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BRITISH COMMISSION TO U.S. INSPECTOR D.O. O'DONNELL TALKING TO D.C. POLICEMAN

BRITISH COMMISSION TO U.S. INSPECTOR D.O. O'DONNELL TALKING TO D.C. PO...

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Hot Springs, Ark. (1920), left to right: William A. Pinkerton, Inspector Gough of Scotland Yard, and Lou Houseman, newspaperman

Hot Springs, Ark. (1920), left to right: William A. Pinkerton, Inspect...

Photograph shows the three men in front of a log cabin with the sign "Our Summer Home" over the cabin door. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Records of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency); 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:... More

W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector, 9/5/25

W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector, 9/5/25

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

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United States by plane from Mexico. Glendale California

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United S...

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Department of Agriculture inspector grading potatoes. Monte Vista, Colorado

Department of Agriculture inspector grading potatoes. Monte Vista, Col...

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

John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Ill.

John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, a...

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Dr. R.B. Fulks, county health officer, John E. Hale, contractor and builder of sanitary units, and B.H. Pitt, inspector of sanitary units, making a sanitation inspection on the farm of Hobert Hammons, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Southern Appalachian Project, near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky

Dr. R.B. Fulks, county health officer, John E. Hale, contractor and bu...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Charlie Boatman, government inspector on the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas to eastern refinereies. He has worked in South America and Iraq, and has followed pipelining all his life

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. The 200th trailer arrives at Lompoc, California housing project. This trailer was manufactured by Western Trailer Company, Los Angeles. Note government inspector's "OK" below the molding

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. The 200th trailer arrives at Lompoc,...

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Linden, New Jersey. Mrs. E.D. Roosevelt during her visit to General Motor's Eastern Aircraft Division. Left to right: L.H. Savage, president of Industrial Food Crafts Inc.; C.S. Swayze, manager, Linden plant, General Motors, Inc.; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; Lieutenant W.H. Hewitt, U.S. Navy, Inspector of Aircraft; and Lieutenant S. Noel, Public Relations, U.S. Navy

Linden, New Jersey. Mrs. E.D. Roosevelt during her visit to General Mo...

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

New shells on old scales. Squatting before an old-fashioned measuring scale, this Indian workman and the shells before him, symbolizes the United Nations' mutual aid. The shells were manufactured somewhere in Eastern India from U.S. steel provided under lend-lease An Indian inspector weighs a twenty-five shot in one of the munitions factories where the skill of Indian workmen and the efficiency of new lend-lease machinery continues to speed tha Allied war effort

New shells on old scales. Squatting before an old-fashioned measuring ...

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

Randy Sprouse with water inspector

Randy Sprouse with water inspector

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

U.S. Post Office inspector on his trip through Alaska

U.S. Post Office inspector on his trip through Alaska

Inspector John Philip Clum on back of mule in front of tent, and three men in background. 36213 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 9193; no. 1.

Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne G.C.B., Inspector General of Fortifications

Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne G.C.B., Inspector General of Fort...

Lieutenant General Sir John Burgoyne, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, hands behind him, his hat and coat by his side. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of:... More

Inspector Dwyer - Public domain portrait photograph

Inspector Dwyer - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Virginia Family of Albert Senter. He said, "I don't work steady. Have a garden here." Eleven year old Mandy has learned to "spin" by "helping." She said, "They say I'm too little to work steady." Father added, "I guess she'll get in all right in a little while. They've been extra careful, lately, 'cause the inspector's been around, but it'll be easier now for her to get in." The three girls work and Mandy helps, with one eye on a steady job. Location: Fries, Virginia.

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Virginia Family of Albert Sent...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men in a kitchen, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two men in a kitchen, Minnesota. Farm Secur...

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State inspector determining weight per bushel of wheat. Walla [Walla], Washington

State inspector determining weight per bushel of wheat. Walla [Walla],...

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Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase price in war bonds to the seller, Frederick G. Zander, as Ben Taft, second from left, auto salvage inspector of the automobile graveyard section and another War Production Board (WPB) official look on. Group of Office of Price Administration (OPA) officials with buyer and seller of 15 buses for scrap metal in a Long Island, New York parking lot

Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase pric...

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No second guesses. Every part of every gun turned out for national defense is inspected for accuracy. Inspector at an eastern arsenal checks the dimensions of a finished trunnion for a 16-inch gun, barbette carriage

No second guesses. Every part of every gun turned out for national def...

