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A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-fi...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A built-up roofing is applied to the individual unit. Here a workman tends to the vat in which the pitch is kept molten. Pitch is hoisted to the roof in buckets

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A built-up roofing is applied to ...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A shingling crew moves in. Exteriors are finished with an abestos cement composition shingle which provides insulation and weather-proofing. Shingles are secured over a tar-paper insulation with bronzed, rust resisting nails

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A shingling crew moves in. Exteri...

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, s...

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Children of Jack Cutter in bed in their trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Children of Jack Cutter in bed in their trailer at FSA (Farm Security ...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Henry Colomy Jr., pours fresh, cold milk for her young son. Each defense trailer is equipped with an insulated ice-box. Other equipment includes a gasoline pressure stove and heater drop-leaf table, wash basin, and two convertible beds

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Henry Colomy Jr., pours fres...

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This excavator can dig foundation for two four-unit buildings in eight hours, an operation that would require several days by hand. Foundations go down five feet for cement support blocks. The ground between the foundation blocks is later forked preparatory to receiving a cinder filling. Since there is no basement, the cinders afford a solid base for concrete flooring

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This excavator can dig foundation...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. S.J. Patterson, carpenter, works on his second defense housing project. His first was during World War I at Fort Meade, Maryland

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. S.J. Patterson, carpenter, works ...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. J.P. Kane, defense housing project manager at the Franklin Terrace project, explains the forced-air heating system of a defense home to B.J. Rogan, worker in the General Electric plant at Erie, Pennsylvania

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. J.P. Kane, defense housing projec...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Henry Colomy, Jr., is the beauty expert at the trailer camp. She does not charge for her services, and young housewives return her kindness by taking care of Mrs. Colomy's young son when she does her weekly shopping, or sometimes in the form of gifts. The husbands of both Mrs. Colomy and Mrs. Rogan (seated) are employed at the General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Henry Colomy, Jr., is the be...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner awaits shipment to American armed forces--somewhere in the field. Converted to a large degree to production of precision gun parts, the factory which manufactures these oil burners ships most of them either to the Army or abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner ...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this small part for an army machine gun, this worker must achieve tolerance not greater than 110,000 of an inch. This upper New York state factory, which formerly produced oil burners, is under contract for 75,000 small precision parts for the Army. Its employees are super-skilled workmen, many of whom have been with the firm for decades. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this sma...

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

Buffalo, New York. Advertisement of the United States Employment Service, effective in the recruitment of women for work in war industry

Buffalo, New York. Advertisement of the United States Employment Servi...

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Buffalo, New York. The Grimm family eating Sunday dinner. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. The two youngest children live in a foster home during the week

Buffalo, New York. The Grimm family eating Sunday dinner. Mrs. Grimm, ...

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

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator in a war plant. She has six children under twelve. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane...

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Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Glad...

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.

Buffalo, New York. Mona, two, and Carol Grimm, five, being put to bed by their foster mother Mrs. Hehr, with whom they live during the week. Sundays they go home to their mother, who is a twenty-six year old widow with six children under twelve. She works as a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Mona, two, and Carol Grimm, five, being put to bed ...

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Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a precision lathe operator in the same plant. Fellow workers presenting Cecelia with a wedding gift

Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a pr...

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Buffalo, New York. Woman who already is working in an aircraft factory attending the Burgard Vocational School at night to learn heavier welding. Brazing an automobile casting

Buffalo, New York. Woman who already is working in an aircraft factory...

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Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, sand slinger operator at rest. Notice sand on her face

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, sand slinger operator at rest. Not...

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Buffalo, New York. A Sunday afternoon meeting of the rubber workers union. Despite the fact that the industry has only recently employed women, many of them are attending the meeting

Buffalo, New York. A Sunday afternoon meeting of the rubber workers un...

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Buffalo, New York. Housewife in the Polish community preparing her Easter feast for blessing by the priest on the Saturday before Easter. For Poles, Easter is a day of church going feasting and visiting. This woman spent a whole day preparing the food and the priest will visit her home and bless it

Buffalo, New York. Housewife in the Polish community preparing her Eas...

