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Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble Falls, Texas

Metal yard art for sale at the Pottery Ranch pottery store in Marble F...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

French guard, Rhine Metal Works, Dusseldorf

French guard, Rhine Metal Works, Dusseldorf

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. THE MEDAL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. THE MEDAL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC., FRENCH MEDALS

MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC., FRENCH MEDALS

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New York City - Medal of the School Nature League

New York City - Medal of the School Nature League

Photo shows front and back of medal, with cherubs gardening and name Alphée DuBois on one side and the initials S.N.L. on the other. On slide (handwritten): "New York City-Medal of the School Nature League" and... More

Joyce Estate, Metal Garage, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles north of County Road 335, Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN

Joyce Estate, Metal Garage, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 mile...

Significance: ... the Metal Garage was constructed at the south end of Trout Lake "in the early 1930s," and was subsequently moved to its present location at the north end of the Caretaker's Compound. Its relo... More

Shed on stilts belonging to farmer near Amite, Louisiana. Metal on stilts keeps out rats

Shed on stilts belonging to farmer near Amite, Louisiana. Metal on sti...

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A couple of horses pulling a sleigh in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A couple of horses pulling a sleigh in the snow, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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A man standing on the back of a truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A man standing on the back of a truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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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A black and white photo of a row of milk cans. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a row of milk cans. Office of War Informati...

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

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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Packing tuna into cans, Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon

Packing tuna into cans, Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, O...

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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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Milk cans on moving belt, just out of the washing machine. The United Farmers' Cooperative Creamery, Sheldon Springs, Vermont

Milk cans on moving belt, just out of the washing machine. The United ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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.

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.

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, North of Second Avenue; South of Metal & Woodworking Shop No. 706, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, N...

Survey number: HAER ND-9-AL Public domain photograph - historical image of North Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Engine Terminal, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ

Central Railroad of New Jersey, Engine Terminal, Jersey City, Hudson C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River at mile post 3.1, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River at mile post 3.1, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River at mile post 3.1, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

Woodrow Wilson's Nobel Peace Prize Medal

Woodrow Wilson's Nobel Peace Prize Medal

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Kahului Cannery, Plant No. 28, Boiler House, Sheet Metal and Electrical Shops, 120 Kane Street, Kahului, Maui County, HI

Kahului Cannery, Plant No. 28, Boiler House, Sheet Metal and Electrica...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Intl. Metal Workers Federation Group, 9/21/26

Intl. Metal Workers Federation Group, 9/21/26

A group of people standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[...] the employees of the Panama Canal. Left to right: W.C. Mushing of Panama, J. Wynne, Panama, Albert J. Berres, Secy [...]al Trades Dept. A.F.L., & N.P. Alifas, Pres. Internat'l Assoc. of Machinists & James [...]nuell, Pres. Metal A Trades Union

[...] the employees of the Panama Canal. Left to right: W.C. Mushing o...

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McArthur Advertising Corporation, 2480 16th Street. Allegheny Metal display at Union Station I

McArthur Advertising Corporation, 2480 16th Street. Allegheny Metal di...

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Gibson Sheet Metal Works & Western Rope & Fittings, Incorporated, Twentieth Street at Fourth Avenue North, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL

Gibson Sheet Metal Works & Western Rope & Fittings, Incorporated, Twen...

Survey number: HAER AL-66 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A horse pulling a sleigh with a man on it, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A horse pulling a sleigh with a man on it, Vermont. Farm Security Admi...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Metal mural detail

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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Unloading cans from a boxcar is done by picking them up on a row of spikes placed on a T. Cans go directly to the sterilizer and canning machine. Grapefruit juice canning plant, Weslaco, Texas

Unloading cans from a boxcar is done by picking them up on a row of sp...

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William A. Calvin, Sect. Treasurer, Metal Trades Dept.

William A. Calvin, Sect. Treasurer, Metal Trades Dept.

A man in a suit talking on a telephone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grain elevator and Gold Metal flour mill. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain elevator and Gold Metal flour mill. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a sled in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a sled in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security ...

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

Milk cans at Railroad station. Minot, North Dakota

Milk cans at Railroad station. Minot, North Dakota

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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...

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

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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Huylers, business in Hempstead, Long Island. Metal wire cages

Huylers, business in Hempstead, Long Island. Metal wire cages

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Filling cream can. Antigo, Wisconsin

Filling cream can. Antigo, Wisconsin

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Packing salmon into cans at the Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon

Packing salmon into cans at the Columbia River Packing Association, As...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Substitute materials containers. Brewers introduced the metal can for beer, but the brew is back in bottles for the duration. Left to right: flat-top metal, crown-top metal can, standard bottle

Substitute materials containers. Brewers introduced the metal can for ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal skelton of an old car which has been burned in order to get rid of useless materials after being stripped of saleable parts at the wholesale junkyard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal skelto...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Entrance, sharp view

Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Entrance, sharp view

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Metal side of a barn, decorated with a painting of the Flag of Texas, near Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

Metal side of a barn, decorated with a painting of the Flag of Texas, ...

