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Royal Scots Greys, cavalry groups in Nablus. Smaller mounted group, 1 line & 1 officer in front

Royal Scots Greys, cavalry groups in Nablus. Smaller mounted group, 1 ...

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

Harpoon hits humpback whale. The humpback whale has just been hit by the harpoon, and the bomb on the harpoon head has exploded. The gunner who fired the shot is shown in the foreground. The twisting of six-inch manila line attached to harpoon indicates the force of the impact

Harpoon hits humpback whale. The humpback whale has just been hit by t...

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

Bomb explodes on humpback. Explosion of bomb on head of harpoon marks the end of the trail for another humpbacker. The manila line may be seen, but the force of the explosion has hidden the whale

Bomb explodes on humpback. Explosion of bomb on head of harpoon marks ...

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

Trees at timber line become scraggly and twisted. Telluride, Colorado

Trees at timber line become scraggly and twisted. Telluride, Colorado

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irrigation water flowing from ditch through weed guard to pipe line. Ccooperative water facilities project, Washington County, Utah

Irrigation water flowing from ditch through weed guard to pipe line. C...

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

Power line. Uinta County, Wyoming

Power line. Uinta County, Wyoming

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

REA (Rural Electrification Administration) line going to a home in Caswell County, North Carolina

REA (Rural Electrification Administration) line going to a home in Cas...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in South Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Line up of buses used to transport workmen to the construction work at the naval air training base. Corpus Christi, Texas

Line up of buses used to transport workmen to the construction work at...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At the finish line of the sulky races at the Rutland Fair, Vermont

At the finish line of the sulky races at the Rutland Fair, Vermont

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

Mrs. Browning and her daughter eating dinner. This family does much canning in line with FSA (Farm Security Administration) live at home program. They are FSA rehabilitation borrowers at Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Mrs. Browning and her daughter eating dinner. This family does much ca...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tourists cabin villages line the roads through the Berkshires' Mohawk Trail, Massachusetts

Tourists cabin villages line the roads through the Berkshires' Mohawk ...

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

Harrison Manners rents a small house in Heard County near the Troop County line. He used to run the school bus but lost his job when there were not enough children to take. "Most all the young people have left Heard." Georgia

Harrison Manners rents a small house in Heard County near the Troop Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blitz buggies. Finished motors on the conveyor line, which is taking them to the assembly point in the plant. This conveyor line is part of a conveyor system 135 miles long throughout the plant. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. Finished motors on the conveyor line, which is taking t...

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Moving 200 foot section of pipe welded to main line by firing line method

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Mighty warship of the air that will soon be ready for "launching." New consolidated transport plane get a fueling and final checkup before leaving the assembly line of a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of 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. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the county

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Mighty warship of the ai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women aircraft workers. Earnest girl workers for Uncle Sam assemble intricate electrical parts to be used in America's fighting planes at a large West Coast aircraft factory. The supervisor passes down the line, gives advice for speeding up operations, solves problems and keeps supplies flowing. Vega

Women aircraft workers. Earnest girl workers for Uncle Sam assemble in...

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

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Another Douglas A-20 attack bomber leaves the assembly line at the Long Beach, California, plant for transfer to the flight line and test flight before delivery to the Army. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Another Douglas A-20 attack bomber le...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Forward fuselage sections of B-25 bombers move down the long overhead conveyor line in the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, California. All assemblies are made on these sections before they reach the final assembly floor and join other major assemblies. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Forward fuselage sections o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welding pipe by the stove pipe method

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Members of the laying gang

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

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

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of armor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on ...

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

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welder and helper

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A complete center section for a Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane in an assembly jig at a large Western aircraft plant. On the final line, the entire center section will be joined to other plane sections, and noses, engines, wings, landing gear and other equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A complete center section fo...

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

Baker, Florida. Former bank of Baker, now a barbershop. Baker was a big center in the lumbering days; it was on the Falco Lumber Company rail line, but they tore up the tracks in 1923 and Baker's population began to dwindle

Baker, Florida. Former bank of Baker, now a barbershop. Baker was a bi...

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

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Experienced assembly line workers of both sexes contribute to the production of A-20 attack bombers in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, California. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Experienced assembly line workers of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Half down the final line of a Western aircraft plant at which consolidated B-24 bombers and transports are made. This new transports, an adaptation of 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. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Half down the final line...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Pole line carrying 110-volt current generated at TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Pole line carrying 110-volt current genera...

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Moving 200 foot section of pipe welded to main line by firing line method

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Final assemblies are added to a North American P-51 on the "Sunshine" assembly line

Final assemblies are added to a North American P-51 on the "Sunshine" ...

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

Production. War housing trailers. Completely painted and baked hard in an oven, a war housing trailer rolls onto the final assembly finishing line of Western Trailer Company at Los Angeles. High-grade inlaid linoleum floor covering, lacking only the familier burlap backing of pre-war linoleum, is applied

Production. War housing trailers. Completely painted and baked hard in...

