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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on the mold to form a stern section for a member of the "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. The work is being done at a nearby plant formerly used for the building of freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on ...

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.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the template for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Man working on a mold (?) for a part of the plane

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying...

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Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for trailer wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. The picture shows the close bond between successive layers of paper smoothed on over a forging mold. The secret of the final hardness and the strength of the material lies in the formula of the solution with which the paper is impregnated. Round corners of the trailer toes, formerly made of metal, are also made by this process

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for...

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Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of Wa...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on the mold to form a stern section for a member of the "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. The work is being done at a nearby plant formerly used for the building of freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on ...

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Closing the cover of the mold. Entirely automatic, the "watch-case" mold is closed by pushing a button, which starts several operations. First the airbag is filled with live steam which circulates during the entire process; next an automatic timer sets itself for the proper length of time and temperature; next pressure is exerted to squeeze the tire into the mold pattern. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Closing the cover of the mold. Entirely automatic, the "watch-case" mo...

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Food stored in wet basement is apt to mold. At Calvert County, Maryland

Food stored in wet basement is apt to mold. At Calvert County, Marylan...

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Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Mold department. After molds have been pounded with air hammer, women put heads on the molds, that is put extra protective sand on top, and insert the cut core (round funnel to left of woman in foregound) through which molten metal is poured

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

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Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL

Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, B...

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Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL

Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, B...

Survey number: HAER AL-125-B Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Matilda Ziegler, Magazine for the Blind, making the type mold

Matilda Ziegler, Magazine for the Blind, making the type mold

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Halftrac production. The track of an Army halftrac is positioned in the curing mold at a Midwest rubber plant. The operation is performed with a wooden paddle. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Halftrac production. The track of an Army halftrac is positioned in th...

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

Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon. Trimming mold off aging cheese

Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon. Trimming mold off aging che...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Molten manganese bronze is poured into a massive mold as a huge ship propeller is cast. A season foundryman in a large war production plant controls the pouring operation. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Molten manganese bronze is poured in...

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

Aluminum casting. Before metal can be poured into the mold, this wooden superstructure will be completely filled with sand. Technically, it's known as facing sand on coperflask and placing of gaggers. But in anybody's language, it's one of the many operations necessary to complete molds in which vital aluminum parts for the armed forces will be cast. What the exact object being cast is, is one of the army's secrets. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Before metal can be poured into the mold, this woode...

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Aluminum casting. Ladling of molten aluminum alloy into the gate of a closed permanent mold. Site of these operations is a large Midwest aluminum foundry now converted to production of essentials for America's armed forces. The part being cast here may be destined for the engine of a "jeep" or part of an airplane engine. Their exact destination is kept a secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Ladling of molten aluminum alloy into the gate of a ...

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Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Making mold for armor plates to be tested on proving ground. The flask, or metal frame is placed over the flask, and two men press it down with air hammers

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

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.

Central Glass Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. Blower and Mold Boy. Location: Wheeling, West Virginia.

Central Glass Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. Blower and Mold Boy. Loca...

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Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, then an hour's rest and 4 1/2 more: cramped position. Day shift one week: night shift next. (see label on photo 162.) Grafton, West Virginia. Location: Grafton, West Virginia.

Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, t...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a train coming down the track...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal plane parts are formed daily in the drop hammer department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. Hemp rope and the rubber in the mold on the press are used to snub and control the impact of the hammer. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal pl...

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Production. Minesweepers. Forming ribs for minesweepers. By clamping timbers to a mold, these carpenters in an Eastern shipyard obtained the curved shapes required to serve as ribs for one of Uncle Sam's new minesweepers. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Forming ribs for minesweepers. By clamping t...

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.

Aluminum casting. It's a delicate operation, this closing of the cope on a large sand mold. When the parts are locked together, the molten aluminum is poured into the mold. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. It's a delicate operation, this closing of the cope ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on the mold to form a stern section for a member of the "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. The work is being done at a nearby plant formerly used for the building of freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Red-hot, this steel plate is shaped on ...

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

Sprinkling sand on the face of a mold before applying flask. Another step in the long and intricate process of producing aluminum parts for use by Uncle Sam's mechanized forces. Aluminum Industries

Sprinkling sand on the face of a mold before applying flask. Another s...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. After losing their cores and being sand-blasted, castings go to the cleaning floor. This workman was using a pneumatic chipping hammer which with rapid-fire, chisel-like strokes trims rough edges and cuts off the uneven, jagged strips where the two halves of the mold join. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. After losing their ...

