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Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. "Rifle furniture" in the raw. Walnut logs in the yard of a converted Midwest flooring plant await cutting into the blocks or pieces from which army gunstocks will be made. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. "Rifle furniture" in the raw. Walnu...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Cutting gunstock blocks for the Army. A walnut slab, or flitch, is run through a band saw, and marked sections are cut out with precision. The final clear pieces, of gunstock dimension, will later be cut from these sections by the ripsaws of a converted flooring plant

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Cutting gunstock blocks for the Arm...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large walnut slab, known as a flitch, is marked for the cutting out of sound planes for gunstocks. Light chalk marks indicate defects. Black marks are the outlines to which selected sections for "rifle furniture" will be cut. Because of knots, swirls, twisted grain and other faults, only a small percentage of the flitch can be used. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large wal...

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. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Strong, light plywood for our fighting planes. An exact and even spread of urea glue is applied by machine onto the crossboards of lumber-core panels to permit attaching of wood veneers in a Midwest plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Strong, light plywood for ...

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. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Plywood panels for combat planes and boats. These panels, produced in a Midwest plant, have remarkable properties. The synthetic resins used as adhesives make a bond that is stronger than the wood itself, and they resist water so well that they may be boiled without injury. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Plywood panels for combat ...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Designing corrugated wood. Aircraft poplar veneer after drying and just before inspection and cutting in a Midwest factory. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Designing co...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. A ripsaw in a converted hardwood flooring plant cuts gunstock blocks of clear walnut from selected pieces which have been bandsawed from a large slab, or flitch. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. A r...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A walnut half log is bolted on the stay log of a machine that will cut it smoothly and with great precision into veneer for our combat planes. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A walnut hal...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large walnut slab, known as a flitch, is marked for the cutting out of sound planes for gunstocks. Light chalk marks indicate defects. Black marks are the outlines to which selected sections for "rifle furniture" will be cut. Because of knots, swirls, twisted grain and other faults, only a small percentage of the flitch can be used. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large wal...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A strip of walnut veneer that will be used in a panel of a combat plane comes from the textile dryer of a Midwest plant. This operation reduces the moisture content to about eight to ten percent. Sheets are stacked in exact sequence just as they come off the knife slicer from the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A strip of w...

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. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A strip of walnut veneer that will be used in a panel of a combat plane comes from the textile dryer of a Midwest plant. This operation reduces the moisture content to about eight to ten percent. Sheets are stacked in exact sequence just as they come off the knife slicer from the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. A strip of w...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Flooring the Axis. Following the last lot of hardwood plank flooring to go through a large Midwest plant before conversion to the manufacture of gunstocks or rifle furniture. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Flooring the Axis. Following the la...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar venee...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar venee...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for c...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. Carefully selected walnut butts from which gunstocks will be made are stacked on a kiln truck for a drying operation that will reduce the moisture content to twelve percent. After drying, they will be ready for turning into rifle stocks. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. Car...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Fighting planes and boats need this fine mahogany being inspected in a Midwest factory. Inspectors look for so-called windbreaks, minute pin worms and other defects that would disqualify the veneer. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Fighting pla...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneers for our combat planes are made from these specially selected logs, stored in the yard of a large Midwest factory. The logs on the right are African mahogany from the British Gold Coast. Those on the left are American poplar. Millions of feet of both species are converted monthly into various thicknesses of aircraft veneers. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneers for ...

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. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Strong, light plywood for our fighting planes. An exact and even spread of urea glue is applied by machine to strips of wood veneer to permit attachment to lumbercore panels in a Midwest plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Strong, light plywood for ...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for c...

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. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for c...

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. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Plywood panels for combat planes and boats. These panels, produced in a Midwest plant, have remarkable properties. The synthetic resins used as adhesives make a bond that is stronger than the wood itself, and they resist water so well that they may be boiled without injury. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Plywood panels for combat ...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Aircraft veneers are made in a large Midwest factory. Millions of feet of logs are used each month. The logs in the foreground are American poplar, those in the background are African mahogany. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Aircraft ven...

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. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for c...

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