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The mouthpiece of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazine requires many milling machine operations. Heavy production of these magazines is the order of the day at a large plant that had been making cash registers. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

The mouthpiece of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazine requires many mill...

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.

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is an old story to this young woman employee of an Eastern hosiery plant which is now forty-percent converted to the manufacture of mosquito netting for the armed forces. These warp holders are used to determine the tensile strength of yarn and to keep it in place during machine operations. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is ...

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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is an old story to this young woman employee of an Eastern hosiery plant which is now forty-percent converted to the manufacture of mosquito netting for the armed forces. These warp holders are used to determine the tensile strength of yarn and to keep it in place during machine operations. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is ...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The making of antiaircraft cartridge cases in a big Midwest plant involves a series of drawing and other machine operations, together with washings and annealing between operations. The cases are transferred from one location to another in baskets

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The making of antiaircraft cartridge ...

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. Finishing department of large Midwest plant producing pipe fittings for the Army. Here fittings made by bending straight pipe pass through beveling and other machine operations that prepare them for later welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Finishing department of large Midwest plant...

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

Production. Diesel engines. Good patterns help the war production drive by speeding foundry and machine operations. A skilled pattern maker of a Midwest engine plant checks against blueprint measurements laid down by the design engineers

Production. Diesel engines. Good patterns help the war production driv...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Loading antiaircraft cartridge cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform and ductile, ready for succeeding machine operations. The equipment possessed by this big Midwest plant was well suited for producing these cases in large volume

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Loading antiaircraft cartridge cases ...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Antiaircraft cartridge cases are unloaded from a stress-annealing furnace which has made them soft, uniform and ductile, ready for succeeding machine operations. The big Midwest plant doing this work is ideally equipped for volume production of war necessities like these cases

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Antiaircraft cartridge cases are unlo...

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. A massive ship propeller of manganese bronze is calibrated for later machine operations. The huge war production plant in which it was made is also turning out tanks and locomotives. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A massive ship propeller of manganes...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Loading antiaircraft cartridge cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform and ductile, ready for succeeding machine operations. The equipment possessed by this big Midwest plant was well suited for producing these cases in large volume

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Loading antiaircraft cartridge cases ...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Antiaircraft cartridge cases are unloaded from a stress-annealing furnace which has made them soft, uniform and ductile, ready for succeeding machine operations. The big Midwest plant doing this work is ideally equipped for volume production of war necessities like these cases

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Antiaircraft cartridge cases are unlo...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The making of antiaircraft cartridge cases in a big Midwest plant involves a series of drawing and other machine operations, together with washings and annealing between operations. The cases are transferred from one location to another in baskets

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The making of antiaircraft cartridge ...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. One of the many machine operations on a partially assembled carriage for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun. This is a typical scene as heavy industry gets into gear in America's war program. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. One of the many machine operations on a par...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The mouthpiece of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazine requires many milling machine operations. Heavy production of these magazines is the order of the day at a large plant that had been making cash registers. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

The mouthpiece of a 20mm anti-aircraft gun magazine requires many mill...

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. Ship propellers, etc. A massive ship propeller of manganese bronze is calibrated for later machine operations. The huge war production plant in which it was made is also turning out tanks and locomotives. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A massive ship propeller of manganes...

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

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A big automobile plant, now entirely on war production, has a well-equipped department for the finishing of breeches for Air Corps machine guns. Milling, grinding and other machine operations are handled as expertly as in the days when the plant was making automobile parts. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A big automobile plant, now...

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