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

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The new 154,000 volt transmission line running from the TVA's Chickamauga Dam. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that travels along this line serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

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

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Pipeline cutting through cotton field

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-25 bombers. They'll soon be ready to hurl their might at the Axis. New B-25 medium bombers nearing the end of a Western aircraft assembly line. General Doolittle calls it the best military plane in existence. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. They'll soon be ready to hurl their might at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wing at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport plane...

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.

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Bringing a forty-foot section to main line in stove pipe method of welding

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad engine delivering a trainload of stock and other cars at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Riding with the engine is the headman

Chicago, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad engine deliver...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Line crew at work in Manzanar - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Line crew at work in Manzanar - safety film negatives, Library of Cong...

Electric line repair crew at work on electric pole next to building. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on negative sleeve. No original photographic print. Library made print in LOT 10479-3. Gift; Ans... More

Long Island Railroad passenger coach manned by the first women trainmen on this line, who started work the day after an intensive training period. Mrs. Florence L. Lawyer (foreground) collecting tickets, while Miss Marcella Craft (background) gives information from her timetable to a passenegr

Long Island Railroad passenger coach manned by the first women trainme...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen cutting a parachute rigging line. This method was perfected by Leslie Irvin, America's world-famous parachute expert, who spent two months in this factory helping to work out efficient production methods. A great deal of the machinery in use here was supplied under lend-lease

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

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

Arlington, Virginia. A line of citizens at Wilson High School studying their ballots and waiting their turn to vote in the national presidental election. Votes are being collected from some who have already voted

Arlington, Virginia. A line of citizens at Wilson High School studying...

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

New York, New York. Thomas Gilmartin is seen bowling at the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East Fifty-ninth Street. The rail on the left is a guide to the starting line

New York, New York. Thomas Gilmartin is seen bowling at the Lighthouse...

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

Line crew at work in Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Line crew at work in Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, C...

Electric line repair crew at work on electric pole next to building. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-23-A. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part ... More

Picket line at Mid-City Realty Company, South Chicago, Illinois

Picket line at Mid-City Realty Company, South Chicago, Illinois

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

Line of trucks at wheat elevator in small town west of Amarillo, Texas

Line of trucks at wheat elevator in small town west of Amarillo, Texas

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

8th Army in Tripoli. Journey's end, for a while. British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city

8th Army in Tripoli. Journey's end, for a while. British tanks and cre...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A complete line of electric lighting equipment is carried by the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative of Phoenix, Arizona

A complete line of electric lighting equipment is carried by the Unite...

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

A complete line of cut lumber is carried by the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative at Phoenix, Arizona

A complete line of cut lumber is carried by the United Producers and C...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State line. Arizona - New Mexico

State line. Arizona - New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of gates, gateway, passage, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Line up at general delivery window in the post office at Hermiston, Oregon. This post office served about eight hundred people a year ago, now it has more than five thousand general delivery patrons

Line up at general delivery window in the post office at Hermiston, Or...

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

Top left: special three step roughing reamer. Top right, special taper forming reamer. Bottom, special line reaper, length 20 inches

Top left: special three step roughing reamer. Top right, special taper...

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

Girl in picket line. Mid-City Company, South Chicago, Illinois

Girl in picket line. Mid-City Company, South Chicago, Illinois

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

Holyoke is a city of canals which supply water to the paper mills that line their banks. Massachusetts

Holyoke is a city of canals which supply water to the paper mills that...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Payroll line

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Payroll line

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing the sand line is one of the chores that fall to the "tallow pot," or fireman, of a railway locomotive. In addition to jobs like this, the "tallow pot" serves up an average of eight to ten tons of coal each eight hour day to the big "hog," or locomotive. This man fires a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Landing gears for B-25 bombers, completely assembled, are delivered to the final assembly line of North American's Inglewood, California, plant. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Landing gears for B-25 bomb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Drilling holes for rivets in a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Drilling holes for rive...

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.

Falco, Florida [i.e. Alabama]. All that is left of the railroad line running to the Falco lumber mill, as it crosses the old log pond (mill closed in 1923)

Falco, Florida [i.e. Alabama]. All that is left of the railroad line r...

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

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Finishing wings for Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes in a large Western aircraft plant. The wings, which were accurately assembled in jigs, are added to the plane bodies as they travel down the final assembly line where engines, landing gear, controls and other equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Finishing wings for Lockheed...

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

Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly used on automobile motors, have been moved back in the plant to make way for war work. Soon these machines will be stored outdoors until the tools necessary to adapt them to war activities can be completed. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly us...

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

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. The doping crew. Pipe in the background has just been wrapped in felt

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. Wings for C-47 transport planes ready for the assembly line at Long Beach, California, Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Wings for C-47 transport planes rea...

