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Racks full of canned peas on way to labeling room and warehouse, canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Racks full of canned peas on way to labeling room and warehouse, canni...

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

A black and white photo of two women working in a factory, West Virgin...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, West Virginia. ...

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A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio du...

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Storage warehouse. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

Storage warehouse. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

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Detail of process of making cotton ropes from cotton bats. Laurel mills, Mississippi

Detail of process of making cotton ropes from cotton bats. Laurel mill...

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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,...

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

Cooling milk at large dairy. Tom Green County, Texas

Cooling milk at large dairy. Tom Green County, Texas

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The Palestine Electric Cable Works. Locally made machine for testing insulated cables

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

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Sign on side of mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

Sign on side of mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

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Migrant steeple-jack buying a replacement connecting rod at secondhand automobile parts store. Prague, Oklahoma, Lincoln County

Migrant steeple-jack buying a replacement connecting rod at secondhand...

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Loading freight cars for the factory at sugar beet dump. Adams County, Colorado

Loading freight cars for the factory at sugar beet dump. Adams County,...

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The Palestine Electric Cable Works. Testing the cables after insulation

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

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Bent Furniture Factory in Holon Settlement. The factory exterior

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

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Near Acre, Kfar-Ata. The "Ata" Textile Co. Doubling of primary yarn (first process)

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

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Petah-Tikvah. The "Marzefin" Co. Marble works. Marble blocks ready for sawing, factory in background

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. Haifa. The "Wolfman" Ltd. Cement pipe & tile factory. The Cement Floor Tile Dept.

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

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A black and white photo of a truck loaded with boxes, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a truck loaded with boxes, Great Depression...

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Machine for making cotton bats used for filling mattresses. Mattress factory, San Angelo, Texas

Machine for making cotton bats used for filling mattresses. Mattress f...

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Transferring pattern for stitching on the uppers of the boots. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

Transferring pattern for stitching on the uppers of the boots. Bootmak...

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

A black and white photo of a factory. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Nega...

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A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before the plane leaves the last station on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

A hydraulic mechanic greasing the landing gear of a transport, before ...

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Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. This new ship, adapted from the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, carries one of the greatest human and cargo loads of any plane now in mass production

Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft...

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Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of a tail fuselage section at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Installing structural parts of a C-87 transport plane in the tunnel of...

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Tel Aviv. Complicated electrical appliances factory, Int[erior]

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

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Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif.

Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is ...

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Ingredients used for dying of wool used at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico. They are indigo, nitric acid, powdered alum, bark, burdock root, cochineal and walnut husks

Ingredients used for dying of wool used at WPA (Works Progress Adminis...

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Forming a roll edge on innerspring mattress by special machine. Mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

Forming a roll edge on innerspring mattress by special machine. Mattre...

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Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi

Worker winding cotton thread onto large spools. Laurel cotton mills, L...

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Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end ...

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Farming cotton bat on machine in mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

Farming cotton bat on machine in mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

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After the cotton has been trimmed the bale is sent to a warehouse which gives a receipt to the farmer. This represents cash and can be used as such. Each bale is numbered in the warehouse and a sample is cut and one of the numbers torn off the ticket and they are both then sent to the cotton factory. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

After the cotton has been trimmed the bale is sent to a warehouse whic...

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Nachlat Izhak. Elastic & ribbon factory. Int[erior]. Machinery (close up)

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

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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. General view of the factory

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 black and white photo of a man in a shop. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man in a shop. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

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

The molten stream pouring from the thirty-five ton electric furnace is slag-waste material melted down during the process of refining. It is composed largely of limestone, which carries with it various other impurities in the metal. In the foreground is a huge ladle into which the molten steel will be poured after the slag has run off

The molten stream pouring from the thirty-five ton electric furnace is...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). General view taken from above the cab-trim line in the huge Detroit plant where Dodge Army trucks are made. The camera was pointed toward the main assembly line and shows an overhead sheet metal delivery conveyor and a small portion of the parts stock, such as head lamps, tail lights, and so forth, encased in card-board

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). General view taken from above the cab-...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A veteran factory worker, typical of the many seasoned craftsmen in the automobile industry, busily engaged in handling doors on the cab of an army truck

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A veteran factory worker, typical of t...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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

Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Sociali...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Detroit workmen assembling the front axle of a Dodge four wheel drive U.S. Army truck. In this operation the front driving axle is put in place and the drive shaft hooked up with the transfer case

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Detroit workmen assembling the front a...

