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A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, West Virginia. ...

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

A black and white photo of a man on a ladder, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a ladder, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

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

Vacuum cleaner factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia

Vacuum cleaner factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia

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

Trucks loaded with sugar beets, factory in background. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Trucks loaded with sugar beets, factory in background. East Grand Fork...

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

Hulling machinery. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

Hulling machinery. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

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

Apple packinghouse workers. Camden County, New Jersey

Apple packinghouse workers. Camden County, New Jersey

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Bean canning factory in the field, Seabrook farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

Bean canning factory in the field, Seabrook farm, Bridgeton, N.J.

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. The Tirzah Ltd. furniture manufacturers. Woodworkers on Rehovoth Road. Workshop. Int[erior]

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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Tobacco is taken in trucks after auction sale from warehouse to the Chesterfield factory. Durham, North Carolina

Tobacco is taken in trucks after auction sale from warehouse to the Ch...

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

Cotton thread-making machinery. Laurel cotton mill, Laurel, Mississippi

Cotton thread-making machinery. Laurel cotton mill, Laurel, Mississipp...

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Loading diffusion chamber with sugar beet pulp in factory at Brighton, Colorado

Loading diffusion chamber with sugar beet pulp in factory at Brighton,...

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J.W. West and John Young sharpening crosscut saw in school shop class. Flint River Farms, Georgia

J.W. West and John Young sharpening crosscut saw in school shop class....

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Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Homesteader planing a table in the woodworking shop. Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Homesteader planing a table in the woodworking shop. Tygart Valley Hom...

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

Homesteader weaving at Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Homesteader weaving at Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. The Lodzia Textile Co. in Holon settlement (meaning sandy). Factory girls leaving for lunch

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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A black and white photo of a factory, possibly related to: Moline tractor factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota

A black and white photo of a factory, possibly related to: Moline trac...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The "Frutarom" Co. Natural and synthetic essential oils from citrus juice. Superstructure of the Citrus Juice Extracting Dep't

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

A couple of women standing next to each other. FSA/ Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other. FSA/ Office of War Info...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tractor at factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tractor at factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino...

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Sacking graded peanuts. Peanut-shelling plant. Comanche, Texas

Sacking graded peanuts. Peanut-shelling plant. Comanche, Texas

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa.Haifa. The Silicate Brick Works. A block of numerous bricks being lifted & shifted by crane

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Bent Furniture Factory in Holon settlement. Dressing chair bottoms by machinery

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembl...

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

Stoddards Lower Range from Factory Walk, River Street, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Stoddards Lower Range from Factory Walk, River Street, Savannah, Chath...

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Stamping out squares of dough which will be made into rolls. Bakery, San Angelo, Texas

Stamping out squares of dough which will be made into rolls. Bakery, 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

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail i...

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Richon Le Zion. The Okava safety blade factory. Sharpening

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane in construction, North American Aviation, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif.

P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane in construction, North American Aviatio...

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Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

Sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

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

One year of reciprocal aid. New Zealand butter in making. Our Army has received 2,032,000 pounds of this staple from New Zealand, under reciprocal lend-lease. Most of the food for the U.S. armed forces stationed in New Zealand including 10,279,000 pounds of beef, 4,787,000 pounds of potatoes, 3,320,000 pounds of sugar, 4,053,000 pounds of bacon, ham and pork, 1,721,000 pounds of mutton and 1,407,000 dozens of eggs, have been received under this arrangement

One year of reciprocal aid. New Zealand butter in making. Our Army has...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Main working room, int[erior]

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Main...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression FFSA / OWI...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the huge seventy-two inch mills used to produce smooth, bright cold-rolled finish on steel sheets. The two highly polished center rolls are reinforced by heavier rollers to assure uniform reduction in the thickness of the sheet. These mills are used in the production of high quality steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the huge seventy-t...

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

Galilee trip. Nazareth, the Arab Cigarette & Tobacco Co. Ltd. "Tatli-Sert" Cigarette Factory. Cigarettes being packed into boxes by hand

Galilee trip. Nazareth, the Arab Cigarette & Tobacco Co. Ltd. "Tatli-S...

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.

Workmen on the final assembly of a plane at the Vought Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Stratford, Connecticut

Workmen on the final assembly of a plane at the Vought Sikorsky Aircra...

Annotation on original negative jacket: 54. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Slogan for a production army. 1) What could be fairer than this? The above sketch for a sticker is one of a number designed by the War Production Board (WPB) in connection with the war production drive. Factory soldiers will paste such signs on their machines. Not a bad slogan for everybody these days

Slogan for a production army. 1) What could be fairer than this? The a...

