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Page from: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 20, p. 246. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing Confederate mounted cannons at Rocketts Landing in Richmond. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright in 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil ... More

U.S.S. Texas, quarter deck after Battle of Santiago, whitened by saltpetre [i.e. saltpeter] from guns

U.S.S. Texas, quarter deck after Battle of Santiago, whitened by saltp...

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6-inch rapid fire guns in west battery, Santiago, 1898

6-inch rapid fire guns in west battery, Santiago, 1898

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

Marine tractor for 3-inch guns - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Marine tractor for 3-inch guns - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Row of guns for H.M.S. Shannon in Vickers Sons & Maxims Gun Works

Row of guns for H.M.S. Shannon in Vickers Sons & Maxims Gun Works

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Highlanders capturing Boer guns - stereocsopic card

Highlanders capturing Boer guns - stereocsopic card

Skirted highlanders charging field artillery batteries--Boer War. No. X2827. Copyright by William H. Rau (Griffith & Griffith).

Life Magazine layout. Elmer F. Andrews and Katherine [i.e. Katharine] Lenroot, large guns of the day at the [...] conference

Life Magazine layout. Elmer F. Andrews and Katherine [i.e. Katharine] ...

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

West Point cadets handling coast defense guns

West Point cadets handling coast defense guns

No. 1083-2. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Education, military; Univ & Colleges; Army, U.S. Art... More

Guns on GIUSEPPE VERDI - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Guns on GIUSEPPE VERDI - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Rifling Big Guns -- Watervliet - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rifling Big Guns -- Watervliet - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Servian guns taken by Austrians

Servian guns taken by Austrians

Photograph shows Serbian weapons captured by Austrian forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

The Canadian guns during World War I

The Canadian guns during World War I

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INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

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Jesse James and associates. Guns and equipment

Jesse James and associates. Guns and equipment

Photo copyright 1921. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

G. O'Berdick, left, Secy. to Young & John W. Young, Pres. of Federal Laboratories both domestic & for foreign markets tear gas, submachine guns, armored shields, cars & vests. At Civil Liberties Comm. hearings

G. O'Berdick, left, Secy. to Young & John W. Young, Pres. of Federal L...

A black and white photo of two men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

It won't be long now! Washington, D.C., June 14. With congress due to adjourn this week, Senator Tom Connally of Texas, just couldn't resist the urge to check his guns in preparation for a hunting trip in his native state during the reccess. The cameramen snapped the solon as he was about to take a few potshots at an imaginary deer on the Capitol grounds, 6/14/38

It won't be long now! Washington, D.C., June 14. With congress due to ...

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Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes into the manufacture of the "Vengeance" (A-31) dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville division, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Two women workers are shown capping and inspecting tubing which goes i...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Practically everything needed by our forces in Britain is supplied by the British government under reciprocal lend-lease. American soldiers here use British made guns and ammunition in training to defend U.S. bomber- fighter and aircraft repair bases in Great Britain. They are shown here firing British 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns in Britain

One year of reciprocal aid. Practically everything needed by our force...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Tommy-guns arriving in England from the United States under lend-lease are unpacked and checked by an ordnance corporal. The guns arrived complete, ready to be fired

Lend-Lease to Britain. Tommy-guns arriving in England from the United ...

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. ...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Horses being led away after guns have been set up during artillery practice

Fort Riley, Kansas. Horses being led away after guns have been set up ...

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Fort Story coast defense. Tracking the target on one of Fort Story's giant guns

Fort Story coast defense. Tracking the target on one of Fort Story's g...

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Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to defend America. It's ours to ensure that defense by a constant supply of guns, ships, tanks and ammunition

Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to defend America. It's ours to...

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Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. Anthony Freda drills the barrels of .45-caliber automatic pistols in the plant of a large manufacturer of firearms. Many men and women are employed in this plant which produces pistols, machine guns, and other essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. Anthony Freda drills the barr...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

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Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. Making parts for United States Army Browning machine guns. This is a sideline activity of the plant under a reverse lend lease arrangement

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Women workers at the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aviation Company groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and RAF (Royal Air Force) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations; also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns in varying combinations

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Women workers at the Long Beach, Cali...

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Fort Benning. Tank forces. A medium tank (M-3) bristles with cannon, anti-aircraft guns, Tommy guns and pistols as soldiers of the armored forces in training ar Fort Benning, Georgia prepare for a sally

Fort Benning. Tank forces. A medium tank (M-3) bristles with cannon, a...

