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Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the constr...

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Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base

Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive tr...

12002-18. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

He's in the Navy now. Annapolis, Md. June 1. Lee Dillard Goodsby, a member of the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy today, received an added thrill when his girlfriend, Betty Brougher, pinned the epaulets of ensign on his uniform. Ensign Goodsby is a native of Logansport, La., while Miss Brougher hails from Fort Benning, Ga

He's in the Navy now. Annapolis, Md. June 1. Lee Dillard Goodsby, a me...

A man in a military uniform and a woman in a dress dress, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, I... More

Lewis Compton, Navy - Public domain portrait photograph

Lewis Compton, Navy - Public domain portrait photograph

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Lt. Beecher, Navy Press - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lt. Beecher, Navy Press - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea salt by his mates at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas

After seven years in the Navy, J.D. Estes is considered an old sea sal...

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New Chief of Naval Aeronautics takes oath. Washington, D.C., June 1. The newly appointed Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Navy, Capt. John H. Towers, right, being administered the oath of office today by John B. May, Chief Clerk of the Navy Department. The promotion automatically carries with it the rank of Rear Admiral for the new chief, Capt. Towers was one of the pilots of the NC 4 on the massed flight across the Atlantic in 1919

New Chief of Naval Aeronautics takes oath. Washington, D.C., June 1. T...

A black and white photo of two men in a room, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Ge... More

Navy aircraft. Gruman torpedo bombers. The Avenger. These dual purpose aircraft, already tested in battle, are the U.S. Navy's new torpedo-bombers, capable both of hedge-hopping waves to press home a torpedo attack and flying high above enemy targets to drop tons of high explosives. Manufactured to Gruman, these deadly bombers are heavily armed and armored. Generally they are given fighter protection, they are carrier based

Navy aircraft. Gruman torpedo bombers. The Avenger. These dual purpose...

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New Deal needlework designed and executed by Eleanor B. Roosevelt / picture by Eleanor B. Roosevelt.

New Deal needlework designed and executed by Eleanor B. Roosevelt / pi...

Page from scrapbook showing two photographs: (1) "The Order of Adventurers" weekly radio program with Adm. Richard Byrd, Felix Reisenberg, Roy Chapman Andrews, [Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.]; (2) needlework depictin... More

A group of people sitting in front of a sign - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people sitting in front of a sign - FSA / Office of War Inf...

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

Aircraft. Naval. The Brewster "Buccaneer" (SB2A-1) is used by the Navy as scout dive bomber and escort plane. It is powered by a single-row Wright cyclone engine of 1,650 horsepower, has a top speed of about 350 miles per hour, a range of about 1,000 miles and a load capacity up to 11,000 pounds

Aircraft. Naval. The Brewster "Buccaneer" (SB2A-1) is used by the Navy...

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Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward - safety film negatives, Library of Con...

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Smoking stacks attract attacks Don't invite disaster / / PvP.

Smoking stacks attract attacks Don't invite disaster / / PvP.

Poster for Thirteenth Naval District, United States Navy, showing smoke coming from smokestack of ship, Japanese submarine in foreground. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Pr... More

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Here is driving power for the Navy, a group propeller shafts waiting for installation in new destroyers for our two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Here is driving power for the Navy, a gro...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. "Captain" Mary explaining the merits of gyroscope in navigation

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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Like stars for the flag. Glistening sparks, like the constellation in the blue field of Old Glory, issue from a semi-steel heating operation at an eastern Navy yard

Like stars for the flag. Glistening sparks, like the constellation in ...

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Der englische flugzeugträger "Courageous" wird von deutschem U-boot versenkt / Adolf Bock 1941.

Der englische flugzeugträger "Courageous" wird von deutschem U-boot ve...

Print shows passengers abandoning the HMS Courageous, a British aircraft carrier, on September 17, 1939 after it was torpedoed by a German Uboat. Original signed in lower left. Forms part of: Third Reich Colle... More

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). This worker is touching up one of the huge condensers for a U.S. Navy destroyer under construction

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This worker is touching up one of the hug...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary, the spirit of benovelence, looking at the class from behind her desk

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by women who work at the Navy shipyards. Bremerton, Washington

Room in FSA (Farm Security Administration) dormitories occupied by wom...

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.

"Block" that tackle. Holding off would-be aggressor nations take all kinds of equipment, like these metal blocks being sorted in the forge shop at an eastern Navy yard

"Block" that tackle. Holding off would-be aggressor nations take all k...

