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The faith of treaties exemplified or John Bull's last effort to oblige his false friends / S.W.F., British Cartoon Print

The faith of treaties exemplified or John Bull's last effort to oblige...

A satire on the diplomatic situation in 1794, showing French soldiers shooting at raging bull, and saying "Vive la republic, Blood & plunder, no quarter to John Bull!" To the bull's back is strapped a bundle in... More

Utility operators meet Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. President Roosevelt and western private utility operators today discussed elimination of duplicating utility facilities and creation of investor confidence in the industry, the President conferred with, left to right: John Carpenter, President of the Texas Light and Power Co., Dallas, Tex.; Daniel C. Green, of the Central Service Corp. of Chicago; and A.B. West, Head of the Nevada-California Electric Corp. The discussion was one of the series he is holding with public utility officials in an effort to revive utility expenditures and pour billions of dollars into trade channels, 1/11/38

Utility operators meet Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. President...

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

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this tire storeroom are playing important part in the nation's war effort. Tires like these are used on huge trucks and military prime movers. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this ti...

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

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...

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

A huge forge hammer in an automobile plant is converted to war work. The importance of the auto in American life is proving to be tremendous advantage as the the great automotive plants pool their resources in the mightiest war production effort the world has ever seen. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A huge forge hammer in an automobile plant is converted to war work. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer handling gravel for concrete during the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer handling gravel for ...

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

Production. Copper. An ore train on its way to a large copper smelting operation at the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona, which is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. An ore train on its way to a large copper smelting...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refinin...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by el...

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

Production. Copper. Electric shovel in operation at open-cut copper mine of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona, supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Electric shovel in operation at open-cut copper mi...

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

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

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

Production. Lead. Reopened mine workings near Creede, Colorado. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Reopened mine workings near Creede, Colorado. Creede...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Making a pipe joint on a liquid vaporizer in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ma...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Drag lines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Drag lines are working day and...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by e...

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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Section of the ba...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Busy stacks give evidence of all-out war production effort at a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Busy stacks give ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, column, chimney, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder in a New England plant used to grind motor shafts for the firm's normal production of electric dry shavers. It is now grinding spring collets which are used in turning machines to hold the work being turned. Such machines are vitally needed for the war production effort. The conversion of the machine was accomplished by replacing the one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel shown here with a three-inch wheel and by enlarging the feed of the cutting solution. Tolerances on this war work are only .002 inches as compared with the tolerances on the normal production of .0002 inches (see pix #D-2974). Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This Norton type C six-inch semi-au...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps in the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps i...

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

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

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

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

Production. Lead. An Akins type classifier in a lead concentrator near Creede, Colorado where old mines have been reopened. The classifier sends back to the ball mill all ore not crushed to pass a screen of specified mesh. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. An Akins type classifier in a lead concentrator near...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Lead. Types of miners who work the lead mines near Creede, Colorado. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Types of miners who work the lead mines near Creede,...

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

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and ...

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

Production. Tungsten. Crushing tungsten ore in a concentrating plant near Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war effort. Boriana Mine, Arizona

Production. Tungsten. Crushing tungsten ore in a concentrating plant n...

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

Production. Zinc. Cars for transporting zinc and lead ore are dumped at this point in a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Cars for transporting zinc and lead ore are dumped a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Street scene, with war effort poster by Sacred Heart Parish

New York, New York. Street scene, with war effort poster by Sacred Hea...

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

Production. Zinc. A mechanical loader fills buckets with zinc ore in a mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A mechanical loader fills buckets with zinc ore in a...