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A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for the Air Force. Electricians begin running power lines to the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for th...

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Fort Knox. Machine guns. The .45 caliber Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun, is a hand weapon for which every branch of the service finds many uses. Its portability and effectiveness makes it a favorite of our modern Army

Fort Knox. Machine guns. The .45 caliber Thompson sub-machine gun, fam...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 attack bomber is brought from a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 attack ...

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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator of a high-speed lathe in a large firearms plant, performs an operation on the barrel of a machine gun. Many women workers are also employed in this plant in producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator ...

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Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed forces are assembled in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed...

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Guns--plenty of 'em. Masses of gun barrels in the process of manufacture for the war program

Guns--plenty of 'em. Masses of gun barrels in the process of manufactu...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Motor tune-up. Flight service mechanics are shown here warming up the motor of a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber prior to the ship's take-off for a test flight at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Motor tune-up. Flight ser...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Safety record at Vultee's Nashville plant. Department safety record board showing the number of work days one department spent on the production of "Vengeance" dive bombers without a lost-time accident. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Safety record at Vultee's...

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Building foundations for anti-aircraft guns on a cargo vessel at the Higgins shipyards. New Orleans, Louisiana

Building foundations for anti-aircraft guns on a cargo vessel at the H...

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to United Nations include more than planes, tanks and guns. Soldiers and civilians in countries threatended by the Axis countries must have food. Allied war factories need raw materials and machine tools. Longshoremen are accustomed to stacking bags of flour for shipment along with weapons

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to Uni...

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Burning of the U.S. ship of the line Pennsylvania, 140 guns : and other vessels, at the Gosport Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia on the night of April 20th 1861

Burning of the U.S. ship of the line Pennsylvania, 140 guns : and othe...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0838.

U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns

U.S. ship of the Line Pennsylvania, 140 guns

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6850

One of the guns that had to be dug out, Fort McAllister

One of the guns that had to be dug out, Fort McAllister

Photograph shows one of the Confederate guns at Fort McAllister, near Savannah, that was dismantled by Sherman's army as the Union army moved northward. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). See a... More

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Northeast view of Battery no. 1, at Farnhold's house, York River, mounting one 200 pound & five 100 pound rifled guns

Northeast view of Battery no. 1, at Farnhold's house, York River, moun...

Stereograph showing soldiers walking through the fortifications in the battery. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper s... More

[Washington, D.C., vicinity. 17th New York Battery, with horses harnessed to guns]

[Washington, D.C., vicinity. 17th New York Battery, with horses harnes...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

[Cut] Sixth naval victory. The U. S. Brig. Enterprize of 14 guns, commanded by Lieut. William Burrows, took after an engagement of 45 minutes, the British Brig of War Boxer, of 18 guns, Capt. Bluth, who with about 50 of his men were killed and w

[Cut] Sixth naval victory. The U. S. Brig. Enterprize of 14 guns, comm...

Positive Photostat.; War of 1812 ballad.; Verse. 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 5... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal Battery No. 1 two miles below Yorktown. Parrott guns in peach orchard

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal Battery No. 1 two miles below Y...

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Captured seige guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Captured seige guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing a captured Confederate mounted cannon at Rocketts Landing in Richmond. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of:... More

Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #12

Taking Big Bulgar Guns to Tchataldja #12

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Near Strzyzow -- heavy going for Austrian guns

Near Strzyzow -- heavy going for Austrian guns

Photograph shows Austrian soldiers near Strzyzow, Poland during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. 14 INCH GUNS, READY TO GO TO PROVING GROUND

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. 14 INCH GUNS, READY TO GO TO PROVING GROU...

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INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

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Company of Colored troops equipped with Lewis machine guns, 8th Illinois Inf.

Company of Colored troops equipped with Lewis machine guns, 8th Illino...

J238291 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 19182. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Militia Ill.; African Americans Military; B.I.

INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. NAVY GUNS AT INDIAN HEAD

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Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lowered into place on an M-4 tank. Machine guns have already been installed and the General Sherman will be ready for the test track. Designed by the Army Ordnance Department and built under ordnance supervision, the M-4 embodies new advances in design based on battlefront experience. Cast steel construction of the hull expedites production

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lower...