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Houses near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia

Houses near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia

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

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Tent colony of twenty-five families who had been squatters on land taken over the Navy. They are to be resettled by the land authority

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Tent colony of twenty-five families w...

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Row of multiple family dwelling at the Navy defense housing project for enlisted men--Marines and Navy. San Diego, California

Row of multiple family dwelling at the Navy defense housing project fo...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are used in the construction of these ways, where American mechanical genius is employed in the production of ships for our new two-ocean navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are...

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

"Tooled Up" with somewhere to go. Part of the vast machine shop at an eastern Navy yard, where machine-tools that took months to build are now stepping out with production parts and materials needed for Navy expansion

"Tooled Up" with somewhere to go. Part of the vast machine shop at an ...

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Navy construction at a naval base for the housing of ship building workers

Navy construction at a naval base for the housing of ship building wor...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty of this worker in the plate shaping shop. The sledgehammer is still an important tool in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's giant new fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Power for defense is the specialty o...

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

Sand castings ready to be used in producing aluninum articles for Uncle Sam's Army and Navy. The folded corrugated boxes piled up are made from waste paper. Aluninum Industries

Sand castings ready to be used in producing aluninum articles for Uncl...

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Workmen from Mare Island navy yard in the community room at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing dormitories. Vallejo, California

Workmen from Mare Island navy yard in the community room at the FSA (F...

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Production. Marine engines. Gears for marine engines for the Navy are produced in great quantity at a Midwest plant. The finest of material and workmanship go into their manufacture. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Marine engines. Gears for marine engines for the Navy are ...

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

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. John K. Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man, turns a machine over to Don MacDonald, Washington, D.C. typewriter dealer, who accepts it on behalf of the government at the fixed rate. This is one of the first typewriters thus enlisted in the war effort

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komoroski. He was a Russian sea captain, a graduate of the Czar's navel academy, an officer in the British navy, a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy during the World War, first master of a Standard Oil Company tanker. He is now retired from the sea, and makes a living as a farmer. He is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client

Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komoroski. He was a Rus...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Surrounded by their peacetime products, the president and general manager of an Eastern manufacturing company take a last look at their orange squeezers, game boards and soft drink dispensers, relics of bygone days. Today they're producing vital wartime essentials for Uncle Sam: tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other war necessities on prime and subcontract for the Army and Navy. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Surrounded by their peacetime ...

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Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Making model planes according to Navy specifications to be used in the training of military and civilian personnel

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Making model pl...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg and Elve Burnham, entered war work after their husbands joined the service. They assemble bands for blood transfusion bottles at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Mrs. Burnham is the mother of two children

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Two Navy wives, Eva Herzberg an...

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

A ten-thousandth of an inch counts. Turning a piece of torpedo machinery to within a ten-thousandth of an inch at an eastern Navy arsenal

A ten-thousandth of an inch counts. Turning a piece of torpedo machine...

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Captain Charles Paul McFeaters, commander of the transport; Rear Admiral Kelly Turner; Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley; Major General M.F. Harmon, commander of the Army forces in the South Pacific area; and Major General Alexander M. Patch. Jr., inspecting the troops of the Army Task Force aboard the transport which is taking them from New Caledonia to the Solomons

Captain Charles Paul McFeaters, commander of the transport; Rear Admir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pearl Harbor bombing. Nevada underway. Severely damaged and beached during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS Nevada gets ready to leave her Hawaiian anchorage for permanent repairs at a U.S. port. Temporary repairs made at Pearl Harbor enabled the battleship to make the voyage under her own power

Pearl Harbor bombing. Nevada underway. Severely damaged and beached du...

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Production. Marine engines. A drilling operation on the crankshaft of a marine engine for the Navy. This workman in a Midwest plant can certify that every precaution is taken to assure the finest quality in every crankshaft produced. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Marine engines. A drilling operation on the crankshaft of ...

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. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The nation's underwater craft are being launched in record time because of men like these two who work on a construction crew at the Navy's shipyard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Production. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The natio...

