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Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Up and over an eight-foot wall go seven soldiers of the anti-aircraft training center. The ropes are used only by the shorter warriors who cannot otherwise reach the top. Note the full equipment on each soldier

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Up and over an eight-foot wall go seven s...

Picryl description: Public domain image - Massachusetts in the 1910s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 ...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. With the most modern equipment and surroundings, the company dentist of a large Midwest machine tool plant gives free dental services and advice to all employees. A dental hygienist assists him in check-up of the employees' teeth

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. With the most moder...

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

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadrons. A combat crew of one of our mighty YB-17 bombers lines up before a warship of the skies. A captain and lieutenant act as pilot and co-pilot. Two sergeants and four corporals man the machine guns, radio and other equipment. All belong to a bombardment squadron stationed at Langley Field, Virginia

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadrons. A combat crew of...

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

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp boat ready for shipment from a Southern boatyard. Boats of this kind, powered by twin diesel engines, are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. The boat building company that makes them is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

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

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

Fort Knox. Halftrac crews. A wrecking truck serves a tank company in training 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 wrecking truck serves a tank company in t...

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

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces on turret gun mount housings for M-3 tanks are rough planed and finished planed on a fifty inch by fifty inch four-head planer. The job is being done in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out naval sights and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A mechanic in a large Western aircraft plant at work on a center section for a Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. On a final assembly line, the completed center section will be joined to other plane sections, and noses, engines, wings, landing gear and other equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A mechanic in a large Wester...

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

Production. Marine boilers. A flange is turned on a large cone that is part of heat transfer equipment being made for the Army in a big Midwest plant

Production. Marine boilers. A flange is turned on a large cone that is...

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

Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Alfred Jones, Los Angeles County, California, surveyor, explains to Beverly Hoyt the installation of wooden manhole covers in use in the county. Treated to resist termites and decay, each wooden cover save 500 pounds of metal. It may be manufactured without the use of extensive fabricating equipment. A War Production Board (WPB) order prohibits the use of iron and steel for manhole covers

Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Alfred Jones, Los Angeles County,...

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

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...

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

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Working on the gunwale of a fifty-foot steel ramp boat used to land men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. The Southern boat plant that builds these boats also produces torpedo boats, wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Working on the gunwale of a f...

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

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Cylinder and piston of a 6,000-ton hydraulic press used to form parts 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. Cylinder and piston of a 6,00...

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

Production. C-47 transport plane. Sections of C-47 transport planes move down the assembly lines of the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aircraft Company toward the final assembly line, where all parts are put together. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tow gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action (Douglas Aircraft Company)

Production. C-47 transport plane. Sections of C-47 transport planes mo...

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.

Los Angeles County, California. A representative of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) (right) talking with a farmer and a Japanese farmer. They are arranging for the white farmer to buy certain farm equipment, rent land, etc. of the Japanese who is subject to evacuation from the West Coast area under United States Army war emergency order

Los Angeles County, California. A representative of the FSA (Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas catridges; repair kit to mend bullet in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flashlight with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water markers; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Taos County, New Mexico. Father Cassidy, the Catholic priest of the parish of Penasco, helping to appraise the value of the farm and equipment of a parishioner who wants to borrow money to purchase the farm

Taos County, New Mexico. Father Cassidy, the Catholic priest of the pa...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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.

Stony Brook, Long Island. Buying the rake, interior storage space

Stony Brook, Long Island. Buying the rake, interior storage space

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

Reciprocal aid. American pilots at an airfield in Britain built for the U.S. Air Forces use a British "Master" aircraft for communications. American and British air forces work side by side in the European theatre, with Britain furnishing important supplies and equipment under the Reciprocal Aid Program

Reciprocal aid. American pilots at an airfield in Britain built for th...

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

Forest fire fighter. Para-fireman. This parachutist fights timber fires for the U.S. Forest Service. Much of his equipment is similar to that used at the battlefronts, since he encounters many of the same perils

Forest fire fighter. Para-fireman. This parachutist fights timber fire...