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

Rudder controls are assembled by men and women on North American Aviation's P-51 fighter final assembly line

Rudder controls are assembled by men and women on North American Aviat...

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

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. In the bombardier's compartment of a B-25 bomber, North American employees assemble the electrical system as the section moves down the long conveyor line at Inglewood, California, In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. In the bombardier's compart...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Conveyor line showing assembly of nose section of B-26 bomber

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Conveyor line showing assembl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Final additions are made to the shell of a consolidated transport plane in preparation for its trip down the final assembly line of a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of 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. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Final additions are made...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Verne W. Harshman, C.O.P, U.S. Army, with rubber boat in which he remained adrift for five days from March 22nd after being forced down in the Navy Boeing fighter of which he was pilot. Harshman was sighted and rescued by the SS Cergo, Hamburg-American line, forty miles west of Cape Miarzo, Columbia

Verne W. Harshman, C.O.P, U.S. Army, with rubber boat in which he rema...

Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of democracy. In a factory which formerly manufactured safes and locks, today thirty-seven-millimeter guns and gun mounts are coming off the assembly line. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of democracy...

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Digging a tunnel where pipeline will go under the railroad tracks

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Silver Bow County, Montana. Railroad line

Silver Bow County, Montana. Railroad line

Public domain photograph of mountains, winter, snow, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. One of the foremen

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

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport planes awaits the installation of wings at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. A long line of C-47 transport plane...

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

The outer wing panel is assembled to the center section of a North American B-25 bomber on the Sunshine Assembly Line

The outer wing panel is assembled to the center section of a North Ame...

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.

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Final inspection and rework on wings for Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes in a large Western aircraft plant. The wings, which had been accurately assembled in jigs, are joined to the plane bodies as they travel down the final assembly line where engines, landing gear, controls and other equipment are also installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Final inspection and rework ...

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Laborers removing mud and water from the drag hole

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension lines that carry current generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension ...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Motors are delivered in this special fork lift tractor from the receiving department to the engine assembly line of North American's in Inglewood, California, aircraft plant. This plant produces the battle tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Motors are delivered in thi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Members of the laying gang

Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri-Arkansas state line. War emergency p...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee bombers nearing completion on the final assembly line. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee bombers nearing completion on the final a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way. A member of a marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. C-47 transport plane. Enough power to drive a fast ocean liner is represented by this line of engines ready for installation in C-47 transport planes at the Long Beach, California, plant Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport plane. Enough power to drive a fast ocean l...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A completed B-17F heavy bomber is checked by final inspectors at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, before it moves to the flight line for rigid acceptance tests. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A completed B-17F heavy bomber is che...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. A welder's helper

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have a shop big enough to fulfill a two-million-dollar contract for gliders. So it took over the county fairgrounds, formerly winter quarters for a circus, and built an assembly line through its seventeen roomy buildings. The pool's first machines are shown being moved into the fairgrounds building

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. A partly completed generator in the new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. A long line of completed generators extends back the full length of the room. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. A partly completed generator in the new ad...

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Silver Springs, Maryland. Line at the polls on election day

Silver Springs, Maryland. Line at the polls on election day

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Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on electric refrigerator condensors, is here shown at his old job. He is now using his skill in the assembling of high-powered, anti-aircraft searchlights

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Daniel Senise riding a car at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard

Daniel Senise riding a car at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line rail...

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, practice "on the firing line"

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The Chicago and Northestern Railroad freight train stops before entering the main line to let a passenger train go by

The Chicago and Northestern Railroad freight train stops before enteri...

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Royal Scots Greys, cavalry groups in Nablus. Smaller mounted group, 1 line & 2 officers in front

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Corn crib on the owner-operated farm of Mary Lah, two hundred thirty acres. The farm, which has carried a small mortgage since the depression, lies west of Fowler, Indiana, near the Illinois state line

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Shore line of Otsego Lake, New York

Shore line of Otsego Lake, New York

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State line, Wisconsin and Illinois

State line, Wisconsin and Illinois

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A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Washington DC. Farm Secu...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). The radiator, brush guard, and front fender assembly of a Dodge Army truck being lowered into position as the chassis moves steadily along the assembly line

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State line. Arizona -- New Mexico

State line. Arizona -- New Mexico

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Lineup of workmen at union headquarters, San Diego, California, after the first batch of men are dispatched in the morning. Those remaining stand in line awaiting subsequent calls during the day

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Mill workers who lived largely in rural areas being taken through CIO picket line at a textile mill in Greensboro, Georgia. The lockout lasting about three months ending in a signed contract

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Fort Knox. Electric power line construction. This tractor operator, working with a pole line construction crew, is helping to bring electrical power to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where American soldiers are rehearsing for the dramatic parts they will play in the making of a new world

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