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The Great railway strikes--miles of burned freight-cars in the railroad yards about Chicago

The Great railway strikes--miles of burned freight-cars in the railroa...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1894 July 28, p. 704. Public domain image of Swedish railroads works, train yard, workshop, tracks, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Ind. Unloading new tomato cans from freight cars. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Boys in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Ind. Unloading new tomato cans from f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 57. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Loading freight cars with cauliflower. Jaroso, Colorado

Loading freight cars with cauliflower. Jaroso, Colorado

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard

Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification y...

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A black and white photo of a train car FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

A black and white photo of a train car FSA/OWI - Farm security adminis...

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

Loading potatoes onto freight cars for shipment to the big cities of the north. Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Loading potatoes onto freight cars for shipment to the big cities of t...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight cars at a grading station near Belcross, North Carolina

Freight cars at a grading station near Belcross, North Carolina

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on the mold to form a stern section for a member of the "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. The work is being done at a nearby plant formerly used for the building of freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on ...

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.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These stacks of steel plate are in readiness for an uninterrupted flow toward the production line of a large Eastern plant fabricating sections for ships built at a nearby yard. This plant was formerly used for freight car construction. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These stacks of steel plate are in read...

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

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Ox cart drivers eating sugar cane as they wait for their loads to be put on freight cars to be shipped to the sugar mill

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Ox cart drivers eating sugar cane as ...

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight cars unloading wheat at grain elevator. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Freight cars unloading wheat at grain elevator. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Illinois Central R.R., freight cars at the South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. The C & O and Nickel Plate Railroads lease part of this terminal from the I.C.R.R.

Illinois Central R.R., freight cars at the South Water Street freight ...

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

Minneapolis grain exchange, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the largest open grain market in the United States. Here actual samples of grain from freight cars are on the tables. On the other side of this room is the "pit" where bidding is on future markets

Minneapolis grain exchange, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the larges...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a library, college auditorium, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War production drive poster. "We Have Axis to Grind" One of the huge posters which employees of the Northern Pump Company, of Minneapolis, place on the sides of freight cars leaving the plant. The ideas originated with the men themselves. In this way the labor-management committee broadcasts to the countryside its resolve to help win the war. It is estimated that millions of Americans see these traveling posters as they move across the country to their destinations

War production drive poster. "We Have Axis to Grind" One of the huge p...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. This worker is welding top plates to angle frames for a merchant ship under construction at a large Eastern yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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

Freight cars in yards, Chicago, Illinois

Freight cars in yards, Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the templates for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is watching for signals from a colleague as he rolls cold steel plate to a desired shape on this plate roller, designed in Germany. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are carried to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is watching for signals fro...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Steel plates of wasteless dimensions stacked ready for laying out, one of the first operations on the production line of multiply cargo ship construction. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Steel plates of wasteless dimensions st...

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

Cattle in loading pens ready to be shipped to freight cars after auction sale. Union Stockyards, Omaha, Nebraska

Cattle in loading pens ready to be shipped to freight cars after aucti...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Loading airplane propeller into freight cars at the United States Army consolidating station

Chicago, Illinois. Loading airplane propeller into freight cars at the...

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

Freight cars unloading wheat at grain elevator. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Freight cars unloading wheat at grain elevator. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Corn shuckers loaded on freight cars. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Corn shuckers loaded on freight cars. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

Grain elevators with freight cars unloading. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain elevators with freight cars unloading. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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A black and white photo of a train yard, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train yard, Minnesota. Farm Security Admi...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight cars at Camden, North Carolina, grading station. All along the line are potatoes being loaded

Freight cars at Camden, North Carolina, grading station. All along the...

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Freight cars waiting to be loaded with potatoes. Between Camden and Belcross, North Carolina

Freight cars waiting to be loaded with potatoes. Between Camden and Be...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances of the century in shipbuilding, saving time, steel and weight. This welder is working on the inside of a fuel tank in a ship of Uncle Sam's new "Liberty Fleet." All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Ships for war has meant the rehabilitation of numerous odd pieces of equipment unused for long periods, both in shipyards and in various other plants engaged in production of parts for ships. A discarded steam locomotive in a large Eastern yard is being tuned up for use once again. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Ships for war has meant the rehabilitat...

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

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

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

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on the mold to form a stern section for a member of the "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. The work is being done at a nearby plant formerly used for the building of freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on ...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large Eastern shipyard is a typical scene in many large shipyards at work on ships for Uncle Sam's Navy and merchant fleet. Stocks of material are piled up for the cranes to take to vessels under construction so there is no delay in production while waiting for sections or materials. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large...