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

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Spanish-American community, which has eight grades and two teachers. The teachers have little equipment with which to work and the ABCs, penmanship, and grammar are taught on the blackboard

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Span...

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

Charlotte, North Carolina. Steam cleaning a truck chassis which has been overhauled at the Brown Equipment Company

Charlotte, North Carolina. Steam cleaning a truck chassis which has be...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Pilot checking his safety equipment with an intelligence officer. The object in his hand is a plug to screw into bullet holes in the rubber boat

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Zinc. Filtration equipment at a large 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. Filtration equipment at a large zinc concentrator. F...

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

A black and white photo of a food truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a food truck. Office of War Information Pho...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen before remodeling I

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen before remodeling I

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

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen at 50 Woodlawn Ave., Kenwood, Maryland II

Kitchen Equipment Co. Kitchen at 50 Woodlawn Ave., Kenwood, Maryland I...

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

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Kilogauss

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Kilogauss

Public domain photograph of the 1940s-1950s New York City interiors, commerce, advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Vacuum to clean gutter

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Vacuum to ...

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

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Radial swing saw

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Radial swi...

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

Aero Trades, 63 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola. Sample products I

Aero Trades, 63 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola. Sample products I

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Warper Al Zarky "making a warp"; the large circular piece of equipment is called a "warping frame," it was manufactured in Paterson by the Sipp Machine Company.

Warper Al Zarky "making a warp"; the large circular piece of equipment...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Early-20th Century farm equipment, retained as a reminder of harder days at the Porter Farm, also known as Walter C. Porter Farm, near Terrell in Kaufman County, Texas

Early-20th Century farm equipment, retained as a reminder of harder da...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The farm was the site of the first cooperative farm demonstration, organized by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, a U.S. Department of Agriculture... More

Hill Field, Equipment Repair Building, 5909 Southgate Avenue, Layton, Davis County, UT

Hill Field, Equipment Repair Building, 5909 Southgate Avenue, Layton, ...

Significance: Building 214 housed repair facilities for various aircraft components, including navigational instruments, communications systems, and reconnaissance equipment during and after World War II. This... More

Hill Field, Equipment Repair Building, 5909 Southgate Avenue, Layton, Davis County, UT

Hill Field, Equipment Repair Building, 5909 Southgate Avenue, Layton, ...

Significance: Building 214 housed repair facilities for various aircraft components, including navigational instruments, communications systems, and reconnaissance equipment during and after World War II. This... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Supplies & Equipment Warehouse, New York Road, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Supplies & Equipment Warehouse, New Y...

Significance: It provided warehouse space for bulk and bin storage of materials with maximum protection from the weather. It was used to store supplies and equipment necessary to support base operations exclusi... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Aircraft Support Equipment Shop-Storage Facility, Colorado Street, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Aircraft Support Equipment Shop-Storage Fa...

Significance: Building 2815 provided space, necessary to maintaining and holding powered aircraft support equipment in a state of readiness. It included space used to inspect, maintain, repair, and service airc... More

Wallowa Ranger Station, Fire Equipment Building, 602 First Street, Wallowa, Wallowa County, OR

Wallowa Ranger Station, Fire Equipment Building, 602 First Street, Wal...

Significance: A typical building for a ranger station complex, the fire equipment building is an integral part of the overall design scheme. The fire equipment building displays exterior details which match th... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, 7606 Hanger Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, 7606 Hanger Loop...

Significance: The Base Supply & Equipment Warehouse, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of the MacDill Air Force Base's histo... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, 7606 Hanger Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, 7606 Hanger Loop...

