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Packing cheese into molds, Tillamook, Oregon

Packing cheese into molds, Tillamook, Oregon

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped on molds, are moved up for placement on the keel of a new minesweeper. Part of the keel and stem of the new vessel are shown in the background. Location: an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Sturdy wooden ribs, which have been shaped o...

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Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in...

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

Tracks for Army halftracs cars, made of rubber firmly bonded to steel members, are cured under heat and pressure in tracks molds which are first sprayed with a mold lubricant. The work is done in an Ohio tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Tracks for Army halftracs cars, made of rubber firmly bonded to steel ...

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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...

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.

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is going on for the tire we have followed through the plant, it is also going on simultaneously for hundreds of other tires in production. This view shows one corridor in the curing room where fifty tires are being cured at once. Additional molds flank this group on both sides of long corridor such as this one. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is go...

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. Tin smelting. "Pot boilers" of a Southern tin smelter in which the pure metal is kept at a temperature of about 750 degrees Fahrenheit until it is poured into molds. The plant, which processes South American ore is the finest and the most modern in the world

Production. Tin smelting. "Pot boilers" of a Southern tin smelter in w...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. In the brass and copper casting shop, the operator of an electric furnace is pouring the molten metal into molds to form shells, or rough tubes, which are later formed into finished tubes. Tubes are formed by casting molten metal into these molds in which a refractory core has been inserted. The molds are mounted on a turntable, which brings them into position to receive the pouring. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. In the brass and copper casti...

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

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Molds into which molten copper will be poured are first treated with bone-ash and then dried with compressed air

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Molds into whic...

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Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Steel Casting Molds, 525 Central Avenue, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Steel Casting Molds, 525 Central Av...

Survey number: HAER PA-271-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is going on for the tire we have followed through the plant, it is also going on simultaneously for hundreds of other tires in production. This view shows one corridor in the curing room where fifty tires are being cured at once. Additional molds flank this group on both sides of long corridor such as this one. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is go...

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Aluminum casting. Closeup of the bright aluminum alloy being poured into molds. There may be no more aluminum for coffee percolators these days; it's going instead toward a much more vital purpose--war essentials for Uncle Sam's armed forces. Destination of the finished aluminum products is secret--but they'll probably end up as jeeps or airplane engine parts. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Closeup of the bright aluminum alloy being poured in...

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

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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New Britain, Connecticut. Hot cores to be used by the U.S. Army to make molds for meat choppers at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant being taken from baking ovens

New Britain, Connecticut. Hot cores to be used by the U.S. Army to mak...

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Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Steel Casting Molds, 525 Central Avenue, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Steel Casting Molds, 525 Central Av...

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Garfield, Utah. Making molds of blister copper at the Garfield smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Ccompany

Garfield, Utah. Making molds of blister copper at the Garfield smelter...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for America's mechanized army is the discharge of metal from a 300 pound carrying pot into ingot molds. The molten aluminum was first tapped from a furnace into the carrying pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for Am...

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

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

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. Bright white hot aluminum, vital to Uncle Sam's war effort, discharged from carrying pot into ingot molds. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Bright white hot aluminum, vital to Uncle Sam's war ...

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A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten steel into ingot molds below, Sergeant Vineyard, George Woolslayer and Chief Evans stand in awe of the giant machine which processes steel into armaments. Woolslayer sums it up like this: "We're making the stuff for you to fight with to protect us." Thus America's men and her machines work together for victory. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten...

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A poster comes to life. On the bridge of the "S.S. Production," the three men standing on the electric-furnace floor, watching the men below pour molten metal from the furnace into ingot molds. Removed though they were from the pouring operation, the heat rising towards them was still intense. Allegheny Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. On the bridge of the "S.S. Production," the th...

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Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Setting up molds

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Setting up molds

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Production. Copper. Making molds of blister copper at the Garfield, Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. Vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes are smelted at this plant

Production. Copper. Making molds of blister copper at the Garfield, Ut...

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Production. Copper. Removing slabs of blister copper from molds in which they were cast at the Garfield, Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company

Production. Copper. Removing slabs of blister copper from molds in whi...

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

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Molten copper being poured from the refinng furnace. It is run through a bed of coke to prevent oxidation before the copper is cast into molds

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Molten copper being po...

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Aluminum casting. Workers in a large Midwest factory at work on smaller molds and castings made at benches. These are jolt squeeze molding machines for hand work. Those numbered hoppers contain conditioned sand. Aluminum Industries, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Workers in a large Midwest factory at work on smalle...

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Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin in the form of "bars" is removed from the molds at a Southern smelter. The bars had previously been scrapped and trimmed to remove all excess metal for remelting. The smelter, the most modern in the world, extracts pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin in the form of "bars" is removed fr...