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

West Danville, Vermont. OPA (Office of Price Administration) inspector Maurice J. Sullivan stopping in for a friendly visit with the Hastings. He mentions that chickens and strawberries don't have to have their calling prices posted because they are not designated as cost of living commodities in Bulletin no. 1, entitled "The General Maximum Price Regulation," which he holds in his hand

West Danville, Vermont. OPA (Office of Price Administration) inspector...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farmers, vendors, store, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Ordnance inspector at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Ordnance inspector at the Allison Motors plant

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Blackie Durham, government inspector. Mr Durham worked two years on the pipeline in Iraq

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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

Clovis, New Mexico. Private Clarence Stephens (left) of Streator, Illinois, a member of the United States Army Railroad Battalion stationed at Clovis, with Sidney Mack, engine inspector at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops. They are inspecting one of the 5000 Class freight engines

Clovis, New Mexico. Private Clarence Stephens (left) of Streator, Illi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Inspector Eagan & bombs - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Inspector Eagan & bombs - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Owen Eagan (1957-1920), a bomb expert in the New York City Fire Department's Bureau of Combustibles. He is holding a bomb recovered from an attempted anarchist bombing of St. Patrick's Cathedra... More

G.A.R. Commander-in-chief Ruhe and Staff, Washington, D.C. Sept. 24. Photo shows, left to right James W. Willett of Tama, La. Judge advocate general; Oley Nelson of Slater, Ia. retired commander-in-chief C.H. William Ruhe of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania; Thomas Ambrose of Chicago, Ill., Junior Vice Commander; John M. Kline of Wash. D.C.; George H. Pounder of Ft. Atkinson, Wis. Chief of Staff; and Robert M. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y. Inspector General

G.A.R. Commander-in-chief Ruhe and Staff, Washington, D.C. Sept. 24. P...

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Plant quarantine inspector examining tourist baggage before entering California. Yuma, Arizona

Plant quarantine inspector examining tourist baggage before entering C...

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A black and white photo of a factory with workers, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a factory with workers, Minnesota. Farm Sec...

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

Grain inspector at state grain inspection deptartment, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain inspector at state grain inspection deptartment, Minneapolis, Mi...

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Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. The accuracy of a milling machine operation is checked by an inspector in a machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of the North American Aviation. The casting being milled will be part of the landing gear of a P-51 fighter plane. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. The accuracy of a milling m...

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Assemblies are checked by an inspector at this North American P-51 fighter moves down the final assembly line

Assemblies are checked by an inspector at this North American P-51 fig...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Train inspector oiling the journal box of a car in the Corwith Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Train inspector oiling the journal box of a car in ...

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

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the Saint Louis, Missouri plant of the Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The male inspector in the rear checks the accuracy of the completed work of the women in the foreground

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the S...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen, Minnesota. Farm Securit...

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

The ordnance department must satisfy itself that every halftrac scout car turned over to it by a Midwest manufacturer is fit for Army duty. The department's own inspector gives it a thorough going over from bumper to bumper. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

The ordnance department must satisfy itself that every halftrac scout ...

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

Production. 155mm shells. A government inspector checks 155mm shells after the finish turning of straight and profile diameters in a large converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. A government inspector checks 155mm shells a...

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

State inspector determining weight per bushel of wheat. Walla [Walla], Washington

State inspector determining weight per bushel of wheat. Walla [Walla],...

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

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Inspecting the electrolytic process. By means of this tool which is thrust down and towards the inspector he is able to determine if deposition of copper is proceeding at the normal rate and if there are any short circuits present

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining ...

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.

From the left: Colonel Roy R. Gerfen, training inspector; Major General Alexander M. Patch, Jr., commander of the united forces in New Caledonia; Brigadier General E.B. Sebree, assistant to the division commander and commanding the mobile force; Lieutenant Colonel Homewood. Colonel Gerfen is gathering material for a report to Washington on training methods in New Caledonia

From the left: Colonel Roy R. Gerfen, training inspector; Major Genera...

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

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Factory inspector and Captain Roddy

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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

Aluminum casting. A young inspector in one of America's largest aluminum foundries inspects a permanent rough casting fresh from the mold. Gate and risers will be cut away. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. A young inspector in one of America's largest alumin...

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

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Tom Winkler, government inspector

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman inspector at North American's Inglewood, California, plant uses a micro-meter in testing control rods to be used in bomber and fighter planes. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman inspector at North ...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ann Kolodziez, Polish, twenty-two years old, employed at the Fafnir Bearing Company as a bearing inspector

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ann Kolodziez, Polish, twenty-two years...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Railroad men have their watches inspected periodically at the watch inspector's office in the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. Railroad men have their watches inspected periodica...

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

Dr. Sheldon Jackson and government P.O. inspector enroute to Dawson City, Alaska

Dr. Sheldon Jackson and government P.O. inspector enroute to Dawson Ci...

