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U.S. Boy Scout & gas mask - Public domain portrait photograph

U.S. Boy Scout & gas mask - Public domain portrait photograph

An old black and white photo of a man holding a dog. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in gas mask and decontamination suit

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. During a rest period at the gas mask factory

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. During a rest period at...

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

Student learning the proper method of wearing a gas mask at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Student learning the proper method of wearing a gas mask at the U.S. A...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Gas mask drill, Company J, 41st Engineers

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Gas mask drill, Company J, 41st Engineers

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

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Company J, 41st Engineers, in gas mask drill

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Company J, 41st Engineers, in gas mask dri...

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

Civilian defense. There's not much that is omitted in the equipment of these special gas and electrical emergency trucks. On the floor in front of the trunk are, left to right, the following items: a fitter's kit for repairing small gas leaks; a rubberized blanket for electrical work; an atmosphere testing machine; an inhalator; a Phister fire extinguisher; an air blower ; a lux fire extinguisher kit; a splicer's kit containing insulated hand tools; a fuse kit; a manhole guard rail and a rubber mat for electrical work. The worker at the left is wearing a special mask with a half-hour suplly of oxygen for use where a fresh air hose is not practical. He is also wearing rubber gloves for repair work. The man standing in the center is holding a hand operated manhole pump. The truck and its equipment were on display at Madison Square Garden, New York, as part of the huge civilian defense show held there in October

Civilian defense. There's not much that is omitted in the equipment of...

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

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

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

The Eternal Prodigal: Gas Mask - Drawing. Public domain image.

The Eternal Prodigal: Gas Mask - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ritz Theatre (venue) Dance Theatre (venue) Public domain scan of 1930s theatrical costume design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a New ... More

German gas mask - Public domain photograph

German gas mask - Public domain photograph

A black and white photo of a man wearing a gas mask. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Gas mask drill, Company J, 41st Engineers

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Gas mask drill, Company J, 41st Engineers

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Ammonia gas mask in the power room of the United Farmers' Cooperative Creamery in East Berkshire, Vermont

Ammonia gas mask in the power room of the United Farmers' Cooperative ...

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

Naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas. Like a man from Mars, a sailor at the Corpus Christi, Texas, naval air base wears the new type of protective clothing and gas mask designed for use in chemical warfare. These uniforms are lighter than the old type

Naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas. Like a man from Mars, a sailor ...

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

The Eternal Prodigal: Gas Mask - Public domain dedication image

The Eternal Prodigal: Gas Mask - Public domain dedication image

Ritz Theatre (venue) Dance Theatre (venue) The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a New Deal program created in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Its goal was to provide employment for ou... More

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operator, blonde Marjorie Karwaske finds that the dear dead days of bobby pins and curler clamps have left her with skillful, speedy fingers and a natural tendency to eliminate wasteful hand movement. These are invaluable aids to her job at a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to the production of gas masks. Those skillful fingers fasten eye pieces to the bodies of gas masks. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operato...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas repairing a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps submachine gunners. An efficient gas mask and a deadly Johnson submachine gun are part of the kit of fighting tools carried by this leatherneck in training at New River, North Carolina. The gun, a new Marine Corps weapon, is said to have a lot of authority. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps submachine gunners. An efficie...

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

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assistant sanitation officer, demonstrating to members of the nurse corps of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command the proper way to put on the gas mask

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assi...

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

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a gas mask drill of the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses advancing through a cloud of smoke in a ...

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

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas masks for America's soldiers and civilians. Margaret Reed, left, who used to work in the vacuum brush department, now operates a precrimping machine which attaches eye rings to the mask proper. Note the "V" chalked on her machine. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum ...

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.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a gas mask in a practice smokescreen

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a...

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

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Lacing head harnesses of gas masks after they have passed through all the stages of assembly and made ready for packaging, is the job of this young woman who works in a large Midwest vacuum cleaner factory which has been converted to war production. Note the lei of string she's wearing--the better to lace the masks with! Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Lacing head harnesses of gas m...

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.

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the De Land, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs the De Land pool is doing

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc we...

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

Student learning the proper method of wearing a gas mask at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Student learning the proper method of wearing a gas mask at the U.S. A...

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

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Company J, 41st Engineers, in gas mask drill

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Company J, 41st Engineers, in gas mask dri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armed forces, military conflict, conscription, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of the gas mask. If chemical warfare should ever be used by the enemy, the Army will have familiarized all the members of its personnel with the best methods for overcoming such attack. An instructor leading the nurses double-time through a field during a simulated gas attack

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of...