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.

Steiner Plastics, Pratt Oval, Glen Cove, Long Island. Plastic mold

Steiner Plastics, Pratt Oval, Glen Cove, Long Island. Plastic mold

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under constructions. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out pa...

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.

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under constructions. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out pa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Casting a billet from an electric furnace. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a cylindrical mold to form a billet. The billet later is worked into rods, tubes, wires or special shapes for a variety of defense uses. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Casting a billet from an elec...

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

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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

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

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

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Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...

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

Candle mold - A pair of old rusty wrenches on a white surface

Candle mold - A pair of old rusty wrenches on a white surface

Central Glass Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. Blower and Mold Boy. Location: Wheeling, West Virginia.

Central Glass Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. Blower and Mold Boy. Loca...

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Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, then an hour's rest and 4 1/2 more: cramped position. Day shift one week: night shift next. (see label on photo 162.) Grafton, West Virginia. Location: Grafton, West Virginia.

Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, t...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. G...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. This worker is carrying the templates for a gun foundation from the mold loft to the plate working section. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns f...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of bullet-sealing gasoline tanks, eight-foot high bomber tires and huge 3,600-pound earth mover tires. This unit at a large Eastern tire plant is the largest of its kind in the world. It must be thoroughly and constantly inspected as it is in frequent service on war production. Here the inspector is checking the steam and pressure fittings. The mold, when open, stands more than two-and-a-half stories high and weighs over 300,000 pounds. Firestone

Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of...

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Aluminum casting. To insure against cracking when metal is poured into it this sand-filled mold is skin dried with a gas torch, one of the many major delicate operations required of employees of a large Midwest aluminum factory. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. To insure against cracking when metal is poured into...

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Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four inches tall, looks small indeed as he uses air pressure to clean the lid of the world's largest vulcanizing unit in an Eastern tire plant. The top section of this mold being prepared to vulcanize a large bullet-sealing gasoline tank, weighs sixteen tons and can also be used to vulcanize tires over ten feet in diameter

Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four in...

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

Aluminum casting. A skilled workman in a large Midwest aluminum foundry now converted to production of war materials removes the solidified casting from the permanent mold. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. A skilled workman in a large Midwest aluminum foundr...

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Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Making mold for armor plates to be tested on proving ground. The flask, or metal frame is placed over the flask, and two men press it down with air hammers

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

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Foundry worker starting a pour into a mold.

Foundry worker starting a pour into a mold.

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Blower and Mold Boy, Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia. (see label on #171) (see photos 170 & 171). Location: Morgantown, West Virginia.

Blower and Mold Boy, Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia. (s...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Pouring a large mold is a fiery sight. To the left, flames are shooting from an escape hole -- caused by gas generated by the contact of iron with the relatively cool sand, graphite, linseed oil and other ingredients involved in the mold structure. The man at the left is wielding a skimmer to hold back any impurities floating on the surface of the ladle iron

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Pouring a large mol...

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Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing mold. Before the curing process the tread surface had been ground down evenly and had a strip of reclaimed camelback rubber attached to it. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing m...

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.

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This is the spacious mold loft, where patterns for ship's parts are fashioned in wood. These patterns are then transferred to steel

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This is the spacious mold loft, where pat...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out pa...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker in the mold loft is painting over the marks made on steel plates from wooden templates, or patterns. The original marking is scratched onto the steel, and this man brings them out in white. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker in the mold loft is paintin...

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Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Constructed of wood reinforced with timber connectors, this 166 foot wide clear span mold loft building has been duplicated many times in shipyards on the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The unobstructed floor of a mold loft is a giant drawing board. The many parts of merchant ships, such as plates, ribs, and bulk-heads are drawn on the floor in full size. From these drawings templates are made and from the templates the actual parts are fabricated

Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Constructed of wood reinforce...

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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. City fireman J.L. Clayton of Daytona Beach, Florida, turned curiosity into war production. Several years ago he became interested in molding metals, particularly brass and aluminum in his spare time and put up a one-man foundry in back of the fire station as a hobby. Now he's making cast parts for the DeLand industrial pool and turning out aluminum air raid sirens of his own invention. Clayton is pulling a newly-cast siren section out of the mold. With him is R.G. Campbell, Jr., foreman of his expanded hobby shop

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. City fireman J.L. Clay...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal plane parts are formed daily in the drop hammer department of North American Aviation, Incorporated at Inglewood, California. Hemp rope and the rubber in the mold on the press are used to snub and control the impact of the hammer. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Thousands of sheet metal pl...

