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Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are infinitesimal in the Social Security Board Records Office and great care is excercised to guard against human error. After the employee master card has been prepared, and before it is sent on to reproduce an acturial card, indexes, registers and a individual ledger account. It goes to a review section. Here the original application and the master card are brought together and checked for error. Checking is done by a team of two workers, and the few errors which have been made are corrected. Reviews of errors are reduced to a minute part of one perscent. The photograph above shows a part of the review section at work

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are in...

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Baltimore, Md. For every social security account number issued an "employee master card" is made in the Social Security Board Records Office. Testifying data, given on the application blank, form ss-5 is transferred to this master card in the form of up ended quadrangular holes, punched by key punch machines, which have a keyboard like a typewriter. Each key struck by an operator causes a hole to be punched in the card. The position of a hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. The position of the hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. From this master card is made an actuarial card, to be used later for statistical purposes. The master card also is used in other machines which sort them numerically, according to account numbers, alphabetically according to the name code, translate the holes into numbers and letters, and print the data on individual ledger sheets, indexes, registry of accounts and other uses. The photograph above shows a records office worker punching master cards on a key punch machine

Baltimore, Md. For every social security account number issued an "emp...

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Streetcar employee reporting over telephone. Streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Streetcar employee reporting over telephone. Streetcar terminal, Oklah...

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Paul McDaniel with his laborer's button. Each employee wears an identification

Paul McDaniel with his laborer's button. Each employee wears an identi...

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Citation winners. President Roosevelt, presenting a citation to Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee of the Link-Belt Company of Indianapolis, Indiana

Citation winners. President Roosevelt, presenting a citation to Joseph...

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

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not ...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the enclosures department of North American Aviation's Inglewood, California, plant, inspects a tail cone for flaws before it moves to the assembly department. This plant produces the battle tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the enc...

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Surrounded by sub-assemblies for the North American B-25 bombers and P-51 fighters, this woman employee on the "swing shift" enjoys her lunch at the bench

Surrounded by sub-assemblies for the North American B-25 bombers and P...

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A woman employee assembles a B-25 tank on a jig at North American Aviation

A woman employee assembles a B-25 tank on a jig at North American Avia...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Dolores Cook of North American's welfare department at Inglewood, California, makes an appointment for an employee to have his driver's license revised. She wears the uniform of the company's Red Cross unit. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Dolores Cook of North Ameri...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not ...

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

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at the flight ramp of North American's Inglewood, California, plant, tows a B-25 bomber into place. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at the fli...

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

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...

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New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

A black and white photo of two men working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men working in a factory, Florida. Farm...

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

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are infinitesimal in the Social Security Board Records Office and great care is excercised to guard against human error. After the employee master card has been prepared, and before it is sent on to reproduce an acturial card, indexes, registers and a individual ledger account. It goes to a review section. Here the original application and the master card are brought together and checked for error. Checking is done by a team of two workers, and the few errors which have been made are corrected. Reviews of errors are reduced to a minute part of one perscent. The photograph above shows a part of the review section at work

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are in...

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Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a large East Coast steel mill, is participating in his second world war production drive. This sixty-year-old war worker is shown on his bycicle rushing time cards and tools from one part of the massive steel plant to another. Bethlehem Fairfield Steel

Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a lar...

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

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Electro-welding a steel rim on an army helmet. The man at the machine is an employee of an Eastern manufacturer whose regular production is radiators for automobiles. He formerly soldered radiator cores. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Electro-welding a steel ri...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hydraulic press department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, at Inglewood, California, places a sheet metal part on a Masonite die prior to moving it under the press. The 3,000 ton press takes only about ten seconds to do the actual forming. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the hyd...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. In the engineering department of North American Aviation, Incorporated, at Inglewood, California, women are replacing men on the tracing tables. Here, a girl employee traces an original drawing for a blue print. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. In the engineering departme...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Industrial safety. Accident prevention. The employee who carries in such a way as to obscure his vision is not saving time--he is endangering himself and his fellow workers. A few extra trips, or the use of a truck when necessary, eliminates possible manhour loss from this hazard

Industrial safety. Accident prevention. The employee who carries in su...

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This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing panel. Negroes and whites work together at North American Aviation

This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing pa...