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

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. Physical fitness is now an important part of this new program. Photo shows high school boys in gym illustrating a phase of their toughening-up exercises

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., which had fallen into such disrepair that it was slated for demoltion before a citizens' effort saved it

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylv...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Peter F. Dailey in John J. McNally's happiest effort, The night clerk

Peter F. Dailey in John J. McNally's happiest effort, The night clerk

A236078 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cin'ti - N.Y." No. 6612. Under the direction of Charles J. Rich & Wm. Harris; E. Rosenbaum, manager. Forms part of: Theatric... More

The Civil War in America: the fight at Ball's Bluff, upper Potomac - desperate effort made by the 15th Massachusettsachusetts Regiment to clear the woods by a bayonet charge

The Civil War in America: the fight at Ball's Bluff, upper Potomac - d...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1861 Nov. 23, p. 511. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist Jun 1861; Va Ball's Bluff; C.W. Battles; C.W.... More

In a futile effort to save the plate, Lord Louis' stick fell upon the largest fragment

In a futile effort to save the plate, Lord Louis' stick fell upon the ...

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Eggshell" by Roland Pertwee, Saturday evening post, 188:13 (March 4, 1916).

Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced

Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas C...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. railroads engage in all-out war effort

U.S. railroads engage in all-out war effort

Photograph shows several men waving from the open windows of a troop train car leaving a midwestern U.S. military camp. Portrait of America, no. 45. Photographs received from the U.S. Office of War Information.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA) volunteer headquarters in Nyack

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

Public domain photograph of a historic place in New York, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five Citations of Individual Production Merit have been awarded to five war workers, War Production Drive Headquarters has announced. The citation is the highest honor conferred for individual achievement. It is granted only for ideas or suggestions that have an outstanding effect on the entire war effort. Joseph H. Kautsky, Indianapolis, Indiana, an employee of the Lin-Belt Co., was awarded his citation for four suggestions, each technical. He suggested a grinding wheel adapter, which permits higher speeds in internal grindings; a simplification cutting down the number of special internal grinding spindle wheel adapters from twelve to three; the adoption of a precision screw adjustment to the vertical column of dial indicator guages, to get faster adjustments without danger to the dials; and a new method of testing the concentricity of internally ground parts. The picture shows Mr. Kautsky (center) being congratulated by formean Bill Whitaker (right) as Superintendant R. E. Whitney (left) looks on

Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five Citat...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refinin...

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

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pi...

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.

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the American people that waste materials are vital to the war effort. Printed in three colors -- black, red and white -- it was designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for distribution through the Bureau of Industrial Conservation. Its size is 20 x 28 in.

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the...

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

Production. Lead. Lead concentrator at Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have been reopened. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Lead concentrator at Creede, Colorade where old lead...

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

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...

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

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Constructing a water intake tunnel for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Constructing a water intake tu...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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...

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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Section of the ba...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer used in grading during the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer used in grading duri...

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

Price control. Anti-inflation window display. The "Wise Old Owl" display not only boosts sales in this drugstore, but stresses cooperation between government and merchant to control prices of items essential to the war effort. The "Save Your Money" theme is a clever merchandising angle informing the customer that ceiling prices vary in different stores

Price control. Anti-inflation window display. The "Wise Old Owl" displ...

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

The old and the new meet on a military highway in India. Though motor transports carry much of the supplies, the camel, which has been the beast of burden from time immemorial, is drafted to do his part in the war effort also

The old and the new meet on a military highway in India. Though motor ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Copper. Bulldozer operator at open-cut copper mine of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona, supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Bulldozer operator at open-cut copper mine of the ...

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

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense, which includes child care and training. At the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, pre-school guidance as well as free play activities are provided. Miss L.C. Randolph is principal and Mrs. Vivian T. Turner, instructor in the child care and training classes

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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

Production. Zinc. Pig lead produced at a large smelting plant. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Pig lead produced at a large smelting plant. From th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a cardinal, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a cardinal, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense which includes military drill for both high school boys and girls as part of the physical fitness course

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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

Production. Zinc. Recovering zinc by flotation at a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Recovering zinc by flotation at a large concentrator...

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

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., which had fallen into such disrepair that it was slated for demoltion before a citizens' effort saved it

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylv...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Sailors' & Soldiers' Tobacco Fund. "Let us make every effort and see that they are never in want of either pipes or tobacco" / The Avenue Press, Ltd., 6 and 8, Bouverie Street, London, E.C.

