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Driving herd of fat lambs into corrals along the narrow gauge railroad. Cimarron, Colorado

Driving herd of fat lambs into corrals along the narrow gauge railroad...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.W. (Elizabeth) Almoney, forty-seven (center rear), has had eleven children. She works as a gauge inspector at the Animal Trap Company and on Sunday does the washing. Her husband (left) works in the local chocolate factory. Daughter Arline, twenty (right), who also works at the Animal Trap Company, is cooking Sunday dinner. There are three brothers in the service, and one Boy Scout, age thirteen, in the family

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.W. (Elizabeth) Almoney, forty-seven (cent...

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

Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she inspects aircraft parts. Prior to Alma Jean Vincent's employment in a large Midwestern aircraft plant, she managed the junior book section of a suburban library. She had also been an assistant buyer of sportswear, but this lack of industrial experience seems to have been no handicap for her present job of visual gauge operator, inspecting airplane motor parts. With only six months of war work behind her, she's more than meeting plant requirements for speed and precision. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she insp...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings are carried on a label pasted on the handle of a glass plug gauge, which replace steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Markings on other gauges are produced by acid etching. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings are carried on a ...

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

A black and white photo of a steam engine train. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a steam engine train. Great Depression FFSA...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other, Colorado. Farm Security A...

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 express packages into D. & R.G.W. truck which takes them to points on the narrow gauge railroad where passengers and express service is not otherwise available. Montrose, Colorado

Loading express packages into D. & R.G.W. truck which takes them to po...

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

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Westerberg and his son Eric punching the time clock at the entrance to the Ford Motor Company where Eric is an expert tool and die maker and his father is foreman of the rough stock division of the Johansson gauge division

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Westerberg and his son Eric punching the time...

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Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. Mrs. Karl Westerberg pouring her husband an after-dinner cup of coffee after a day at the Ford Motor Company factory where Mr. Westerberg is foreman of the rough stock department of the Johansson gauge division

Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. Mrs. Karl Westerberg pouring her hu...

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

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

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

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

Loading ore concentrate into freight car of narrow gauge railroad, Our...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air views of Palestine. Air route over Cana of Galilee, Nazareth, Plain of Sharon, etc. Hills of Samaria near Dothan showing narrow guage [i.e., gauge] railroad

Air views of Palestine. Air route over Cana of Galilee, Nazareth, Plai...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Colora...

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

Ruins of old coke ovens and narrow gauge railroad near Meredith, Colorado

Ruins of old coke ovens and narrow gauge railroad near Meredith, Color...

Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving the plant of the Ford Motor Company where his son is employed as an expert tool and die maker and he is foreman of the rough stock department of the Johansson gauge division. They drive twenty-five miles to and from work in their Ford car

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving th...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Inspecting a gear with a steel ring, since replaced by a glass gauge at the Frankford Arsenal. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Inspecting a gear with a ...

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

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

Freight cars of narrow gauge railway, Telluride, Colorado

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, 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...

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

Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway cars. Cimarron, Colorado

Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway cars. Cimarron, Colorado

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Aerial tram leading from mine to loading platform at narrow gauge railway station. Ophir, Colorado

Aerial tram leading from mine to loading platform at narrow gauge rail...

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

Galvanized sheet steel of 24 gauge is used as corner reinforcement. Screen door construction demonstration. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland

Galvanized sheet steel of 24 gauge is used as corner reinforcement. Sc...

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

Flat cars of narrow gauge railroad loaded with logs from the surrounding mountains. Baker County, Oregon

Flat cars of narrow gauge railroad loaded with logs from the surroundi...

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

New York and Boston passengers take notice. You can save time and money by taking New York and Erie wide gauge railroad ... See other side of bill for distances and time of leaving Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Steam Press of Toledo Blade. Sept. 18

New York and Boston passengers take notice. You can save time and mone...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 121, Folder 25.

New York and Boston passengers take notice. You can save time and money by taking New York and Erie wide gauge railroad ... See other side of bill for distances and time of leaving Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Steam Press of Toledo Blade. Sept. 18

New York and Boston passengers take notice. You can save time and mone...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 121, Folder 25.

