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[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C., showing construction equipment and building materials]

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 18. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[Unidentified man with gold mining equipment and wearing a U.S. beltplate]

[Unidentified man with gold mining equipment and wearing a U.S. beltpl...

Case: Berg, no. 1-23. Miner wears a U.S. beltplate indicating that he is probably a veteran of the U.S. Civil War. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Historical Shop, Metairie,... More

The locust plague, equipment - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

The locust plague, equipment - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young Ford blames ICC. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. ICC order that all railroads use heavy equipment caused the Fords to sell the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Road in 1929, Edsel Ford, (right) President of the Ford Motor Co., told Chairman Burton K. Wheeler of the Senate rail inquiry today

Young Ford blames ICC. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. ICC order that all ra...

Two men sitting at a table with papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fire equipment drawn by three running horses]

[Fire equipment drawn by three running horses]

H68798 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Matt Stratton, Newark, N.J. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Firefighting...; Photog. I.; Shelf.

U.S. Army, transportation of equipment & troops

U.S. Army, transportation of equipment & troops

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

Metal window sash handle. Window handle detail I

Metal window sash handle. Window handle detail I

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial instruments. Aircraft barographs

Aerial instruments. Aircraft barographs

Item title devised. Subject card annotation: made for National Aeronautic Association.

American Instrument Co. Instrument II

American Instrument Co. Instrument II

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building. Instrument close-up IV

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building....

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Edward S. Curtis - Kaiak with seal hunting equipment, Nunivak

Edward S. Curtis - Kaiak with seal hunting equipment, Nunivak

J299953 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 20, p. 52.

Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Microphone and radio equipment at Capitol Radio Engineering Institute

Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Microphone and radio equipment at...

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

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen of H.L. Lohnes, Twin Oaks, Vienna, Virginia II

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen of H.L. Lohnes, Twin Oaks, Vienna, Virgi...

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Kitchen Equipment Co. DeVeau kitchen IV

Kitchen Equipment Co. DeVeau kitchen IV

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

Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Students and teacher around radio equipment at Capitol Radio Engineering Institute

Capitol Radio Engineering Institute. Students and teacher around radio...

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

Kitchen Equipment Co. Davis kitchen, before

Kitchen Equipment Co. Davis kitchen, before

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Potomac Electric Power Co., manhole and cables. Detail of PEPCO cable V

Potomac Electric Power Co., manhole and cables. Detail of PEPCO cable ...

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

Shepherd electric instrument. Detail of rod-shaped instrument

Shepherd electric instrument. Detail of rod-shaped instrument

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. Main control room and partial view of balcony in front of it (compare with end wall in K 2304). Large glass panels permit observation by visitors and view of plant by control room operators. Ceiling of control room is assymmetric barrel vault with acoustic tile surface; all light is indirect from reflectors above low soffit along front of room. In more recent installations, control equipment is gray instead of black to reduce eye fatigue by lessening contrast

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. Main control room and partial view of ...

The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is one of nine dams in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system, and was completed in 1940. The dam is named af... More

Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, Stock Loading Chute, County Route 28, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Kuhlman-Periman Ranch, Stock Loading Chute, County Route 28, Dolores, ...

Survey number: HABS CO-39-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. General view of spillway and powerhouse. The latter encloses three units, is intended to extend eventually to a fourth. Note one of two traveling gantry cranes on spillway deck. Main generator hall built in brick because it is in flood-proof portion; downstream bay which houses control equipment in lower stories and offices above is in concrete on account of flood hazard

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. General view of spillway and powerhou...

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A man and a woman sitting on a porch Negro sharecropper and wife. Mississippi. They have no tools, stock, equipment, or garden

A man and a woman sitting on a porch Negro sharecropper and wife. Miss...

