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Oil cans and soldering equipment in barn on farm near Rockville, Maryland

Oil cans and soldering equipment in barn on farm near Rockville, Maryl...

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Metal sign blowing in the wind. Doyon, North Dakota

Metal sign blowing in the wind. Doyon, North Dakota

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Metal workers having lunch at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fallston, Pennsylvania

Metal workers having lunch at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fal...

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Milk running over the cooking coils into cans at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona

Milk running over the cooking coils into cans at the Casa Grande Valle...

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Truck load of milk cans at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery, East Berkshire, Vermont

Truck load of milk cans at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery, East Be...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Flattening sheet aluminum after heat treatment. This flattening operation is most important in the production of aluminum sheet for use in airplane manufacture

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Flattening she...

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Putting out the milk cans. Canyon County, Idaho

Putting out the milk cans. Canyon County, Idaho

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Turlock, California. Putting inert gas into cans of dehydrated cabbage which will be hermetically sealed. Dehydrating plant

Turlock, California. Putting inert gas into cans of dehydrated cabbage...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Metal shelters are grouped around the central utility building

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

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Production. Aluminum. Stacks of aluminum plates ready for the continuous rolling operation. By this process, thickness as fine as paper-thin sheets can be formed

Production. Aluminum. Stacks of aluminum plates ready for the continuo...

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F.W. Schablick, a butcher in the nation's capital, can be happy these days, for meat rationing means more orderly marketing and fairer distribution of the available meat supply

F.W. Schablick, a butcher in the nation's capital, can be happy these ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Fred Kemper(left), and Mrs. Roland Kemper canning asparagus that they bought in the market

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Unloading cans of milk from early morning train. Montrose, Colorado

Unloading cans of milk from early morning train. Montrose, Colorado

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Hauling water in milk cans after pipes have frozen. Putney farm, Woodstock, Vermont

Hauling water in milk cans after pipes have frozen. Putney farm, Woods...

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Cans of milk arriving early in the morning at the Tillamook cheese plant. Tillamook, Oregon

Cans of milk arriving early in the morning at the Tillamook cheese pla...

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Pouring milk into cans. Farm of member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Pouring milk into cans. Farm of member of the Dairymen's Cooperative C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Meeker County, Minnesota. Pat McRaith's hired man pouring milk into cans

Meeker County, Minnesota. Pat McRaith's hired man pouring milk into ca...

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. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum switch boxes for airplane tow targets are gas-welded at an Eastern plant which normally makes metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum switch boxes for...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator window of a bombing plane is made on special bending equipment from extruded aluminum shapes. The work is being done in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window screens

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Sash for the navigator wi...

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Grain elevator and Gold Metal flour mill. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain elevator and Gold Metal flour mill. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Metal shelters, tents, trailers of construction workers and Army families.  Metal shelters rent for ten dollars a month, and trailer space is two dollars a week. Near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia

Metal shelters, tents, trailers of construction workers and Army famil...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong alloy" aluminum rod stock as it comes from the rolling mill. This stock has been reduced to 1 3/8" in diameter

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong...

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Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

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Stacks of canned salmon. Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon

Stacks of canned salmon. Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, ...

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Filling cream can. Antigo, Wisconsin

Filling cream can. Antigo, Wisconsin

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Metal shelters for agricultural workers in Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Metal shelters for agricultural workers in Okeechobee migratory labor ...

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Metal shelters for migratory vegetable pickers. Okeechobee migratory labor camps built by FSA (Farm Security Administration). Belle Glade, Florida

Metal shelters for migratory vegetable pickers. Okeechobee migratory l...

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Westby, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Boy opening milk cans at the cooperative creamery

Westby, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Boy opening milk cans at the coopera...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Getting ready to pour liquid aluminum onto pigs in the cast house

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Getting ready to pour liqu...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Women preparing cans to be heated and cooked

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, start...

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Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and construction workers in backyard of W.T. Mullis, who owns home and property and has grocery store on main highway about three miles from Fort Benning. For the shelters they pay ten dollars a month. For trailer or tent space two dollars a week. Mrs. R.M. Davis, whose husband is a First Sergeant at Fort Benning, now occupying metal shelter, used to live in hallway space in local home nearby and paid twenty dollars a month and had to furnish own bed. Her neighbor said "I hope these real estate men and people in Columbus who are charging so much and stealing from the poor people have to sit in their empty homes and shacks and starve when the defense program is over and finished."

Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and constructi...

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Farmers bring their cans of milk to the crossroads early every morning, where they are picked up by large cooperative farmers trucks. Woodstock, Vermont

Farmers bring their cans of milk to the crossroads early every morning...

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Putting sealed cans of vegetables which were cooked in a pressure cooker into a cold water bath for quickest cooling. This is a part of the demonstration of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor before a group of FSA officials at a district meeting. San Angelo, Texas

Putting sealed cans of vegetables which were cooked in a pressure cook...