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Gauge to measure electricity cost II

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

Mr. Heyden Preston. Negative of gauge

Mr. Heyden Preston. Negative of gauge

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Loading sisal on narrow gauge R.R. [i.e., railroad] car

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Loading sisal on narrow gauge R.R. [i.e.,...

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

Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway for shipment to Denver market. Cimarron, Colorado

Loading fat lambs on narrow gauge railway for shipment to Denver marke...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. War Production FSA/OWI Ph...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company. Right front is Mrs. Julian Bachman, twenty-three, whose husband is in the Army

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company. Rig...

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

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The president of an Eastern manufacturing company now producing war essentials on prime and subcontracts, checks a contour gauge manufactured for Army arsenals. Gauges for measuring cartridges and other war materials must be accurate to the 2/10,000 of an inch to meet ordnance specifications. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The president of an Eastern ma...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Hands of Mrs. Julian Bachman, a gauge inspector at the Animal Trap Company of America

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Hands of Mrs. Julian Bachman, a gauge inspector ...

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

[Child standing on snow gauge of the Weather Bureau]

[Child standing on snow gauge of the Weather Bureau]

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3375.

Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India

Small locomotive used to draw cane cars 2 ft. gauge, India

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers stationed along the principal rivers of the United States soon will be able to follow the rise and fall of nearby river merely by picking up a telephone and dialing a given number. Preliminary trials for the last few months here show that a new automatic sound river gauge effectively and economically supplies the facts weathermen need in forecasting floods and supplying other information on river conditions for many interests. More weather bureau stations will install the new gages as fast as possible. (1)A river gauge on the Potomac River in the Capitol, where formerly a U.S. Weather Bureau Scientist had to go to this gauge box to take a reading on the river's height, all he has to do now is to pick up his telephone, dial the number of Potomac River, listen for a gong, then a buzz and at last another buzz, and then he will know whether the river is rising or falling, 4/9/38

And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers statione...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Montrose, Colorado, is junction point for standard gauge and narrow gauge railroads and bus lines. Papers and mail are being loaded into bus for transporting to towns along the route

Montrose, Colorado, is junction point for standard gauge and narrow ga...

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

Quadricycle used on narrow gauge railroad. In the early days this took the place of the more modern handcar

Quadricycle used on narrow gauge railroad. In the early days this took...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aluminum casting. This special gauge checks diameter of the piston skirt. Made of aluminum, this piston will be used in army jeeps, and is one of the products of a large Midwest factory now converted to manufacture of war essentials. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. This special gauge checks diameter of the piston ski...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway showing its connections with the Texas Mexican, Texas Mexican Short Line, Mexican National, Texas & St. Louis, and Denver & Rio Grande Narrow Gauge systems and also the International & Great Northern, Mexican Oriental Interoceanic & International, New York, Texas & Mexican and International & Mex. Standard Gauge roads.

Map of the Rio Grande and Pecos Railway showing its connections with t...

Outline map of the U.S. Southwest showing major drainage, cities and towns. Railroad lines are named and narrow gauge lines are in red. The "Cannel Coal Field" is indicated. 8159 U.S. Copyright Office Scale not... More

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Sisal plantation showing loads on narrow gauge R.R. [i.e., railroad]

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Sisal plantation showing loads on narrow ...

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

Train coming up the valley on a narrow gauge track, Ouray County, Colorado. Notice the two engines

Train coming up the valley on a narrow gauge track, Ouray County, Colo...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge is compared with a glass plug gauge which replaces it at the Frankford Arsenal. A plain ring glass gauge shows in the foreground. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greatly visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge is comp...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A glass ring gauge for the inspection of fuse parts. These gauges are replacing steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A glass ring gauge for the...

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

Dyna-Empire, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City. Gauge

Dyna-Empire, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City. Gauge

Public domain photograph of the 1940s-1950s New York City interiors, commerce, advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York & Erie railroad. The great double track, and only broad gauge railroad running west. Through tickets at reduced rates! ... Boston. Farwells & Forrest, Steam Job printers [1856].

New York & Erie railroad. The great double track, and only broad gauge...

Transportation.; Handwritten on verso: 1854. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 62, Folder 18.