Significance: The Base Supply & Equipment Warehouse, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of the MacDill Air Force Base's histo... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array Warning System, Techinical Equipment Building, End of Spencer Paul Road, north of Warren Shingle Road (14th Street), Marysville, Yuba County, CA

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: Building 5760 is the primary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base Survey number: HAER CA-319-A Building/structure dates: after. 1977- before. 1979 Initial Construction Bu... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Equipment Building, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-C Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

MacDill Air Force Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, 8207 Hillsborough Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, 8207 Hillsboroug...

Significance: The Base Supply and Equipment Warehouse, due to its architectural integrity and contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of the MacDill Air Force Base's histori... More

[Panoramic view of the construction site and equipment during the building of Union Station, Washington, D.C.]

[Panoramic view of the construction site and equipment during the buil...

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

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Materials Handling Equipment Shop, Between Fyffe & Davis Avenues & Maas Drive, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Materials Handling Equipment Shop, Betwee...

Significance: Building 517 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Materials Handling Equipment Shop, Between Fyffe & Davis Avenues & Maas Drive, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Materials Handling Equipment Shop, Betwee...

Significance: Building 517 is a contributing element of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places ... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Equipment Shed, West J Avenue, West of Building No. 154, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Equipment Shed, West J Avenue, West of Bu...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-AG Building/structure dates: ca. 1928 Initial Construction

Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Cattle Equipment, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell County, MT

Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Cattle Equipment, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell Co...

Survey number: HABS MT-39-W National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000738

NIKE Missile Base SL-40, Administration Building, East central portion of base, southeast of Mess Hall, northeast of HIPAR Equipment Building, Hecker, Monroe County, IL

NIKE Missile Base SL-40, Administration Building, East central portion...

Significance: This building provided administration and housing facilities for the base. Engineering drawings indicate that most Nike administration buildings contained a day room, offices for the battery comm... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Golf Clubhouse & Equipment Building, Golf Course Road, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Golf Clubhouse & Equipment Building, Golf ...

Significance: The Golf Clubhouse & Equipment Building provided locker rooms, space for storage and issue of golf clubs and related equipment, a snack bar and lounge, and a pro shop sales area. Survey number: H... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, P...

Significance: Building No. 45 was constructed as the Equipment Shop and Offices in 1905-06 and, for only a brief period of time, was directly related to the mission of the Pensacola Navy Yard, The Bureau of Yar... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, P...

Significance: Building No. 45 was constructed as the Equipment Shop and Offices in 1905-06 and, for only a brief period of time, was directly related to the mission of the Pensacola Navy Yard, The Bureau of Yar... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, P...

Significance: Building No. 45 was constructed as the Equipment Shop and Offices in 1905-06 and, for only a brief period of time, was directly related to the mission of the Pensacola Navy Yard, The Bureau of Yar... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, P...

Significance: Building No. 45 was constructed as the Equipment Shop and Offices in 1905-06 and, for only a brief period of time, was directly related to the mission of the Pensacola Navy Yard, The Bureau of Yar... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Equipment Shops & Offices, 206 South Avenue, P...

Significance: Building No. 45 was constructed as the Equipment Shop and Offices in 1905-06 and, for only a brief period of time, was directly related to the mission of the Pensacola Navy Yard, The Bureau of Yar... More

Gold miners with drilling equipment, Mogollon, New Mexico

Gold miners with drilling equipment, Mogollon, New Mexico

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

Equipment Garage & Machine Shop, Haul Road, Saint Paul, Aleutians West Census Area, AK

Equipment Garage & Machine Shop, Haul Road, Saint Paul, Aleutians West...

Survey number: HABS AK-214 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Equipment Garage & Machine Shop, Haul Road, Saint Paul, Aleutians West Census Area, AK

Equipment Garage & Machine Shop, Haul Road, Saint Paul, Aleutians West...

Survey number: HABS AK-214 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Collection of scientific equipment at Dickinson College, including Dr. Joseph Priestly's burning lens and air gun and Professor Walter R. Johnson's rotascope]

[Collection of scientific equipment at Dickinson College, including Dr...