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Washington, D.C. Government employee taking a nap on a bench in the Botanical Garden

Washington, D.C. Government employee taking a nap on a bench in the Bo...

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Aluminum casting. This large sand casting is being checked to blueprints' specification by an employee of a large Midwest aluminum foundry now converted to production of war essentials. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. This large sand casting is being checked to blueprin...

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Washington, D.C. This employee of the U.S. Navy Department listens to the radio and studies drafting in his boardinghouse room

Washington, D.C. This employee of the U.S. Navy Department listens to ...

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Woman employee of the mechanic shop in the Greyhound garage

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Woman employee of the mechanic shop in the G...

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

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk III

Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk III

Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Demountable employee housing. Group of construction workers' houses, built on demountable principle, on a dam construction project in North Carolina. Some of these houses are on their third location since they were first built in Alabama and hauled approximately 300 miles in sections

Demountable employee housing. Group of construction workers' houses, b...

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Employee at General Electric plant getting ready to work. Trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania

Employee at General Electric plant getting ready to work. Trailer camp...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. These inflatable boats are so light that during the process of their construction they may be readily turned over by a single employee as shown in this picture. When work is completed on one side, the boats are turned to permit working on the other. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps....

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operated a pneumatic numbering machine in the sheet metal department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. All items are given index numbers. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operated a...

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.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. In the transportation department at North American's Inglewood, California, aircraft plant, pins are placed in a map to determine the location of employee residences. This has been a great help in routing buses. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. In the transportation depar...

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This Negro employee at North American Aviation tows planes into place on the flight ramp

This Negro employee at North American Aviation tows planes into place ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sergeant Maxfield Hurlbut Dunlap, former employee of the Board of Economic Warfare types reports on the progress of maneuvers in this picture taken during his basic recruit training at the Marine Corps base at Parris Island, South Carolina. Sergeant Dunlap is now serving as a fighting reporter in a combat area for the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Marine Corps

Sergeant Maxfield Hurlbut Dunlap, former employee of the Board of Econ...

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Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of the temporary wooden wheels placed on a P-51 fighter on the North American flight training at the Inglewood, California, plant. Regular rubber tires are installed when the planes are ready for flight tests. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of t...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, from the white and the Negro come the skills which will make America impregnable. A veteran employee in an Eastern navy yard instructs an apprentice machinist in the operation of an important machine

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, fro...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this employee of a small Eastern plant finds a touch of similarity between levers of the old job and the new. But he's one of America's war production workers now, due to the company's subcontract for war production. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this emplo...

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Transformer manufacture. For many years this employee of a large Eastern electrical company has been winding low voltage coils for power transformers. He's become one of Uncle Sam's valued workers, because transformers are essential to almost every phase of the armament program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. For many years this employee of a large Easte...

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This woman employee mixes plaster to the right consistency as a master at plaster forming makes a mould for a new die

This woman employee mixes plaster to the right consistency as a master...

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

Douglas Aircraft's salvage queen. Annette del Sur, an office employee at Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, California, poses atop a pile of aluminum scraps collected at the plant to help publicize Uncle Sam's salvage campaign. The earings and hair ornaments are fashioned from aluminum turnings. Douglas Aircraft Company

Douglas Aircraft's salvage queen. Annette del Sur, an office employee ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Engineer Graham is a full-time employee at the District grocery store, on call at all hours of the day and night. He is responsible for air conditioning and keeping the storerooms and cold room at the right temperature

Washington, D.C. Engineer Graham is a full-time employee at the Distri...

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Production. Aircraft engines. A young Negro worker stands ready to wash or "degrease" this airplane motor prior to its shipment. He's an employee of a large Midwest airplane plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. A young Negro worker stands ready to was...

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Washington, D.C. Miss Alice Blackwell, an employee of the U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska branch, is inserting an oblique aerial photograph into the oblique sketch master for the purpose of transferring the planimetry from the photograph to the base map of the manuscript

Washington, D.C. Miss Alice Blackwell, an employee of the U.S. Geologi...

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Bonneville Dam, Oregon and Washington. Ruby Warren, employee of the United States Army corps of engineers, looking down the bridge over Bonneville fishway into the counting station. She is one of four women employed as a fish recorder by the engineers

Bonneville Dam, Oregon and Washington. Ruby Warren, employee of the Un...