Sailors' & Soldiers' Tobacco Fund. "Let us make every effort and see t...

Poster showing soldiers smoking outside a damaged church, as other soldiers march by. Contributions gratefully received by Hon. Sec., Central House, Kingsway, W.C.

La Grande Guerre. L'effort et l'idéal de la Grande-Bretagne. Représentés en une série de lithographies. Musée du Luxembourg

La Grande Guerre. L'effort et l'idéal de la Grande-Bretagne. Représent...

A foot soldier. Great Britain entered the war August 4, 1914 and by the end of the war over six million British soldiers had fought in the war. Of these, over seven hundred thousand had been killed by the war's... More

U.S. opens war on social diseases. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. The first nation-wide effort to combat venereal diseases was launched in Washington today when 300 delegates from 32 states attended the opening session of a three-day conference call by the United States Public Health Service. In the photograph, left to right: Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., State Commissioner of Health of New York state; Dr. Thomas Parran, U.S. Surgeon General; Miss Josephine Roche, Acting Secretary of the Treasury; John H. Stokes; University of Pennsylvania Medical School; and Dr. J.E. Moore, of John Hopkins Hospital

U.S. opens war on social diseases. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. The firs...

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

Detail of Texas Panhandle tenant farmer's house. He is now abandoning this house after twenty years effort to farm successfully

Detail of Texas Panhandle tenant farmer's house. He is now abandoning ...

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

Soil erosion in Posey County, Indiana. Grass has been planted in an effort to slow the process of gully formation

Soil erosion in Posey County, Indiana. Grass has been planted in an ef...

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

Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific contributions to the war effort, Los Angeles, Calif.

Students at Washington High School at class, training for specific con...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Tungsten. This plant near Kingman, Arizona, produces tungsten concentrate from ores mined in nearby workings. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war effort. Boriana Mine, Arizona

Production. Tungsten. This plant near Kingman, Arizona, produces tungs...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Erection of a heater stack in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Er...

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

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at this school, and one that's highly important to the war effort. Young men in the Willow Run bomber plant attend a riveting school before going to work on the assembly lines. These "schoolrooms" are right in the plant proper; classes are held in many types of work. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at ...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Trimming bars of pure copper at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Trimming bars of pure copper at a large...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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

Women workers at quartermaster depot. The nimble fingers of many American women are now contributing to the war effort in various quartermaster corps depots. This elderly woman is handstitching sleeves on an army overcoat. Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps

Women workers at quartermaster depot. The nimble fingers of many Ameri...

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

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and ...

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

Absentee posters. Charts provide an effective method for showing workers how absenteeism hinders the war effort. This graph is used by the Nordberg Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It shows the total number of absentees and the amount of production lost during the month of July, 1942

Absentee posters. Charts provide an effective method for showing worke...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by el...

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Production. Lead. Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have been reopened. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have been reop...

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"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war production effort of Jake Sparling, sixty, and Percy Fogelsong, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack, who between them produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. "The old gent and me" have been working fifteen hours daily, seven days a week. "The old gent," hired eighteen months ago to take care of Jake's sick dog, had never before seen a lathe

"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war...

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Production. Copper. Plant and smokestack of a large copper smelter of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Plant and smokestack of a large copper smelter of ...

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Production. Copper. An armed guard at a copper smelter of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. An armed guard at a copper smelter of the Phelps-D...

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer handling gravel for concrete during the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer handling gravel for ...

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Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, comprehensive clerical work is carried on between maneuvers. Unless those typewriters not essential to the war effort are turned in by civilians to Uncle Sam, the shortage of sufficient machines may materially cripple the speed and facility of army operations

Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, ...

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Footings for open hearth furnaces for a new steel plant under construction which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Footings for open hearth furna...

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Production. Copper (refining). Copper ingots on conveyors at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Copper ingots on conveyors at a large c...

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Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty every car owner owes to himself and to our fighting men. In having his car adjusted to prevent excessive tire wear--and in observing the simple rules that make tires last longer--he is making a valuable contribution to our war effort. The man who wastes rubber is a poor citizen and blind even to his own personal interests

Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty...