U.S. Weather Bureau observes Egypt rain gauge

U.S. Weather Bureau observes Egypt rain gauge

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Antiaircraft cartridge cases must be correct in size. A careful gauge inspection assures precision

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Antiaircraft cartridge cases must be ...

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

Conductor (right) and brakeman, in their places in the cupola of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas. On the wall between them is the air gauge showing the amount of air brake pressure in the train

Conductor (right) and brakeman, in their places in the cupola of the c...

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

Locomotives with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorado

Locomotives with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorad...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

S.P. Ferguson with gauge which measures snow and hail

S.P. Ferguson with gauge which measures snow and hail

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

FORT HUMPHRIES. ARMY POST IN VIRGINIA. NARROW GAUGE ROAD ON RIVER BANK

FORT HUMPHRIES. ARMY POST IN VIRGINIA. NARROW GAUGE ROAD ON RIVER BANK

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Adolph Pranewicz of Milwaukee, who has a son in the Marines, checking off rough material with a gauge after the first turning on a lathe of a 105 mm. howitzer at the plant of Chain Belt Company, Milwauke, Wisconsin

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Adolph Pranewicz of Milwaukee, who has ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Intermediate rolling operation on strip. Strip brass and copper, cast as thick heavy cakes, is reduced by successive rolling to lighter gauge sheet, strip, bar, plate, wire or foil. Here's one of the intermediate rolls used in the production of strip. The man is coiling the strip as it comes from the rolls. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Intermediate rolling operatio...

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

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Tw...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Narrow gauge train carrying people around the zoological park

Detroit, Michigan. Narrow gauge train carrying people around the zoolo...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company. At right is Mrs. Julian Bachman

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company. At ...

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

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the angle of a machined part in degrees and minutes with a five-inch sine bar and vernier height gauge, and consulting a table of constants for a five-inch sine bar

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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

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

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

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

U.S. Weather Bureau. Snow gauge

U.S. Weather Bureau. Snow gauge

Narrow gauge railway yards, train and water tank at Telluride, Colorado

Narrow gauge railway yards, train and water tank at Telluride, Colorad...

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

Caboose of the Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railway. Telluride, Colorado

Caboose of the Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railway. Telluride, Co...

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

Road leading out of Carlton Tunnel along bed of old narrow gauge railroad on the west side of the Rocky Mountains from Leadville, Colorado

Road leading out of Carlton Tunnel along bed of old narrow gauge railr...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

High school Victory Corps. Bill Wood helps Betty Kemp adjust an oxygen gauge in the welding class at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Betty is one of four girls in a class of twenty seniors who are preparing to help fill industry's need for skilled welders

High school Victory Corps. Bill Wood helps Betty Kemp adjust an oxygen...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is a stock of semi-finished strip copper in rolls. This metal will be rolled again later, to a thinner gauge. Then it will be cleaned, the edges smoothed and trimmed, and tied into neat coils for shipment. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is a stock of semi-finis...

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

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the angle of a machined part in degrees and minutes with a five-inch sine bar and vernier height gauge, and consulting a table of constants for a five-inch sine bar

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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Locomotives with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorado

Locomotives with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorad...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole with service ladders and handrails developed into decorative features is typical of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) navigation projects all up and down the river

This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole w...

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

Railroad station and liquor store at Ophir, Colorado. A narrow gauge railway runs into the town with supplies and takes out the ore

Railroad station and liquor store at Ophir, Colorado. A narrow gauge r...

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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is semi-finished material for finishing in steel mills and strip mills. The piles of rectangular pieces in the foreground are for steel mill production, while the coils behind them are destined for the strip mill where they will be converted into thin gauge strips

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is semi-finished material fo...

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

Looking towards the narrow gauge railway station at Ophir, Colorado

Looking towards the narrow gauge railway station at Ophir, Colorado

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

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a train with smoke coming out of it, Great ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The conductor's work desk in the caboose. The dial on the wall is an air pressure gauge

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge, since replaced by a glass gauge at the Frankford Arsenal, is shown checking an inside diameter of a cartridge case. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge, since ...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Hands of Mrs. Julian Bachman, a gauge inspector at the Animal Trap Company of America

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Hands of Mrs. Julian Bachman, a gauge inspector ...

