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Blind women taking dictation on machine

Blind women taking dictation on machine

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wrights new machine - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Wrights new machine - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Machine signs 7,000 social security checks per hour with no writer's cramp. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. John W. Thomas is shown here feeding social security checks into a check signing device which reels off some 7,000 checks per hour. The checks are being made at the Treasury Department's Disbursing Division, and will be [...] out starting next Jan. 1 to recipients of social security payments

Machine signs 7,000 social security checks per hour with no writer's c...

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H. Stover on horse with sod house and threshing machine in background, Riverdale, Nebraska.

H. Stover on horse with sod house and threshing machine in background,...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Important opinions of important people on the merits of the Kodak developing machine

Important opinions of important people on the merits of the Kodak deve...

Advertisement showing photographs of several photographers accompanied by their commentary on the Kodak device. Illus. in: The World's Work, advertiser, Vol. IV, no. 6 (Oct. 1902), p. 2708.

Punching machine in boiler shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Punching machine in boiler shop, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphi...

H70652 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7081. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton picking machine in Texas

Cotton picking machine in Texas

Photograph shows two men operating a cotton picking machine in field. Copyright 1908 by H. Clogenson, Dallas, Tex.

World Furniture Company noon hour, Evansville, Ind. Boy at left hand end was running Machine Composed of two Unguarded Circular Saws. The board he was pushing stuck and he gave it an impatient shove. Had he slipped, both hands and arms would have gone into the edges of the saws, (full force) which were turned toward him. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

World Furniture Company noon hour, Evansville, Ind. Boy at left hand e...

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Automatic developing machine - Drawing. Public domain image.

Automatic developing machine - Drawing. Public domain image.

H.C. White Stereo Co., N. Bennington, Vt. H125138 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Machinery; Photog... More

Twining ornithopter, flying machine with bird-like wings

Twining ornithopter, flying machine with bird-like wings

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School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. Vincent Cannici, 13 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Lost 9 weeks school in the fall. Did not make good in promotion. Angelo, Brimo, 11 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, $1.25 to $1.50 a day, worked sometimes until 9 or 10 p.m. Lost 15 weeks schooling. Is a repeater. Buffalo, New York (State)

School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. Vincent Cannici, 13 years old last summer. Ra...

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Joseph Crapo, 47 Fruit St., works in Eclipse Mills. Apparently 13 years old. Right hand. Left hand, Albert Duquette, 183 Union St. works in weave shed, putting drop wires on weave machine. Location: North Adams, Massachusetts.

Joseph Crapo, 47 Fruit St., works in Eclipse Mills. Apparently 13 year...

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Annie Dugas, spinner at machine on top floor of Glenallen Mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Annie Dugas, spinner at machine on top floor of Glenallen Mill. Locat...

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[Enrico Caruso, 1873-1921, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, listening to his own voice on a Victor machine]

[Enrico Caruso, 1873-1921, three-quarter length portrait, standing, fa...

J178004 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Phonographs; BI; Shelf.

Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine which cut off his hand. See Hine Report, August 1915.

Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Machine shop, Newport News - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Machine shop, Newport News - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a machine shop, probably in a shipyard, Newport News, Virginia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

ARMY, U.S. WIRE CUTTING MACHINE INSPECTED BY SEN. NEW AND REP. RANDALL; McDERMOTT, JAMES THOMAS; LOGAN, JOHN E.

ARMY, U.S. WIRE CUTTING MACHINE INSPECTED BY SEN. NEW AND REP. RANDALL...

A group of men standing around an old fashioned train. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ARMY, U.S. WIRE CUTTING MACHINE WITH INVENTOR, JOHN E. LOGAN

ARMY, U.S. WIRE CUTTING MACHINE WITH INVENTOR, JOHN E. LOGAN

A group of men standing around a wooden box. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Canadian scenes. Machine at fish cannery for cutting off heads of fish known as iron chink

Canadian scenes. Machine at fish cannery for cutting off heads of fish...

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Union Barber Supply, washing machine

Union Barber Supply, washing machine

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[Interior view of newspaper delivery room showing man taking stack of newspapers from machine] / World-Telegram photo.

