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Wives of migratory workers in the laundry room at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona. Hot and cold water are furnished by the camp, soap and other washing materials by the people

Wives of migratory workers in the laundry room at the Agua Fria Migrat...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

W.L. Finger, chief consultant, rubber unit, Materials Branch, Production Division

W.L. Finger, chief consultant, rubber unit, Materials Branch, Producti...

Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was three dollars and eighteen cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out ...

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

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap contains waste paper so badly needed today for conversion into the paper packing in which defense and lend-lease goods are shipped. Paper is one of the materials with which Americans have been most profligate, only now they are beginning to conserve paper along with many other materials long thought of as merely refuse

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap con...

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

Many new roads were necessary in order to bring in materials to Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Many new roads were necessary in order to bring in materials to Shasta...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Tennessee Valley Authority: railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. The "tallow pot," or fireman, of a freight locomotive carrying materials for the building of the TVA Watts Bar Dam shovels from 16,000 to 20,000 pounds of coal in an eight hour day, in addition to performing other duties around the engine and tender

Tennessee Valley Authority: railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. The "tall...

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. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Operating a valve servicing on of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Op...

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

A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeance to be wrecked on the Axis powers, this little lady is contributing to their defeat. She has gathered up an old bicycle tire and other odds and ends to contribute to the scrap rubber collection drive. Reclaimed rubber made from these materials is playing an imcreasingly important part in the war effort. Large percentages of "reclaim" are now being used in many material articles, such as combat tires, self-sealing gas tanks, etc.. Help build up Uncle Sam's scrap rubbe pile by contributing any no longer used rubber articles you may have

A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeanc...

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

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production. The Board for Individual Awards, composed of engineers and technical experts who contribute their time to evaluating production ideas, is shown at a Washington session. Left to right: Charles B. Francis, Carnegie, Illinois Steel Corporation; Dr. J.L. Bray, Purdue University; Paul H. Stanley, Pitcairn Auto-Gyro Company; L.A. Poole of War Production Drive's Awards Field Operations Branch; Whiting Williams of Cleveland, Ohio; James B. Gent, United Steel Workers (USW) and William P. Hill, Bethlehem Steel

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Aluminum casting. Gates and risers--extraneous materials from earlier castings ready to be remelted and recast. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Gates and risers--extraneous materials from earlier ...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A gas-cooling tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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

Payment of U.S. troops and Canadian contractors brings in American exchange, facilitating purchase of war materials in United States for Dominion's arsenals

Payment of U.S. troops and Canadian contractors brings in American exc...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Mrs. Leslie Atkins sewing. The papier-mache form is a mold of her own figure. The sewing machine folds into the table when not in use. Scraps and materials can be kept inside the stool which opens up

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Mrs. Leslie Atkins sewin...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. A combination of long mechanical experience, practical railroad training and common sense is required for the job of running one of the big "hogs," or locomotives. This engineer handles a train which hauls materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. A combina...

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

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can get behind his government's efforts to conserve fuel whether he heats his home with oil or coal, and both are strategically important. Fuel savings can be effected by keeping temperatures at reasonable levels, closing off unused rooms, and insulating in various ways. Windows can be weather stripped. Conservation of fuel will help release railroad and other transportation facilities for the movement of fighting materials

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can...

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. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. Tons of vital war materials will pass through this cargo door of a C-47 transport plane under construction at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Tons of vital war materials will pa...

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

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap rubber from the farm helps our war effort. Harvey Fischer of Dexter, Michigan, helped by two year-old Bobbie, was the first farmer in his state to cooperate with the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB). The old metal and rubber from his farmyard brought him cash and at the same time provided essential materials for our armed forces

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap rubber from the farm helps our war effort. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C., of the type of prefabricated temporary emergency dwelling unit Unitee States plans to ship to Great Britian under lend-lease. Materials have been allotted by War Production Board, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement fo these houses. Bids for the construction of these units were to be in by March 5, 1945

Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Wa...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Folklorist David Taylor looking over pattern books and materials at Technocraft, a pattern-making shop in Bloomfield, New Jersey. He is accompanied by Sherman McGovern, one of the patternmakers in the shop.

Folklorist David Taylor looking over pattern books and materials at Te...

Picryl description: Public domain book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photograph of foundry casts, molds and materials used at the Watson foundry that was closed in the 'seventies.

Photograph of foundry casts, molds and materials used at the Watson fo...

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More

Photos, haircut names and fees, and other materials on the wall of McDowell's Barber Shop.