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Gate of guns. Main entrance to the Administration building at an eastern armory, now turning out guns for the war program

Gate of guns. Main entrance to the Administration building at an easte...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for the production of Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns mounts and carriages at a large Midwest rubber factory involves skilled precision operations. Here an expert workman is making the final cut on a vertical turret lathe. When this operation is complete, the bronze ring will be moved to the gear for the concluding operation

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for ...

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No water - no guns Don't waste it!!

No water - no guns Don't waste it!!

Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense and the City of Philadelphia Water Bureau. Work Projects Administration... More

Cartridge drawing machine. Skilled worker drawing a five-inch cartridge case for the big anti-aircraft guns. The yard in which this work is performed is one of eleven Navy arsenals which are working at top speed to furnish ammunition needed for our two-ocean Navy

Cartridge drawing machine. Skilled worker drawing a five-inch cartridg...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. He ran a lathe in '17, and he's running one for Uncle Sam again. Harry Melhorn is one of America's soldiers on the second line of defense; he's producing thirty-seven-millimeter guns in a factory which formerly made safes and locks. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. He ran a lathe in '17, and he's run...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a calvary troop setting up machine guns during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a calvary troop setting up machine gun...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These young employees of a Midwest drill and tool plant are operating cylindrical grinders which taper drills to specified size. Used in the manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and all war production where metal is used, these drills demand precise and accurate grinding. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These ...

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Feeding the modern machine. Skilled women as well as men are working on the country's armaments. These 50-caliber cartridge cases for guns are being tapered at a large eastern arsenal

Feeding the modern machine. Skilled women as well as men are working o...

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Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Muleteers and cannoneers rolled in one, the men of Battery C, 26th Battalion, Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, consider the most impossible terrain part of the day's work. With their guns and auxiliary equipment slung on the backs of army mules, they break through thick forests, ford streams, and scale mountain ranges. Their job is to go where mechanized and horse-drawn artillery can't go

Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Muleteers and cannoneers rolled in one, the men o...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Myriads of lights at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company form pleasing star patterns in the shatterproof plexiglass windows of noses for A-20 attack bombers. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Myriads of lights at the Long Beach, ...

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Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, Americans of every race and creed fight shoulder to shoulder to defeat the forces which threaten to destroy their liberties. Marcell Webb (Negro) and Walter Hyne are finishing the leading edge of the wing of a D-47 pursuit ship. The four openings in the wing are for machine guns. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, America...

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Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. Teodile C. Orpilta, Filipino member of an M-3 tank crew in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, cleans one of the guns on this tank. The Fort Knox school for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the Axis on our far-flung battle lines and on more than equal terms

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. Teodile C. Orpilta, Filipino member of an M...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. He used to make automobile parts. Now the big auto plant in which he works is using his skill to make machine guns for the Air Corps. After each operation, the gun barrels are racked on trucks for removal to succeeding operations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. He used to make automobile ...

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.

Transformer manufacture. Winding insulating tape on copper coils of a power transformer, this employee of a large Eastern electrical company is helping to supply America's armed forces with ships, guns and tanks necessary to defeat the Axis. Transformers are essential to almost every phase of the armament program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Winding insulating tape on copper coils of a ...

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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Training. Ramp boats. Marines in training at a Southern point learn the technique of landing men and equipment with ramp boats. The squared-ended craft coming in is a ramp boat, a thirty-six-footer made of wood and capable of setting troops and lighter vehicles and guns ashore at beach positions. The manufacturer of the boat cooperates in the training of men. Higgins Industries

Training. Ramp boats. Marines in training at a Southern point learn th...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor w...

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.

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Wings for deadly A-20 attack bombers form interesting patterns at the Long Beach, California plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and the RAF (Royal Air Force) for hedge hopping and for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns in varying combinations

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Wings for deadly A-20 attack bombers ...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed forces are assembled in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works in were both accustomed to a different kind of work in times of peace. A former surveyor, Roy Krebs now operates a machine producing parts for thirty-seven-millimeter guns in a factory which made safes and locks before Pearl Harbor. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works i...

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Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels produced in a former automobile plant. Those pictured above are about halfway through the manufacturing process. Chrsyler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-airc...

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Transformer manufacture. Winding insulating tape on copper coils of a power transformer, these employees of a large Eastern electrical company are indirectly helping to supply America's armed forces with the ships, guns and tanks necessary to defeat the Axis. Transformers are essential to almost every phase of the armament program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Winding insulating tape on copper coils of a ...