Image source: U.S. Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about t... More

Camp Kearny, Cal. "Anti-onion" gas mask

Camp Kearny, Cal. "Anti-onion" gas mask

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Men wearing gas masks standing in industrial building]

[Men wearing gas masks standing in industrial building]

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

South African women's services on duty in the Middle East: A South African W.A.A.F. Sergeant instructor fitting a gas mask to a beginner

South African women's services on duty in the Middle East: A South Afr...

Title from note on item. South African official photograph : No. K 2049. Picture issued April 1942.

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

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...

Public domain photograph related to dance, ballet, musical performance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good looks deceive you, these two young workers are actually full-fledged government inspectors who are employed in a converted Midwest vacuum cleaner plant to test gas masks. Every one of the hundreds of rubber masks that move along the assembly belt each day must be thoroughly tested by young women inspectors who put the masks through many different tests. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good...

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.

New Bedford, Massachusetts. Portuguese girls manufacturing gas masks

New Bedford, Massachusetts. Portuguese girls manufacturing gas masks

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

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbetter adds glamour to the assembly line of a Midwest gas mask factory which formerly made vacuum cleaners. Operating a riveting press, which attaches cloth tabs to the face pieces of gas masks, this young worker is one of the many company employees who switched over from work on vacuums when the plant was converted. Betty likes her new job better than the old one. "It bears a lot more relationship to my American Women's Voluntary Services work," she says. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbette...

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

Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a bakery, before Pearl Harbor, but today twenty-one-year-old Eugenia Bireta is a qualified government inspector who tests gas masks for "eye leakage" on this pressure gauge. She's one of many young women employed by a large Midwest vacuum cleaner company now converted to production of gas masks. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a ba...

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.

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

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

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Gas Chamber, East side of main access road, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Gas Chamber, East side of main acces...

Significance: The Gas Chamber Building retains its integrity of location, design, setting, materials, and workmanship. It was built specifically for training troops in gas mask use during World War II, a major... More

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with whatever difficulties they may encounter, these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen workers are climbling up a fire ladder to the roof of a building struck by bombs. Fartherest up the ladder is a worker equipped with an "Indian" fire pump, valuable in fighting incendiary bombs. The man below him is carrying a two-way portable radio. Next is a volunteer worker with a portable acetylene torch, used for cutting through metal to effect entrances or to extricate victims pinned under fallen metal. The man just starting up the ladder is carrying a roof rope, and all are equipped with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with whatever difficulties...

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Captain William W. Kitchen instructing a chaplain school class in gas warfare and the use of gas masks. U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Captain William W. Kitchen instructing a chaplain school class in gas ...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldier who has just come out of the gas chamber filled with tear gas after having been in there several seconds without a gas mask

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldier who has just co...

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons of rubber were used in such erasers -- the same quantity as would make 200,000 army gas masks

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons ...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a gas mask in a practice smokescreen

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a...

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

Geiger Field, Washington. Officers and men are taught to be on the alert for a gas attack at any time. This jeep appears at unexpected places and sends out a charge of tear gas from the ingenious device attached to the muffler. Those in the vicinity, to protect themselves from the irritating gas, must be able to don their masks instantaneously

Geiger Field, Washington. Officers and men are taught to be on the ale...

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

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Gas mask instruction

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Gas mask instruction

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

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

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Gas mask instructions: testing for gas

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Gas mask instructions: tes...

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

Gas masks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gas masks - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Boy Scout & gas mask - Public domain portrait photograph

U.S. Boy Scout & gas mask - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

[U.S. Marines standing in ranks with gas masks attached; France, 1918]

[U.S. Marines standing in ranks with gas masks attached; France, 1918]

Photo by USASC, no. 2143. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WW I France; Gas in warfare; Marines, U.S.; Shelf.

Sailor at the Naval Air Base wears the new type protective clothing and gas mask designed for use in chemical warfare, Corpus Christi, Texas. These uniforms are lighter than the old type

Sailor at the Naval Air Base wears the new type protective clothing an...

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

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps submachine gunners. An efficient gas mask and a deadly Johnson submachine gun are part of the kit of fighting tools carried by this leatherneck in training at New River, North Carolina. The gun, a new Marine Corps weapon, is said to have a lot of authority. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine Corps submachine gunners. An efficie...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Woman worker seen through a gas mask

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Woman worker seen throu...

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

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of the gas mask. If chemical warfare should ever be used by the enemy, the Army will have familiarized all the members of its personnel with the best methods for overcoming such attack. An instructor leading the nurses double-time through a field during a simulated gas attack

Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of...