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

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and U.S. Army inspectors view expanse of freshly laid cement covering track wells where freight cars rolled before December 1941. With one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, new machinery and equipment will occupy this space. Other requirements of conversion included the denuding of five and one-half miles of overhead conveyers. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At the loading station. Here cane is loaded by crane on to freight cars to be shipped to the sugar mill

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At the loading station. Here cane is ...

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

Women in essential services. Ex-fountain girl Anita Robinson unloads freight cars at the Paraffine Company in Emeryville, California. She's one of many women workers who are taking over essential jobs in industry

Women in essential services. Ex-fountain girl Anita Robinson unloads f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon. Office of War Info...

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

Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.

Freight cars being maneuvered in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sugarcane being hoisted from truck to waiting freight cars for USSC (United States Sugar Corporation)

Sugarcane being hoisted from truck to waiting freight cars for USSC (U...

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

A black and white photo of a train yard. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train yard. Office of War Information Pho...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker in the mold loft is painting over the marks made on steel plates from wooden templates, or patterns. The original marking is scratched onto the steel, and this man brings them out in white. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker in the mold loft is paintin...

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

Transportation. Freight car movements. With transportation assuming vast new importance in wartime America, movement of freight cars must be accomplished with the fullest efficiency and speed. Loss and diversion of ocean carriers which served our seaboard cities have thrown an enormous burden upon the railroads

Transportation. Freight car movements. With transportation assuming va...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Loading sugar cane into freight cars at the loading station

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Loading sugar cane into freight cars ...

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Cotton bales to be shipped in freight cars, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Cotton bales to be shipped in freight cars, Knowlton Plantation, Perth...

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

Freight cars loaded with coal, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Freight cars loaded with coal, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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War production drive poster. "Give 'Em Both Barrels, Boys." One of the huge posters which employees of the Northern Pump Company, of Minneapolis, place on the sides of freight cars leaving the plant. The ideas originated with the men themselves. In this way the labor-management committee broadcasts to the countryside its resolve to help win the war. It is estimated that millions of Americans see these traveling posters as they move across the country to their destinations

War production drive poster. "Give 'Em Both Barrels, Boys." One of the...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Loading gold ore concentrate into freight cars of narrow gauge railroad, Ouray, Colorado

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Load...

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

Freight cars waiting to be loaded with potatoes. Between Camden and Belcross, North Carolina

Freight cars waiting to be loaded with potatoes. Between Camden and Be...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading gold ore concentrate into freight cars of narrow gauge railroad, Ouray, Colorado

Loading gold ore concentrate into freight cars of narrow gauge railroa...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. The maritime inspector at a large Eastern shipyard is checking over, with the foreman, the stem assembly for a new member of the "Liberty Fleet." All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. The maritime inspector at a large Easte...

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

Cattle in loading pen to be shipped in freight cars, after auction sale at Union Stockyards, South Omaha, Nebraska

Cattle in loading pen to be shipped in freight cars, after auction sal...

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Chrysler Corporation. Dodge truck plant. Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Loading Dodge Army trucks on freight cars

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

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

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At the loading station. Here sugar cane is weighed and loaded into freight cars to be shipped to the sugar mill

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At the loading station. Here sugar ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A worker guides the magnet which unloads steel scrap from open freight cars to the waiting charging boxes in a Chicago steel mill. Drawn by an engine, these boxes will be brought directly to the furnace room, where they will be processed into steel for guns and ships

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A worker guides the magnet which unloa...

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

A black and white photo of a crane. Office of War Information Photogra...

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

Freight cars at a siding in Elmwood Place, a heavily industrialized village outside Cincinnati, Ohio

Freight cars at a siding in Elmwood Place, a heavily industrialized vi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Blowing cotton seed from gin into freight cars for shipment to cotton seed oil plant, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Blowing cotton seed from gin into freight cars for shipment to cotton ...

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

A black and white photo of people in a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of people in a truck, Mississippi. Farmers dur...

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

Loading sheep into freight cars, stockyard, Denver, Colorado

Loading sheep into freight cars, stockyard, Denver, Colorado

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This is a travograph-oxy-acetylene machine, a cutter which treads its own pattern. Here it is cutting two identical floor plates for a tank section at the bottom of a new member of the "Liberty Fleet." The work is done at what was formerly a freight car plant now a large Eastern plant. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This is a travograph-oxy-acetylene mach...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's "Liberty fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard.All parts are prefabricated in thus huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Use of a former Pullman car plant for the prefabrication of many sections used in the ships being built at a nearby yard means the saving of many valuable months in our shipbuilding program. This man is a brakeman on a train carrying assembled sections from the plant to the yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Use of a former Pullman car plant for t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Freight cars seen from above

Detroit, Michigan. Freight cars seen from above

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

Chicago, Illinois. Loading airplane propellers into freight cars at the United States Army consolidating station

Chicago, Illinois. Loading airplane propellers into freight cars at th...