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U.S. Indian Service to use special first aid stretcher equipment on cars. Washington, D.C., Aug. 19. The first of seven small cars equipped with special first aid stretchers, recently purchased for use of the Bureau of Indian Affairs s in the field was demonstrated today to Dr. James G. Townsend, Director of Health of the Bureau, Dept. of Interior. The picture was made at the Interior Department and shows, left to right: Dr. Townsend; H. Holtm, Chief Pharmacist, Bureau of Indian Affairs; .E. Jones as the patient, and John Newman

U.S. Indian Service to use special first aid stretcher equipment on ca...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F.B.I. headquarters well guarded. Washington, D.C., Aug 4. The most carefully guarded center of interest in the Capitol is the Department of Justice, home of the "G" Men. Well trained guards protect records, personnel, and the building against all intruders. In this picture, Officer William L. Good is shown at the "Patrol Board" in the Captain of the Guard's office which maintains direct communication with every watch station and substation throughout the huge building. Every guard patrolling the miles of corridors carries as a part of his regular equipment a plug-in telephone with which he can communicate with headquarters at a minute's notice, 8/4/37

F.B.I. headquarters well guarded. Washington, D.C., Aug 4. The most ca...

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

[Press with radio(?) equipment at White House, Washington, D.C.]

[Press with radio(?) equipment at White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Device called Ice Lite in palm of hand

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Public domain photograph of commerce and advertising, 1920s-1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign on post office door: Farm animals and household equipment for sale. Vader, western Washington

Sign on post office door: Farm animals and household equipment for sal...

Public domain photograph of advertising campaign, billboard, street signs, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tent interior in a labor contractor's camp, showing household equipment. Near Westley, California

Tent interior in a labor contractor's camp, showing household equipmen...

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

Favors one million more for U.S. Army. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Rep. J. Buell Snyder of Pennsylvania, Chairman of a subcommittee in charge of the Army Appropriation Bill, today announced that his committee will be inclined to appropriate something like $100,000,000 more this year for national defense equipment than we did last year. The appropriation last year was $463,000,000, a peace time record, 1/3/39

Favors one million more for U.S. Army. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Rep. ...

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

Miner picking up drilling equipment to put on truck, Mogollon, New Mexico

Miner picking up drilling equipment to put on truck, Mogollon, New Mex...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unloading truck which transports horses and equipment. Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky

Unloading truck which transports horses and equipment. Shelby County H...

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

One-room school showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room school showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tractors. Farm equipment warehouse, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Tractors. Farm equipment warehouse, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Equipment shed of Mr. Peabody, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Newport, Rhode Island. All the machinery is freshly cleaned and painted and the place is a model of the proper way to care for farm equipment

Equipment shed of Mr. Peabody, FSA (Farm Security Administration) clie...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A complete line of electric lighting equipment is carried by the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative of Phoenix, Arizona

A complete line of electric lighting equipment is carried by the Unite...

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One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repai...

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The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoured forces, is a "white" scout car which has been converted into an ambulance for use with tanks. It has been proven to have a fine cross-country performance

The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoure...

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

A black and white photo of a man walking down the street. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man walking down the street. Pie Town, Ne...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The United Producers and Consumers Cooperative sells electical equipment in large quantities to its members. Phoenix, Arizona

The United Producers and Consumers Cooperative sells electical equipme...

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

Tractors at farm equipment warehouse. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Tractors at farm equipment warehouse. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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

Negro farmer carting some of his farm equipment out of the area that is being taken over by the Army. Caroline County, Virginia

Negro farmer carting some of his farm equipment out of the area that i...

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Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other mi...

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

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops...

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Soldiers in full field equipment learning the "chinpull" method of saving men from drowning

Soldiers in full field equipment learning the "chinpull" method of sav...

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

Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turning roll that will soon be installed in one of our steel mills to increase the production of steel plate and sheet to supply the tanks, ships and gun parts that are required under our expanded war program. A scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turni...

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

Boy scouts inspecting and learning about Army equipment in Commerce Square, Washington, D.C.

Boy scouts inspecting and learning about Army equipment in Commerce Sq...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Axle brackets for a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage are machined on this milling machine. Today's fast-moving planes present a target requiring the very best in antiaircraft guns. Carriage and mount are as important as the gun itself for rapid fire power and maneuverability. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City. Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Axle brackets for a thirty-seven millimeter...

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Birth of a big Navy gun. Red hot parts for a big gun being drop forged in an eastern Navy yard. This will end up as equipment for our new two-ocean fleet

Birth of a big Navy gun. Red hot parts for a big gun being drop forged...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. United States Army Engineer Corps soldiers in training carrying some heavy equipment for the construction of a bridge or pier

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. United States Army Engineer Corps soldiers in ...

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

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A fifty-foot steel ramp boat, just completed at a Southern boatyard, makes a trial run. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks, and other equipment on hostile shores. The yard is also making torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats, and other Navy craft

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A fifty-foot steel ramp boat,...

