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It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-12 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate

It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic at the Naval Air Base, in the Assembly and Repair Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

Oyida Peaks riveting as part of her NYA training to become a mechanic ...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Lot 120... More

Air raid protection. Test "alarm." This and the accompanying photo (#1955) tell graphically what can be done when civilian defense officials, police and public all co-operate to make an "alarm" successful. These pictures were made on the morning of December 15, 1941, in Times Square, New York City. The time interval between photos was exactly five minutes. Within this time, in one of the most crowded metropolitan areas in the world, it was possible to stop all traffic, and to get all persons safely indoors. Those few remaining on the street are civilian defense officers (wardens, etc.)

Air raid protection. Test "alarm." This and the accompanying photo (#1...

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

Thanksgiving, 1942. Turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes--nothing is too good for Uncle Sam's fighting nephews when they come home to Silver Spring, Maryland. The four Coast Guardsmen, eyes riveted on the juicy turkey, watch their father, Wayman Fincham, as he carves. Seated next to him is Mrs. Fincham and next to her is the wife of Fincham's eldest son, who is fighting overseas. Another daughter-in-law is seated between the two Coast Guardsmen at the right. The sixth and youngest of the Finchams is a Coast Guardsman in training

Thanksgiving, 1942. Turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, sweet potato...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. A young Mexican acts as a Good Neighbor and gives a hand to cotton farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, where manpower shortage threatened the cotton crop. This young man is dumping the cotton into a truck, which will carry it to a ginning mill

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. A young Mexican acts as a Good N...

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

A black and white photo of people playing bowling. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people playing bowling. Office of War Infor...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fifty-foot steel ramp boats under construction at a Southern boatyard. These fenders are made of jute rope to save the manila cordage formerly employed for this purpose. The steel ramp boats on which they will be used are for the landing of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. American ingenuity is the keenest tool in the kit of the machinists turning out war weapons in Florida's pools. This is the way J.L. Clayton, Daytona Beach fireman, figured out and built a blast furnace hot enough to melt brass and aluminum. He hooked up a fuel oil barrel to the old foundry pump shown at right. The pump blasts the oil and compressed air down the pipeline into the crucible. Arthur Brown, Negro helper, has his hand on a valve that controls the air and fuel which heat the furnace

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. American ingenuity is ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a bucket. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a bucket. Office of War Infor...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy N2S, primary land plane, ready for afternoon flight trips at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. These ships are completely reconditioned after fulfilling their service schedules by civil service employees at the base

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy N2S, primary land plane, r...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood. Office of...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Jefferson County, Kentucky. River transportation on the Ohio River

Jefferson County, Kentucky. River transportation on the Ohio River

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

New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Noon mass at Saint Vincent de Paul's Church on D-day

New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Noon mass at Saint Vincent de Paul's...

Photographed by Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer or MacLaugharie. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 19... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a trumpet. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a trumpet. Office of War Info...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Brooklyn, New York. Children studying pictures at the Sunday school of the Church of the Good Shepherd

Brooklyn, New York. Children studying pictures at the Sunday school of...

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

Brooklyn, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration. Norwegian-American parade. Norwegian-American Red Cross nurses

Brooklyn, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration. Norwegian-...

Photographed by Albert Freeman or Howard Hollem. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More inf... More

Marine Sgt. at New Orleans, La - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transparencies

Marine Sgt. at New Orleans, La - Color photograph, Kodachrome film tra...

12002-24. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

One of the girls of Vilter Manufacturing Co. filing small gun parts, Milwaukee, Wisc. One brother in Coast Guard, one going to Army

One of the girls of Vilter Manufacturing Co. filing small gun parts, M...

12002-21. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department of the Naval air base, supervises Chas. Potter, a NYA trainee from Michigan, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks of training he will go into civil service. Should he be inducted or enlist in the armed service, he will be valuable to mechanized units of the Army or Navy

Mrs. Virginia Davis, a riveter in the assembly and repair department o...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This operator of a portable power grinder is one of many efficient workers producing steel ramp boats which will be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on enemy shores. The yard is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This operator of a portable power grinder ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Informa...

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

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information P...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast division of city fireman J.L. Clayton's three-man foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. It is turning out precision parts for experimental bombers. In the foreground is the blast furnace, in the background the junk heap of brass and aluminum scrap from which come the metals to charge the crucible. Arthur Brown, Negro helper, used to work in an orange grove until Clayton taught him how to handle molten metals

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast divi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp boat, which has just passed its trial runs at a Southern boatyard, is removed from the water to be prepared for railroad shipment. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. They are powered by twin diesel engines. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Trailing oversize sacks behind them, these Mexican workers are doing a good turn for their American neighbors. With serious shortages threatening ruin to Texas harvests. Mexican workers stepped into the breach and saved the crops, vital to the war effort

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Trailing oversize sacks behind t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Small ramp boats. A tow of wooden ramp boats used for landing men and equipment on beaches. These thirty-six-foot boats, just launched at a large Southern shipyard, will soon be delivered to the Navy. The high bottom-hinged sterns of these boats are used as ramps to make fast, dryshod landings at beach locations of any kind. Higgins Industries

Production. Small ramp boats. A tow of wooden ramp boats used for land...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a woman standing on top of a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman standing on top of a plane. Office ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Installing one of the four engines of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber on one of the assembly lines of Ford's big Willow Run plant. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Installing one of...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Fred Kemper(left), and Mrs. Roland Kemper canning asparagus that they bought in the market

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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

Proctor i.e. Procter and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Storage yard for glycerine ready for shipment

Proctor i.e. Procter and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio...