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.

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

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

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma." Forty families in this group. Tents, tent houses, shacks, freight cars converted into homes

Street and homes in "Little Oklahoma." Forty families in this group. ...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War production drive poster. "We Have Axis to Grind" One of the huge posters which employees of the Northern Pump Company, of Minneapolis, place on the sides of freight cars leaving the plant. The ideas originated with the men themselves. In this way the labor-management committee broadcasts to the countryside its resolve to help win the war. It is estimated that millions of Americans see these traveling posters as they move across the country to their destinations

War production drive poster. "We Have Axis to Grind" One of the huge p...

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

Freight cars loaded with coal waiting at dockside. Oswego, New York

Freight cars loaded with coal waiting at dockside. Oswego, New York

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight cars in yards, Chicago, Illinois

Freight cars in yards, Chicago, Illinois

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Most large shipyards have their own rail systems, with several locomotives and flat cars used for hauling heavy ship parts about the yards. This man operates such a locomotive transporting completed sections from a former freight car plant six miles to the ways where they are assembled into completed ships. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Most large shipyards have their own rai...

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

Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad runs a special service in these freight cars marked "X" between Chicago and Milwaukee. The cars are loaded with goods in proper order on these hand trucks. The cars are sent on to Milwaukee, trucks and all, are unloaded there, trucks reloaded, and shipped in the freight cars back to specified tracks. By setting aside special tracks at both ends, and keeping the goods in proper order for unloading, a great deal of time is saved

Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad runs a specia...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates from wood templates, or patterns. The patterns indicate rivet hole locations and other necessary information. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which used to turn out freight cars. Completed sections are carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates ...

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.

Chicago, Illinois. Freight cars at the Galewood freight terminal of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Illinois. Freight cars at the Galewood freight terminal of th...

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Straight-on view of the Aladdin mining tipple, which carried coal down a mountainside to waiting freight cars, Aladdin, Wyoming

Straight-on view of the Aladdin mining tipple, which carried coal down...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

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Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street fre...

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Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad, Chicago, Ill.

Laboratory worker at the research laboratory at the C & NW RR's 40th S...

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Sugar beets piled at railroad are loaded into freight cars which go to the factory. Adams County, Colorado

Sugar beets piled at railroad are loaded into freight cars which go to...

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Freight cars in back of houses in Berlin, New Hampshire

Freight cars in back of houses in Berlin, New Hampshire

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Cattle in loading pens, ready to be shipped in freight cars. After auction sale, Union Stockyards, Omaha, Nebraska

Cattle in loading pens, ready to be shipped in freight cars. After auc...

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

Sheep raised by Edmund Crawford in pens before loading and shipping in freight cars. Craig, Colorado

Sheep raised by Edmund Crawford in pens before loading and shipping in...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These are shell frames and deck brackets ready to be welded between deck beams and frames for ship of the Liberty Fleet under construction at a large Eastern yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These are shell frames and deck bracket...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these ways, and the keel is being assembled for yet another, in a large Eastern yard. The bottom and side shell plating and the inner tank sections are being assembled. Another new keel has been laid on the ways to the left. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A new vessel has just moved off these w...

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Chicago, Illinois. Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad classification yard

Chicago, Illinois. Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern Railro...

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

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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A black and white photo of a train car, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a train car, Mississippi. Farmers during Gr...

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

A black and white photo of a herd of sheep. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

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Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad terminal, Chicago, Ill.

Freight cars at the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad termi...

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Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard

Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern i.e. North Western Railro...

12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More

Cattle in loading pens, ready to be shipped in freight cars. After auction sale, Union Stockyards, Omaha, Nebraska

Cattle in loading pens, ready to be shipped in freight cars. After auc...

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Chicago, Illinois. Stenciling the name of the railroad on newly painted freight cars at the repair track at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Stenciling the name of the railroad on newly painte...

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Loading gold ore concentrate into freight cars of narrow gauge railroad, Ouray, Colorado

Loading gold ore concentrate into freight cars of narrow gauge railroa...

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Unloading freight cars at Treasury Procur[...] D[...] 7th D St., S.W.

Unloading freight cars at Treasury Procur[...] D[...] 7th D St., S.W.

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A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train on the tracks, Minnesota. Farm Secu...

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Loading sheep into freight cars, stockyard, Denver, Colorado

Loading sheep into freight cars, stockyard, Denver, Colorado

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place. Prefabrication of sections such as this in a nearby plant formerly making freight cars saves weeks in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's new merchant fleet. This piece is being hoisted into place, and soon the welder will begin his vital work. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place....

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