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Aluminum casting. First aid right on the spot. A nurse is in constant attendance in this Midwest aluminum foundry to treat minor cuts and wounds received in production of aluminum and magnesium molds and casting. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. First aid right on the spot. A nurse is in constant ...

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

Sheffield, Alabama. Renolds Metal Company. Pouring liquid aluminum into pig molds from a ladle at the dast house

Sheffield, Alabama. Renolds Metal Company. Pouring liquid aluminum int...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. When a full ladle comes along, there must be enough molds ready to take the whole load. Nowhere is Time so stern a master as it is in the foundry. Iron must be poured when it's right -- or thrown out, cooled, and returned to the cupola. Location: a large Midwest tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. When a full ladle c...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Hot cores to be used by the U.S. Army to make molds for meat choppers at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant being taken from baking ovens

New Britain, Connecticut. Hot cores to be used by the U.S. Army to mak...

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

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

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

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

[Men pouring melted metal into molds in the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.]

[Men pouring melted metal into molds in the Government Printing Office...

No. 3029. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Aluminum casting. Molds must be touched up before cores can be placed in them; another step in the delicate technical process of casting for aluminum products. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Molds must be touched up before cores can be placed ...

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

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Control of the casting wheel is accomplished by the man in upper background; the two men on the casting wheel watch the level of copper as it is poured into molds; when the copper reaches an indicated level, the men raise their sticks to signal the operator

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Compa...

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Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. After having been repaired, tires which need only spot recapping are cured in these section molds. They remain in these molds under pressure for about one hour and forty-five minutes

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. After having been repair...

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

A man working on a tire in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a tire in a factory. Office of War Information Photog...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Women at the Lander, Frary and Clark plant. Processing cores, to be used by the Army for making molds for meat choppers

New Britain, Connecticut. Women at the Lander, Frary and Clark plant. ...

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

Putting the curd into molds for pressure. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon

Putting the curd into molds for pressure. Tillamook cheese plant, Till...

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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...

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This wet cellar is a poor place for canned foods. The air must be moist, to keep vegetables and fruits from shrivelling, but there should be no water standing on the floor or seeping through the walls. Molds will grow in a place like this when the weather is warm

This wet cellar is a poor place for canned foods. The air must be mois...

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

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

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

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Pouring molten brass from crucibles into molds

Brass Works, Bridgeport, Conn.: Pouring molten brass from crucibles in...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 12975. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind.

Steel bases for the bogie wheel assemblies of Army halftrac cars are inspected in a Midwest tire plant. Accurate gauging is necessary to insure positive fit in molds and in wheel assemblies. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Steel bases for the bogie wheel assemblies of Army halftrac cars are i...

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Knocking cores out of molds, another step in the long and intricate process of producing aluminum parts for use by Uncle Sam's mechanized forces. Aluminum Industries

Knocking cores out of molds, another step in the long and intricate pr...

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Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Wadded-up paper, impregnated with a glue-like solution is smoothed into place over molds in continuous layers. The material is self-hardening and self-compressing. When dried, it is sanded, sawed and drilled, and may be installed with nails, screws or bolts

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

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

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Women sweepers in front of ladle into which metal from open-hearth furnace is poured, and which is then transported by crane to molds. Most new women employees are given clear-up jobs to start with in order to accustom them to factory life

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

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New Britain, Connecticut. Women at Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Processing cores to be used by the Army for making molds for meat choppers

New Britain, Connecticut. Women at Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Pro...

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.

Piles of patterns and pattern molds.

Piles of patterns and pattern molds.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Technocraft, a pattern-making firm in Bloomfield, NJ, August 12, 1994.

[Occupational portrait of two men, standing full length holding floor rammers, foundry tools used for packing sand against molds]

[Occupational portrait of two men, standing full length holding floor ...

Case: Eichmeyer variant. Purchase; 2002; (DLC/PP-2002:129). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, 2005-200... More

Putting cheesecloth on molds in which the cheese will be pressed. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook County, Oregon

Putting cheesecloth on molds in which the cheese will be pressed. Till...

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.

Steel production. Steel activity in war time. Molten metal is poured into large molds at an Eastern open hearth furnace. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Steel activity in war time. Molten metal is poured i...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Small ladles for small molds can be handled by one man and a monorail crane. These molds might be for small hand wheels or other small parts of machines made in a large Midwest plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Small ladles for sm...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant. Making core molds for food choppers to be used by the army

New Britain, Connecticut. Women employed at the Landers, Frary and Cla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uncle Sam test brass alloys. Washington D.C. To determine the correct amount of alloys necessary for desired results in the making of castings and other uses, the U.S. Bureau of Standards is conducting daily tests. 600 different portions of the alloy are used at the present time. The tests are made with brass bars which are melted in a high frequency induction furnace and the temperatures are recorded before and during the pouring into the molds. In the photograph, left to right: H.V. Gardner, Lemuel D. Jones, and C.N. Saeger, Chief of the Experimental Foundry at the Bureau

Uncle Sam test brass alloys. Washington D.C. To determine the correct ...

