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Production. 155mm shells. The first rough turn on a 155mm shell forging is done on a Curtis lathe in a converted auto plant. In this operation, the forging is cut to length and the base end is faced. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. The first rough turn on a 155mm shell forgin...

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

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. One of Carell's workmen at a lathe in this basement war workshop. The lathe has a tailstock turret attachment which holds several tools so that one operation can follow another in quick succession, as in the factory production

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. One of Carell's workmen a...

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

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...

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Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman measuring part of a locomotive wheel with calipers. She operates the lathe on which it is being finished at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman measuring part of a locomotiv...

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. 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...

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

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

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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.

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.

Lathe operator Bert Reales on his lathe.

Lathe operator Bert Reales on his lathe.

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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.

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.

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.

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Cutting of logs on lathe into strips

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Cutt...

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.

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 will 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...

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. 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...

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. Machine guns of various calibers. Dorothy Taylor, bench lathe operator at a large Eastern firearms plant, makes oil drills for .50- caliber machine gun barrels. Many women workers are employed in this plant, producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Dorothy Taylor, bench la...

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.

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a Midwest tank plant, Michael is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans whose sole purpose during working hours is to get as many tanks as possible off the lines and ready for shipment to the fighting fronts. Michael's grandparents, with whom he lives, cling to the Slavic language and to many "old country" customs, but Michael and his brothers and sisters are as American as the Smiths and Joneses. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra go...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A production lathe in a former auto plant and an experienced automobile worker team up to give our air force the greatest possible number of the finest possible machine guns. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A production lathe in a for...

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

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finishes part of the locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finis...

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.

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Monarch engine lathe

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. ...

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

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Lathe

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Lathe

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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.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe.

Lathe area of machine shop. Paterson New Jersey

Lathe area of machine shop. Paterson New Jersey

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.

Humberto "Bert" Reales cutting small shafts on the lathe.

Humberto "Bert" Reales cutting small shafts 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 6, 1994.

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 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

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. Here workers at the Harrisonburg, Virginia shop of Beery and Sons are converting a lathe to turn out parts for a war contractor. All the actual work of conversion and the new tools and jigs needed are made in the shop

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conver...

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.

Shenandoah Valley. Wilbarger and his men line up behind the 24-inch lathe

Shenandoah Valley. Wilbarger and his men line up behind the 24-inch la...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee operates a turret lathe in the machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. She handles the machine as skillfully as a man. 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. This woman employee operate...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for Uncle Sam instead of manufacturing such civilian items as soft drink dispensers and game boards. Inspecting operation of a tool room lathe are officials of this company which is producing tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other war essentials. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for...

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.

View of drill and milling area in foreground from catwalk, lathe area in background.

View of drill and milling area in foreground from catwalk, lathe area ...

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.

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. 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 on machine shop floor at Watson.

View of lathe area on machine shop floor at Watson.

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.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol adjusting the cutting tool on a horizontal strander tube in the lathe department at Watson.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol adjusting the cutting tool on a horizontal st...

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.

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.

Costumes, characters, etc. Turning lathe - stereocsopic card

Costumes, characters, etc. Turning lathe - stereocsopic card

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 19th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 Riv...

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The biggest lathe in the world - Drawing. Public domain image.

The biggest lathe in the world - Drawing. Public domain image.

Library has two impressions: No. 477-1 [His American war work series] Wuerth, 477. Edition of 58. Signed on stone and in pencil. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Cong... More

Clarence Haseldon turning lathe to make table leg in shop class. Ashwood Plantations school, South Carolina

Clarence Haseldon turning lathe to make table leg in shop class. Ashwo...

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

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is fini...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Beulah Faith, former sales lady, is now a lathe operator at a Western aircraft plant. She is reaming tubes used in making the huge consolidated transports and bombers. These new transport, adapted from the famous 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.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Beulah Faith, former sal...

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

"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production drive. "The old gent and myself," says Sparling, "work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week," and produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. The money will buy war bonds and stamps

"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michig...

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. The worker is machinist Fred Luther, whose skill was formerly used to amuse children, is now aiding in the job of protecting children and assuring them a life in which amusement will be as much a part as before the rise of a fascism. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe use...

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

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A huge ship propeller shaft is gauged on the lathe of a large war production plant. Tanks and locomotives are turned out in other parts of the plant. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A huge ship propeller shaft is gauge...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of the bathroom in the four-room defense housing unit where the Heaths live. Ann had quite a trying time getting used to the size of the new apartment, after having lived most of her life with her parents in a single furnished room in Torrington

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clovis, New Mexico. A machinist in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops, John Corey, working at an engine lathe making steel bushing with Sergeant Bowman of the United States Army Railroad Battalion who is stationed at Clovis

Clovis, New Mexico. A machinist in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R...

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

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. George Turner, a gunsmith as well as a cattleman, working a gun barrel on an electric lathe. He is adjusting a telescopic sight

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. George Turner, a gunsmith as...