[Interior view of newspaper delivery room showing man taking stack of ...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Inventor of America's first flying machine attends International Civil Aeronautics Conference. Orville Wright, one of the famous Wright brothers who made the first flight in America 25 years ago, was given a hearty greeting by the delegates from all over the world when he arrived to attend the first session of the International Civil Aeronautics Conference in Washington today. In this picture Mr. Wright (right) is shaking hands with William F. Whiting, Secretary of Commerce

Inventor of America's first flying machine attends International Civil...

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Arab demonstration at Yatta. Troops on duty with machine guns strung along the road approaching the scene of gathering

Arab demonstration at Yatta. Troops on duty with machine guns strung a...

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Machine in L St. station

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Machine in L St. station

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts at Buzzard Point plant X

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts at Buzzard Point plant VI

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts at Buzzard Point plant II

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts at Buzzard Point plant VIII

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Damaged machine parts ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Machine in J St. station

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Machine in J St. station

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[Fingerprint viewing machine?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Fingerprint viewing machine?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Lydda Airport. Major Gumbly, with his private flying machine, closeup

Lydda Airport. Major Gumbly, with his private flying machine, closeup

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, flight, airplane, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of Edgar Allen's children playing with doll. The couch and sewing machine are the two most substantial pieces of furniture in the house. The farm is one hundred sixty acres and rented from private party. Near Milford, Iowa

One of Edgar Allen's children playing with doll. The couch and sewing ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indiana farmland and machine shed after the flood. Posey County, Indiana

Indiana farmland and machine shed after the flood. Posey County, India...

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

A black and white photo of two men loading hay, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of two men loading hay, Great Depression. FSA/...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Young republicans meet with chairman. Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. The Young Republicans had their inning today when they met with chairman John Hamilton to plan a course of strategy for the 1938 Congressional Elections. Here we see, left to right: Ronald Bridges, State Chairman for Young Republican in Maine; Mrs. Cooper Rhoades, National Committeewoman for D.C. Young Republicans; Chairman Hamilton; Mrs. Barbara, Regional Director for Young Republican Machine in Vermont; and Henry Bubb, Young Republican Committeeman for Kansas. 9/27/37

Young republicans meet with chairman. Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. The ...

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Washington, D.C. Stamp coiling machine at the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Washington, D.C. Stamp coiling machine at the United States Bureau of ...

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

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon, Louisiana. Farmers...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Automatic milking machine. Douglas County, Kansas

Automatic milking machine. Douglas County, Kansas

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of two men loading hay, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of two men loading hay, Arkansas. Farmers duri...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. The machine was put into operation June 7, 1938. Has to date (Nov. 3, 1938) served on sixty harvesting jobs in wheat, barley, soy beans, and milo maize. Tulare County, California

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Ru...

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Placing sample of rice in milling machine for test, Crowley, Louisiana, state rice mill

Placing sample of rice in milling machine for test, Crowley, Louisiana...

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Motor-driven sprayer machine used on large farms to feed beans through leaves and kill white fly. Around Lake Okeechobee, Florida

Motor-driven sprayer machine used on large farms to feed beans through...

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Forming a roll edge on innerspring mattress by special machine. Mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

Forming a roll edge on innerspring mattress by special machine. Mattre...

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

Winding machine, where large cylinders of warp are prepared for later use in weaving cloth. Laurel mills, Mississippi

Winding machine, where large cylinders of warp are prepared for later ...

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

Tractor-driven combination bean planter and fertilizer machine used on many large tracts of land in Florida farming area. Muckland around Lake Okeechobee, Florida

Tractor-driven combination bean planter and fertilizer machine used on...

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Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman worker at Vultee-Nashville is shown working on the horizontal stabilizer for a Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the R.A.F. and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Drilling horizontal stabilizers: operating a hand drill, this woman wo...

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Lidding machine used in packing vegetables. Elsa, Texas

Lidding machine used in packing vegetables. Elsa, Texas

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Machine for cleaning cotton linters which are used to stuff mattresses. Mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas

Machine for cleaning cotton linters which are used to stuff mattresses...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This giant machine grinds and finishes the bases of rough cut propellers at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation. East Hartford, Connecticut

This giant machine grinds and finishes the bases of rough cut propelle...

