Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

library of congress

united states history

safety film negatives

nitrate negatives

1940 s

farm security administration

pipe

industrial history

army

lengths

public
57 media by topic ∙ page 1 of 1
Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are used to extend short lengths of pipe for many miles. Steel piping is used to convey solutions and gases in numerous plants engaged in defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Stripping wire clean of its rubber is a law now. Even these small lengths of wire which at one time were thrown out will be stripped of all its rubber insulation which will then be reclaimes

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Stripping...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Looking up in an oil derrick. Roughneck inserting lengths of pipe into the elevator for pulling the casings. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Looking up in an oil derrick. Roughneck inserting lengths of pipe into...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is a four-high hot rolling mill, which reduces hot steel into ribbons about thirty-five inches wide, to be used either in coils or cut lengths. The steel enters the first of these electrically driven rollers at a thickness of about six inches and emerges, three times as fast, from the fourth only about two inches thick

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is a four-high hot rolling m...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed i...

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.

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed i...

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.

Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a long piece of aluminum into shorter lengths with a metal cutter in the shearing department, as shorter pieces are easier for the machine operator to handle. The outlined shape on each piece is then cut out by machine

Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a lo...

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

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos process of reclaiming scrap in a Midwest plant, rubber is forced through a screen by a large worn screw, and bits of metal and fiber are removed. Ropy lengths of rubber, ready for the final refining operation, are extruded. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos pr...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Pickling lengths of copper water tube in a brass and copper mill. After annealing, or softening by heat to reduce brittleness and allow further drawing, tubes are "pickled" in a sulphuric acid solution to remove oxide and scale that result from the anneal. Bundles of the tubes are picked up by electric cranes and transported from the pickle to a rinse bath of water. The tubes are then returned to the drawbench for re-drawing down to smaller diameters. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Pickling lengths of copper wa...

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

Machine performs half a day's manual labor in 5 minutes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. H.J. Keegan of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, using the spectrophotometer to determine the different colors in a piece of cloth. It formerly took a man a half a day to make this spectrum analysis but now the machine does it in five minutes. The machine measures the % of light transmitted or reflected at various wave lengths in the visible spectrum

Machine performs half a day's manual labor in 5 minutes. Washington, D...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Starboard tie plate. This and the port tie plate are the last two lengths to hold the ship on the ways. The ship is launched by burning through these plates

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Starboard tie plat...

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

M.S. Strock measuring radio lengths at Bu. of Stan., 2/19/25

M.S. Strock measuring radio lengths at Bu. of Stan., 2/19/25

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Activity at oil well showing one length of pipe resting on the kelly joint into the rat hole with operations for removing other lengths of pipe from the hole. Oil well, Kilgore, Texas

Activity at oil well showing one length of pipe resting on the kelly j...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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

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

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

Activity at oil well; man on lengths of traveling block will be pulled up to the crown block at top of derrick, Kilgore, Texas

Activity at oil well; man on lengths of traveling block will be pulled...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial structure, frame, ladder, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. As extruded rod comes from the extrusion machine, it is too hot to handle. It is put under a cold water spray, then sent to the saws to be cut to shorter lengths for further operations. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. As extruded rod comes from th...

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

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes from the rolls, is usually in strips too long for convenient handling. Here motor-driven shears cut the strip to shorter lengths. At the same time the metal is carefully inspected for surface defects. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes ...

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.

A man is cutting a log with a hammer, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A man is cutting a log with a hammer, Minnesota. Farm Security Adminis...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

To the right hon'able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate representing a perspective view of a lapping room, with the measuring, crisping or folding the cloth in lengths, picking the laps or lengths, tying in the clips, acting by the mechanic power of the laver to press the cloth round & firm, and sealing it preparatory to its going to the Linen Hall; is ... inscribed by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.

To the right hon'able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate repre...

Print shows an interior view of a room in a mill or factory where several men are engaged in measuring, folding, and binding cloth into lengths. Plate XI. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Spes Tu... More

A black and white photo of a tall tower, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a tall tower, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Today, busy with subcontracts on war production orders, they're hurrying the last lengths of swatter-wire off the machines. Circular machines at right cuts and twists the lengths of wire. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Bundles of various sizes brass, copper, and bronze rod in the shipping room of a brass and copper mill. These will be manufactured into shafting for boats, or sawed into short lengths and machined to make fuse components or any of hundreds of solid brass parts for guns, ammunition, instrument vehicles or vessels. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Bundles of various sizes bras...

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.

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

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

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

Dresher, Pennsylvania. Detail of a hay baler showing rotating knives which cut hay into proper lengths

Dresher, Pennsylvania. Detail of a hay baler showing rotating knives w...

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

To the right hon'able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate representing a perspective view of a lapping room, with the measuring, crisping or folding the cloth in lengths, picking the laps or lengths, tying in the clips, acting by the mechanic power of the laver to press the cloth round & firm, and sealing it preparatory to its going to the Linen Hall; is ... inscribed by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.

To the right hon'able Lord Viscount Kingsborough, ... this plate repre...

Print shows an interior view of a room in a mill or factory where several men are engaged in measuring, folding, and binding cloth into lengths. Plate XI. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Spes Tu... More

Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. These three War Emergency Radio Service transmitter-receivers tuned to different wave lengths keep this Civilian Defense control center in touch with three different channels of communication. The set being operated maintains contact with state and city police and fire departments. The other two are used for communicating with sub-control centers, hospitals, and mobile field units

Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. These three War Emergen...