Photos, haircut names and fees, and other materials on the wall of McD...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded, at his workshop in Pink Lily, Alabama

Charlie Lucas makes his art from materials that others have discarded,...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Reserve Materials Storehouse, Between I & J Streets, between Fourth & Fifth Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Reserve Materials Storehouse, Between I &...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-GG Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Reserve Materials Storehouse, Between I & J Streets, between Fourth & Fifth Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Reserve Materials Storehouse, Between I &...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-GG Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

NASA Industrial Plant, Materials Test Lab, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, Los Angeles County, CA

NASA Industrial Plant, Materials Test Lab, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, D...

Significance: Building 120 appears to have been used as a materials test lab and compatibility testing facility. The structure was believed to be built about 1960, as part of the Apollo missions. There is som... More

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Administration Building, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Administration Building, 3241 North Rom...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-B Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Contributions and donations; Materials and supplies; 1898, May

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Contributions and donations; Materials and supplies; 1898, Jan.-Mar.

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Superintendent's Garage, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Superintendent's Garage, 3241 North Rom...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-E Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Aeronautical Materials Storehouses, Between E & G Streets, between Fourth & Sixth Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Aeronautical Materials Storehouses, Betwe...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-EE Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction

House erection. Delivery of materials. Standard panel load is made up in the order in which panels are to be handled at the job site. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

House erection. Delivery of materials. Standard panel load is made up ...

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

Batt, William L. Director, Materials Division, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Batt, William L. Director, Materials Division, Office of Production Ma...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The filling materials are carefully rolled to provide a firm foundation for the paved streets

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The filling materials are careful...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.... More

Permanent automatic graph of various materials which go into the concrete used in construction of Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Permanent automatic graph of various materials which go into the concr...

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.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

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

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carriages and buckets which deliver materials to construction points at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Carriages and buckets which deliver materials to construction points a...

Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheelhouse from which aerial tram which delivers materials to construction points is operated, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Wheelhouse from which aerial tram which delivers materials to construc...

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

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An operator adjusts a gate valve in the ammonia condenser section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals into ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An...

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

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio, synthetic rubber plant of the B.F. Goodrich Company, is adding a catalyst to a polymerizer tank, to speed up the process of changing various raw materials into latex. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This worker at the Akron, Ohio, synthetic...

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

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls who live at the resident center at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community at Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona, learn to use waste materials for toys, jewelry, etc.

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls who live at the resident cen...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Adjusting a valve servicing one of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ad...

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

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successf...

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

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in a big Western aircraft plant examines a metal sample through a high-power (2700 diameter) microscope. Representative samples of all structural metals purchased for use in building ships in this plant must pass critical tests to detect faulty materials

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in a big Western aircraft plant ...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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.

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can get behind his government's efforts to conserve fuel whether he heats his home with oil or coal, and both are strategically important. Fuel savings can be effected by keeping temperatures at reasonable levels, closing off unused rooms, and insulating in various ways. Windows can be weather stripped. Conservation of fuel will help release railroad and other transportation facilities for the movement of fighting materials

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can...

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

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 firemen of a railway locomotive. In addition 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.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An American "Do-All" machine saws armor plate for use in combat cars at an Indian factory. Lend-lease materials are essential in the manufacture of this super-tough steel

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An American "Do-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.

Houses for Britain. Washington, D.C., February - March, 1945. Workmen erecting a sample prefabricated house, as a public demonstration of lend-lease materials, in Scott Circle, a public park area. 30,000 similar housing units (two bedrooms, kitchen, bath) are intended for shipment to Great Britain

Houses for Britain. Washington, D.C., February - March, 1945. Workmen ...

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

Houses for Britain. Kitchen entrance to model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. This prefabricated, temporary, emergency house was designed to use a minimum of critical materials including lumber

Houses for Britain. Kitchen entrance to model house erected by the Fed...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Vulcan Materials Company limestone quarry, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Superintendent's Cottage, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Superintendent's Cottage, 3241 North Ro...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-D Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Administration Building, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Materials Center, Administration Building, 3241 North Rom...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-B Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Contributions and donations; Materials and supplies; 1898, Jan.-Mar.

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Heavy Materials Storehouse, Second Street near Avenue C intersection, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Heavy Materials Storehouse, Second Stre...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Astronomy 490, Cornell University : course materials

Astronomy 490, Cornell University : course materials

A course syllabus, list of course books and sessions and a copy of the final for Carl Sagan's course "Critical thinking in scientific and non-scientific contexts" at Cornell University. Topics include logic, rh... More

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Aeronautical Materials Storehouses, Between E & G Streets, between Fourth & Sixth Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Aeronautical Materials Storehouses, Betwe...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-EE Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction

Tucson Plant Materials Center, General Utility Building, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Materials Center, General Utility Building, 3241 North Ro...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-C Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction

Tucson Plant Materials Center, General Utility Building, 3241 North Romero Road, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Tucson Plant Materials Center, General Utility Building, 3241 North Ro...

