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Among the oil barrels where fire started, showing defective life preservers and life boats. General Slocum Disaster, New York Harbor, June 15, 1904

Among the oil barrels where fire started, showing defective life prese...

Stereograph shows oil barrels and the burnt remains of lifeboats and life preservers at the harbor. H49054 U.S. Copyright Office No. 8401. Copyright by H.C. White Co. Copyright entry: Aug. 12, 1904, Class H; XX... More

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A crew of huskies at work near the cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upsteam of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precautions in the form of life preservers on the backs of the men

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Blowing up "Mae West" life preservers by compressed air for a routine check of safety equipment
Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. A flyer's safety equipment consists of a folding crash boat folded up in a zipper bag, "Mae West" life preservers, a Very pistol, a flashlight with red lens, and a container of dye to facilitate detection in the water

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Putting life preservers on "CITY OF MACON"

Putting life preservers on "CITY OF MACON"

Photograph shows the ship "City of Macon", probably being prepared to help move the Second Army Division from Texas City to Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 ... More

One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for our navy is kapok, which we obtain in quantity only from the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. Here it has been baled and is ready for shipment from a Dutch East Indies plantation

One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for ou...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Working inside the sheet steel wall of the cofferdam at the new Fort Loudoun Dam, Furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precautions in the form of life preservers strapped to the backs of these workers

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. Placing a structural member for the cofferdam at the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precautions in the form of life preservers strapped to the backs of these workers

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Blowing up "Mae West" life preservers by compressed air for a routine check of safety equipment

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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