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First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. East meets West. Left to right: Coast Guardsman Vincent Pope, Bronx, New York; Coast Guardsman George Gilpin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lee Ah Ding and Yee Chee Ching, Chinese seamen from a British freighter, meet at South Ferry, New York City. Lee and Yee are two of the first Chinese granted shore leave in an American port since this country entered the war

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used to polish fine silverware, this machine now buffs up delicate surgical instruments which will ultimately be sent to Army and Navy physicians. The Eastern factory in which these instruments are made is undergoing conversion from manufacture of silverplate and silverware. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used to polish fine silverware,...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Parts of this twin-engine plane's wings have been removed before the plane is hoisted aboard a ship being loaded at an Atlantic coast port with American arms for one of the United Nations

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Parts of this twin-engine plane's ...

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 print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. ... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Production drive poster - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Production drive poster - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made under subcontract by a small New York manufacturing plant

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. This mechanic used to tend machines which produced some of America's sheerest hosiery. Today he's working for America's armed forces on these same machines, which are producing mosquito netting for the Army and Navy. In the picture, he's servicing the mesh gears of a loom. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. This mechanic used to tend machines which...

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

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but her technical skill in assembling electrical devices will soon be applied to important work. When the last jukeboxes roll off this Eastern plant's assembly lines, control devices similar to those used on the amusement machines will be produced for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but her technical ski...

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

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Stitching sleeve and body of jacket together

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Stitching sleeve and body of jacket to...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office... More

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into the Westchester Auto Wrecking Company yard at 1400 Blondell Avenue in the Bronx. Shown in the photo pushing the car are Scouts of Troop #121 while Edward G. Bellmaire, Scoutmaster, David Lanoff of the wrecking company, and Frank O. March, Vice Chairman of the Bronx Salvage Campaign Committee look on

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to colle...

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

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eastern manufacturing company explains the workings of a soundproof auxiliary engine cover to a friend. He's producing this engine cover on an experimental basis now, along with small aircraft parts, instead of the egg poachers and frying pans he used to make before converting his plant to war production. This cover will enclose motors used on four-engine bombers to take care of retracting gear and other essentials not connected with the main drive engine. Precision Metal Company, New York City, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eas...

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

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box for an airplane tow target is drilled in a production jig at an Eastern plant that formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box fo...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows Benjamin Lapides (right) and his father Leon Lapides, owners of the firm at work assembling signalling devices for the U.S Navy searchlights. Firm converted from manufacture of automotive accessories to ninety percent war production

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Photo shows Benjamin Lapides (right...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Oversea... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. These gears were once used in the manufacture of women's stockings. Today they've been put to far more important use with their conversion to the production of mosquito netting for America's armed forces. Here, two plant engineers inspect the worm gear changeover on a loom undergoing conversion. These gears are frequently known as mesh gears, since they control the size and type of the netting mesh. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. These gears were once used in the manufac...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Samples of ordnance made by Rex Manufacturing Company, New Rochelle, world's largest manufacturers of compacts, now converted to army buttons, insignia, and cartridge shells

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Samples of ordnance made by Rex Manu...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Manufacture and assembly of surgical instruments takes place in a factory normally producing fine silverware. In the brick oven at right, parts to be assembled are heated before being hand assembled on the anvil (right). Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Manufacture and assembly of surgical ins...

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

Special shell reaming tool; length, three and seven-sixteenths inches

Special shell reaming tool; length, three and seven-sixteenths inches

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Photo: crankshaft case - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Photo: crankshaft case - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

General view of fifteen buses out of service, sold for scrap to supply much needed raw material for the steel mills. The buses were sold from a Long Island parking lot where they have been parked for over one year

General view of fifteen buses out of service, sold for scrap to supply...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Erstwhile polisher of fine silverware, this employee of an Eastern plant now undergoing conversion to production of war essentials, is at present engaged in assembly of bomb shackles. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Erstwhile polisher of fine silverware, t...

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these figures for merry-go-rounds, peacetime product of this New York state plant, now turning out bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Worker operating the progressive welder is fabricating bomb shackle frames. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. More essential to Uncle Sam than these gloves are millions of yards of mosquito netting now being made by an Eastern mill. Conversion of the plant from manufacture of hosiery and gloves to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy involved changing the pattern cam and driving gears on a Tricot-warp-a knit machine. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. More essential to Uncle Sam than these gl...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer who checks and posts ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into the Westchester Auto Wrecking Company yard at 1400 Blondell Avenue in the Bronx. Shown in the photo pushing the car are Scouts of Troop #121 while Edward G. Bellmaire, Scoutmaster, David Lanoff of the wrecking company, and Frank O. March, Vice Chairman of the Bronx Salvage Campaign Committee look on

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to colle...

