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San Francisco, California. Pile of salvaged tin cans at the metal and thermite Company. In the foreground are cans of a type which cannot successfully be detinned

San Francisco, California. Pile of salvaged tin cans at the metal and ...

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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...

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

U.S. Metal Products Co., Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, New York. Entrance detail

U.S. Metal Products Co., Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, New York. Entrance d...

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

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

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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

Rocky Flats Plant, Metal Research & Development Laboratory, South of Central Avenue at south end of terminus of Ninth Avenue, Golden, Jefferson County, CO

Rocky Flats Plant, Metal Research & Development Laboratory, South of C...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... 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

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh Street between Facility Nos. 6 & 247, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed in 1942, this facility is of a distinctive type and period of construction. Its function as a scrap metal breaking and p... 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. ...

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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...

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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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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

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

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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh Street between Facility Nos. 6 & 247, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed in 1942, this facility is of a distinctive type and period of construction. Its function as a scrap metal breaking and p... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitters, Metal Workers & Boiler Shop, Lake Erie Street at Russell Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Shipfitters, Metal Workers & Boiler Sho...

Significance: It was significant was one of the core buildings of the early naval base at Pearl Harbor. These primary industrial buildings at the base, including Facility Nos. 5 (Forge Shop), 8 (Power House), a... More

[ UNICEF Medal] - coin, public domain photograph

[ UNICEF Medal] - coin, public domain photograph

The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners... 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

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compa...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Shut-down, Rhine Metal works, Dusseldorf

Shut-down, Rhine Metal works, Dusseldorf

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MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC. NAVY HONORABLE DISCHARGE BUTTON

MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC. NAVY HONORABLE DISCHARGE BUTTON

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MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC. MEDAL SUBMITTED BY BAIRD-NORTH CO.

MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC. MEDAL SUBMITTED BY BAIRD-NORTH CO.

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Unloading cans from boxcar. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Unloading cans from boxcar. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

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Milk cans on the Thaxton farm, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio

Milk cans on the Thaxton farm, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio

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Overflowing garbage can and other things around back door of Mexican house, San Antonio, Texas. Garbage is collected but once a week in the Mexican district

Overflowing garbage can and other things around back door of Mexican h...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a milk truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a milk truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

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

Milk cans tied on back of farm automobile, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Milk cans tied on back of farm automobile, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a pot on a conveyor belt, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a pot on a conveyor belt, Great Depression....

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Discarded oil cans at truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington, D.C.

Discarded oil cans at truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue...

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A black and white photo of a bunch of gas cans, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a bunch of gas cans, Great Depression. FSA/...

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Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

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.

Farmer opening his milk cans at the United Farmers' Cooperative Creamery

Farmer opening his milk cans at the United Farmers' Cooperative Creame...

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.

Filling milk cans with cream as it flows from the cooling unit, at the United Farmers' Cooperative Creamery, Sheldon Springs, Vermont

Filling milk cans with cream as it flows from the cooling unit, at the...

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. "Strong alloy" aluminum ingots, approximately six inches square, are loaded into the heating furnace where they are heated to 800 degree Fahrenheit before rolling operations

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. "Strong alloy"...

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.

Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

Goldberg Iron and Metal Company

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.

Loading milk cans into a truck at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery at East Berkshire, Vermont

Loading milk cans into a truck at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery a...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Chief Jester, head of the Protection Division at Reynolds Metal and Alloys Company

Sheffield, Alabama. Chief Jester, head of the Protection Division at R...

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Hill of bauxite

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Hill of bauxite

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

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

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Kilns for reducing alumina from bauxite mixture

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Kilns for reducing alumina...

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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. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company made metal screens for doors and windows and a number of related items before beginning production of equipment for the Air Corps

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. The Orange Screen Company...

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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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Close-up of cans (potential source of tin, copper and steel) thrown away by careless citizens

Close-up of cans (potential source of tin, copper and steel) thrown aw...

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

Washington, D.C. Deciding whether to buy the small can at twenty-five cents or the large can at sixty-seven cents at the Giant Food shopping center on Wisconsin Avenue

Washington, D.C. Deciding whether to buy the small can at twenty-five ...

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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. Girls placing lard, spice and onions in cans before the pork is added. Left to right: Bonnie Williams, age twenty-one, used to work in shirt factory, has a husband in the U.S. Army; Elta Wininger, age twenty-nine, ex-housewife, has a brother in North Africa

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Rod department. Metal rods are used to reinforce the sand in most molds. After the mold has been used, rods are shaken out of the sand and transported to the Rod department. Here women sort them, and will then straighten them or curve them depending on individual requirements

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad...

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

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

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Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Cafeteria

Hershey Metal Products Co., Ansonia, Connecticut. Cafeteria

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Metal Cheek Plate Patterns. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Metal Cheek Plate Patterns. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collectio...

Maker: Faupel, Leonard, Winnemucca, Nevada Pattern at right cut from coffee can, others from sheet zinc and a tobacco tin The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by... More

Metal art along the road from Johnson City to Kerrville, Texas

Metal art along the road from Johnson City to Kerrville, Texas

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

Metal Fantail Launch, Michigan Maritime Museum, South Haven, Van Buren County, MI

Metal Fantail Launch, Michigan Maritime Museum, South Haven, Van Buren...

Significance: Typical of launch designs in the early twentieth century, this boat is unique in its construction technique using metal seamed planking over oak ribs and keel. The individual stamped planks are c... 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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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

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh Street between Facility Nos. 6 & 247, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed in 1942, this facility is of a distinctive type and period of construction. Its function as a scrap metal breaking and p... 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

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

[Buhl Stamping Co. building, Detroit, Mich.]

[Buhl Stamping Co. building, Detroit, Mich.]

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

A group of men working in a factory, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men working in a factory, West Virginia. Farm Security Admi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lumber mill being dismantled at Careyville, Florida

Lumber mill being dismantled at Careyville, Florida

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

A black and white photo of a house with a lot of snow on the roof, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a house with a lot of snow on the roof, Ver...

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Waiting to unload cans of raw milk at creamery, San Angelo, Texas

Waiting to unload cans of raw milk at creamery, San Angelo, Texas

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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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PRESIDENT GETS SEASON BASEBALL PASSES. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 12. AFTER RECEIVING SEASON BASEBALL PASSES FOR MRS. ROOSEVELT AND HIMSELF TODAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TOLD CLARK GRIFFITH, PRESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON BASEBALL CLUB, THAT HIS ARM WAS IN FINE SHAPE AND HE WOULD BE ON HAND TO THROW OUT FIRST BALL WHEN THE SEASON OPENS IN THE CAPITAL ON APRIL 16. THE PRESIDENT'S PASS WAS MADE OF METAL AND ENCLOSED IN A BILLFOLD WHILE THE ONE FOR MRS. ROOSEVELT WAS FRAMED IN A LADIES BAG

PRESIDENT GETS SEASON BASEBALL PASSES. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 12. AFTE...

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[The Parent's Magazine Medal - The Five Pennies]

[The Parent's Magazine Medal - The Five Pennies]

Bottom of medal: Awarded to The Five Pennies - The Movie-of-the-Month for family audiences March 1955.

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