Public domain photograph of a boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Finishing wings for Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes in a large Western aircraft plant. The wings, which were accurately assembled in jigs, are added to the plane bodies as they travel down the final assembly line where engines, landing gear, controls and other equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Finishing wings for Lockheed...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. Wings for C-47 transport planes ready for the assembly line at Long Beach, California, Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Wings for C-47 transport planes rea...

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

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large Western aircraft plant. This hydraulic test equipment, with a capacity of 80,000 pounds, is used to squeeze, bend, stretch, or break every type of part used in aircraft construction. These tests assure that the part will stand the terrific strain of aerial combat conditions

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large W...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Plugging ends for header for high-pressure boilers. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Plugging ends for header for ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Land industrial pool needed the county fair buildings housing a circus for its defense plant. So the roustabouts loaded the elephants, the sideshows, the big top, and trainloads of other equipment and went on the road a week early this year

De Land pool. Moving circus. Making way for war in Florida. The De Lan...

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Fort Knox. Halftrac crews. A column of halftrac armored cars waits for orders to proceed to a practice engagement at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Fort Knox school for men of the armored service is teaching many American soldiers how to use mechanized striking equipment to best advantage. Its graduates are now on many of our far-flung battle lines, ready to meet the Axis on more than even terms

Fort Knox. Halftrac crews. A column of halftrac armored cars waits for...

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

Fort Knox. Halftrac armored cars. The halftrac armored car has many important duties in our modern mechanized army. It is very useful as a carrier of men and equipment, and may be armed in various ways to give it great striking power. This car, in use at Fort Knox, Kentucky, by soldiers of the armored forces, is capable of rapid travel over difficult terrain

Fort Knox. Halftrac armored cars. The halftrac armored car has many im...

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

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a grandmother with two sons in the army, doing her daily shift in the family's garage workshop. She is cutting worm gears needed for the army aircraft equipment made by the De Land, Florida industrial pool

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Mrs. Earl La Roe of Eustis, Florida, a gran...

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Forged steel to make the lungs of a torpedo. Smoothing down the outside of torpedo air flasks is this man's job. Production is going at top speed at the eastern Navy arsenal in which this equipment is produced

Forged steel to make the lungs of a torpedo. Smoothing down the outsid...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. One of the workmen in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation carefully adjusts a loom weaving tape which must meet rigid Army and Navy specifications to insulate electrical equipment

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. One of the workme...

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Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines which will power a fifty-foot steel ramp boat to be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and equipment on enemy shores. The large Southern boatyard doing the work is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. The big "shoes" of a carryall scraper, working on a new access road at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are given the best of care. A mechanic removes nails and bits of glass and metal from a costly tire that must give many more miles of service

Fort Knox. Earth moving equipment. The big "shoes" of a carryall scrap...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wings at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport plane...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph ser...

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

Production. Pipe fittings. Beveling a large pipe elbow to prepare it for butt welding. Elbows like this, for use in Army equipment, are made by bending straight pipe in a large Midwest plant. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Beveling a large pipe elbow to prepare it f...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for shipment. Now undergoing conversion to production of machine gun parts for Uncle Sam's army, this plant has only a small percentage of its equipment still producing oil burners. Those still rolling off the assembly lines are sent primarily to U.S. Army agencies or shipped abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Final inspection and rework on wings for Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes in a large Western aircraft plant. The wings, which had been accurately assembled in jigs, are joined to the plane bodies as they travel down the final assembly line where engines, landing gear, controls and other equipment are also installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Final inspection and rework ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's public health center, which has a staff of nurses and doctors and the most modern medical equipment. It is a gift to the town by a public-spirited citizen, Mrs. Julia Arnold Bradley

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's public health center, which ha...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. A workman with a large chipping hammer prepares to cut away excess metal in a girth seam of a high-pressure boiler drum. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. A workman with a large chippi...

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. C-47 transport plane. Enough power to drive a fast ocean liner is represented by this line of engines ready for installation in C-47 transport planes at the Long Beach, California, plant Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport plane. Enough power to drive a fast ocean l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Three fifty-foot steel ramp boats, just completed at a Southern boatyard, await trial runs. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. The yard is also making torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Three fifty-foot steel ramp b...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription automatic typewriter unit for the WPB correspondence. These machines in operation are some of the twenty dictator transcribing machines. This unit turns out almost 4,000 letters weekly

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription...