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

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombers to a platform on deck insures safe transit from an American port to the bombers' destination. Crews of highly specialized workers are required to load assembled planes on shipboard and to prevent their becoming dislodged in heavy seas. These precautions are unnecessary when planes are sent unassembled in crates; however, most planes going to the Near East are shipped ready for flight within one hour after docking, since in many ports competent unloading equipment is lacking or has been demolished by Axis raids

Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombe...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Photographed by Edward L. Gruber or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from caption card and print in lot. Transfer;... More

Lend-lease in action. American M-3 tanks, "General Grants," are in action in Africa and are preparing for battle in Australia. The picture shows an M-3 tank, lend-leased to the United Nations, being hoisted aboard a cargo vessel at an unnamed American port

Lend-lease in action. American M-3 tanks, "General Grants," are in act...

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

Left to right are: Al Gerson, buyer; Ben Taft, automobile graveyard inspector, War Production Board (WPB); Frederick G. Zander, seller. Close up of U.S. inspector of auto graveyards with buyer and seller of buses inside one of the buses

Left to right are: Al Gerson, buyer; Ben Taft, automobile graveyard in...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Worm shaft which may be made in a tool shop having turret lathe, tool room screw cutting lathe, horizontal milling machine, drill press, and heat treating facilities

Worm shaft which may be made in a tool shop having turret lathe, tool ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Pho...

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

Cast iron bracket calling for drilling, spot facing, gang milling, reaming and face milling machinery

Cast iron bracket calling for drilling, spot facing, gang milling, rea...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overs... More

Rubber track guide, length four and three-quarters inches

Rubber track guide, length four and three-quarters inches

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Converted from the production of such items as soft drink dispensers and game boards, this Eastern manufacturing firm now produces precision tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other essentials for the armed forces. Personnel has jumped from 12 to 76 workers. In this machine shop different types of measuring gauges, bullet tools, dies and punches for use in America's arsenals are produced. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Converted from the production ...

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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them any more. Conversion of a large Eastern mill from production of women's stockings to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy, gives this worker a vital defense job. She's drawing yarn from warp machine into warp beams prior to its use on looms. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them ...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Milling fillets on passenger train window frames in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Milling fillets on passen...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Bar tacking (reinforced sewing) belt loops on trousers

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Bar tacking (reinforced sew...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Completed bomb shackle is shown above. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

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 man in overalls working in a warehouse. Office of War Information Photograph

A man in overalls working in a warehouse. Office of War Information Ph...

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

Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A vertical milling machine operator planes aluminum stub wing blocks in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also making open naval sights and other war essentials

Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A vertical milling ma...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Coating a belt with emory strips, this worker prepares a machine for its normal job. However, instead of putting a finish on fine tableware, (emory is a high-action abrasive) it will be used on delicate surgical instruments which are being manufactured here for the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Coating a belt with emory strips, this w...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. An ex-automobile worker is pictured here operating a centering machine to determine the plain and stroke of an airplane engine crankshaft. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Pho...

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

Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease, are in action on the various fighting fronts. Lend-lease twin engine bombers are shown being hoisted aboard ship in an unnamed American port from a lighter alongside. They are bound for distant Allied ports. More bombers in the background are awaiting loading. Expert welders fasten the big planes securely to the ship's deck to protect shipments from damage during heavy weather

Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease...

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

Forged steel hook. A New York City manufacturer of steel fittings is seeking subcontractors with eight-hundred to three-thousand pound drop hammer facilities for the manufacture of three hooks and buckles, similar to the item illustrated, in quantities of fifty to sixty-thousand. Subcontractor must furnish forging dies

Forged steel hook. A New York City manufacturer of steel fittings is s...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

New York, New York(?). Grinding thin wafers of quartz to close tolerances, for use as radio crystal oscillators. Five hundred crystals a day can be produced by this firm which previously manufactured jewelry and watch cases

New York, New York(?). Grinding thin wafers of quartz to close toleran...

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

Steel, bronze, and aluminum gear blanks. A Brooklyn manufacturer holding marine contracts is seeking subcontractng facilities for the production of a large number of gear blanks of various sizes and shapes

Steel, bronze, and aluminum gear blanks. A Brooklyn manufacturer holdi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze air craft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter inch to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Left, oil relief valve cap; right, cap nut

A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These skilled hands belong to sixty-five-year-old Herman Jagow, whose wood carving skill delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Here he is finishing up some carvings. Jagow spends most of his time now in lathe work for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These skilled hands belong to sixty-...

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

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Examiner clipping threads from finished uniforms

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Examiner clipping threads f...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Her left hand knows what her right one is doing! Each is operating two looms: her right hand guides a loom which produces silk for women's stockings, while her left hand rests on one which is producing mosquito netting for American armed forces. At present this plant is forty percent converted from production of stockings to netting, but with additional orders more looms will be converted to this essential war production. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Her left hand knows what her right one is...

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

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. East meets West. Left to right: Coast Guardsman Vincent Pope, Bronx, New York; Coast Guardsman George Gilpin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lee Ah Ding and Yee Chee Ching, Chinese seamen from a British freighter, meet at South Ferry, New York City. Lee and Yee are two of the first Chinese granted shore leave in an American port since this country entered the war

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is polishing a die which will make parts to be used on American fighting plane. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted fro...

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

A woman is holding a basket in her hands. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman is holding a basket in her hands. Office of War Information Ph...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Air Corps are welded at an Eastern plant that used to make metal screens for windows and doors. Among the items now produced are junction boxes, switch boxes for airplane tow targets and navigator windows for bombers

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Ai...