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

A starch factory in Caribou, Maine, along the Aroostook River

A starch factory in Caribou, Maine, along the Aroostook River

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War production drive poster. "Exhaust the Big Inflated Jap." This poster was very effective because it made use of the product--exhausts--made by the section of the Westinghouse factory in which it was displayed. The labor-management committee kept it up to date with production figures

War production drive poster. "Exhaust the Big Inflated Jap." This post...

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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

Precipitation tanks at gold mine where gold is precipitated out of cyanide solution. Mogollon, New Mexico

Precipitation tanks at gold mine where gold is precipitated out of cya...

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

Mrs. Aline Koger, home management supervisor, helping Mrs. Lloyd Young, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower's wife with her weaving. Plum Bayou Project, Arkansas (see general caption)

Mrs. Aline Koger, home management supervisor, helping Mrs. Lloyd Young...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Group of workers outside of factory

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Grou...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam's defense industries. Not only are welded connections as strong as, or stronger than, riveted connections, but they mean a saving steel and in overall weight. This welder is working on the engine support assembly of an M-3 tank at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam...

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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

Galilee trip. Nazareth, the Arab Cigarette & Tobacco Co. Ltd. "Tatli-Sert" Cigarette Factory. Shredding tobacco leaves by machinery

Galilee trip. Nazareth, the Arab Cigarette & Tobacco Co. Ltd. "Tatli-S...

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

Mrs. Aline Koger, home management supervisor, helping Mrs. Lloyd Young, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower's wife with her weaving. Plum Bayou Project, Arkansas (see general caption)

Mrs. Aline Koger, home management supervisor, helping Mrs. Lloyd Young...

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

Tobacco warehouses and factory. Durham, North Carolina

Tobacco warehouses and factory. Durham, North Carolina

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American cheeses in factory at Antigo, Wisconsin

American cheeses in factory at Antigo, Wisconsin

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

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). A pineapple canning factory

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). A pineapple canning factory

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.

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn Michigan. Here radically new techniques of mass production have been developed and put in use. Machine tools and dies produced at this plant themselves make mass production easier and more rapid in other factories throughout the country. The building covers 8 1/2 acres; employs 4,500 skilled workers; equipped with 3 million dollars worth of machinery. Many machinists are being trained for the Navy, here by mechanics, tool and die makers

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn...

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Shenandoah Valley. General view of the Wilbarger shop. Mr. Wilbarger himself is bending over the power hack saw at the left

Shenandoah Valley. General view of the Wilbarger shop. Mr. Wilbarger h...

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

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage.Thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun ca...

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

Washington Tinplate Company, Washington, Pennsylvania

Washington Tinplate Company, Washington, Pennsylvania

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Adding tread rubber stock. When the fabric carcass has been built to the proper number of layers and cushion rubber has been added under the tread, the thick, extra tough tread rubber is added, having been molded to the proper shape by extrusion in a previous operation. Mechanical guides help this builder to put the tread on absolutely straight, so the tire will be in perfect balance. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Adding tread rubber stock. When the fabric carcass has been built to t...

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.

New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, designed by the Farm Security Administration, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, in the shop of a contractor. Cutting out plywood letters used for the text

New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, desig...

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

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at thirty-five hundred dollars a piece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which t...

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

This is the charging end of the pug mill. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

This is the charging end of the pug mill. Shenango Pottery Works, Newc...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. War Poduction. Of...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. This factory can produce 10,000 pounds of rubber from guayule daily

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. This factory c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture of forty-millimeter Bofors gun mounts and carriages. This arc welder wearing a protective mask is completing a skilled operation on part of a gun mount in a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture ...

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.

Assembling excavator scoop. Keystone Drilling Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Assembling excavator scoop. Keystone Drilling Company, Beaver Falls, P...

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In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here naval cadets are being instructed in lathe operation by the skilled instructor- mechanics

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manufacture of airplane pilot seats must be thoroughly checked before being assembled in this large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. Should the precision gauge show up the tiniest imperfection in placement or drilling operations, the stamping will be discarded

Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manu...

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

Commission merchants examine and make notes on shipments of fruit for which they intend to bid. Terminal warehouse, Chicago, Illinois

Commission merchants examine and make notes on shipments of fruit for ...

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Production. 155mm shells. Careful inspection precedes the operations which form the noses of 155mm shells in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Careful inspection precedes the operations w...

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

Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. employment office advised John Jones to enroll in a defense training course in his own community. There were vocational courses in local schools to choose from or opportunites for training right on the job through the Office of Production Management's (OPM) training within industry program. Training within industry has been installed in nearly 2000 defense plants employing over 2,000,000 workers

Priorities unemployment. New skills, new opportunities. The U.S. emplo...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Nearly ready to take its place in the battle for humanity, this control car for a naval non-rigid airship is receiving the finishing touches at the huge airship dock of an Ohio rubber company. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Nearly ready to take its place in the b...

