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9 feet engine lathe. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

9 feet engine lathe. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph showing lathe used in the construction of the U.S. Capitol.

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolida...

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

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here naval cadets are being instructed in lathe operation by the skilled instructor- mechanics

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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Dunklin County, Missouri. Farm boy using a lathe operated by U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) power

Dunklin County, Missouri. Farm boy using a lathe operated by U.S. Rura...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military person with a firearm, machine gun, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

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.

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Armor-piercing bullet cores being gauged at the lathe on which they were produced in a converted Eastern animal trap plant. The lathe was secured second hand in Wisconsin, where it made machine bolts and spark plug parts

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Armor-piercin...

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.

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Competent instructors and well-equipped shops make for a successful vocational training school. This experienced Negro machinist is teaching a young Negro trainee the intricacies of lathe operation. After completion of the course in the WPA vocational training school, the student will be qualified for a job in one of our great arsenals of democracy

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Compet...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Learning to fight the Axis with an electric lathe. Mabel Carmen left her home in Mississippi to join the National Youth Administration (NYA) group at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. After receiving eight weeks training under Donald Bantert (right), Mabel will go to work under civil service as a machinist

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Learning to fight the Axis with...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this young woman machines parts of aircraft engines. Like many other young Negro girls, she had known only

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-ye...

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

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

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

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

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. Carell supervising the set-up of a lathe with turret attachment in the basement of his home where he does subcontracting on war work. His day shift consists of the expert mechanics

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. Carell supervising the se...

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

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Lathe operator Jimmy Dowling checks with fellow lathe operator Jan Sudol about an interpretation of a blueprint.

Lathe operator Jimmy Dowling checks with fellow lathe operator Jan Sud...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 15, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Jimmy Dowling holds the jig that he will use to hold the cutting tool on his lathe.

Jimmy Dowling holds the jig that he will use to hold the cutting tool ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 9, 1994.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

[Vocational class. Boring at a lathe. 15 years old.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Vocational class. Boring at a lathe. 15 years old.] Location: Fall R...

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

Workman finishing setting for quartz crystal cutting tool on W & S lathe

Workman finishing setting for quartz crystal cutting tool on W & S lat...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The capable hands of this craftsman belie the adage that an old dog cannot learn new tricks. For years those hands have carved most of the horses that appear on American carrousels. For the duration they're operating this lathe and machining landing gear housings for the dread Airacobra pursuit ship. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The capable hands of this craftsman ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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 employee operates a...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under subcontract, John Kerr operates a turret lathe for tapping and drilling valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by the prime contractor. Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under ...

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

Jan Sudol operating large lathe in the lathe department at Watson; he is turning a large strander spool.

Jan Sudol operating large lathe in the lathe department at Watson; he ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 4, 1994.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

Detail of "spider" or end section of strander tube. The spider is the section of the tube that wears out and must be reformed by the lathe as a part of the re-tooling process done in the lathe department at Watson.

Detail of "spider" or end section of strander tube. The spider is the ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

View of lathe area of machine shop from catwalk.

View of lathe area of machine shop from catwalk.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 4, 1994.

Gear cutting machine in the lathe department; this machine is programmed to cut gears of various sizes and it then runs automatically until the gears are completed.

Gear cutting machine in the lathe department; this machine is programm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. In larger shops tool cutters were a separate specialty, but at Watson, machinists cut their own tools.

Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. ...

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

Potter at his lathe wheel - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Potter at his lathe wheel - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

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

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

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

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant since August 1941, leaving a job as machinist in Torrington to work here. With his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Heath was among the first to move into the new government housing project near the plant, leaving a furnished room in Torrington to occupy a spacious four-room apartment in the eighty-unit project

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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.

Automatic machines. Automatic machines have time and labor in the war program. This modern copying lathe takes a rough rifle stock and turns it to its final shape

Automatic machines. Automatic machines have time and labor in the war ...

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.

Buffalo, New York. Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a precision lathe operator in the same plant. Fellow workers presenting Cecelia with a wedding gift

Buffalo, New York. Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant,...