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

Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during the eighteenth century which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. during the 1930s. The governor's palace

Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during 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

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Maudeen Hood, age nineteen, removing fat from pork. She used to do housework, and her husband is in the United States Army

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Subsistence research laboratory of the U.S. Army quartermaster depot. Experimental kitchen where servicemen are sent from camps all over the country to learn how to prepare food that has been developed at the laboratory

Chicago, Illinois. Subsistence research laboratory of the U.S. Army qu...

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 two nurses sitting on a bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two nurses sitting on a bench. Office of Wa...

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

Fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Fueling a plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Photo probably shows man adding oil, rather than fuel, because of his location on the airplane. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) 12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General infor... More

Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

Working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

The Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia The capitol of the Virginia colony during the 18th century which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., during the 1930s

The Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia The capitol of the Virgi...

12002-23. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveter at work on Consolidated bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., F...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a baby. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a baby. Office of War Informa...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Civilian defense. Prompt medical attention is essential in civilian defense work. Here a disaster victim is receiving immediate emergency medical attention from a "castrophe team," which includes a doctor and a nurse

Civilian defense. Prompt medical attention is essential in civilian de...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Afred T. Palmer or Howard Hollem. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Ov... More

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Another masterpiece of American mass production. A new consolidated transport, just off the assembly line of a Western aircraft plant, gets a final checkup preparatory to a test flight. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Another masterpiece of A...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Mrs. Smuda's son. "Dear Mom..." Private Smuda writes to his mother from army camp. She's a member of that great army of American women who work just as hard for victory over the Axis as their sons on the front lines. Mrs. Smuda's particular job is tapering cartridge cases at the Frankford, Pennsylvania arsenal

Mrs. Smuda's son. "Dear Mom..." Private Smuda writes to his mother fro...

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. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. The tail of a consolidated transport plane is fitted to the wing center section in the fuselage mating fixture at a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. The tail of a consolidat...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Subchasers. One of the eighteen grandchildren is now in the Army, and granddad himself is doing important work for the Navy. His skill and experience are invaluable in the Eastern shipyard in which he helps to make keels and other important frame members for new subchasers

Production. Subchasers. One of the eighteen grandchildren is now in th...

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

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling weapons for Victory to be used by the armed forces. Gerald Smith, twenty-eight, assembles thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts in a factory which formerly made safes and locks. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling weapons for Victory to b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

A couple of men standing next to an airplane. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to an airplane. Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a S...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Helen Bray, who left sch...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of two men working on a plane. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men working on a plane. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Mrs. Smuda's son. The man with the gun. It's Private Edwin Smuda at army camp "somewhere in the South." In addition to being a prize fighting man, one of Private Smuda's claims to fame is his widowed, fifty-five-year-old mother who works six days a week in the Frankford, Pennsylvania arsenal tapering cartridges for 50mm machine gun shells. Mrs. Smuda is one of that great army of American women who work just as hard for victory as their sons on the front lines

Mrs. Smuda's son. The man with the gun. It's Private Edwin Smuda at ar...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck for a newly acquired second-hand turret lathe, which this Eastern cube steak machinery plant recently bought from a nearby shoe factory in order to speed work on new defense subcontracts. Here it holds a three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nut, which has just been threaded by the tap seen in the background. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck f...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Girls canning some of the beans raised in their victory gardens

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking a M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the armed service

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers making M5 and M7 guns for...

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 crowd of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Civilian defense. Prompt and efficient telephone handling is an important part of civilian defense work. This operator at air raid warden headquarters receives calls telling her of trouble in various areas, notes the messages and passes them on for immediate action. The demonstration was at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York, October 1941

Civilian defense. Prompt and efficient telephone handling is an import...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Afred T. Palmer or Howard Hollem. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Ov... More

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

A black and white photo of a large building. Office of War Information...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information P...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Half down the final line of a Western aircraft plant at which consolidated B-24 bombers and transports are made. This new transports, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Half down the final line...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a tire on a box. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a tire on a box. Office of War Information ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Photographed by Martha McMillan, Howard R. Hollem, Albert Freeman or Howard Liberman. Title and other information from print in lot and lot cat... More

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirteen years, C.R. Summers now is a sheet metal worker in a Southern Navy yard. Following a short training course in this work, he became adept at the job shown here, brazing on the sleeves that join lengths of copper tubing for Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirt...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Tin smelting. Two laboratory assistants at a Southern tin smelter perform delicate analytical operations that determine the amounts of pure metal remaining in slags from the furnaces. Accurate laboratory control is one of the important reasons why the percentage of metal recovery from the South American ore used at the plant is remarkably high