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Tempered to take it. This elaborate machine is an important war worker. It heat treats and tempers gun parts at an eastern armory

Tempered to take it. This elaborate machine is an important war worker...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of wool scouring machine. The metal forks pull the wool through the hot alkaline solution. Wool scouring plant, San Marcos, Texas

Part of wool scouring machine. The metal forks pull the wool through t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New type of plating machine being used at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation. It automatically dips the part into the proper solutions for the proper lengths of time. East Hartford, Connecticut

New type of plating machine being used at the Hamilton Standard Propel...

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Tractor engine used to operate threshing machine at the farm of Alfred Shaffner, in submarginal farm area of Sugar Hill, near Townsend, New York

Tractor engine used to operate threshing machine at the farm of Alfred...

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Early model of Singer sewing machine

Early model of Singer sewing machine

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of postal stamp, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Patent official, patent record files. Files of patents of which 2,180,00 have been issued. These files extend over 50 miles in total length and are kept in air conditioned portion of the building, washed air keeps paper from iridizing. Another old patent of drawing without the specification. This describes a spinning and weaving machine for cotton. December 30, 1791

Patent official, patent record files. Files of patents of which 2,180,...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Automatic mucking machine at gold mine. Mogollon, New Mexico. Scoop picks up the ore and deposits it in the car for transportation

Automatic mucking machine at gold mine. Mogollon, New Mexico. Scoop pi...

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

An old cotton pressing machine on a farm near Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia

An old cotton pressing machine on a farm near Greensboro, Greene Count...

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

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine tools and the old grind stone, somewhat modernised--all find a part in our war production program. These workers finish off one of the many parts that go to make up the equipment that helps to turn out the steel required for tanks and ships and guns. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine to...

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Setting machine screws in the body of an armoured halftrac scout car under construction in the plant of a large Eastern manufacturer converted from the making of locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Setting machine screws in the body...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. The man on the machine is transplanting guayule seedlings into the field

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. The man on the...

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.

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Electrically driven transmission gears have speeded up production at the small Wilbarger and Sons Shop, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Workers at the shop installed the gears and transmission of an old Ford coupe on this machine and the results have been more than gratifying

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Electrically driven transmission ...

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.

Family moving into trailer at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. This family is from Minnesota. The man came to San Diego ten months ago and enrolled in a vocational school. He started to work at Consolidated Aircrafts as a riveter and is now a clerk in the machine shop. Before his family came out three weeks ago he lived in a cabin for which he paid twelve dollars per month. He said it was alright for a man but that he wouldn't take his wife and children into such a place. He got a furnished apartment for his family--it was two rooms, rental eleven dollars per week. His wife soon discovered that there was inadequate hot water and was overrun with roaches and rats. San Diego, California

Family moving into trailer at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men working on a machine. Office of War...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Langdon Tent and Awning Company, Wichita, Kansas. A modern automatic grommet-setting machine speeds the mass production effort of this plant which is turning out 1500 "pups" tents a day for the expanding defense Army

Langdon Tent and Awning Company, Wichita, Kansas. A modern automatic g...

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.

First National Bank, Madison, New Jersey. Two bookkeeping and one transit machine

First National Bank, Madison, New Jersey. Two bookkeeping and one tran...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harvesting machine for guayule, Salinas, California

Harvesting machine for guayule, Salinas, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a Midwestern company. The machine which formerly made spur gears, worm wheels and commentator rings has been converted to war use by being tooled with an eccentric spindle and thread rolling attachment for the production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a ...

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Production. Airplane propellers. Hamilton propeller blades for our warships of the air are placed into a Barnes multiple drill by Frank Krupczak at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. This machine performs the precise boring operations required before fitting to spiders in sets of two or three

Production. Airplane propellers. Hamilton propeller blades for our war...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. American power in the air grows rapidly as machine guns of the finest quality pour from production lines to arm the planes that are coming steadily from other lines. These guns, entirely completed and ready to fire, await shipment from the large converted auto plant which made them. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. American power in the air g...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operated a pneumatic numbering machine in the sheet metal department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. All items are given index numbers. 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. A woman employee operated a...