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

Jan Sudol preparing tube for removal from the lathe using the small crane.

Jan Sudol preparing tube for removal from the lathe using the small c...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 6, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol grinding a cutting tool for use in the large horizontal lathe at Watson.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol grinding a cutting tool for use in the large ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 6, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Lathe operator Jimmy Dowling checks with fellow lathe operator Jan Sudol about an interpretation of a blueprint.

Lathe operator Jimmy Dowling checks with fellow lathe operator Jan Sud...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 15, 1994.

Jan Sudol using a board to pry a strander tube out of the large horizontal lathe prior to removal.

Jan Sudol using a board to pry a strander tube out of the large horizo...

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lathe for railway wheels - Victorian era public domain image

Lathe for railway wheels - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows lathe machinery. Public domain image of Swedish railroads works, train yard, workshop, tracks, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery

Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery

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

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-fi...

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

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here a naval cadet is setting up on a job on a lathe under the skilled supervision of a master mechanic

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available to Indian industry by lend-lease, is hauled by Bangali laborers into a munitions factory in India, where skilled native workmen will take over. This piece of equipment will increase the factory's output by two cannons monthly

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...

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Production. Minesweepers. A veteran of the last world war operates a lathe that turns out tail shafts for minesweepers under construction in an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. A veteran of the last world war operates a l...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe is this man's specialty. Location: a large eastern Navy arsenal

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe ...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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

Conversion. Automobile industry. Directly contributing to victory, these tow automobile workers are starting conversion of a lathe so that it can accomodate tank parts. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Directly contributing to victory, the...

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker back to the lathe. Employed now by a small Eastern manufacturing firm which used to make floor waxers but is now completely converted to war production, this worker had only a trade school course in mechanics taken fifteen years ago as background for his new job. He operated his own confectionery business until the sugar shortage forced him into a new field. But he's glad to be aiming gun-sight parts at the Axis. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker ...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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.

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop tests the accuracy of his work with a micrometer

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a precision lathe operator in the same plant. Fellow workers presenting Cecelia with a wedding gift

Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a pr...

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

Bert Reales cutting the outside dimension of a flywheel on the lathe.

Bert Reales cutting the outside dimension of a flywheel on the lathe.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

The cutting tool installed on the lathe.

The cutting tool installed on the lathe.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 8, 1994.

Lathe operator Jimmy Dowling checks with fellow lathe operator Jan Sudol about an interpretation of a blueprint.

Lathe operator Jimmy Dowling checks with fellow lathe operator Jan Sud...

Lathe operator Jan Sudol measuring inside dimension of a strander tube and adjusting the cutting tool on the lathe.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol measuring inside dimension of a strander tube...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 6, 1994.

Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. In larger shops tool cutters were a separate specialty, but at Watson, machinists cut their own tools.

Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 8, 1994.

Bert Reales cutting the outside dimension of a flywheel on the lathe.

Bert Reales cutting the outside dimension of a flywheel on the lathe.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 8, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This machine is shaping the outside of a gun barrel for the war program

Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This m...

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

Turning on a hand lathe the outside surface of a partially-dried blank for a medical department coffee cup. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Turning on a hand lathe the outside surface of a partially-dried blank...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant operating under subcontract, O. Trumbull Scalbom and S.B. Nicholson of Glenview, Illinois, play a vital part in American production. The two men operate a Harding-Bench turret lathe which drills and reams holes in valve stems for blood transfusion bottles prepared by the prime contractor, Baxter Laboratories in Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant operating unde...

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High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California, teaches its students trades which fit them to help in the war program. This Chinese student is learning to operate a lathe

High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks guns such as those shown in the foreground is the present work of this lathe, formerly used in the production of cube steak machines in a New England plant which is now turning out a number of parts for war machinery on subcontract. Conversion of this machine, and the stepping up of its speed required only a few hours. The operator, Ralph Hutchings, has also turned his skill to war work. He formerly operated a lathe in the production of cube steak machinery. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks gun...