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. The worker is machinist Fred Luther, whose skill was formerly used to amuse children, is now aiding in the job of protecting children and assuring them a life in which amusement will be as much a part as before the rise of a fascism. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe use...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes are stacked by an employee of a large Eastern concern whose product will shortly switch from amusement devices to electrical equipment for Uncle Sam's army and navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes ...

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

Salvage. Wool reclamation. A workman in an Eastern plant, reclaiming wool from old rags, holds on his right arm a collection of rags before they have passed through the rag-picking machine. On his left arm is wool fiber after being shredded from wool rags in a rag-picking machine

Salvage. Wool reclamation. A workman in an Eastern plant, reclaiming w...

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

Lease lend loadings. Loading guns aboard ship, to be sent abroad on lend lease basis. Note inscriptions on crates

Lease lend loadings. Loading guns aboard ship, to be sent abroad on le...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Photographed by Edward L. Gruber or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from caption card and print in lot. Transfer;... More

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made under subcontract by a small New York manufacturing plant

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

A New York City watch manufacturer, making clocks for airplanes, is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of twenty-thousand to thirty-thousand small clock gears. Material: high carbon steel, oil hardened. Dimentsions: O.D. .3685 inches; diameter at base of teeth. .3355 inches; Thirty-six teeth, depth, .0165 inches; thickness, .046 inches; diameter center hole, .1 inches

A New York City watch manufacturer, making clocks for airplanes, is se...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Bits and pieces display. O.C.D. small parts display at WPB (War Production Board) office, 122 E. 42nd Street, New York City

Bits and pieces display. O.C.D. small parts display at WPB (War Produc...

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

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made under subcontract by a small New York manufacturing plant

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made under subcontract by a small New York manufacturing plant

The parts shown are aluminum supports for plane wings. These are made ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Forging die block. A Long Island manufacturer of a variety of forgings is seeking complete tool and die shop facilities for the production of a number of forging die blocks similar to the item illustrated. The die forging blocks vary in size from two by four by six inches to eight by ten by twelve inches in general. Facilities capable of turning out large quantities--fifty to several hundred weekly--are desired

Forging die block. A Long Island manufacturer of a variety of forgings...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw mate...

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

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Designer demonstrates double-breasted flap on lamb's wool flying suit

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Designer demonstrates double-breasted ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used in production of file cabinets in wartime America. A supervisor and his assistant in an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern, check a row of the completed cabinets ready for crating. Note resemblance of this model to pre-war metal models. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Pinch hitting for metal, wood is now used i...

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

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. A toolmaker in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer inspects and tests drill jig fixtures for wing hinge fitting. Naval sights and other war essentials are also made in this plant

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. A toolmaker in the pl...

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

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company made metal screens for doors and windows and a number of related items before beginning production of equipment for the Air Corps

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company...

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

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Stitching flyfront to trouser leg

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Stitching flyfront to trous...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. A skilled milling machine operator, this employee of an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern has already been given war work to do. He's aiding in production of electrical control instruments whose basic design is similar to the control device on jukeboxes. When jukeboxes still on the assembly lines have been completed this firm will devote most of its space to war production. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. A skilled milling machine operator, this em...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Salvage. Wool reclamation. Spinning wool yarn in an Eastern wool reclamation plant. This operation draws the roving and puts a twist in it to toughen the fibers and increase the tensile strength of the yarn

Salvage. Wool reclamation. Spinning wool yarn in an Eastern wool recla...

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

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Chinese Counsul General Lee (holding hat) greeting one of his countrymen from the crew of a British vessel in New York. Lee met the men on arrival and explained the rules under which, for the first time in warring America, they were permitted ashore during their ship's stay in port

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Operating automatic buttonhole-making machine

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Operating automatic buttonh...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. As many as 10,000 gross of spoons per weeks have been produced by this Eastern company which is now undergoing conversion to production of surgical instruments vitally needed by the Army Medical Corps. The exhibit pictured here is the evolution of the spoon. Conversion of this plant with its hundreds of precision machines and staff of 3,400 skilled and semi-skilled workers is progressing rapidly. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. As many as 10,000 gross of spoons per we...

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

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Spreading herringbone twill on cutting table

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Spreading herringbone twill...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration is this stock of figures for merry-go-rounds. The New York state plant which formerly turned them out is now engaged in the production of bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration is this ...

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

Lease lend loadings. Awaiting shipment abroad, this truck contains a mobile dental laboratory for Australian forces in Egypt. From the pier, it will be rolled on to a barge, then hoisted on ship along with similar equipment exported on a lend lease basis

Lease lend loadings. Awaiting shipment abroad, this truck contains a m...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card and print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pi... More

Top left: special end cutting form cutter. Top right: special forming tool. Bottom: long combination step drill and subland drill, nine and one-half inches long

Top left: special end cutting form cutter. Top right: special forming ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Top left: special three step roughing reamer. Top right, special taper forming reamer. Bottom, special line reaper, length 20 inches

Top left: special three step roughing reamer. Top right, special taper...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

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...

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

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