Dr. Sheldon Jackson and John Philip Clum in heavy winter coats stand near each other, in the background is river with forest beyond that. 46446 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley, Keystone View Co... More

Training a policewoman--target practice under the direction of Inspector Cross of the police department--Inspector Cross demonstrates the correct way to hold a "gat"

Training a policewoman--target practice under the direction of Inspect...

Inspector Cross and four women aiming pistols. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Radio inspectors now on the job. Watch out for the ------ Radio inspectors will get you! Broadcasting stations that do not keep on their own wave LE may expect to receive a hurry call from a person resembling a physician with a medical case---In fact, however, he is RA Inspector with a portable frequency indicator. This device designed by the Radio Laboratory of the Bureau of Standards

Radio inspectors now on the job. Watch out for the ------ Radio inspec...

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

Admits Army finance office honored allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Major General Walter L. Reed, (left) Inspector General of the Army, today told Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Public Lands Committee, the Army Chief Finance Offi[...] honor allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers in go[...] faith. Reed made this declaration as he was [...] by the committee on the alleged defalcations o[...] Stitley, former Chief Voucher Clerk for the CCC [...] totaling $87,000, 1/18/38

Admits Army finance office honored allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers. ...

Two men standing next to each other in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Edward Rydz-Smigly, Polish German Inspector of Armed Forces during the invasion of Poland]

[Edward Rydz-Smigly, Polish German Inspector of Armed Forces during th...

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Great Depression....

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

A couple of people standing in front of a outhouse, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of people standing in front of a outhouse, Kenntucky. Farm Se...

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A couple of men standing next to a small outhouse, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to a small outhouse, Kenntucky. Farm Sec...

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State inspector separating rye from wheat. Walla Walla County, Washington

State inspector separating rye from wheat. Walla Walla County, Washing...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Constant inspection is the order of the plants where Uncle Sam's military machines are being turned out. They've got to measure up, or else--this inspector is checking an airplane part. Plan parts are subcontracted to this huge plant which was formerly an airship dock. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Constant inspection is the order of the...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Inspector watching the cars as they go over the hump at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Inspector watching the cars as they go over the hum...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Negro factory inspector - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Negro factory inspector - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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

Department of Sanitation inspector looking down at the filling scows

Department of Sanitation inspector looking down at the filling scows

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

Rochester, New York. Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, who developed a visual-lamp indicator to test field telephone switchboards and which the U.S. Army Signal Corps claims has saved the equivalent of almost thirty-seven years work, shown at his testing instrument. He received one of the first five "Citations of Individual Production Merit" for his idea which has an outstanding effect on the entire war effort

Rochester, New York. Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for ...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Editor Griswold of the Office of Production Management (OPM) News meeting with Navy officials. They are, left to right: Lieutenant Commander E.U. Rinehart, U.S. Naval Reserve, senior naval adviser of the Third Naval District; Commander J.B. Goode, senior assistant to the Inspector of Naval Material; Lieutenant J.C. Ten Eyck, Jr., U.S. Naval Reserve, Office of Progress of the Office of Inspector of Naval Material; and Rear Admiral H.L. Brinser, U.S. Navy, Inspector of Naval Material

New York, New York. Editor Griswold of the Office of Production Manage...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, 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.

Beaumont, Texas. Women welders and welding inspector at the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Women welders and welding inspector at the Pennsylvan...

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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 ...

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Inspector Titus - Public domain portrait photograph

Inspector Titus - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[New York City Police Dept. activities: Inspector McCafferty, on telephone]

[New York City Police Dept. activities: Inspector McCafferty, on telep...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Police; Crime;... More

L to r: Prof. B. Hanger, noted Norweigian Educator, Honorable H. Bryn, Minister from Norway, and P.A. Pederson, Police Inspector of Norway, calling at W.H. [i.e., White House]

L to r: Prof. B. Hanger, noted Norweigian Educator, Honorable H. Bryn,...

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

Inspector Frank Burke. Metro police

Inspector Frank Burke. Metro police

A man sitting at a desk talking on a phone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

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

Safety inspector. This man uses a special lamp to test for gas throughout the mine. Old Ben number eight, West Frankfort, Illinois (see 26980-D)

Safety inspector. This man uses a special lamp to test for gas through...

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

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

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

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

A group of men standing next to each other, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men standing next to each other, Kenntucky. Farm Security A...