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.

Lining tub with oiled paper before packing butter into it. Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Lining tub with oiled paper before packing butter into it. Dairymen'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

Cores for generators at General Electric plant. Erie, Pennslyvania

Cores for generators at General Electric plant. Erie, Pennslyvania

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Finished propellers. Hamilton propeller plant. East Hartford, Connecticut

Finished propellers. Hamilton propeller plant. East Hartford, Connecti...

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A black and white photo of a factory. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a factory. America during Great Depression ...

Annotation on original negative jacket. This image in a jacket marked "Killed" To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have tit... More

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. The brawn of the village smith is dwarfed in this modern blacksmith shop where a powerful drop hammer fashions a red hot metal slab for ship construction in an Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. The brawn of the village smith is d...

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

San Juan (vicinity), Puerto Rico. In a needlework factory

San Juan (vicinity), Puerto Rico. In a needlework factory

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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Key to this picture is the little spool of silk thread on the machine at right. Instead of using Japanese silk to make women's stockings, this Eastern mill is converting many of its looms (see left) to production of mosquito netting to protect men fighting from insect bites. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Key to this picture is the little spool o...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Reconditioning gas masks at the gas mask factory

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Reconditioning gas mask...

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

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

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

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Electrical assemblies for North American bombers and fighters are assembled by women

Electrical assemblies for North American bombers and fighters are asse...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections for a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections f...

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

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Turning an outside cut on the flange of a cargo winch drum for the Maritime Commission. This machine in the converted plant of a Midwestern farm implement manufacturer was used to turn inside cuts on farm tractor wheels

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Turning an outside cut o...

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.

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Workers at Rodriquez needlework factory waiting in line to make payments on personal loans made by the company

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Workers at Rodriquez needlework factory waiting...

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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Woman working on the fuselage of a "Valiant" basic trainer in the final assembly line at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Woman working on the fu...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new generator unit in place at TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Completed units show in the background. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new gen...

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.

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Air Corps are welded at an Eastern plant that used to make metal screens for windows and doors. Among the items now produced are junction boxes, switch boxes for airplane tow targets and navigator windows for bombers

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Ai...

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

War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by the labor-management committee in a factory making munitions. As each of the three divisions turned out products, the shells rose on the scoreboard. As each shell rose, the trousers on the corresponding figure fell

War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nashville, Tennessee. In the machine shop division. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. In the machine shop division. Vultee Aircraft Co...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a consolidated B-24 bomber is being lowered to place in a fuselage meting fixture at a Western aircraft plant. Here, tail fuselage, wing center section and nose section are joined. This bomber carries a heavy bomb load and is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high-accuracy boming missions. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a co...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. The metal structure for a rudder on a B-25 bomber is assembled by North American employees in the control surface department at Inglewood, California. The part will next move to the covering department for its fabric cover. Women are fast taking the places of men in this department. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mutchell") bomber used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. The metal structure for a r...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Gas masks reconditioned for civilian defense use at the gas mask factory

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Gas masks reconditioned...

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Production. Marine boilers. On the welding floor of a big Midwest boiler factory, heavy production of Army and Navy essentials is the order of the day

Production. Marine boilers. On the welding floor of a big Midwest boil...

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

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Side by side and end to end of Dodge Army trucks, produced daily, stand in the yards waiting for the final touches that make them effective fighting vehicles

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Phillips refinery. Borger, Texas. Repairing a still

Phillips refinery. Borger, Texas. Repairing a still

Additional information on caption card: Omit location. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Mo... More

Negro factory inspector - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Negro factory inspector - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared for testing in a large Eastern plant given over almost entirely to the manufacture of transformers. Transformers are vital to almost every phase of war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared f...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant. Spot-welding saves manufacturing time and increases the strength of many important parts of Dodge Army trucks

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant....

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Checking and inspection of thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts for America's armed forces in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks for civilian use. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Checking and inspection of thirty-s...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. The nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship in a jig at a large Western aircraft plant. This nose section will later be joined or "mated" to a center section and the partly-finished body will begin its trip down the final assembly line where engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. The nose section of a new Lo...

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

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

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Smoothing a gun cylinder. A skilled worker in an eastern Navy yard arsenal guiding the machine which is turning a major caliber gun. He is one of thousands who are producing ammunition for the expanded Navy war program

Smoothing a gun cylinder. A skilled worker in an eastern Navy yard ars...

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