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A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depressio...

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

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. The Naameh Flour Mills Ltd. Machines on one of the upper floors

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. The Naameh Flour Mi...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Row upon row of wheel hubs and brake drums for Army trucks tower skyward in huge piles at the Dodge company's great truck plant in Detroit

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Row upon row of wheel hubs and brake d...

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Workmen during lunch period, across the street from the Consolidated Airplane Factory. San Diego, California

Workmen during lunch period, across the street from the Consolidated A...

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A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depressio...

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. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. The furnace is tiled for the pourings. The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

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At a loom in the Denomah Mills, Taftville, Connecticut. Makers of rayon and cotton cloths

At a loom in the Denomah Mills, Taftville, Connecticut. Makers of rayo...

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Removing cakes of clay from one of a battery of filter presses. This operation precedes the pug mill. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Removing cakes of clay from one of a battery of filter presses. This o...

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

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Heat treatment is essential to develop the toughness necessary in the metal for U.S. warcraft. This worker is quenching a metal sheet which has just come from the furnace. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Heat treatment is essential to develop ...

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Halftrac scout cars. Laying the foundation of another power plant for an Army halftrac scout car. An engine block, already fitted with studs and bearing caps, starts its journey down the assembly line of a large Ohio plant. It will come off that line as part of a powerful, dependable engine, ready to take its place in the chassis that will be waiting for it. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Halftrac scout cars. Laying the foundation of another power plant for ...

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

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...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds back down into the sidewall of the finished tire for added strength. Passenger tires are normally supplied with only one wire bead, but truck tires usually have two or more, depending upon the size, weight and number of plies. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds ...

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

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...

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. Interior of the laundry of one of the central utility buildings of the defense trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania. Complete laundry facilities, including tubs, ringers, ironing boards and drying lines are provided. Also located in the building are showers, wash basins, and toilets. All facilities are included in the weekly trailer rental of six dollars per week

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interior of the laundry of one of...

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

Farm worker practicing wrapping apples in the apple wrapping school at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington

Farm worker practicing wrapping apples in the apple wrapping school at...

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Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more steel. These highly skilled machinists are doing their part to expand and maintain America's steel production capacity. Heavy castings that will form the backbone of steel mill equipment are being machined in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. Aetna. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more...

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Wheat broker's window. Whitman County, Washington

Wheat broker's window. Whitman County, Washington

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Packaging butter. Land O'Lakes plant, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Packaging butter. Land O'Lakes plant, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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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.

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Many strange-looking tools are required to get into the difficult places where rivets must be placed in the modern military airplane. Workers are working on an airplane sub-assembly part in an Ohio plant. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Many strange-looking tools are required...

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Chipping spots off china. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Chipping spots off china. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylva...

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

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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Production. 155mm shells. Threads cut in the noses of 155mm shells by Less-Bradner thread mills are inspected in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Threads cut in the noses of 155mm shells by ...

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Packing butter cut into squares for use in restaurants. Land O'Lakes plant, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Packing butter cut into squares for use in restaurants. Land O'Lakes p...

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Mr. McKutchins, editor of the News and Banner, Heard County newspaper, in his office in Franklin, Georgia

Mr. McKutchins, editor of the News and Banner, Heard County newspaper,...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. Machined to watch-like precision, these hundreds of parts which go into Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages for the U.S. Army must pass the most rigid inspection tests before they can be accepted in the Bofors manufacture. This employee of a large Midwest rubber company, now converted to production of war necessities, examines some of the 1,500 separate parts which are required in the assembling of the Bofors mounts and carriages

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. Machined to watch-like precision, thes...

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The girl on the right is removing dried plates from the plaster of Paris moulds after the surveyor has carried them into the drying chamber for several hours. The girl on the left is sponging small imperfections from the surface and trimming the edges. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

The girl on the right is removing dried plates from the plaster of Par...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriages come down the assembly line. In the foreground, the frame for the carriage is assembled. War production program scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun ca...

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Rural cheese maker operates small factory with help of his daughter. Near Portage, Wisconsin

Rural cheese maker operates small factory with help of his daughter. N...

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

A black and white photo of a plane in a factory. War Poduction. Office...