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

Buffalo, New York. Housewife in the Polish community preparing her Easter feast for blessing by the priest on the Saturday before Easter. For Poles, Easter is a day of church going feasting and visiting. This woman spent a whole day preparing the food and the priest will visit her home and bless it

Buffalo, New York. Housewife in the Polish community preparing her Eas...

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

Buffalo, New York. Recently-employed women being sworn into the rubber workers union at a Sunday meeting. Most of them have never worked before and know little about trade unionism

Buffalo, New York. Recently-employed women being sworn into the rubber...

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

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Lee having breakfast

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Buffalo, New York. Laura Czaya passing cherry pop to her two sisters-in-law who have dropped in on Sunday afternoon. Laura's husband is a Corporal stationed in Arkansas. She works in Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. The sisters-in-law also works in war plants. They are all of Polish descent

Buffalo, New York. Laura Czaya passing cherry pop to her two sisters-i...

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Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator in a war plant. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six c...

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

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, sand slinger operator at rest. Notice sand on her face

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, sand slinger operator at rest. Not...

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

Buffalo, New York. At the wedding of Cedelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak, who are of Polish descent. They are employed at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy. Cecelia with two of her bridesmaids

Buffalo, New York. At the wedding of Cedelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Now...

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Buffalo, New York. Women have entirely replaced men as chainmen or "hookers" in the finishing department of Republic Steel. "Hookers" place slings and chains around material to be hoisted by cranes so that it can be moved to another section of the plant or loaded onto freight trains

Buffalo, New York. Women have entirely replaced men as chainmen or "ho...

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

Buffalo, New York. Watching the Scotch Highlander Band perform at the "I am an American" day rally in Memorial Auditorium

Buffalo, New York. Watching the Scotch Highlander Band perform at the ...

Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washi... More

Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A dividing head provided with a clamp which fits over the muzzle end of the tube has been adopted for indexing. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Penns...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Construction of first floor. Asphalt paper is spread over a cinder filling. Later, wire reinforcements are laid over the paper, preparatory to the laying of cement floor. The entire operation, from filling in with a cinder vase to laying the concrete floor, is accomplished in a few hours

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Construction of first floor. Asph...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs....

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second floor nears completion. Buildings of the plant where are employed many of the defense workers who will move into these homes, can be seen in the background

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A sheeting crew of fourteen men follows on the heels of the stud and jointing crew. In an amazingly short time this crew sheets the outside walls, the floors, and the roof. Here the crew is well along on the walls a few hours after taking over

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A sheeting crew of fourteen men f...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including s...

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War housing. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen of the Rogan's new war home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operatorat a nearby plant which is working three shifts on war contracts. The Rogans pay about twenty percent of their income for rent

War housing. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen...

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

Cores for generators at General Electric plant. Erie, Pennslyvania

Cores for generators at General Electric plant. Erie, Pennslyvania

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sewage pipes are placed for the 300 defense homes at the Franklin Terrace housing project. Sewage, water, police and fire protection are provided by the city for a lump sum paid in lieu of taxes

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Sewage pipes are placed for the 3...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A large playground with slides and swings is provided for children of the defense trailer camp. Proceeds from candy and cigarette vending machines located in the central utility buildings maintain the playground

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. A large playground with slides an...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversi...

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Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad number one dock

Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, water way, maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

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Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment ...

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Buffalo, New York. Swingshift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ballroom from midnight to four a.m.

Buffalo, New York. Swingshift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ball...

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Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant. This woman is sixty-five, and has never been anything but a housewife, she is told that she cannot be of use right now. It is feared that she wouldn't have the strength to stay on a factory job

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment ...

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Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator in a war plant. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six c...

Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washi... More

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Frances O'Neil, a "hooker," has been with Republic Steel since December, 1942. Hookers place slings and chains around material to be hoisted by the crane

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Frances O'Neil, a "hooker," has been with Repu...