Survey number: HABS AZ-159-C Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Contributions and donations; Materials and supplies; 1898, July-1899, May

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Contributions and donations; Materials and supplies; 1898, July-1899, May

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contraction, like paper and other sheet materials made from cellulose, films expand as they take up moisture and contract as they lose it, and the extent of the change is different in the two directions of them. This may cause some distortion of the image, and therefore is of particular importance where the image must be true to scale, such as in aerial photography. C.O. Pope is shown with a type of expansiveity tester used and which was designed by the Bureau of Standards. Long strips of film are suspended under constant tension in the [cabinet?] in which the humidity is varied by means of [...] solutions. The change in length is indicated [...continuously?] on a scale by means of an optical-level arrangement, 7/8/38

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contra...

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Interior of tent of white migrant family near Edinburg, Texas. Bed is on the floor. Tent was made of patched cotton materials of various sorts. The man said he had worked in a cotton mill in Dallas, Texas, and had obtained the materials then

Interior of tent of white migrant family near Edinburg, Texas. Bed is ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced

Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas C...

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Central tower from which materials are distributed for construction of Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Central tower from which materials are distributed for construction of...

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Robert E. Wilson, consultant, petroleum unit, Chemical and Allied Products Section, Materials Branch, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Robert E. Wilson, consultant, petroleum unit, Chemical and Allied Prod...

C. E. Rhetts, Executive Assistant to Mr. Batt, Materials Division, Office of Production Management (OPM)

C. E. Rhetts, Executive Assistant to Mr. Batt, Materials Division, Off...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large Eastern shipyard is a typical scene in many large shipyards at work on ships for Uncle Sam's Navy and merchant fleet. Stocks of material are piled up for the cranes to take to vessels under construction so there is no delay in production while waiting for sections or materials. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. A building truckload of discarded automobiles stripped of all usable parts and non-ferrous materials is delivered to a scrap iron dealer's processing plant in Baltimore, Maryland. This steel will be baled in huge hydraulic presses and sent to steel mills to feed the ever hungry furnaces now turning out steel for the national defense production program

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. A building truckload of discarded ...

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A black and white photo of a baby's cradler. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a baby's cradler. Office of War Information...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the American people that waste materials are vital to the war effort. Printed in three colors -- black, red and white -- it was designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for distribution through the Bureau of Industrial Conservation. Its size is 20 x 28 in.

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and butadiene, a highly volatile gas "cracked" from crude petroleum. These raw materials for synthetic rubber are piped from freight cars into these storage tanks. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and bu...

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A poster comes to life. The three men tour one of the mill yards. In the background, to the immediate right of the freight car, is a portion of a scrap pile. Immediately behind Sergeant Vineyard is a pile of limestone and slag. In the background, to the sailor's right, are piles of iron heaped high. All of these materials are destined for the steel furnaces, where they are used in varying quantities to make the many varieties of steel needed by our armed forces. Allegheny Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. The three men tour one of the mill yards. In t...

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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Putting up a prefabricated house made from materials not affected by wartime shortages

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. This fifteen-passenger coach was made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. Wood and other non-critical materials were used in making the six-foot central section, from the composition top to the ash girders used in "stretching" the frame

Transportation. War workers' coach. This fifteen-passenger coach was m...

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Substitute materials containers. Wartime tobacco containers. Left to right: one-pound fiber container, two-ounce fiber container, and two-ounce metal can. Fiber is expected to be used for tobacco containers for the duration

Substitute materials containers. Wartime tobacco containers. Left to r...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Out from a siding moves a trainload of fiberglass materials headed for many destinations. The glass fabric will be used in a Midwestern bomber plant now under construction and in the laboratories of medical supply houses where miles of fiberglass tape are used to filter blood plasma in field kits

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Out from a siding...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Section of the batch house at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. In the bins are stored the raw materials for the batch from which fiberglass materials vital to the war effort are produced

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Section of the ba...

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War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. The War Production Board (WPB) produced these stickers for distribution in war plants. They were designed for pasting on workers' machines to stimulate output of vital war materials. Sheets of assorted stickers may be obtained by writing Distribution Section, War Production Drive Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. T...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Penasco, Taos County, New Mexico. Modern homes are built smaller, for there are no longer time and materials in abundance. People must do migratory labor for cash, in order to live and to purchase tin for roofs, lumber for sashes and doors

Penasco, Taos County, New Mexico. Modern homes are built smaller, for ...

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War materials. Oil, merchandise freight, and other covered cargo, probably cotton, move up the broad Mississippi ahead of a powerful towboat

War materials. Oil, merchandise freight, and other covered cargo, prob...

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Restricted display of publications and other materials issued by the overseas branch of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) as well as allied and enemy countries

Restricted display of publications and other materials issued by the o...

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