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Production. Parachute making. Mother of a sergeant in the Army, wife of a World War I veteran, Mrs. Emilia Gworek is a soldier in her own right. Here she sews parachute seams during the night shift of an Eastern plant. In the daytime, she is active in Red Cross work and is president of her American Legion Auxiliary. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Mother of a sergeant in the Army, wife o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for preparing nylon threads for the making of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. This is one of the largest machines of highest speed in the country. It carries one thousand spools of nylon in its rack

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for prepari...

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. Parachute making. This machine, operated by Joyce Puopolo, sews four parachute canopy seams at one time. Before joining the war production army, Miss Puopolo was a motorcycle stunt rider in Hollywood. Her husband, who also worked in movie thrillers, is now at a naval air base. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. This machine, operated by Joyce Puopolo,...

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. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will see a lot of action is being made as this operator in an Eastern factory does zig-zag stitching with her machine. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. A strong seam for a parachute that will ...

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. Parachute making. As Louis Nerkin guides this cutting machine along the pattern lines, these layers of silk come one step nearer completion as parachutes. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. As Louis Nerkin guides this cutting mach...

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. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rig...

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. Parachute making. Two of her brothers are in the Army, two brothers are World War I veterans. Perhaps that's why Bonnie Bonness finds attaching shroud cords to parachute straps in this Eastern factory more important than her former profession: dancing in New York's Greenwich Village nightclubs. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Two of her brothers are in the Army, two...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Inspecting parachute shroud lines before they are packed and shipped from an Eastern plant. All the inspectors are good Americans of foreign descent. They represent, Irish, French, Italian and Hungarian ancestry

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Inspecting parachute shroud l...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United State... More

A couple of women standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other. Office of War Informati...

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. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parach...

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. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied France, Mrs. Delia Raymond makes careful inspection of flare parachutes which she hopes will help free her relatives. Of her work she says, "I like it. It's something so vital--it means so much and is so interesting. The country needs these parachutes, and I'm proud to be able to help make them. We keep hoping all the world will be free someday." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. With two aunts and an uncle in occupied ...

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. Parachute making. German-born Reinhard Lehman left his family in charge of his farm so that he could make these parachute harnesses in an Eastern plant. One of his sons is in the Marines, a nephew is in the Army. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. German-born Reinhard Lehman left his fam...

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. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fall are these yards and yards of silk, here being stitched together in an Eastern parachute manufacturing plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fa...

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. Parachute making. The utmost precision is required of these operators who are cutting and drilling parachute packs in an Eastern factory. Their work is under constant close supervision. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The utmost precision is required of thes...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This 5B spinning machine in the plant of an Eastern parachute manufacturer is the latest type doubling and twisting machine. It makes shroud lines for parachutes

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This 5B spinning machine in t...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping operation in preparing silk for parachute cloth manufacture in an Eastern plant. Looking toward the reel on which the silk is wound in preparation for the weaving machine

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping operation in preparin...

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. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is as important to this worker as inspection of parachutes that will carry "live cargo." Location: an Eastern parachute plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Final inspection of flare parachutes is ...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The water stretching machine of an Eastern parachute manufacturer stretches shroud lines so as to make them more adaptable to the finished product

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The water stretching machine ...

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. Parachute making. Parachutes, back from a test flight, are inspected in this manner in an Eastern plant. A certain percentage of all parachutes produced are dropped from planes, then returned to the plant for inspection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Parachutes, back from a test flight, are...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A 5B spinning machine in the plant of an Eastern parachute manufacturer. This is the latest type doubling and twisting machine. It makes shroud lines for parachutes

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A 5B spinning machine in the ...

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. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironing board, this is really a parachute stretched over a glass table, upon which it is subjected to rigid inspection. Electric lights underneath the table show up the slightest imperfection. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Though it looks like a skirt on an ironi...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The quilling operation, early in the making of parachute cloth, consists of winding the fine nylon thread from spools onto small quills. The threads will later be woven into the parachute cloth

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. The quilling operation, early...

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. Parachute making. First-generation Americans whose parents represent Italy, Greece, and England, these three girls work side by side at the punching machine in an Eastern parachute factory. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. First-generation Americans whose parents...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Raw silk to be used in the manufacture of parachute cloth and shroud lines is wound from skeins onto spools

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Raw silk to be used in the ma...

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. Parachute making. Doing her part, as her brother in the Navy is doing his, this operator is assembling packs for parachutes in an Eastern plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Doing her part, as her brother in the Na...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. An Eastern manufacturer uses this 5B spinning machine of the older type in manufacturing warp threads for weaving into parachute cloth

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. An Eastern manufacturer uses ...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Weaving parachute cloth in an Eastern silk plant. The carefully selected and treated silk and nylon that go into this cloth provide great strength and lightness

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Weaving parachute cloth in an...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use in the making of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. This picture shows the threads coming from the nylon spools to the warping machine. The number of threads is 1,000. When one thread breaks, an electric switch stops the operation of all the machines. This woman, of German descent, has a son in the U.S. Army

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Parachute making. Rolls of silk, destined for action as parachutes for the U.S. Air Force, shown here on the laying-out and cutting table of an Eastern manufacturing plant. The folder machine folds layer upon layer of silk for the cutting operation. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Rolls of silk, destined for action as pa...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Soaking raw silk to be used in making parachute cloth and shroud lines. In order to obtain the best results in subsequent operations, it is necessary that the silk be treated in a soaking bath. The still, or non-agitated method, is being used in this instance

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Soaking raw silk to be used i...

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. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department store lingerie counter is actually pilot chutes lined up for inspection at an Eastern parachute factory. A pilot chute is hooked up to every parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. What at first seems to be a department s...

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. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together into flare parachutes, a task which requires just as much care and skill as does working on parachutes that will bear men. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together i...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping operation in the making of parachute cloth and shrouds. The spools of silk are put on racks and drawn through a big reel. From there they go to a roll for weaving

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping operation in the ma...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Parachute making. What a boomerang these shroud lines may turn out to be! Made partly from Japanese silk, they are being layed out for marking and cutting. The marker is Charles Baggott, at one time an English butler at the British Embassy in Washington. The parachutes he is helping to produce hold a personal interest for him since his mother and four sisters are in England and his brother is a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot instructor in Canada. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. What a boomerang these shroud lines may ...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use in the manufacture of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. A close-up of the warping machine, showing how the spools of nylon are supported

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Warping nylon threads for use...

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