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Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Virginia. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves--no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns, ships, and ammunition they need to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a nei...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The small thirty seven mm gun mounted on the howitzer is used only in training

Fort Riley, Kansas. Lining up guns during artillery practice. The smal...

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

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Applying automobile production methods to machining of 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels in a former automobile plant. Five cutting instruments work at the same time. Under the old single-operation methods of gun making, only one of these could work at one time. Automobile workers are proud of the improvement. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Applying automob...

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

Planes in flight. The P-40 single-engine fighter plane--which the British have used in its various models as the "Tomahawk," "Kittyhawk" and "Warhawk"--is a fast pursuit ship in the 400-mile-per-hour class. It has an approximate service ceiling of 30,000 feet and a range of about 900 miles. Carrying various combinations of light and heavy caliber guns, it has performed notably with the RAF (Royal Air Force) in England and Africa, with the AVG (American Volunteer Group--Flying Tigers) in China and. with the AAF (Army Air Forces) in the South Pacific

Planes in flight. The P-40 single-engine fighter plane--which the Brit...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Electrical sub-assembly. This trio of women employees at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. is working on electrical sub-assemblies for Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Electrical sub-assembly. ...

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U.S. sloop of war Vincennes: 20 guns

U.S. sloop of war Vincennes: 20 guns

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6855

[Richmond, Virginia, vicinity. 20-pdr. v Parrott rifled guns of the 1st New York Battery]

[Richmond, Virginia, vicinity. 20-pdr. v Parrott rifled guns of the 1s...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate water battery with Dahlgren 11-inch smooth bore naval guns

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate water battery with Dahlgren 11-inch sm...

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We shouldered our guns - Public domain World War One sheet music

We shouldered our guns - Public domain World War One sheet music

[words and music] by James Morris O'Dear. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Guns of Fort Johnson; Fort Sumter in distance. (Morris Island)

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Guns of Fort Johnson; Fort Sumt...

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[District of Columbia. Detachment of Company K, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, by guns of Fort Stevens]

[District of Columbia. Detachment of Company K, 3d Massachusetts Heavy...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

Captured guns at the Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia The vessels at the docks are shipping them for transportation to Fortress Monroe

Captured guns at the Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia The vessels at the d...

Stereograph showing captured Confederate cannons at Rocketts Landing in Richmond in the process of being shipped to Fort Monroe. No. 3159, part of series: War Views. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collect... More

Two illustrations: 1. Engagement between the National troops and the Rebels, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, opposite Edward's Ferry, on 22nd October - battery of parrott guns on Maryland shore; 2. Successful retreat of the National troops from the Virginian shore across a canal boat bridge at Edward's Ferry, on the night of 23rd October

Two illustrations: 1. Engagement between the National troops and the R...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Nov. 16, pp. 408-409.

Quaker guns, Centreville, Virginia / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A. Gardner.

Quaker guns, Centreville, Virginia / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; po...

Earthworks with large logs to simulate guns in what may have been a deserted Confederate fortification. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & ... More

Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter on the occasion of the raising of the old flag. (Four field guns on parapet)

Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter on the occasi...

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The 30-pounder Parrot rifled guns which shelled Charleston from Morris Island, Charleston Harbor

The 30-pounder Parrot rifled guns which shelled Charleston from Morris...

Gottheim collection code: GCW 31A. Copyright 1865, by J.W. Campbell. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)

[Dutch Gap, Virginia, vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns]

[Dutch Gap, Virginia, vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns]

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

[Morris Island, S.C. Battery of 100-pdr. Parrott guns inside Fort Putnam]

[Morris Island, S.C. Battery of 100-pdr. Parrott guns inside Fort Putn...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Richmond, Virginia Guns and ruined buildings near the Tredegar Iron Works]

[Richmond, Virginia Guns and ruined buildings near the Tredegar Iron W...

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers and men, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery by Columbiad guns, Fort Totten

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers and men, 3d Regiment Massac...

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Crew of Battleship MASSACHUSETTS - and 2 of her 8 eight-inch guns

Crew of Battleship MASSACHUSETTS - and 2 of her 8 eight-inch guns

Spanish-American War. Stereo copyrighted by J.F. Jarvis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ships US Govt. MASS.; US Hist. War of 1898; Shelf.

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