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

Locomotive with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorado

Locomotive with snowplow of narrow gauge railroad, Telluride, Colorado

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James A. McDougall and James H. Campbell to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, July 15, 1862 (Gauge for Pacific Railroad)

James A. McDougall and James H. Campbell to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, ...

S.P. Ferguson with gauge which measures snow and hail

S.P. Ferguson with gauge which measures snow and hail

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

Narrow gauge railroad station at Ophir, Colorado

Narrow gauge railroad station at Ophir, Colorado

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Trestle of narrow gauge railroad near Ophir, Colorado

Trestle of narrow gauge railroad near Ophir, Colorado

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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This sheet mill worker is charging sheets of steel into the heating furnace, from which they will emerge to be rolled into thin gauge sheets

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This sheet mill worker is chargin...

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

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The vice-president of an Eastern manufacturing company now producing war essentials on prime and subcontracts, tests the hardness of steel in a chamber gauge, essential for the manufacture of small arms ammunition. These gauges are made of special alloys tougher and harder than the toughest and hardest steel. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The vice-president of an Easte...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is the inlet end of a conveyor furnace. The rolls of strip brass and copper ride through the furnace on a conveyor, and when the metal comes out the other side it is annealed, and ready to be worked; that is rolled to a thinner gauge, or stamped into cup or shell-shaped products by fabricating plants. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is the inlet end of a co...

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Women gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Company of America. The girl at the right is only sixteen and couldn't have worked until a recent law was passed

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Women gauge inspectors at the Animal Trap Compan...

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

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

Loading ore concentrate into freight car of narrow gauge railroad, Our...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a dump truck, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a dump truck, Colorado. Farm Security Admin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old station on narrow gauge railroad in ghost mining town. Silver Plume, Colorado

Old station on narrow gauge railroad in ghost mining town. Silver Plum...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Glass gauges of various types are replacing steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Left, top to bottom: double-end gauge, "go" plug gauge, ring gauge. Right, top to bottom: "not go" plug gauge, double and solid-handle plug gauge, double-end taper-lock standard, handle plug gauge. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Glass gauges of various ty...

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A. Boody to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Telegram concerning gauge of the Pacific Railroad)

A. Boody to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Telegram con...

Railroad station of the D.& R.G.W. Railroad at Ouray, Colorado. This narrow gauge line formerly had passenger service but now is confined to freight service

Railroad station of the D.& R.G.W. Railroad at Ouray, Colorado. This n...

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Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. Mrs. Westerberg lighting a match for her husband's pipe as he relaxes after a day at the Johansson gauge division of the Ford Motor Company where he is foreman of the rough stock department

Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. Mrs. Westerberg lighting a match fo...

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Flood gauge in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas

Flood gauge in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Flooding, or even rainfall, is fairly rare in this dry part of the desert Southwest, but when it comes, the nearby Rio Grande River c... More

Montrose, Colorado, is junction point for standard gauge and narrow gauge railroads and bus lines. Papers and mail are being loaded into bus for transporting to towns along the route

Montrose, Colorado, is junction point for standard gauge and narrow ga...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A plain plug glass gauge, which replaces a steel gauge in the Frankford Arsenal, is used to determine the inside diameter of a metal part. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A plain plug glass gauge, ...

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A. Boody to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Telegram concerning gauge of the Pacific Railroad)

A. Boody to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Telegram con...

Our standard (gauge) adopted all over the union / Th. Nast.

Our standard (gauge) adopted all over the union / Th. Nast.

Cartoon, on the celebration of the final conversion of broad gauge railroad tracks in the South to the standard gauge railroad tracks in the North, showing three men holding U.S. flag at front of locomotive. Il... More

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Closeup of products now manufactured by an Eastern plant which once made such civilian items as orange juice squeezers, game boards, etc. These objects are far more vital to Uncle Sam. All are different aspects of one production job: a master chamber gauge, a bullet die, and 3-caliber cartridge. Although this company does not actually make cartridges, they produce the gauge and dies essential to cartridge production. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Closeup of products now manufa...

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A. Boody to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Telegram concerning gauge of the Pacific Railroad)

A. Boody to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Telegram con...

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