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.

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Ditching machine going through the woods

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Private first class Fred D. Long, home on leave from Fort Bliss, Texas, goes shopping with his father, Albert K. Long, who works in the animal trap company's machine shop

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Private first class Fred D. Long, home on leave ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making bits for a pneumatic drilling machine is to heat a rod of the proper size; this rod is placed into machine which punches and forms the bit; this process is called drop forging. Bit plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making b...

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

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 ...

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Fort Story coast defense. A cog in the vital airplane spotting machine, this Fort Story soldier stands ready to transmit essential information

Fort Story coast defense. A cog in the vital airplane spotting machine...

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Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. William Watson gauges and inspects barrel drilling holes on .45-caliber automatic pistols in the plant of a large manufacturer of firearms. Many men and women are employed here in producing pistols, machine guns and other essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. William Watson gauges and ins...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A veteran sheet metal worker from World War I, Andy Bracken has returned to his old trade to turn out ship parts for Navy use. Behind the wheel of the forming machine is W.C. Fraser, former store clerk who is a helper in a Southern Navy yard

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A veteran sheet metal worker from...

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Meeker County, Minnesota. Mrs. Mike McRaith after lunch. Her husband has gone out to the machine shed to do some repair work

Meeker County, Minnesota. Mrs. Mike McRaith after lunch. Her husband h...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. An ex-automobile worker is pictured here operating a centering machine to determine the plain and stroke of an airplane engine crankshaft. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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

Printing war ration book 2. Glued sheets containing four ration books pass through the cutting machine and come out into single ration books. Weelan Reilly feeds the cutter as Ida Stuart, left, and Isabel Small, check the books and pack them in cardboard containers

Printing war ration book 2. Glued sheets containing four ration books ...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench-lathe workers, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing burrs from special taper head screws

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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Production. Copper (refining). Casting machine in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper formed by electrolysis are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting machine in a large copper refin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bernard L. Lukin, twenty-eight, of Norwegian ancestry. His father has a small farm in South Dakota. He left the farm in 1936 and has been working in Minneapolis since then. He is now working in a small machine shop turning out tools and dies for war plants in the area

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bernard L. Lukin, twenty-eight, of Norwegian a...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas fields to eastern refineries, completed in July 1943. Blasting hard rock through which ditching machine could not penetrate

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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Meeker County, Minnesota. Pat McRaith looking over machinery in his machine shed

Meeker County, Minnesota. Pat McRaith looking over machinery in his ma...

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

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A machine paints the exterior and interior of each 37mm M-54 high explosive shell made at a former cash register factory now engaged in war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A machine paints the exte...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, from the white and the Negro come the skills which will make America impregnable. A veteran employee in an Eastern navy yard instructs an apprentice machinist in the operation of an important machine

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. From the aged and the youthful, fro...

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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them any more. Conversion of a large Eastern mill from production of women's stockings to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy, gives this worker a vital defense job. She's drawing yarn from warp machine into warp beams prior to its use on looms. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them ...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A machine maintenance man in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation enjoys a smoke as he goes off the shift

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A machine mainten...

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Great Falls, Montana, Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire rods are stacked in warehouse by this machine which can stack several tons at once

Great Falls, Montana, Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire rods are s...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

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.

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Workman munching a sandwich while operating a drilling machine

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"In moth balls" until the Axis is smashed. A special machine tool that helped make a popular American automobile is crated for storage as all facilities of a big plant are converted for exclusive production of army "jeeps" and tanks. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

"In moth balls" until the Axis is smashed. A special machine tool that...

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Bingham Canyon, Utah. Drilling blast holes with a rock-drill machine in an open-pit mine operated by the Utah Copper Company

Bingham Canyon, Utah. Drilling blast holes with a rock-drill machine i...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A boring operation on the Oerliken machine for 20mm anti-aircraft guns. Many regular employees were retained when a large cash register manufacturing plant changed over to war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A boring operation on the...

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

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Magneto driving gears for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors are tested for hardness on a Rockwell machine in a large Eastern plant producing engines in great numbers for our armed forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Magneto driving gears ...

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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.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Lunch time in the machine shop

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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