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

Inspecting unfired butter chips for the Army Medical Department. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Inspecting unfired butter chips for the Army Medical Department. Shena...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule shrubs go through a chopper in the laboratory. In commercial operations the shrub is harvested and chopped by one machine before going to the factory for rubber extraction

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule shrubs...

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Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. New arrivals waiting to be issued clothing

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New...

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Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew Orne, Chinese, who has a mother, father, wife and four children still in China. Orne feels that the planes he builds will hasten the day of victory and bring about a reunion with his family. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew O...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in a small Midwest factory is handling dies for use in producing incendiary bombs. The company, which formerly made doll's furniture, is now operating under subcontract for war production Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in...

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

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Washing-up is a quick job in the modern washrooms

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

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Nashville, Tennessee. Working on a tail section assembly

Nashville, Tennessee. Working on a tail section assembly

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Production. M-4 tanks. A strong, steady stream of mighty M-4 tanks is flowing from our arsenal of democracy. These heavy steel hulls and bogie-wheel assemblies in an Eastern plant give some idea of the massive construction of our new land battleships

Production. M-4 tanks. A strong, steady stream of mighty M-4 tanks is ...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial groups provide manpower for war industries. These youths, employees in a large Eastern bomber plant, are assembling bomb indicators. Both are graduates of government war training courses. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial grou...

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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 ...

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

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at this school, and one that's highly important to the war effort. Young men in the Willow Run bomber plant attend a riveting school before going to work on the assembly lines. These "schoolrooms" are right in the plant proper; classes are held in many types of work. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at ...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Wings for Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes are accurately assembled in jigs at a large Western aircraft plant. These wings are attached to the plane bodies as they travel down the final assembly line in which engines, landing gear, controls and other equpment are also installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Wings for Lockheed P-38 purs...

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

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

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Detroit, Michigan. Milling machine at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Milling machine at the Allison Motors plant

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

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer moves onto the assembly line of Western Trailer Company at Los Angeles. The chassis of the next trailer, in the foreground, is almost ready to receive sides

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer moves onto the...

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Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes are stacked by an employee of a large Eastern concern whose product will shortly switch from amusement devices to electrical equipment for Uncle Sam's army and navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes ...

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Mechanical slicing machine for cutting wafers from rough quartz

Mechanical slicing machine for cutting wafers from rough quartz

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, is one of Uncle Sam's disabled war workers. With both legs afflicted by infantile paralysis, he's nevertheless an expert lathe operator and assistant foreman in a Baltimore factory. He's shown here turning the inside radius of spacers, which are part of an airplane motor's supercharger. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, i...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. An electrical switch box is hooked up on a No. 9 1/2 big 90T96 Cleveland press, just relocated in an automobile factory to perform an operation on an army truck part. The old location of the press is devoted to tank production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. An electrical switch box is hooked up on...

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Discarded stockingss go to war. Here's what comes from your old silk stockings. Silk thread to be used in making powder bags is produced from discarded hose which have been subjected to various processes. Here, the silk thread emerges from a breaker machine which spins the bleached material into this form

Discarded stockingss go to war. Here's what comes from your old silk s...

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Production. Small ramp boats. Small wooden ramp boats for landing men and equipment on beaches, under construction at a Southern shipyard. The frames of these thirty-six-foot carriers are made of prefabricated parts and sections. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six to eight. Higgins Industries

Production. Small ramp boats. Small wooden ramp boats for landing men ...

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Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso Texas. Copper is recovered from smoke that pours into these pipes from the furnaces of the refining plant

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso Texas. Copper is recovered from...

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Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Brass discs are conveyed to a cupping press that forms them into the brass cups from which cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are drawn. They look harmless enough but each one will be a potential headache for Axis fliers by the time it comes off the production line

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Brass discs are conveyed to a cupping...

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Production. Aircraft. This worker on America's battle line of production shows all the grim intent of purpose one would expect to find in the trenches on Bataan and in the gun emplacements of Corregidor. He operates a Gray milling machine in a large Western aircraft plant

Production. Aircraft. This worker on America's battle line of producti...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Welding body interiors of Dodge Army trucks

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

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Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Annealing furnace for treating copper wire; by this process the copper wire is made more pliable

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Annealing furna...

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Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the fuselage assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the fuselage assembl...

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