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Unloading cans of milk and cream from truck to belt conveyer at Dariymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Unloading cans of milk and cream from truck to belt conveyer at Dariym...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Truckloads of heat-treated "strong alloy" aluminum rod ready for straightening and finished operations. Worker is examining identification tags bearing data of chemical and physical analysis

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Truckloads of ...

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Checking in garbage cans from the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camps at the permanent camp at Caldwell, Idaho, for winter storage

Checking in garbage cans from the FSA (Farm Security Administration) m...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Drying kilns used in obtaining alumina from bauxite mixture

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Drying kilns used in obtai...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. In the rectifier station

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. In the rectifier station

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Aluminum pigs in the yard by the cast house

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Aluminum pigs in the yard ...

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Anacostia, D.C. Frederick Douglass housing project. Metal ashcans

Anacostia, D.C. Frederick Douglass housing project. Metal ashcans

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Mich...

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The labor-management committee of the Titeflex Metal House Company, Newark, New Jersey set up this suggestion box to enlist employee's ideas for stimulating war production. Local and national awards are made for suggestions accepted

The labor-management committee of the Titeflex Metal House Company, Ne...

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Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Household waste fats, in the tin cans in which America housewives saved them, arrive at a rendering plant. The steel drums in which the cans are packed make many round trips between the plant and the meat markets at which the fats are collected

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Household waste fats, in the ...

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Preparation for point rationing. A shopper and her son carefully weigh posted price and point values in purchasing canned foods under war ration book two

Preparation for point rationing. A shopper and her son carefully weigh...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. One pound of pork, lard, onions, and spice go into each can

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork for lend-lease shipment to USSR. Kroger Company. Tins of pork on packing line

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork for lend-lease shipment to USS...

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Metal workers having lunch at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fallston, Pennsylvania

Metal workers having lunch at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fal...

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Detail of wool scouring machine. Metal forks pull the wool through the hot alkaline bath. Wool scouring plant, San Marcos, Texas

Detail of wool scouring machine. Metal forks pull the wool through the...

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Metal nests in prefabricated hen house on farm near Haymarket, Virginia

Metal nests in prefabricated hen house on farm near Haymarket, Virgini...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet aluminum for stamping into powder cans as part of the national defense production program

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet...

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War Production Drive Committee. First meeting of the War Production Drive Policy Committee on October 19, 1942, in Washington, D.C. Left to right: John Green, president, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations); Otto A. Seyferth, President, West Michigan Steel Foundry Company, Muskegon, Michigan (nominated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce); W.G. Marshall, chairman of Policy Committee and director of War Production Drive Headquarters, vice-president in charge of Industrial Relations, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Joseph Mcdonagh, secretary, Metal Trades Department,  AFL (American Federation of Labor), representing Frank Fenton, director of Organizations, AFL; and Harry C. Beaver, president, Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, New York City (nominated by National Association of Manufacturers)

War Production Drive Committee. First meeting of the War Production Dr...

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

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Milling fillets on passenger train window frames in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Milling fillets on passen...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted fro...

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Metal salvage scrap. Heavy steel scrap, salvaged at the Wright farm, Dexter, Michigan is weighed and loaded as the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gathers large tonnages of old metal and rubber from the nation's farmyards

Metal salvage scrap. Heavy steel scrap, salvaged at the Wright farm, D...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Pouring aluminum into pig molds at the cast house

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Pouring aluminum into pig ...

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Close-up of a truck with a sanitation department worker collecting cans left at the curb on collection days designated by the department

Close-up of a truck with a sanitation department worker collecting can...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Handwork is still a vital operation in the production of airplane sub-assembly parts. Metal shaping is the job of this worker at a large Ohio plant. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Handwork is still a vital operation in ...

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Milk cans at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery in East Berkshire, Vermont

Milk cans at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery in East Berkshire, Ver...

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Farmhouse with milk cans waiting for creamery wagon. Canyon County, Idaho

Farmhouse with milk cans waiting for creamery wagon. Canyon County, Id...

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Truckload of milk cans of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. This cooperative handles about fifty percent of the creamery products of the Boise Valley; five other creameries handle the other fifty percent

Truckload of milk cans of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwel...

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Milk cans on farm of member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. The slogan of the co-op has been "Every Member a Fieldman"

Milk cans on farm of member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Ca...

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Metal shelters for agricultural workers. Osceola migratory labor camps, Belle Glade, Florida

Metal shelters for agricultural workers. Osceola migratory labor camps...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box for an airplane tow target is drilled in a production jig at an Eastern plant that formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box fo...

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Westby, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Empty milk cans at the cooperative creamery

Westby, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Empty milk cans at the cooperative c...