Production. Tin smelting. Two laboratory assistants at a Southern tin ...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance. Mrs. Virginia Young (right), whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the ssembly and repairs department of the naval airbBase at Corpus Christi, Texas. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have gone i...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Learning to work a cutting machine, these two National Youth Administration (NYA) employees receive training to fit them for important work. After eight weeks, they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Learning to work a cutting mach...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery, to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-auto mechanic pictured at work in ex-lock factory. Merril Darr, twenty-five, works on breech ring for a thirty-seven-millimeter gun. These guns and thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts are now produced in a plant which formerly manufactured items for civilian use. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-auto mechanic pictured at work i...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Old pumps, gears, chains, parts from every kind of machine under the sun comprise Casey's source of supply in the corner of his De Land, Florida shop. When he needs a new machine, most of the parts come from this junk heap. On a recent contract handled by the De Land pool, he couldn't get steel for a certain die. He found the metal in the gear he is holding, made the die himself, and put it to use for making airplane parts

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Old pumps, gears, chains, parts from eve...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Minesweepers. F.M. Webb, age seventy, came out of retirement to return to his old job of machinist in an Eastern shipyard building minesweepers. "If my son can fight, I can work," he said. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. F.M. Webb, age seventy, came out of retireme...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The pilots fly it, but the ground crew keeps it flying. Every ship, after so many hours in the air must be completely reconditioned. Here, in a hanger of the naval air base at Corpus Christi, Texas, women Civil Service workers of the assembly and repair department are trained to check carefully every part of the plane. Service of a Navy PBY ship

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The pilots fly it, but the grou...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Bantam, Connecticut. Norman Randall, right, bucks Alec Wasdo's rivets in a sub-assembly shop at the Warren McArthur aircraft seat plant. Randall is a native of Patchogue, Long Island, who came to Bantam from Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned sheet metal work. He came to Bantam in the fall of 1941, and in December married a girl from Goshen, Connecticut, ten miles from Bantam. They are one of the four couples who honeymooned in the new defense homes project in Bantam. Alec Wasdo began work at Warren McArthur at the same time as Randall, but he drives to work from his former home in Waterbury. Wasdo was formerly a bartender, with no previous experience at factory work. He's already decided he prefers it to tending bar

Bantam, Connecticut. Norman Randall, right, bucks Alec Wasdo's rivets ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during the eighteenth century which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. during the 1930s. One of the few old buildings which has not yet been touched by the restoration

Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during 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

Proctor i.e. Procter and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Drums of glycerine ready for shipment

Proctor i.e. Procter and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio...

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 in a garden. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a garden. Office of War Informatio...

Contact prints in original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

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

A black and white photo of a vegetable garden. Office of War Informati...

Contact prints in original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Blood donors on D-day

New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Blood donors on D-day

Photographed by Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer or MacLaugharie. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 19... More

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling on a Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Wort...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft ...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Riveters at work on fuselage of Liberator Bomber, Consolidated Aircraf...

12002-19. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

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

A black and white photo of a man on a ladder. Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Juanita Reviers, expert aircraft mechanic, uses a portable electric drill on the belly covering of a consolidated transport plane converted from a B-24 bomber. These new transports, now going down the production lines of a big Western plant, carry one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Juanita Reviers, expert ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin for the countless war needs of the United Nations is produced from South American ore in this American smelter. The plant, recently built in a Southern city, is being rapidly enlarged to meet the heavy demand for the invaluable metal it produces. It is the finest and most modern tin smelter in the world

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin for the countless war needs of the ...

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. Blood transfusion bottles. Sterilizing transfusion bottles containing intravenous solution, are given another inspection after being taken from the sterilizer. Women workers are taking over important jobs at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, where plasma containers are prepared for blood banks

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sterilizing transfusion bottles...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the wareho...

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

Conversion. Toy factory. Before and after conversion. Product of this New England factory before conversion was toys, such as this steam roller. Today, after converting its machinery, it is making radio filter boxes for tanks and jeeps. The small parts shown in the picture are used in the filter boxes

Conversion. Toy factory. Before and after conversion. Product of this ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a Southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern yard, building boats used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. Torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft are also made at this yard

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fif...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A man and a woman working on a motorcycle. Office of War Information Photograph

A man and a woman working on a motorcycle. Office of War Information P...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After being checked by sailor mechanics, the Kingfisher, a Navy flying ship, is ready for launching. This type of plane is a service ship, technically termed the OS2-U3

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After being checked by sailor m...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Office of War Informa...

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

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

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow supporting her two children as an interior decorator. When her hometown of De Land, Florida pooled its manpower and machines to go into war work, she gave up her business and went along. She is shown learning aircraft fabric work in the vocational school set up to train workers for the war plant

De Land pool. Sewing plane wing fabric. Mrs. Eleanor Lane was a widow ...

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

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap, left over from the repair and replacement of marine boilers, turbine engines and other equipment, now ready for removal from the Seabrook, Louisiana yard of the Standard Dredging Corporation. Much of the old metal from heavy dredgers and from Eagle boats of the last war will go to sea again in our new merchant ships and fighting craft. Standard Dredging Corporation

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap,...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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