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New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demountable method makes use of the stressed skin principle of plywood engineering. In consequnce, the house slices become very much lighter and can be towed on a light undercarriage behind a small truck or ordinary passenger car

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demou...

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

Demountable employee housing. Because many construction projects are in remote localities where the need for housing exists only during the construction period, the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) developed over a period of years its own method of prefabrication. Houses, recreation buildings, dormitories, washhouses, etc. have been constructed in three dimensional slices which are transported individually, fully equipped, and are coupled up on the site much like cars of a railroad train. Photograph shows one slice of a cabin, 7 1/2' x 22', in transit

Demountable employee housing. Because many construction projects are i...

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

First sit down strike in U.S. traced to Reds. Washington, D.C., Oct. 19. Clyde Morrow, an employee of the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Communists engineered the first sit-down strike in Michigan--at the Midland Steel Co. Plant in 1936. Morrow, who had joined the Communist Party for the purpose of getting information, asserted he was on hand when the strike began, 10/19/38

First sit down strike in U.S. traced to Reds. Washington, D.C., Oct. 1...

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

New Chief Usher named for White House Washington, D.C., April 4. For the second time in more than 30 years a new chief usher for the White House was appointed by President Roosevelt today. He is Howell G. Crim, who succeeds Raymond Muir just named Assistant to the Chief of the International Conference Division. Muir was named to the chief usher's post a few years ago upon the death of Irwin "Ike" Hoover, a White House employee for over 40 years. Charles Cluanch, (standing) a sailor of 20 years standing has been named to the ushers staff in the change, 4/4/38.

New Chief Usher named for White House Washington, D.C., April 4. For t...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy ship, but he's hitting at the Axis just the same. Formerly a Work Projects Administration timekeeper (WPA), this employee of a small Eastern manufacturing firm is now producing small parts for America's war machine, due to the company's subcontract for defense work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy shi...

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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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. A North American Aviation woman employee at Inglewood, California, sits astride a "Mustang" fighter for Royal Air Force (RAF), as she places a bag of chemicals in the plane to prevent the accumulation of moisture. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. A North American Aviation w...

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

An employee of the Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California

An employee of the Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California

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

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 milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

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

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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is an old story to this young woman employee of an Eastern hosiery plant which is now forty-percent converted to the manufacture of mosquito netting for the armed forces. These warp holders are used to determine the tensile strength of yarn and to keep it in place during machine operations. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Bus ticket book in use at Lockheed Vega. This fifteen-cent ticket actually costs an employee twelve cents. For railheads at more distant points, tickets are proportionately higher

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Bus ticket book in use at Lockheed Vega....

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. An employee in North American Aviation's sheet metal sub-assembly department at Inglewood, California, uses a emery wheel to smooth out a weld in a plane part. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. An employee in North Americ...

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.

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

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

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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee of North American Aviation's Inglewood, California, plant, assembles the wing flap mechanism for a B-25 bomber. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee of Nort...

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

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

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

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[Congress of Racial Equality members carry picket signs outside Columbia University's John Jay Hall in support of employee demands for union representation] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo.

[Congress of Racial Equality members carry picket signs outside Columb...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Employee watches the production line at the nation's first Krispy Kreme donut shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Employee watches the production line at the nation's first Krispy Krem...

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

[Gov. Thompson(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left]

[Gov. Thompson(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait,...

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

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. Employee in picture has wheeled barrow 50 years

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. E...

Man pushing wheelbarrow with money stacked on it. National Photo Company Collection.

An employee of the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida

An employee of the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they ...

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Absentee posters. An employee in the janitor service of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, Connecticut designed this poster which stresses the importance of full attendance to plant workers

Absentee posters. An employee in the janitor service of the Winchester...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Supervisor instructs employee in the balloon room in one of the production steps in boat manufacture. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps....

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Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, than the individual citizen, American industry has learned to waste nothing. With every ounce of steel and steel scrap vital to the war, this employee of the Boston & Maine Railroad has been assigned the job of sorting steel washers. Here, as in all industry today, anything reusable is put back into service; the remainder becomes scrap to feed the nation's insatiable steel mills

Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the dispatching department at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, hauls another load of vital materials to the proper department. This plant produces the battle-tested ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee in the dis...