Attribution to Himes based on his position at Dickinson College. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection.

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Equipment Building, Off Coast Guard Road, about 1 mile north of U.S. Route 6A intersection, Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Equipment Building, Off Coast...

Significance: The Equipment Building is one of two principal contributing outbuildings associated with the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station built during the 1936-37 period of development. Survey number:... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Survival Equipment Shop, Connecticut Road, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Survival Equipment Shop, Connecticut Road,...

Significance: Building 2784 was built to provide inspection and maintenance service for flight parachute and flotation equipment. Survey number: HAER NY-326-S

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Survival Equipment Shop, Connecticut Road, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Survival Equipment Shop, Connecticut Road,...

Significance: Building 2784 was built to provide inspection and maintenance service for flight parachute and flotation equipment. Survey number: HAER NY-326-S

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Supplies & Equipment Warehouse, Arizona Avenue, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Supplies & Equipment Warehouse, Arizo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Defense Electronics Equipment Operating Center, I Street, terminus west of Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Defense Electronics Equipment Operating Ce...

Significance: Building 505 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 505 is significant for its association with the communications facility at Mare Island, one of many non-shipy... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Defense Electronics Equipment Operating Center, I Street, terminus west of Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Defense Electronics Equipment Operating Ce...

Significance: Building 505 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 505 is significant for its association with the communications facility at Mare Island, one of many non-shipy... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Defense Electronics Equipment Operating Center, I Street, terminus west of Cedar Avenue, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Defense Electronics Equipment Operating Ce...

Significance: Building 505 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 505 is significant for its association with the communications facility at Mare Island, one of many non-shipy... More

Chemical furnaces. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Chemical furnaces. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a variety of different types of chemical furnaces, such as an "athanor, digesting furnace, balneum mariæ, sand-furnace, melting-furnace, elliptic furnace, [and] parabolic furnace." Illus. in: A new... More

Sviechnoe i mylovarennoe proizvodstvo. Mylovarennye i sviechnye instrumenty

Sviechnoe i mylovarennoe proizvodstvo. Mylovarennye i sviechnye instru...

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 41.

Zemledielie. Karshinskaia lopata (bili karshi), piatirogie vily (piandzhshakha), serp (dast.), dvurogie vily dushakha motyga (kialian). Zhelieznaia lopata (bili dzhai dar)

Zemledielie. Karshinskaia lopata (bili karshi), piatirogie vily (piand...

Photograph shows a display of farming tools, including a shovel, a five-pronged pitchfork, a sickle, a two-pronged pitchfork, a hoe, and an iron shovel. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1... More

Remeslennye instrumenty. Miednika (asbabi misgiari)

Remeslennye instrumenty. Miednika (asbabi misgiari)

Photograph shows a display of industrial hand tools used by a coppersmith.

[Saddles, bridles, and other equipment for horseback riding]

[Saddles, bridles, and other equipment for horseback riding]

Includes Japanese text next to each image, outside the image box. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Sep. 1878. From "Travel and transportation" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909... More

The crematory money-bilt [sic] system. "The cost of the equipment is great" - Depew

The crematory money-bilt [sic] system. "The cost of the equipment is g...

Chauncey M. Depew, President of the New York Central Railroad Company caricatured as a railroad cart stove. In the caption, the "s" in the word "system" is written as a "$" and the quotation marks are also repr... More

N.Y. Nat'l Guard -- Camp Equipment

N.Y. Nat'l Guard -- Camp Equipment

Picryl description: Public domain image of a funeral, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army Equipment, El Paso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Army Equipment, El Paso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Crittal Manufacturing Co. Close-up of right window handle II

Crittal Manufacturing Co. Close-up of right window handle II

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

Miscellaneous subjects. Man standing in room surrounded by tools

Miscellaneous subjects. Man standing in room surrounded by tools

Titles 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 the 19... More

Jesse James and associates. Guns and equipment

Jesse James and associates. Guns and equipment

Photo copyright 1921. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Electric carpenter tools I

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Electric carpenter tools I

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of an old barn, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of an old barn, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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

Barn and farm equipment ruined by flood waters. Hatfield, Massachusetts

Barn and farm equipment ruined by flood waters. Hatfield, Massachusett...