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Aluminum casting. A young inspector in one of America's largest aluminum foundries inspects a permanent rough casting fresh from the mold. Gate and risers will be cut away. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. A young inspector in one of America's largest alumin...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Casting a billet from an electric furnace. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a cylindrical mold to form a billet. The billet later is worked into rods, tubes, wires or special shapes for a variety of defense uses. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Casting a billet from an elec...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Fresh from the shakeout pit, where the mold is broken up and the sand sent back for reconditioning, new castings go to the core cleanout room to have the core sand removed with air and sledge hammers, vibrating machines and powerful hydraulic jets. Notice the core arbors sticking out of the sand. They are placed in the cores for the same reason that steel reinforcing bars are put in concrete floors and pillars. Each of these castings has by now become the body of a milling machine working for victory

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Fresh from the shak...

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Aluminum casting. Application of parting compound to unfinished mold, another step in the making of valuable aluminum parts for America's armed forces. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret--but they'll probably end up as jeeps or airplane engine parts. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Application of parting compound to unfinished mold, ...

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Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL

Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, B...

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Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co., Euclid, Ohio. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a mold to form a billet. The billet later is worked into rods, tubes, wires or special shapes for a variety of uses

Casting a billet from an electric furnace, Chase Brass and Copper Co.,...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out pa...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Pouring a large mold is a fiery sight. To the left, flames are shooting from an escape hole -- caused by gas generated by the contact of iron with the relatively cool sand, graphite, linseed oil and other ingredients involved in the mold structure. The man at the left is wielding a skimmer to hold back any impurities floating on the surface of the ladle iron

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Pouring a large mol...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Pulling a plaster pattern from a mold for a land die to be used in forming parts for B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers in Boeing's Seattle Plant. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine, heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Pulling a plaster pattern from a mold f...

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Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so...

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

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pi...

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DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills like quicksilver from this homemade bucket-sized ladle and pours white-hot into a mold to cast experimental parts for bombers in Clayton's foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. Foundry foreman R.G. Campbell watches the color of the pour from the left. J.L. Clayton, city fireman, who built the foundry as a hobby, is pouring with the aid of his Negro helper

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills...

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Aluminum casting. It's a delicate operation, this closing of the cope on a large sand mold. When the parts are locked together, the molten aluminum is poured into the mold. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. It's a delicate operation, this closing of the cope ...

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Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery; is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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A Blower With Foot Mold. question: "Why cannot mold boys done away with?" Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia. (See photos 165 & 171.) Location: Morgantown, West Virginia.

A Blower With Foot Mold. question: "Why cannot mold boys done away wit...

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Uncle Sam makes own glass. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. All optical glass used by the United States Navy is manufactured and finished by the Bureau of Standards in Washington. L. Maxwell, of the Glass Section, Bureau of Standards, is shown cutting molten glass into the mold. He uses ordinary tailor's shears in cutting the hot substance which is about as soft as hot molasses candy

Uncle Sam makes own glass. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. All optical glass...

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Placing the raw tube in the curing mold. This tire worker gives the tubes the same treatment his co-workers give tires; They are cured in a watch-case mold for the required length of time at the proper heat. Naturally tubes take less time than tires because they are single thickness. They are their own "airbags" and are cured inside and out by having live steam forced through them during the cooking process. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Placing the raw tube in the curing mold. This tire worker gives the tu...

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Molds automatically open. At the end of the curing time, the mold draws the steam out of the airbag, opens the lid and ejects the tire from the tread pattern. Workers need to do nothing but pull out the finished tire and put in another uncured carcass. General Tires, Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Molds automatically open. At the end of the curing time, the mold draw...

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Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four inches tall, looks small indeed as he uses air pressure to clean the lid of the world's largest vulcanizing unit at a large Eastern tire plant. The top section of this mold, now being prepared to vulcanize a large bullet-sealing gasoline tank, weighs sixteen tons and can also be used to vulcanize tires ten feet in diameter

Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four in...