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Delicate instruments are mounted on instrument panels by this North American woman employee

Delicate instruments are mounted on instrument panels by this North Am...

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Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman employee assembles an electrical switch box

Inside the fuselage of a North American P-51 fighter, this woman emplo...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at North American's Inglewood, California, plant, works on extrusion angles for B-25 bombers. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at North A...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Using a small rotary air grinder, this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant performs a delicate job on a gear spacer that will see duty in the mechanism of one of America's battleships of the air

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Using a small rotary air gr...

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Citation winner. Joseph H. Kautsky (center), citation winner, an employee of the Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. Kautsky is being congratulated by Senator Claude D. Pepper. At left is Vice Chairman of the War Production Board

Citation winner. Joseph H. Kautsky (center), citation winner, an emplo...

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Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. At left, George W. Bocdanoffy, vice president of the machine shop company explains a job to John Lindstrom of Howe Company. Formerly an employee, Lindstrom now is his own boss doing subcontracting for his former boss in a small machine shop set up in the garage in the rear of his home

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. At left, George W. Bocdan...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Typical ride group: Don, a shopworker; Sheila, one of the factory girls who has taken over a man's job; Walt, production control; and Mary, stenographer. They are waiting for driver, Jerry, an engineering employee

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Typical ride group: Don, a shopworker; S...

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A woman employee in North American's sheet metal department counter-sinks holes prior to riveting

A woman employee in North American's sheet metal department counter-si...

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Washington, D.C. A cafeteria employee at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. A cafeteria employee at Woodrow Wilson High School

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New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

Fort Lawton, Civilian Employee Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA

Fort Lawton, Civilian Employee Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King...

Significance: Designed to house 18 civilian employees. One of the first two buildings on the post to be lit electrically at its construction. Completed February 16, 1908, from QMGO Plan No. 183-A. Original c... More

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, worki...

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An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machin...

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Powder plant employee going upstairs. Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Powder plant employee going upstairs. Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. ...

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This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing panel for B-25

This Negro employee counter-sinks holes prior to riveting this wing pa...

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A woman employee on the P-51 Mustang fighter assembly line at North American Aviation adjusts the engine controls before the plane moves down the assembly floor

A woman employee on the P-51 Mustang fighter assembly line at North Am...

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Citation winners. President Roosevelt, about to award citations to Edwin Curtiss Tracy, an employee of RCA Manufacturing Company of Camden, New Jersey

Citation winners. President Roosevelt, about to award citations to Edw...

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A man and woman employee on North American's P-51 fighter final assembly line check their day's work on a "sign-off" sheet as each assembly is completed

A man and woman employee on North American's P-51 fighter final assemb...

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Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is much more than just a job to Peter Dykzeul. Born in Holland, this employee of a Midwest tank plant knows the brutality and horror Nazi agression can bring to a freedom-loving people. And he's just one among America's many loyal, foreign-born workers who are pitching in with every ounce of strength to keep the nation free, and to lift the yoke from their native lands. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant embodies the reasons for this change of heart. With no previous industrial experience, she mastered the operation of this compressed-air machine in record time, and is now polishing airplane motor parts with speed and skill

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the ...

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Safe clothes for women war workers. The importance of keeping hair short and neat for industrial war work cannot be over-emphasized. Here Eunice Kimball, Bendix employee, gives a final pat to her newly-dressed hair. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York

Safe clothes for women war workers. The importance of keeping hair sho...

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Production. Magnesium. The shadow of a watchtower at the huge Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert points to a water treatment plant in which water piped for miles is conditioned for many uses in the plant and its employee housing development

Production. Magnesium. The shadow of a watchtower at the huge Basic Ma...

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New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion Road, .3 mile west of intersection with Sanatorium Road, Glen Gardner, Hunterdon County, NJ

New Jersey State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Employee Dormitory, Pavilion...

Significance: The Employee Dormitory is representative of early 20th century design changes that were made in tuberculosis treatment facilities to safeguard the physical and mental health of employees. Survey... More

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman who provides for a family of six on her salary of one thousand and eighty dollars per year. She has been a federal employee for twenty-six years

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman who provides for a family of six...

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(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cotton-mill employee using seat that is on the end of her machine. Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cotton-mill employee using seat t...

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