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

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank hollowed from a tree and a windlass still in operation. Farmers in this region have to make many of their own devices because of lack of funds to purchase manufactured equipment

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank ...

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

Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 21. Howard Hughes, speaking at the National Press Club today, before hundreds of government officials and representatives of foreign governments. Hughes today envisioned a future in aviation when giant flying boats, almost as large as modern ocean liners, will fly the Atlantic under conditions in which the element of luck will play no part, speaking at the luncheon in his honor, he described in detail the type of flying craft and equipment he believes the future will see but which is now nothing more than an aeronautical engineers dream, 7/21/38

Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 2...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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Senate Committee told railroads should spend 3 billion in the next five years for habilitation. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. Appearing before the Senate Finance Subcommittee today, R.V. Fletcher, General Counsel for the Association of American Railroads, asserted that railroads should spend approximately $3,000,000,000 during the next five or six years for plant and equipment rehabilitation. He urged that business and industry be given the benefit of incentive taxation in a drive to meet obsolescence, 12/12/38

Senate Committee told railroads should spend 3 billion in the next fiv...

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A black and white photo of three men standing next to each other, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the 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

Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their ...

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Tools and equipment of oil field worker, Kilgore, Texas

Tools and equipment of oil field worker, Kilgore, Texas

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Unloading heavy equipment from truck, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

Unloading heavy equipment from truck, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

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War transportation. Military traffic comes first. One reason why shipments of gasoline and other civilian materials are delayed is because the movement of such army equipment as those half-trac scout cars must have priority over other transportation

War transportation. Military traffic comes first. One reason why shipm...

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D.S. Kimball, chairman of the Tools and Equipment Group, Division of Priorities, Office of Production Management (OPM). Office for Emergency Management (OEM)

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoining the Chrysler tank arsenal, near Detroit. This is one of the twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks, the steel monsters which will make our mechanized forces the equal of any in the world in tank warfare. The lower of the two barrels is that of a 75 mm warfare gun, the upper of a 47 mm. anti-aircraft gun, both standard equipment on these tanks. In addition, four machine guns are mounted on each M-3

Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoi...

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Civilian protection. Members of the New York defense forces turn out for drill and demonstration with their rolling equipment. From left to right: nurses' aides and medical personnel, rescue squad, decontamination squad, demolition and clearance crews

Civilian protection. Members of the New York defense forces turn out f...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage.Thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriages on the assembly line. After the frame has been assembled these workers start to assemble the various parts. Bearing ring for the gun mount, outrigger mountings, etc. 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

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn out steel parts for a large Eastern shipyard building units of Uncle Sam's "Liberty Fleet." Here they operate a giant shear. This plant was originally used to produce freight cars, and the shears are part of the plant's original equipment. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn out steel parts for a large Eastern shipyard building units of Uncle Sam's "Liberty Fleet." Here they operate a giant shear. This plant was originally used to produce freight cars, and the shears are part of the plant's original equipment. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Workers at a prefabricating plant turn ...

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Excavating work, construction of sewage lines and sewage disposal plant, a WPA (Work Projects Administration) national defense project sponsored by the city of San Diego. All excavating on this project up to date has been done by hand--but big equipment is now being moved in. San Diego, California

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Civilian defense. Here is a portable electric power saw to cut flooring and heavy beams. It is part of the equipment of the New York City Emergency Service truck displayed in October at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden by the New York Police Department. This saw, which operates on 110-volt direct current generated by the truck, can be used as far as 2000 feet from the truck

Civilian defense. Here is a portable electric power saw to cut floorin...

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