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

Some Pumpkins: trotting his mile in 2:10. beating "Lightning" by nearly 5 lengths, on a descending grade; and carrying 25 lbs over weight

Some Pumpkins: trotting his mile in 2:10. beating "Lightning" by nearl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6009

Marking pulpwood for cutting into lengths at camp near Effie, Minnesota

Marking pulpwood for cutting into lengths at camp near Effie, Minnesot...

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

A black and white photo of two men working on a table, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of two men working on a table, Texas, during G...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New type of plating machine being used at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation. It automatically dips the part into the proper solutions for the proper lengths of time. East Hartford, Connecticut

New type of plating machine being used at the Hamilton Standard Propel...

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.

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Violet Storey, "take-away," and Barbara Webber, "edger," sending a log down the conveyor to be sawed into two-foot lengths for scrap

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

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

A black and white photo of a tall tower, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a tall tower, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Scrap lengths of aluminum tubing at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company are returned to the smelters for reclamation and reforming into useful shapes. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Scrap lengths of aluminum tu...

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

Some Pumpkins: trotting his mile in 2:10. beating "Lightning" by nearly 5 lengths, on a descending grade; and carrying 25 lbs over weight

Some Pumpkins: trotting his mile in 2:10. beating "Lightning" by nearl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6009

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed i...

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.

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow lengths of molten steel--steel composed partly of roller skates, reapers, radiators and other scrap collected from America's homes and farms. This strip steel will see action as armor plate on the nation's tanks or battleships

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Gaging drawn brass bar. Brass or copper supplied in bars finds many uses in the Navy. Most frequently it is cut to short lengths and machined to form parts of machinery, guns, and other implements of war. While dimensions are apt to vary, even slightly, close tolerances as to width and thickness must be observed. Here an inspector is checking dimensions with a micrometer. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Gaging drawn brass bar. Brass...

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

Substitute materials. Interior view of two-foot section of built-up wooden pipe, twenty-four inches in diameter. These pipes, used in place of corrugated iron or reinforced concrete pipes, are made of sections cut from short lengths of wood. About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed in 1942 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants

Substitute materials. Interior view of two-foot section of built-up wo...

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

Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed at Tube Turns, Inc., by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die, Louisville, Ky.

Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed at Tube Turns, Inc., by heat...

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

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow lengths of molten steel--steel composed partly of roller skates, reapers, radiators and other scrap collected from America's homes and farms. This strip steel will see action as armor plate on the nation's tanks or battleships

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow...

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.

Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are bei...

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

New York, New York. Cutting and bailing mop lengths at the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East Fifty-ninth Street

New York, New York. Cutting and bailing mop lengths at the Lighthouse,...

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

Automobile salvage. Pieces of the auto that are too long for the steel mill's charging box are cut one at a time to short lengths in a powerful motor driven shear. These electric shears split a fender as easily as a scissors cuts fabric

Automobile salvage. Pieces of the auto that are too long for the steel...

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

Cutting two-by-fours into identical lengths at migrant camp under construction at Sinton, Texas

Cutting two-by-fours into identical lengths at migrant camp under cons...

Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Today, busy with subcontracts on war production orders, they're hurrying the last lengths of swatter-wire off the machines. Circular machines at right cuts and twists the lengths of wire. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A ribbon of hot steel rolls forth from high hot rolling mill, where it has been pressed down from about six to two inches in thickness. These ribbons are about thirty-five inches wide, and are used in coils or in cut lengths

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A ribbon of hot steel rolls forth...

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

Substitute materials. Wood culverts for steel. Assembly of an emergency sectional wood pipe, twenty-four inches in diameter. These pipes, used in place of corrugated iron or reinforced concrete pipes, are made of sections cut from short lengths of wood. Locking of adjacent rings with hardwood dowel pins produces a flexible structure. About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed in 1942 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants

Substitute materials. Wood culverts for steel. Assembly of an emergenc...

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

Logging, cutting lengths - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Logging, cutting lengths - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed i...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Substitute materials. A shipment of 1,488 feet of 18-inch, 24-inch, 30-inch and 36-inch wooden pipe on one flat car. Weight 70,020 pounds. An equal footage of reinforced concrete pipe weighs 455,412 pounds, requires over ten cars. These pipes, used in place of corrugated iron or reinforced concrete pipes, are made of sections cut from short lengths of wood. Locking of adjacent rings with hardwood dowel pins produces a flexible structure. About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed in 1942 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits, under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants

Substitute materials. A shipment of 1,488 feet of 18-inch, 24-inch, 30...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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

A black and white photo of a tall tower, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a tall tower, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of copper water tube. Large quantities of copper tube are needed by our Army and Navy, and vital industries. The smaller sizes are used for oil lines on equipment producing defense products and for fuel lines on tanks and other mechanized equipment. Single lengths up to sixty feet are coiled for convenience in handling and shipping. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of copper water tube. L...

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

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. As a board comes away from the edges, Mrs. Lucy DeGreen, right, taking away from the edges and putting them on a conveyor to be sawed into two foot lengths for scrap, while Mrs. Daisy Perkins rolls the edged board over the conveyor in the rear, where the ends are trimmed

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

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