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[Boys pouring wax(?) into molds in factory]

[Boys pouring wax(?) into molds in factory]

H15817 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by W.B. Northrop, World Building, New York City.

[The Conveyer bringing the molds]

[The Conveyer bringing the molds]

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

Applying pressure to curd in molds. This process removes moisture and forms a close texture in the cheese. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon

Applying pressure to curd in molds. This process removes moisture and ...

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Aluminum casting. Experienced workers in an aluminum plant, converted to production of essential articles for America's armed forces, pictured pouring the molten aluminum alloy into molds. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Experienced workers in an aluminum plant, converted ...

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. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housing trailer goes into place at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Plastic wheel wells, which will shortly be covered by cabinet work, are made of paper impregnated with a special hardening solution and formed over molds. This material is a very satisfactory substitute for the steel formerly used

Production. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housi...

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Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...

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

Aluminum casting. When the aluminum solidifies, it is knocked out by hammer from the ingot molds. Soon to be cast into essentials for the war effort, this metal is one of America's most vital essentials for victory. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret--but they'll probably end up as jeeps or airplane engines parts. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. When the aluminum solidifies, it is knocked out by h...

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

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

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

Putting curd into molds. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon

Putting curd into molds. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon

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

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Spraying bone ash on the forms in which the refined copper will be poured; this deposit of bone ash prevents the melted copper from burning or sticking to the molds

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Compa...

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Doctor Michael B. Michaelian of the Dairy Industry Department with bread molds used in making an American type of Roquefort cheese. The bread mold is sold to various cheese makers throughout the country. Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Doctor Michael B. Michaelian of the Dairy Industry Department with bre...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...

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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...

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

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

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

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

Tire retreading. Uncured rubber tread stock of the same quality as that used in first-line tires is cemented into place before the tires are placed in molds for curing

Tire retreading. Uncured rubber tread stock of the same quality as tha...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. The "pour" in a foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida, designed by city fireman J.L. Clayton. R.G. Campbell, foundry foreman, left, is controlling the homemade ladle. Arthur Brown, Negro helper from an orange grove, guides the crucible, while Lewis Pillitz, formerly an electrician, helps on his end. The molds are for air raid sirens of Clayton's own design

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. The "pour" in a foundr...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Small ladles for small molds can be handled by one man and a monorail crane. These molds might be for small hand wheels or other small parts of machines made in a large Midwest plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Small ladles for sm...

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.

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War I...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

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. Tin smelting. A section of the smelting or furnace building of a large Southern plant in which pure tin is extracted from South American ore. At the left is a row of "pot boilers" in which the pure tin is kept at a temperature of about 750 degrees Fahrenheit until it is poured into molds. The plant is the finest of its kind in the world

Production. Tin smelting. A section of the smelting or furnace buildin...

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Filling molds from a ladle in the foundry of the Farrell-Birmingham Corporation. Ansonia, Connecticut

Filling molds from a ladle in the foundry of the Farrell-Birmingham Co...

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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almost pure tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other metal tubes, is removed from a heating pot for pouring into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. This plant handles about 400,000 pounds of old tubes each month

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almos...

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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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Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other similiar metal tubes, into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Heavy demands from war industries has prompted recovery of tin from collapsible tubes

Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Pouring molten t...

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Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. As molten copper is poured from the refining furnace, it is first run through a bed of coke to prevent oxidation before the copper is cast into the molds

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Compa...

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Seating the valve and seaming the tube. After each tube is snipped off at the proper length, it passes to this worker who places the open and over a sleeve, and forces the valve into position right in the center of reinforcing patch. This makes doubly sure that the tube is absolutely leak-proof. When this is done, the cube can be seamed shut--the operation which is taking place here. The two ends are butted together, the sticky rubber is bonded together under pressure, and passed on to the curing molds for vulcanizing. Firestone (General), Akron, Ohio

Seating the valve and seaming the tube. After each tube is snipped off...

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Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Steel Casting Molds, 525 Central Avenue, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Johnson Steel Street Rail Company, Steel Casting Molds, 525 Central Av...

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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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Lining with cheesecloth the molds in which cheese will be pressed. Tillamook cheese plant, Tillamook, Oregon

Lining with cheesecloth the molds in which cheese will be pressed. Til...

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