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Buffalo, New York. Soda bar at the swingshift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ballroom. Drinking of hard liquor is forbidden

Buffalo, New York. Soda bar at the swingshift dance held weekly at the...

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Buffalo, New York. The Grimm family eating Sunday dinner. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. The two youngest children live in a foster home during the week

Buffalo, New York. The Grimm family eating Sunday dinner. Mrs. Grimm, ...

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

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finishes part of the locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finis...

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

Buffalo, New York. The wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak, who work at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy. They are of Polish descent. He is temporarily deferred from the Army because of his essential work. They will live with her mother

Buffalo, New York. The wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak,...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her husband is a drill operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan in the bedroom of...

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FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, situated a quarter mile from General Electric plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are 200 trailers here, occupied by childless couples and by families of one or two children

FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers, s...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. George Miller, plumber, is foreman of the central plumbing assembly shop. He and his helpers assemble most of the plumbing for this 300-unit defense housing project

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. George Miller, plumber, is forema...

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

General Electric workers leaving the plant at 4:00 p.m. Another shift comes on immediately; they are running twenty-four hours. About 10,000 are now employed here and the figure is going up each week. Erie, Pennsylvania

General Electric workers leaving the plant at 4:00 p.m. Another shift ...

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One of Jack Cutter's two children in doorway of trailer home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

One of Jack Cutter's two children in doorway of trailer home. FSA (Far...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Jack Cutter putting children to bed. The dining room of the trailer is converted into a bed. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Erie, Pennsylvania

Mrs. Jack Cutter putting children to bed. The dining room of the trail...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricians wiring defense homes at Franklin Terrace housing project. Defense homes are provided with electricity, sewage, police and fire protection. In many cases, a lump sum for all services is paid to the city in lieu of taxes

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricians wiring defense homes...

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

Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad number three dock

Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania...

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

Buffalo, New York. Audience at late moving picture show which starts between 1:30 and 2 a.m. once a week especially for workers on the swing shift

Buffalo, New York. Audience at late moving picture show which starts b...

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Buffalo, New York. Soda bar at the swingshift dance held weekly at the Main-Utica ballroom. Drinking of hard liquor is forbidden

Buffalo, New York. Soda bar at the swingshift dance held weekly at the...

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

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Making mold for armor plates to be tested on proving ground. The flask, or metal frame is placed over the flask, and two men press it down with air hammers

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. Woman operating a charging machine. She works the machine by hand controls behind a partition, and has just dipped red hot metal into water, causing steam

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. An eleven year old boy brings his young sister and brother to school at 6:30 a.m. and stays with them until school opens. Their mother goes to work at 6:00 a.m.

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at the tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Reactions to Mother Goose during morning play period

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant

Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment ...

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Buffalo, New York. Grain boat from Duluth unloading wheat at a grain elevator on the Erie Canal. Men sit on the edge of an open hatch to guide the ropes of the shovel which scoops the grain into the hatch where it can be drawn by the "leg" into the tower on an endless belt of buckets

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Buffalo, New York. Frank and Laura Czaya praying in church one week after Easter. They were married six months before Frank was drafted. He is now a corporal, stationed in Arkansas and is home on a ten day furlough. Laura works in the Symington-Gould plant; lives in an apartment with her family in Depew. The Czayas are of Polish descent

Buffalo, New York. Frank and Laura Czaya praying in church one week af...

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Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the classification yard waiting to go to the Pennsylvania railroad docks for shipment to points along the lakes

Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the classification yard waiting to...

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Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the storage yard waiting to go to the Pennsylvania Railroad docks for shipment along the lakes

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Buffalo, New York. "Hookers" standing in front of gondola car in Republic Steel yard

Buffalo, New York. "Hookers" standing in front of gondola car in Repub...

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Carload of coal going over the hump at the classification yard where trains of cars are made up to go to the docks

Carload of coal going over the hump at the classification yard where t...

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Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forteen, is further interviewed after filling out a preliminary blank in the front office of the Bell Aircraft plant. She worked in a factory in the last war, and has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen

Buffalo, New York. Mabel Goodwin, forteen, is further interviewed afte...