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Federal inspector of wheat. Walla Walla, Washington

Federal inspector of wheat. Walla Walla, Washington

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

Aircraft tire manufacture. Every airplane tire for military aircraft is carefully balanced on a special machine to guarantee flawless performance in service. Inspector is making final check on airplane tires destined for military service. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Every airplane tire for military aircraft i...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of bullet-sealing gasoline tanks, eight-foot high bomber tires and huge 3,600-pound earth mover tires. This unit at a large Eastern tire plant is the largest of its kind in the world. It must be thoroughly and constantly inspected as it is in frequent service on war production. Here the inspector is checking the steam and pressure fittings. The mold, when open, stands more than two-and-a-half stories high and weighs over 300,000 pounds. Firestone

Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - 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.

El C. Manuel Micheltorena general de brigada, ayudante general de la plana mayor dfl [del] ejercito, gobernador, comandante general, é inspector del departamento de Californias. Reglamento de la milicía auxiliar de defensores de la patria y depa

El C. Manuel Micheltorena general de brigada, ayudante general de la p...

Printed in 6 columns.; Exchange L. C.; Harper 12-6-43.; Page Order: Piece 1 is an Leaflet. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and ... More

U.S. Post Office inspector on his trip through Alaska

U.S. Post Office inspector on his trip through Alaska

Inspector John Philip Clum on back of mule in front of tent, and three men in background. 36213 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 9193; no. 1.

Senate Committee questions Inspector General of Army. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Maj. General Walter Reed, Inspector General of the Army, takes the oath before testifying before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Questioned by the committee on the alleged defalcations totaling $87,000 of reno[...] Stitley, former Chief Voucher Clerk of the CCC, Reed declared the Army Chief Finance Office acted in good faith when the alleged fraudulent vouchers were honored. He added the finance officer was instructed to honor any and all vouchers presented by persons designated in communications between the Army and other government departments concerning handling of finances for the CCC, 1/18/38

Senate Committee questions Inspector General of Army. Washington, D.C....

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

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Beersheba, Jan. 18, 1940. A group of Sheikhs & Inspector Stevens dining together

A tribal lunch at cavalry post at Tel-el-Meleiha, 20 miles North of Be...

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

Dr. R.B. Fulks, county health officer, John E. Hale, contractor and builder of sanitary units, and B.H. Pitt, inspector of sanitary units, making a sanitation inspection on the farm of Hobert Hammons, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Southern Appalachian Project, near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky

Dr. R.B. Fulks, county health officer, John E. Hale, contractor and bu...

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State inspector determines weight per bushel of wheat. Walla Walla, Washington

State inspector determines weight per bushel of wheat. Walla Walla, Wa...

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Aircraft tire manufacture. Inspector in rubber factory checks large airplane tire prior to preparation for shipment. Stack of airplane tires for a famous American fighter are shown in background. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Inspector in rubber factory checks large ai...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Only the best of walnut goes into the gunstocks of Uncle Sam's army. An inspector in a converted hardwood flooring plant looks for the grain deviations or twists which would disqualify a piece for use in rifle "furniture." Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Only the best of walnut goes into t...

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

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Mike Miles, chief inspector on the walking line

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Factory inspector and Captain Roddy

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Factory inspector and Captain Roddy

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Gear inspector at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Gear inspector at the Allison Motors plant

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In the heat treat department, a girl stamps numbers on parts that have been passed by the inspector

In the heat treat department, a girl stamps numbers on parts that have...

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Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Motor Car Company. Army Air Force inspector in charge

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 ...

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Inspector Moses Cortwright on horse in police parade, New York

Inspector Moses Cortwright on horse in police parade, New York

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Inspector Oskar Potiorek - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Inspector Oskar Potiorek - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows a portrait of Oskar Potiorek (1853-1933), the governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken by photographer C. Pietzner in 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Winner and runner up in Treasury shoot. Washington, D.C., Aug 10. Averaging 298 out of a possible 300 bullseyes, L.E. Echols, (right) Customs Inspector at San Juan Puerto Rico, today won the Secretary's individual match in competition with marksmen from other agencies in the Treasury Department. On the left is A.L. Meloche, Alcohol Tax Unit; the runner-up with 297 out of a possible 300, 8/10/37

Winner and runner up in Treasury shoot. Washington, D.C., Aug 10. Aver...

Two men in military uniforms pointing at something. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United States by plane from Mexico. Glendale, California

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United S...

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A group of people sitting around a table in a room, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of people sitting around a table in a room, Great Depression. ...

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

Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen, Great Depression. FSA/O...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Richard S. Neff (standing in doorway) U.S. Housing Authority Inspector, who with his crew of five men, sees that defense homes meet up with the standards established by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Division of Defense Housing Co-ordination

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Richard S. Neff (standing in door...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from the Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Inspector walking on strung pipe of a snowy day

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Detroit, Michigan. Crankshaft inspector at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Crankshaft inspector at the Allison Motors plant

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