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

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a woman employee operates a turret lathe under the close supervision of a skilled machinist in North American's modern machine shop

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a wom...

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Left to right: Bertha Carlotta, twenty-nine, a machinist testing axles; Anna Plecenik, twenty-four, a machinist's helper, working a drill press; Mary Stefanski, thirty-seven, a blacksmith's helper; Cecelia Wadkowski, thirty-five, a machinist operating a turret lathe; and Susan Topolosky, thirty-two, a machinist's helper operating a radial dial press

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards ...

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.

Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training school for war workers

Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training sch...

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

Bert Reales and Jimmy Dowling measuring drive shaft on lathe.

Bert Reales and Jimmy Dowling measuring drive shaft on lathe.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 6, 1994.

Jimmy Dowling cutting an inside radius in a small flywheel on the lathe.

Jimmy Dowling cutting an inside radius in a small flywheel on the lath...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 8, 1994.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

Jimmy Dowling's lathe after stock has been removed.

Jimmy Dowling's lathe after stock has been removed.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 9, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Detail of the spider being re-cut on the lathe.

Detail of the spider being re-cut on the lathe.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Monolith in lathe, Washington, D.C.

Monolith in lathe, Washington, D.C.

Photograph showing large column for the General Post Office building in Washington, D.C., in a lathe. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 71. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking an M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the service

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5...

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

Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Sociali...

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

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos reinforced with gypsum serve as an economical base for plaster walls and ceilings. These sheets, nailed directly to studs, also afford protection against heat and cold. A crew of fourteen men (ten lathers and four laborers) can lathe a four-unit building in a few hours. A crew of plasters moves in as the crew of lathers moves out. Although defense homes are speedily built, they are soundly constructed. Government inspectors keep a rigid check to see that all construction materials live up to government standards

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos...

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

Production. 155mm shells. Finish turning of the straight diameter and profile of a 155mm shell on a Stamets lathe in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Finish turning of the straight diameter and ...

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

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig with two sons in the service, one overseas, and a husband ready to go into the service, inspecting the inside of a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company, with microbrand and also shot-changing the honing stone for finished inside operation of 105 mm. howitzers

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig with two sons in th...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, is one of Uncle Sam's disabled war workers. With both legs afflicted by infantile paralysis, he's nevertheless an expert lathe operator and assistant foreman in a Baltimore factory. He's shown here turning the inside radius of spacers, which are part of an airplane motor's supercharger. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Joseph Witte, twenty-eight years old, i...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted fro...

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

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

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"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war production effort of Jake Sparling, sixty, and Percy Fogelsong, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack, who between them produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. "The old gent and me" have been working fifteen hours daily, seven days a week. "The old gent," hired eighteen months ago to take care of Jake's sick dog, had never before seen a lathe

"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war...

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Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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Bert Reales measuring the outside dimension of a pulley on his lathe.

Bert Reales measuring the outside dimension of a pulley on his lathe.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 10, 1994.

Humberto "Bert" Reales grinding the cutting tool he will use in his lathe.

Humberto "Bert" Reales grinding the cutting tool he will use in his la...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 8, 1994.

Flywheel on Bert Reales' lathe.

Flywheel on Bert Reales' lathe.

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Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe. Hawthorne, New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

Forms part of a group of images documenting machinist Larry Schneider's machine shop and his family at their home in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Larry is a machinist who works at Watson Machine International in Paterson.

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming ...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos reinforced with gypsum serve as an economical base for plaster walls and ceilings. These sheets, nailed directly to studs, also afford protection against heat and cold. A crew of fourteen men (ten lathers and four laborers) can lathe a four-unit building in a few hours. A crew of plasters moves in as the crew of lathers moves out.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos...

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Man working on a lathe which is shaping precision instruments

Man working on a lathe which is shaping precision instruments

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Shenandoah Valley. Claude Spitzer at the 24-inch lathe. "I have been in and out of the shop for fifteen years--I am more of a blacksmith than I am a machinist"

Shenandoah Valley. Claude Spitzer at the 24-inch lathe. "I have been i...

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