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Buffalo, New York. Naturalized citizens attending an "I am an American" day rally at the Memorial Auditorium. Singing the Star Spangled Banner

Buffalo, New York. Naturalized citizens attending an "I am an American...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveries of laundry, ice and grocery items from local businesses that serve the defense trailer camp twice daily. Mrs. Rogan's husband is employed by the General Electric Company as a drill press operator or defense work. Although grocery stores and milk companies deliver to the doors of the trailer town, agents, salesmen and canvassers are forbidden in the settlement. This is to see that the defense workers on the night shift may sleep during the morning or early afternoon

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveri...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This worker caulks window frames with a pressure gun. Air pressure quickly forces putty into crevices which cannot be reached by hand

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Living conditions were so crowded in Erie, Pennsylvania, that a defense worker and his family of three were found to be living in this attic room. One of the defense industries there, which holds large contracts for the Navy, expects an increase of 4,000 workers during the coming year. Practically all vacancies are already taken, and even the contemplated construction of new homes will fill only a fraction of the need. Realizing the urgency of this need, the Division of Defense Housing has programmed 300 homes in this area, 60 of which are already completed (July 1941). In the meantime, trailers are being used by the Division as a temporary expedient until the more permanent homes are completed

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Living conditions were so crowded...

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A defense worker takes the time out for the cameraman. He's a road construction worker at a vast defense housing project, which will provide homes for thousands of defense workers in Erie, Pennsylvania

A defense worker takes the time out for the cameraman. He's a road con...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interior of administration building at trailer site. Milton Ackerman (right), project manager, reviews applications of prospective trailer residents while an assistant sorts mail for trailer tenants

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interior of administration buildi...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. J.P. Kane, local defense housing manager, gives B.J. Rogan and his family a preview of their new home. 56 of the 300 defense homes now under construction in Erie, Pennsylvania had been completed when these pictures were made (July 1941). The others were scheduled for occupancy by the first of October 1941. There are four units to a building, each with a combination living-dining room, kitchen, bath, and one to three bedrooms, depending on the size of the family

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Window and door frames are pre-fabricated at the site by specialized crews. They are given a primer coating of paint before being assembled into the structure. One of these pre-fabricated window frames is shown here being carried to the point of installation

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Window and door frames are pre-fa...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This machine digs several feet of ditch for piping an hour. The job would require many days by hand

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This machine digs several feet of...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Modern bathrooms are speedily installed in the 300 defense homes at the Franklin Terrace housing project

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Modern bathrooms are speedily ins...

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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...

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Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania Railroad number three dock

Sandusky, Ohio. Loading coal into a lake freighter at the Pennsylvania...

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Buffalo, New York. Esther O'Hara, twenty-six, is a shearman's helper trimming defects from machine gun barrels at Republic Steel. She prefers her job to housework

Buffalo, New York. Esther O'Hara, twenty-six, is a shearman's helper t...

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Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, (left), a widow of twenty-six with six children under twelve, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Her two youngest children, Carol, five, and Mona, two, live in a foster home during the week. They come home on Sundays. Here, Mrs. Grimm is bringing them back to foster mother, Mrs. Hehr (right), after Sunday supper

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, (left), a widow of twenty-six with six ...

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Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment agency of the Bell Aircraft plant. This woman is forty-five, and worked in a factory in the last war; has since been a housewife, and has two children over fourteen

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Buffalo, New York. All "hookers" in the processing department of Republic Steel are women. Resting on a pile of billets, they are eating lunch on the job

Buffalo, New York. All "hookers" in the processing department of Repub...

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Buffalo, New York. Silent tribute to the war dead at the "I am an American" day rally in Memorial Auditorium

Buffalo, New York. Silent tribute to the war dead at the "I am an Amer...

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Buffalo, New York. Naturalized citizens attending "I am an American" day rally at the Memorial Auditorium

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at the tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Midafternoon milk and zweibach

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