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Production. C-47 transport plane. Sections of C-47 transport planes move down the assembly lines of the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aircraft Company toward the final assembly line, where all parts are put together. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tow gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action (Douglas Aircraft Company)

Production. C-47 transport plane. Sections of C-47 transport planes mo...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Pork, lard, onions and spice in the amount which go into each finished can

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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Preparation for point rationing. Never too young to learn, these future homemakers receive first-hand experience in looking for point values as well as prices and information on labels when buying canned and bottled foods with war ration book two

Preparation for point rationing. Never too young to learn, these futur...

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Packing filled cans into cooking basket. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Packing filled cans into cooking basket. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

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A black and white photo of a street sign. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a street sign. Great Depression FFSA / OWI ...

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Aluminum. Plant number eight of the Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rod and sheet stock as well as fabricated airplane parts are manufactured here. Plant capacity is being expanded rapidly while existing facilities are used on a twenty-four hour, seven day week basis

Aluminum. Plant number eight of the Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville...

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Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Safely factors are not forgotten in rush orders for war production. This worker who handles hot ingots in the rolling mill, wears these size fifteen aluminum toe guards to protect his feet

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Safely factors...

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Sterilizing milk cans at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Sterilizing milk cans at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Fabrication of air-craft parts with high speed tools. Aluminum is a vitally important material in the production of the huge quantities of planes required under the national defense program

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Fabrication of...

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Cream cans. Antigo, Wisconsin - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Cream cans. Antigo, Wisconsin - safety film negatives, Library of Cong...

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Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these Harlem youngsters organize a Tin Can Club of America, under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. At their headquarters in a vacant store at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Air Corps are welded at an Eastern plant that used to make metal screens for windows and doors. Among the items now produced are junction boxes, switch boxes for airplane tow targets and navigator windows for bombers

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Aluminum parts for the Ai...

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Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Metal shelters for migrant agricultural workers are grouped about the utility building

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

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YWCA tea room workers at the 45th Street and Lexington Avenue home for nurses of the YWCA spend an entire hour or two each day after work to clean and process empty tins for city collection in nation-wide salvage drive. Photo shows left to right: Collette Burke, Anna Yesowite and Ruth Fingerald at work processing the cans

YWCA tea room workers at the 45th Street and Lexington Avenue home for...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eastern manufacturing company explains the workings of a soundproof auxiliary engine cover to a friend. He's producing this engine cover on an experimental basis now, along with small aircraft parts, instead of the egg poachers and frying pans he used to make before converting his plant to war production. This cover will enclose motors used on four-engine bombers to take care of retracting gear and other essentials not connected with the main drive engine. Precision Metal Company, New York City, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eas...

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

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box for an airplane tow target is drilled in a production jig at an Eastern plant that formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An aluminum switch box fo...

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Filling can with ice cream mix. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas. Later it will be placed in freezer

Filling can with ice cream mix. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas. Later it ...

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.

Employer at creamery carrying milk cans. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas

Employer at creamery carrying milk cans. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Garbage cans at trailer camp. San Diego, California

Garbage cans at trailer camp. San Diego, California

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Checking on exact fill of cans in cherry canning plant. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Checking on exact fill of cans in cherry canning plant. Sturgeon Bay, ...

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Farmer's milk cans on highway waiting to be picked up by trucks near Frederick, Maryland

Farmer's milk cans on highway waiting to be picked up by trucks near F...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Finished sheets of "strong alloy" aluminum are stenciled with specifications data, such as the chemical and physical analysis. When these shots are fabricated into small airplane parts, this data must appear on every part

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Finished sheet...

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Metal for munitions. Hot brass pours into moulds at an eastern Navy yard, rush foundary operations for greater U.S. fleet

Metal for munitions. Hot brass pours into moulds at an eastern Navy ya...

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Farmer unloading milk cans at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery. East Berkshire, Vermont

Farmer unloading milk cans at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery. East...

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Metal shelters for agricultural and packing house workers. Osceola migratory labor camps, Belle Glade, Florida

Metal shelters for agricultural and packing house workers. Osceola mig...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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.

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Drying kilns used in obtaining alumina from bauxite mixture

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Drying kilns used in obtai...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Metal shelters for migrant agricultural workers

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Canning beans and greens raised in a victory garden

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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Farmers bring their cans of milk to the crossroads early every morning, where they are picked up by large cooperative farmers trucks, Woodstock Vermont

Farmers bring their cans of milk to the crossroads early every morning...

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Farmhouse and milk cans near Saint Johnsbury, Vermont

Farmhouse and milk cans near Saint Johnsbury, Vermont

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet aluminum which will soon be stamped into powder cans

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet...

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Civilian protection. The armbands represent coffee cups, but coffee isn't the only thing which the Emergency Food and Housing Corps will provide when they are needed. Members of this corps are trained to organize emergency feeding and housing facilities, and their mobile units can be set up rapidly near the scene of a disaster

Civilian protection. The armbands represent coffee cups, but coffee is...

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