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Aluminum casting. Bright white hot aluminum, vital to Uncle Sam's war effort, discharged from carrying pot into ingot molds. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Bright white hot aluminum, vital to Uncle Sam's war ...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America's salvaged tin cans is used in the war effort. The complete utilization of discarded cans includes one percent tin and ninety-nine percent steel scrap. Here, carloads of this "black scrap," the leftover steel from the discarded cans, from which the tin has been removed, is being shipped to a steel mill where it will be forged into weapons of war

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America...

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Production. Copper. Industrial railroad and plant of a copper smelter of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Industrial railroad and plant of a copper smelter ...

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Columbia Steel Company for Geneva, Utah. Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company for Geneva, Utah. Steel and concrete go into pl...

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The first meeting of the women's policy committee of War Manpower Commission (WMC) on Oct. 1, 1942. Thre members get acquainted. Left to right: Maudell Bousfield, Margaret A. Hickey, chairman, and Sue Southall. The committee was formed to aid in mobilizing women war workers for the war effort

The first meeting of the women's policy committee of War Manpower Comm...

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

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

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Production. Zinc. Belt conveyor galleries at a large zinc concentrator plant. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Belt conveyor galleries at a large zinc concentrator...

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense and at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, courses in home-making and the preservation of foods are now taught all young women. Photo shows Miss Elizabeth Wood blanching carrots to loosen skin for removal

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., which had fallen into such disrepair that it was slated for demoltion before a citizens' effort saved it

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylv...

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[Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., which had fallen into such disrepair that it was slated for demoltion before a citizens' effort saved it]

[Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsyl...

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Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., which had fallen into such disrepair that it was slated for demoltion before a citizens' effort saved it

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylv...

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Wash. D.C. Beating the Gun. These congressmen gather on the steps of the Capitol in an effort to beat the adjournment gun by a few minutes. The session was drawing to a close as this photo was made. From the left: Representatives Herman P. Koppleman, D. of Conn.: John J. Delaney, D. of NY: William P. Connery, D. of Massachusetts.: Edward A. Kenney, D. of NJ; Kent E. Keller, D. of Ill.; Caroline O'Day, D. of NY; William T. Schulte, D. of Inf.; William A. Sirovich, D. of NY; Jennings Randolph, D. of West Virginia, and John Lewinski, D. of Mich. 8/24/35

Wash. D.C. Beating the Gun. These congressmen gather on the steps of t...

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Remington-Rand Strike. Washington, D.C., March 18. In an efFort to adjust difficulties in his company's plants, James H. Rand, Jr., President of the Remington-Rand, Inc., entered into a converence with Sec. of Labor Frances Perkins today at the Labor Dept. Left to right: Rand, Sec. of Labor Perkins, and Edward McGrady, Asst. Sec. of Labor...

Remington-Rand Strike. Washington, D.C., March 18. In an efFort to adj...

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Ousted TVA Chairman tells his story. Washington, D.C., May 25. Appearing as the first witness before the Joint Congressional TVA Investigating Committee today, Dr. Arthur E. Morgan deposed Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, declared that his two co-directors had engaged in "misrepresentations and hypocrisy", but made no effort to show they had been guilty of corrupt practices. he is pictured with Senator Vic Donahey, (left) Chairman, and Rep. James M. Mead, CO-Chairman of the committee, 5/5/38

Ousted TVA Chairman tells his story. Washington, D.C., May 25. Appeari...

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MRS. F.D. ROOSEVELT AT HER BIRTHDAY PARTY AT WOMENS PRESS CLUB. THE REDUCTION IS EFFECTIVE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO POSTAL ZONES. EFFECTIVE FROM NOVEMBER 1 TO JUNE 30, 1939, THE REDUCTION WAS MADE IN AN EFFORT TO STIMULATE EDUCATION THROUGH READING

MRS. F.D. ROOSEVELT AT HER BIRTHDAY PARTY AT WOMENS PRESS CLUB. THE RE...

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