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

Lathe lead man Jimmy Dowling at his lathe.

Lathe lead man Jimmy Dowling at 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 installs the cutting tool on the lathe traveler prior to cutting the inside dimension of a flywheel.

Bert Reales installs the cutting tool on the lathe traveler prior to 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 8, 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.

Hands of lathe worker, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Hands of lathe worker, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Anse...

Close-up view of lathe worker's hands. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-35. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Cente... More

[A man operating a lathe with fixed cutting tool driven by the action of weights; here the machine is cutting screw threads in wood]

[A man operating a lathe with fixed cutting tool driven by the action ...

Illus. in: Theatrvm instrvmentorvm et machinarum / Jacques Besson. Lvgdvni : Apud B. Vincentium, 1578. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washi... More

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, internal thread grinder, internal grinder, cylindrical grinder, and lapping and heat treating facilities

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, ...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millim...

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

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a Midwestern company. The machine which formerly made spur gears, worm wheels and commentator rings has been converted to war use by being tooled with an eccentric spindle and thread rolling attachment for the production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a ...

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

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 ...

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Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capable hands has delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Their skill has now been diverted for the duration to lathe work on landing gear housings for the deadly Airacobra. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capab...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Agnes Mahan, bench lathe operator at a large Eastern firearms plant, makes oil drills for .50- caliber machine gun barrels. Many women workers are employed in this plant, producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Agnes Mahan, bench lathe...

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.

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...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Newswanger works a lathe in the Animal Trap Company machine shop. He's a Mennonite, about thirty, and hopes his church won't find out he's doing defense work. Most Mennonites are farmers, and Newswanger used to be

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Newswanger works a lathe in the Animal T...

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. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. These skilled hands belong to sixty-five-year-old Herman Jagow, whose wood carving skill delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Here he is doing lathe work in landing gear housing. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workmen turns out fuse parts on an automatic lathe supplied under lend-lease

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workmen...

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

From National Youth Administration to Washington navy yard. Under the direction of Cicil M. Coles, NYA foreman, Miss Juanita E. Gray learns to operate a lathe machine at the Washington, D.C. National Youth Adminstration War Production and Training Center. This former domestic worker is one of the hundreds of Negro women trained at this center

From National Youth Administration to Washington navy yard. Under the ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Humberto "Bert" Reales removing drive shaft from lathe.

Humberto "Bert" Reales removing drive shaft from 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.

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.

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.

Engine lathe work - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Engine lathe work - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Regular Forge - Drawing out a lathe tool. See 4168. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Regular Forge - Drawing out a lathe tool. See 4168. Location: Fall Ri...

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

[Two men operating a lathe]

[Two men operating a lathe]

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

Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidate...

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

Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in yard. They have no privy and haul water. Sacks hanging on line are used to haul tobacco to market. Person County, North Carolina

Home of tenant, Hillside Farm. Note lathe fence to protect flowers in ...

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A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill press, and arbor press facilities for the manufacture of a five-inch assembly housing

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill pres...

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Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old country" and European customs are maintained in his home, Michael Kassalo is as American as pork and beans. Michael's job as a vertical turret lathe operator in one of the Midwest's largest medium-tank plants gives him the satisfaction of producing weapons to defeat the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old coun...

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

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained to students in the trade school of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey. The school trains fifty workers at a time in the production of essential war equipment. More than ninety percent secure jobs after training, some in the Howe shop

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained ...

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Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of retirement to operate a lathe to make parts for sweepers in an Eastern shipyard. He returned his last social security check, declaring that the money he made helping win the war was enough for him. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of ...

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

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

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro turret-lathe worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, learning a filing operation on a turret lathe

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

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Grace Janota, former store clerk, is now a lathe operator at a Western aircraft plant. She machines parts for huge consolidated transports and bombers. These new consolidated transports, adapted from the famous 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.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Grace Janota, former sto...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. Two workers here lathe the cylinder of an airplane motor. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herculean efforts of management and labor completed the conversion this spring. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many air...

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Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense, and Phelps Vocational School has become an important training center for workers in war plants. Photo shows young women operating a lathe in the machine shop at this school

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels and axles for the railroads. The company never employed women until recently

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car W...

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Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman moving a locomotive wheel part on a small crane to be finished on the lathe which she operates at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman moving a locomotive wheel par...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian coolies pull a newly-arrived lend-lease lathe into a munitions factory in India. This machine alone will add at least two more cannons monthly to the already greatly increased output of the plant

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian coolies pu...

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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...

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Humberto Reales working on small lathe at Watson, he is cutting the inside dimension on a small flywheel.

Humberto Reales working on small lathe at Watson, he is cutting the in...

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.

Large micrometer on workbench in lathe area at Watson.

Large micrometer on workbench in lathe area at Watson.

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.

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...

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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.

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.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

Larry Schneider adjusts a lathe in his machine shop.

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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.

Machinist Jim Dowling at lathe.

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