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

Camp Kearny, Cal. "Anti-onion" gas mask

Camp Kearny, Cal. "Anti-onion" gas mask

Photograph shows a soldier peeling onions at Camp Kearny. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Photograph published in The Philadelphia Eveni... More

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they may encounter these New York City volunteer auxiliary firemen put on a demonstration of the matter in which they would handle the damage caused by an incendiary bombing attack. An incendiary bomb has fallen through the roof of this building and is blazing in the second story. One worker has already entered through the window and is using an "Indian" fire pump on the small blaze which has started. His fellow workers are following up the ladder equipped (from top to bottom) with the following items: top man carries a portable acetylene torch used to cut through metal to effect entrance or to extricate occupants caught under fallen beams or pipes; the next man carries a roof rope, while the man at the bottom bears a two-way portable radio. All workers are supplied with gas masks

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

Public domain photograph of New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The grim realities of war are brought home to this twenty-one-year-old worker in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which now makes gas masks. It's her job to wire and tape the outlet valves of the masks, which are delivered to her by a moving conveyor belt. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The grim realities of war are ...

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.

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Class in gas mask procedure

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Class in gas mask procedur...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Gas Chamber, East side of main access road, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Gas Chamber, East side of main acces...

Significance: The Gas Chamber Building retains its integrity of location, design, setting, materials, and workmanship. It was built specifically for training troops in gas mask use during World War II, a major... More

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans is to wash them thoroughly inside and out and remove label. When this can is processed in a detinning plant, enough tin will be reclaimed from it to plate the cannister of a gas mask

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans i...

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

Tin can alley leads to victory. "Pig" of pute tin, all recovered from discarded cans, are stored in the vault of an Eastern detinning plant, pending their reuse in the form of airplane motor bushings, gas mask canisters and other vital war accessories

Tin can alley leads to victory. "Pig" of pute tin, all recovered from ...

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

Columbia, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Repairing gas mask cases at a chemical unit at a service group

Columbia, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Repairing gas mask case...

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

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assistant sanitation officer, demonstrating to members of the nurse corps of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command the proper way to put on the gas mask

Scott Field, Illinois. Gas mask drill. Lieutenant Edward W. Gopp, assi...

Image source: U.S. Signal Corps. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about t... More

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Enlisted man folding up his gas mask to hang on his wall after having worn it all day

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Enlisted man folding ...

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

[Woman wearing gas mask outside of Americana hotel] / World Journal Tribune photo by Nat Fein.

[Woman wearing gas mask outside of Americana hotel] / World Journal Tr...

World Journal Tribune staff photo. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. A gas mask hangs on the back of the chair of every worker at the gas mask factory

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. A gas mask hangs on the...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Company J, 41st Engineers, in gas mask drill

Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Company J, 41st Engineers, in gas mask dri...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The finished gas mask face pieces in the foreground were just flaps of rubber without eye pieces, outlet valves, straps, tabs, and other accessories when they started on the long moving belt at the far end of the line. By the time they've reached this end, however, a hundred pairs of hands have worked on them, machining, clamping, riveting, testing, and inspecting each one until the completed masks are packaged in the final stages of production. All this activity takes place in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to war work. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The finished gas mask face pie...

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 man in a gas mask holding a gun. Office of War Information Photograph

A man in a gas mask holding a gun. Office of War Information Photograp...

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bed. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bed. Office of War Infor...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Woman worker seen through a gas mask

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Woman worker seen throu...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas cleaning a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas repairing a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Geiger Field, Washington. Officers and men are taught to be on the alert for a gas attack at any time. This jeep appears at unexpected places and sends out a charge of tear gas from the ingenious device attached to the muffler. Those in the vicinity, to protect themselves from the irritating gas, must be able to don their masks instantaneously

Geiger Field, Washington. Officers and men are taught to be on the ale...

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U.S. Navy - gun crew with gas masks, 3/11/25

U.S. Navy - gun crew with gas masks, 3/11/25

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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). The terms of a small contract for walnut-picking machinery (necessary for gas mask production) given the shop of Beery and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia, required the turning out of four units per hour. A special jig was made for this punch press by workers at the shop, and the production stepped up to fifty units per hour

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). The terms of a small contract for wal...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Making canvas containers for Army gas masks at the gas mask factory

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Making canvas container...

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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Learning to use a gas mask

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Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Gas mask instructions: testing for gas

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Gas mask instructions: tes...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Civilian gas mask approved by the Navy is demonstrated by a sailor mechanics at the chemical warfare school of the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. This type of mask is said to be good for four hours without refill

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Civilian gas mask approved by t...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldiers wearing gas masks after having been sprayed with gas from a plane

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldiers wearing gas ma...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldier who has just come out of the gas chamber filled with tear gas after having been in there several seconds without a gas mask

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Soldier who has just co...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in gas mask and decontamination suit

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans is to wash them thoroughly inside and out and remove label. When this can is processed in a detinning plant, enough tin will be reclaimed from it to plate the cannister of a gas mask

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans i...

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

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Working on reconditione...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. A gas mask hangs on the back of the chair of every worker at the gas mask factory

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. A gas mask hangs on the...

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