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Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The special mold containing the tank is being lowered into position in the tire vulcanizing unit. When it is in place, the huge cover of the unit will be lowered into position and closed. The heat will then be turned on to cure the raw rubber of the gas tank

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. In the recapping shop, after the application of camelback, the tire is placed in a mold and is "cured" for about one hour and forty-five minutes. Here soldiers are removing it from the mold; as soon as it has cooled it is ready for use

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. In the recapping shop, a...

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Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing mold. Before the curing process the tread surface had been ground down evenly and had a strip of reclaimed camelback rubber attached to it. The plan to recap passenger tires with passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. Removing a recapped passenger car tire from a curing m...

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Tire recapping. "Cooking" a recapped passenger car tire in a curing mold. The recap is made by applying passenger type reclaimed camelback to a worn casing on which the tread surface had previously been ground down evenly. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. "Cooking" a recapped passenger car tire in a curing mo...

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Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a t...

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Air bag put into carcass. Under intense hydraulic pressure, this airbag is forced into the casing while it is still in the suction-shaping mold. The bar from the top comes down hard, forces the airbag into a pretzel shape and rams it into the carcass, where the airbag snaps back into shape and fits the new carcass perfectly

Air bag put into carcass. Under intense hydraulic pressure, this airba...

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Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of Wa...

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Pouring a test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pouring a test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburgh, P...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker in the mold loft is painting over the marks made on steel plates from wooden templates, or patterns. The original marking is scratched onto the steel, and this man brings them out in white. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker in the mold loft is paintin...

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A black and white photo of a man putting a shoe in a suitcase. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man putting a shoe in a suitcase. Office ...

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

Pouring a test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pouring a test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburgh, P...

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Aluminum casting. Brushing and inserting cores into the assembled mold, one of the many delicate operations required of skilled workmen in a large Midwest factory. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Brushing and inserting cores into the assembled mold...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. G...

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Putting tire into curing mold. From the vacuum expander, the potential new truck tire is taken to this "watch-case" curing mold in which it is baked under high heat and pressure for a long time. The exact time and temperature varies with the type and size of tire. The airbag inside the carcass is filled with live steam during this process so that heat is added from both inside and out. The mold contains the tread pattern, or design, as well as all markings which will appear on sidewall. Under this heat and pressure the rubber turns semi-liquid, and flows into every crevice, completely bonding the rubber processed fabric carcass to the cushion, the cushion to the tread. After this operation it is now one unit--a complete tire. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Putting tire into curing mold. From the vacuum expander, the potential...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Forming lucite (a shatter-proof plastic "glass") for war plane enclosures requires extreme care. Here an employee at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California plant cleans a mold with compressed air before forming the part. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Forming lucite (a shatter-...

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Men with Foot Mold and Boys. A West Virginia Glass Works. Location: West Virginia.

Men with Foot Mold and Boys. A West Virginia Glass Works. Location: W...

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Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of Wa...

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Putting tire into curing mold. From the vacuum expander, the potential new truck tire is taken to this "watch-case" curing mold in which it is baked under high heat and pressure for a long time. The exact time and temperature varies with the type and size of tire. The airbag inside the carcass is filled with live steam during this process so that heat is added from both inside and out. The mold contains the tread pattern, or design, as well as all markings which will appear on sidewall. Under this heat and pressure the rubber turns semi-liquid, and flows into every crevice, completely bonding the rubber processed fabric carcass to the cushion, the cushion to the tread. After this operation it is now one unit--a complete tire. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Putting tire into curing mold. From the vacuum expander, the potential...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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Blower and Mold Boy, Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia. (see label on #171) (see photos 170 & 171). Location: Morgantown, West Virginia.

Blower and Mold Boy, Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, West Virginia. (s...

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Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL

Southern Ductile Casting Company, Mold Making, 2217 Carolina Avenue, B...

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Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one of his statues. He had been at one time an oil field worker. He said that the WPA (Work Projects Administration) had reduced the possibility of the man on the road getting a job. He said he believed he could farm if he could get a chance. Near Spiro, Oklahoma

Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one o...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Closing the cover of the mold. Entirely automatic, the "watch-case" mold is closed by pushing a button, which starts several operations. First the airbag is filled with live steam which circulates during the entire process; next an automatic timer sets itself for the proper length of time and temperature; next pressure is exerted to squeeze the tire into the mold pattern. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Closing the cover of the mold. Entirely automatic, the "watch-case" mo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

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