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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...

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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.

Ambulance drill in the field, American Civil War Glass Negative.

Ambulance drill in the field, American Civil War Glass Negative.

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

[The drill hall in the Imperial Garden at Yıldız]

[The drill hall in the Imperial Garden at Yıldız]

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. No. 824. In album: Yıldız and Topkapı palaces, tombs and Selamlık procession, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul... More

U.S.S. Boston, riot drill at Brooklyn Navy Yard

U.S.S. Boston, riot drill at Brooklyn Navy Yard

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

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard bayonet drill

U.S.S. Brooklyn, Marine guard bayonet drill

Public domain photograph of military parade, 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

Exhibition drill of battalion of West Point cadets on the plaza, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904

Exhibition drill of battalion of West Point cadets on the plaza, World...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Boys at drill (marching), Golden Industrial School, Denver, Colorado: Side view of boys marching in foreground]

[Boys at drill (marching), Golden Industrial School, Denver, Colorado:...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Education Military; Reform schools.

West Point - Cavalry drill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

West Point - Cavalry drill - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

At drill, Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.

At drill, Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows Marines practicing riflery at the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks, Eighth and I Streets S.E., Washington, D.C. Stamped on verso: Passed by the Committee on Public Information, Washington, Nov. 9, 1917.

Competition drill, 1922 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Competition drill, 1922 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Cavalry drill at auto races - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Cavalry drill at auto races - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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Regimental drill, 11/15/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Regimental drill, 11/15/22 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

General Allen and Capt. Auld of Western, competitive drill, 6/2/25

General Allen and Capt. Auld of Western, competitive drill, 6/2/25

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, 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

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

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

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

A black and white photo of two men with guns, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men with guns, Colorado. Farm Security ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military shooting, machine gun, artillery, armed conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixtures, for drilling and tapping holes in the drive housing for the Chrysler medium tank, the M-3. These twenty-eight ton steel monsters are being turned out in quantity by 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixture...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a drill operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of...

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

Emptying post hole drill. Ridge well project, Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Emptying post hole drill. Ridge well project, Saint Mary's County, Mar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, 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.

Production. Aircraft engines. That little instrument Verna Lampy is welding looks and sounds a lot like the drill your third bicuspid may be familiar with. It's used in a huge Midwest aircraft plant, however, to etch serial and inspection numbers on airplane motor parts, making a permanent record to facilitate assembly and production count. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. That little instrument Verna Lampy is we...

Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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. Here Allen is drilling bearing caps for cube steak machines. 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.

Andrews County, Texas. Bit at end of drill pipe. In going through hard structures these bits sometimes wear out in three or four hours

Andrews County, Texas. Bit at end of drill pipe. In going through hard...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Fire Captain Raymond Runk during an air raid drill

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Fire Captain Raymond Runk during an air raid dri...

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

Moore County, Texas. Adding length of pipe to drill stem during rotary drilling operations

Moore County, Texas. Adding length of pipe to drill stem during rotary...

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

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

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

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Left to right: Bertha Carlotta, twenty-nine, a machinist testing axles; Anna Plecenik, twenty-four, a machinist's helper, working a drill press; Mary Stefanski, thirty-seven, a blacksmith's helper; Cecelia Wadkowski, thirty-five, a machinist operating a turret lathe; and Susan Topolosky, thirty-two, a machinist's helper operating a radial dial press

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards ...

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.

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Boat drill at Manhattan Coast Guard training station. Enlistees are taught how to handle all kinds of small craft, including the quick launching of lifeboats of every type

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Boat drill at Manhattan ...

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

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Sign posted by the decontamination squad during a gas drill demonstration

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Sign posted by the deconta...

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

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

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 37. No. 420. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

Reaching out for the river - drill grounds of the defenders of Cairo, Ill.

Reaching out for the river - drill grounds of the defenders of Cairo, ...

Panoramic view of the parade grounds at Camp Defiance, Cairo, Illinois shows troops from several Illinois volunteer units engaged in drill practice; in the background is the Mississippi River. Copyright by Rev... More

Oil field workers, reaching for clamp on elevator. The elevator removes the pipe from the drill hole, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field workers, reaching for clamp on elevator. The elevator remove...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, 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.

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

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

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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...

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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, ...

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Returning from drill, Hampton Roads

Returning from drill, Hampton Roads

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Returning from drill, Hampton Roads

Returning from drill, Hampton Roads

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

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

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Fire drill -- rescue rope - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Fire drill -- rescue rope - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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