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

Metal buildings near the deserted town of Lobo, south of Alpine in Brewster County, Texas

Metal buildings near the deserted town of Lobo, south of Alpine in Bre...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Canned goods and canning jars at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Canned goods and canning jars at the general store that is part of the...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by geologist and businessman Pattillo Higgins as an "industrial utopia" at the Spindletop drilling site outside the settlemen... More

Metal Exchange Building, 234 Pearl Street, New York, New York County, NY

Metal Exchange Building, 234 Pearl Street, New York, New York County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33, FN-34 Survey number: HABS NY-431 Building/structure dates: ca. 1846 Initial Construction

Gerber Sheet Metal Works Building, 128 Porthand Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Gerber Sheet Metal Works Building, 128 Porthand Avenue, South, Minneap...

Significance: The Gerber Street Metal Works Building is historically significant for its association with Minneapolis' "West Side Milling District." The West Side District was the center of the Minneapolis flo... More

Gerber Sheet Metal Works Building, 128 Porthand Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Gerber Sheet Metal Works Building, 128 Porthand Avenue, South, Minneap...

Significance: The Gerber Street Metal Works Building is historically significant for its association with Minneapolis' "West Side Milling District." The West Side District was the center of the Minneapolis flo... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, Joiner & Sheet Metal Shops, 97 ...

Significance: Constructed in 1916 and enlarged in 1929 and 1939, the Joiner and Sheet Metal Shops is significant as the location of important components of the shipbuilding design and fabrication processes at t... More

[Harry Houdini performs the great milk can escape]

[Harry Houdini performs the great milk can escape]

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. ... More

[Labeling cans of the "Veribest" products in Armour's Packing Plant, Chicago, U.S.A.]

[Labeling cans of the "Veribest" products in Armour's Packing Plant, C...

J134796 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kelley & Chadwick. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public do... More

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. THE MEDAL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. THE MEDAL - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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Expressmen. Location: Springfield, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

Expressmen. Location: Springfield, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

Photograph showing men in front of a Wells Fargo & Co Express depot with a cart loaded with milk cans and crates.

MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC. ARMY MEDALS

MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC. ARMY MEDALS

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In a Detroit shop - Public domain portrait print

In a Detroit shop - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows two women wearing overalls as they work in a factory in Detroit, Michigan during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service o... More

Packing filled cans into cooking basket. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Packing filled cans into cooking basket. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

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Rapid fire questions cause Federal Reserve Chairman to have headache. Washington, D.C., March 23. Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board undertook to answer the Questions fired at him by Walter Trent, Director of the Rocky Mountain Metal Foundation. Trent's questions came so fast that Accles was hard put to answer them. Here he paused to rub his head during the questioning he was put through at the meeting of the Special Silver Committee.

Rapid fire questions cause Federal Reserve Chairman to have headache. ...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of milk cans on a table, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of milk cans on a table, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they ...

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A man standing in the doorway of a house in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing in the doorway of a house in the snow, Vermont. Farm Se...

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Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater County, Montana. This is the first snow of the season

Ben Bow Mill of the Metal Reserves' Chromite development, Stillwater C...

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Unloading milk cans at cooperative creamery which has received a loan from the FSA (Farm Security Administration), Coleraine, Minnesota

Unloading milk cans at cooperative creamery which has received a loan ...

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Oil cans at side of filling station, Eufaula, Oklahoma

Oil cans at side of filling station, Eufaula, Oklahoma

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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...

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

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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

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...

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

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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Putting inert gas into cans of dehydrated cabbage which will be hermetically sealed

Putting inert gas into cans of dehydrated cabbage which will be hermet...

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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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Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Entrance facade from right

Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Entrance facade from...

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Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Main office II

Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Main office II

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Reynold's Metal Company, 6601 Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. Inner court, azalea foreground

Reynold's Metal Company, 6601 Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. Inner cou...

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Reynold's Metal Company, 6601 Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. Detail of fountain

Reynold's Metal Company, 6601 Broad St., Richmond, Virginia. Detail of...

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Some of the patent medicines sold out of wagons that covered a 14-state territory around Abilene that can be viewed at the house of the purveyor, Alfred Seelye, in Abilene, Kansas

Some of the patent medicines sold out of wagons that covered a 14-stat...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Gold Metal flour historic mill renovated into condiminiums in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Gold Metal flour historic mill renovated into condiminiums in Minneapo...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River at mile post 3.1, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Hot Metal Bridge, Spanning Mo...

Significance: Formerly enabled the hauling of molten iron from J & L Blast Furnaces on the north side over the bridge to the Open Hearth Furnaces on the south side of the Monongahela River. Survey number: HAER... More

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