ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 31. No. 327. In album: Imperial military and medical schools, with student and teacher portraits and activities, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms par... More

A New cavalry drill in the United States Army / drawn by T. de Thulstrup from photographs by Ch. Barthelmess & Co., Fort Bayard, New Mexico.

A New cavalry drill in the United States Army / drawn by T. de Thulstr...

Part of the Sixth Cavalry drilling in the region around Fort Bayard, New Mexico firing over their horses, which lie flat on the ground. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1885 April 4, p. 216.

U.S.S. Boston, land drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

U.S.S. Boston, land drill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Boat drill on Hampton Roads] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Boat drill on Hampton Roads] - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Public domain photograph of warship, battleship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard, company drill by sections

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard, company drill by sections

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Infantry drill on the plain, U.S. Military Academy

Infantry drill on the plain, U.S. Military Academy

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospectors using hand drill looking for diamonds, Arkansas

Prospectors using hand drill looking for diamonds, Arkansas

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

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: artillery drill

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: artillery drill

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Boats...; Telegraph; Artillery; Military education; Pres. I.... More

Artillery drill, U.S. Naval Academy

Artillery drill, U.S. Naval Academy

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On the drill grounds of Fort Sam Houston - military review by President Roosevelt - San Antonio, Texas

On the drill grounds of Fort Sam Houston - military review by Presiden...

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

[Light artillery drill, horse battery, wheeling into line, West Point, N.Y.]

[Light artillery drill, horse battery, wheeling into line, West Point,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Siege battery drill, ready for loading, [United States Military Academy], West Point, N.Y.

Siege battery drill, ready for loading, [United States Military Academ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, parade, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fire drill -- scaling ladder - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Fire drill -- scaling ladder - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Cavalry drill, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.]

[Cavalry drill, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.]

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battalion drill, 5/25/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Battalion drill, 5/25/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Monkey drill, Fort Myer, 3/31/27

Monkey drill, Fort Myer, 3/31/27

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Picryl description: Public domain image related to industrialrevolution, oil industry history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to industrialrevolutio...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man with a rifle, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man with a rifle, Minnesota. Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. The Naval armed guard on a Liberia bound transport stages a gun drill with a 4 inch deck gun and a heavy anti-aircraft machine gun. The Negro troops, members of a highly trained engineer unit of the U.S. Army, made the trip to Africa without incident

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. The Naval armed guard on a Liberi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mormon farmer working on FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative drill, Oneida County, Idaho. While the members of the cooperative live in Snowville, Utah, some of them farm in Oneida County, Idaho

Mormon farmer working on FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperativ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Member of the Casa Grande Valley Farms using an electric drill in making repairs for hay chopper. Pinal County, Arizona

Member of the Casa Grande Valley Farms using an electric drill in maki...

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.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveries of laundry, ice and grocery items from local businesses that serve the defense trailer camp twice daily. Mrs. Rogan's husband is employed by the General Electric Company as a drill press operator or defense work. Although grocery stores and milk companies deliver to the doors of the trailer town, agents, salesmen and canvassers are forbidden in the settlement. This is to see that the defense workers on the night shift may sleep during the morning or early afternoon

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveri...

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

Blasting crew boring into vein with horizontal drill for dynamiting. Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota

Blasting crew boring into vein with horizontal drill for dynamiting. M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

J.E. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma, but worked in the Kansas oil fields about ten years; on pile of drill pipes near oil well in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

J.E. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma, but worked in the Kansas oil ...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial experience, this young woman has taken over a delicate job in a large Midwest drill and tool company. Her part in America's war production consists of grinding small drills to a high tolerance on this clearance-grinding machine. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial exper...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna, oldest of the five Dante girls lends a hand with a drill press. Anna operates the Bantam Beauty Salon, but because she has difficulty with hot water during the winter, she closes the shop from early January through March. Her "boyfriend" (Anna says they are not engaged) works regularly at the American Brass Company in Torrington. If he puts in an eight-hour day there, he works for another four hours at the Dante Electric. Often now, however, he puts in a twelve-hour day in Torrington, and on those days does not work for Dante

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna...

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

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. Dry land boat drill

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New...

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

New Idria, California. Drilling blast holes with a compressed-air rock drill in one of the workings of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company, where cinnabar ore, containing mercury, is obtained

New Idria, California. Drilling blast holes with a compressed-air rock...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young employees of a Midwest drill and tool company are operating cylindrical grinders. This work is delicate and difficult, for the drills must be tapered accurately to size. The drills will be used in manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and in all war production where metal must be worked. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young emp...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bantam, Connecticut. These two drill press operators are natives of the section. Barbara Bongiolotti is one of the twelve Colleoni children, all natives of Bantam. Both her father and her husband work in a Torrington foundry going full blast on defense orders. Lilian Madeux is a Torrington girl who still lives in Torrington with her family. She used to be a waitress in a Torrington hospital

Bantam, Connecticut. These two drill press operators are natives of th...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal bulldozer was used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal b...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Her mind's on her work and on her country. That small flag tells the story of this young woman's absorption in her job. Employed by a Midwest drill and tool plant, she's grinding points on drills which will be used in the production of America's ships and planes and guns. A soldier of the production front, she fights for the men on America's battlefronts. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Her mind's on her work and on her...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, t...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling rivet holes in the side panel of the aft monocoque. Using a hand drill, the young woman in this scene is drilling rivet holes in the side panel of the aft monocoque, a step in the fabrication process of manufacturing Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling rivet holes in t...

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Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by means of a heavy pipe wrench, Kilgore, Texas

Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by me...

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