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

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. The Army's motorcycles, as well as its trucks, tanks, and other motorized equipment, pay regular visits to the wash rack. Wherever possible, modern military vehicles receive the same scrupulous attention once given to the army horses and mules

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. The Army's motorcycles...

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Scrapped cannon. Veterans of World War I, these cannons join the scrap heap to be reprocessed and recast into streamlined equipment that will be aimed once more at the enemy

Scrapped cannon. Veterans of World War I, these cannons join the scrap...

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

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Erecting the structural work of a new shop for the machining of marine boiler headers. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Erecting the structural work ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Tanks, as well as the Army's trucks, motorcycles and other motorized equipment, pay regular visits to the wash rack. Wherever possible, modern military vehicles are kept in spic and span condition and mechanically ready for strenuous action

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Tanks, as well as the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp boat, which has just passed its trial runs at a Southern boatyard, is removed from the water to be prepared for railroad shipment. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. They are powered by twin diesel engines. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp b...

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Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Hobbing a gear for a cargo winch for the Maritime Commission. This machine in the converted Midwestern plant of a farm implement manufacturer was used to produce gears for tractors and other farm equipment

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Hobbing a gear for a car...

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

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern yard, building boats used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. Torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft are also made at this yard

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fif...

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.

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Executives of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey, discuss details of the production of essential Army equipment with a home workshop owner who is a member of the subcontracting pool organized by the company. Left, Mr. Stanley Carlson, President; right, Mr. George Bodganffy, Vice President of Howe Machinery Company. In the center is Mr. John Lindstrom, subcontractor

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Executives of the Howe Mac...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. C-47 transport planes. Tons of vital war materials will pass through this cargo door of a C-47 transport plane under construction at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Tons of vital war materials will pa...

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

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator window of a bombing plane is made on special bending equipment from extruded aluminum shapes. The work is being done in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window screens

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator wi...

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Some of the damage done to Axis equipment between Tunis and Bizerte after the Allies delivered the knockout blow in Tunisia

Some of the damage done to Axis equipment between Tunis and Bizerte af...

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Charlotte, North Carolina. Foreman of the trailer repairing department at the Brown Equipment Company

Charlotte, North Carolina. Foreman of the trailer repairing department...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Fire sprays and fire fighting equipment V

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Fire sprays and fire fightin...

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

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

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Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying equipment

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying eq...

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Front side view of C-82, the newest transport shown at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. It has twin boom tail, wing span of 106 feet, and tricycle landing gear. Engines are mounted at forward ends of the booms. Wings are of gull design. Developed solely for hauling heavy military cargo on rough fields near battle points

Front side view of C-82, the newest transport shown at demonstration o...

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Rear view of new C-82 showing twin boom tail and square interior. This is the first war plane designed solely for hauling military cargo. It is in the 50,000 pound class and in its weight and bulk carrying capacity, will enable the air transport of ninety percent of the heavy equipment of a standard triangular Infantry Division. It may be used to carry troops, paratroops, and equipment up to the size of tanks

Rear view of new C-82 showing twin boom tail and square interior. This...

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Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen before remodeling II

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen before remodeling II

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Kitchen Equipment Co. Model kitchen in Kitchen Equipment Co. showroom

Kitchen Equipment Co. Model kitchen in Kitchen Equipment Co. showroom

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Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Switch box in home at 3845 Suitland Rd.

Potomac Electric Power Co. apartments and kitchens. Switch box in home...

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Little Beaver. Extension chuck I

Little Beaver. Extension chuck I

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Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Using kilogauss

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Using kilo...

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Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw working with aluminum II

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw wo...

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Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw working with aluminum

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Rip saw wo...

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Dyna-Empire, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City. Gauge

Dyna-Empire, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City. Gauge

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Casts and foundry equipment used in the Watson foundry before it was removed in the 1970s.

Casts and foundry equipment used in the Watson foundry before it was r...

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More

The Hot Grill's preparation line for Hot Texas Wieners, showing equipment, work surfaces, containers of toppings, and frying area.

The Hot Grill's preparation line for Hot Texas Wieners, showing equipm...

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

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