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Soldiers of the Iceland base command receiving gift boxes of sweaters and bags containing cigarettes, soap, sewing kits and other comforts from the Cleveland, Ohio, and New Haven, Connecticut, Red Cross chapters

Soldiers of the Iceland base command receiving gift boxes of sweaters ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Additional number on caption card: A-46355. Image source: U.S. Navy. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of ... More

Production. Submarine chasers. Nemesis of the U-boat. A Navy skipper and executive officer stand on the bridge of their new command, a nearly completed 110-foot wooden subchaser that will soon leave an Eastern boatyard. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Nemesis of the U-boat. A Navy skipper a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Producing fifty-foot steel ramp boats in one of the plants of a large Southern boat building company. In addition to these steel ramp boats, the company is also making wooden ramp boats, torpedo boats and other Navy craft. Boats were under construction on these lines before the building was completed. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Producing fifty-foot steel ra...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy N2S primary land plane, ready for afternoon flight trips at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. These ships are completely reconditioned, after fulfilling their service schedules by civil service employees at the base

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy N2S primary land plane, r...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation installing a thirty-caliber machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy five and half years. At the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, he sees that flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an Aviation Ordnance Mate

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation ins...

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern yard, building boats used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. Torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft are also made at this yard

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fif...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Oklahoma. Rescue crews are shown here working on the upturned hull of the 29,000 ton battleship USS Oklahoma, which capsized in Pearl Harbor after being blasted by Japanese warplanes. Holes were burned through the hull to permit the rescue of some of the men trapped below. Note one of the Oklahoma's launches in the foreground. The battleship, USS Maryland is in the background

Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Oklahoma. Rescue crews are shown here workin...

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The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the United Nations attend a garden party of the United Nations Club at Dumbarton Oaks, Sunday, September 6th, 1942. Left to right: Lieutenant Commander Y. C. Yang, China; Commander J. Blaauboer, Royal Dutch Navy Reserve, Assistant Naval Attache

The uniforms are different but the cause is the same. Officers of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirteen years, C.R. Summers now is a sheet metal worker in a Southern Navy yard. Following a short training course in this work, he became adept at the job shown here, brazing on the sleeves that join lengths of copper tubing for Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirt...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production pools come from all walks and ways of life. Painter on the De Land war contract is Curtis Yelvington, forty-five, born and reared in De Land. He has one son in the coast artillery and another in the Navy, both volunteers. He says, "We are doing everything in our power to help win this war." In the last war, Yelvington tried to enlist three times and finally made it - the day before the armistice was signed

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production p...

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Admiral Standley and party as they take off for America from Cairo airport. Left to right: Mr. Edward Page, Jr., Second Secretary of the Embassy in Moscow; Admiral W.H. Standley, United States Ambassador to Russia; Colonel Joseph A. Michela, Military Attache in Moscow; Captain J.H. Duncan, Naval Attache in Moscow; Commander S.D. Frankel, Assistant Naval Attache in Moscow

Admiral Standley and party as they take off for America from Cairo air...

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New York, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Romano feeding their baby. He works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Romano feeding their baby. He w...

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

Production. Marine boilers. End plugs are fitted in headers for marine boilers as a large Midwest manufacturer turns over all plant facilities to the production of Navy requirements

Production. Marine boilers. End plugs are fitted in headers for marine...

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Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Making model planes according to Navy specifications to be used in the training of military and civilian personnel

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Making model pl...

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Forty-two keys to victory. This man was once a skilled worker in a typewriter factory. He's still a skilled worker in the same factory, but instead of typewriters he's now assembling war items. Although Army and Navy demands for typewriters are increasing, the manufacute of these machines will have ceased by the end of the year. That's why the government needs your typewriter -- if it's of standard size and a model made no earlier than 1935

Forty-two keys to victory. This man was once a skilled worker in a typ...

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

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Ceremonies at the presentation of the Army and Navy E award to the Briggs manufacturing company. Worker who is a war veteran

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Ceremonies at the presentation of the Ar...

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Detroit, Michigan. Ceremonies at the Hudson Naval ordnance plant on the occasion of the Navy "E" award

Detroit, Michigan. Ceremonies at the Hudson Naval ordnance plant on th...

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 poster comes to life. "Now, over there is..." For six days, Woolslayer acted as guide for his Army and Navy companions and even then failed to cover the entire mill. Note, in left background, an electric furnace in operation. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. "Now, over there is..." For six days, Woolslay...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical skill in operating this 130-ton capacity die stamping press will soon be applied to far more important production. This employee of an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern is shown stamping out mounting frames for jukeboxes. When the boxes have been completed, this company will devote a large percentage of its time and space to production of electrical devices to be used by the Army and Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical ski...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. An Army sentry guards new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant. The ship will be delivered to the Army and the Navy after they have successfully undergone flight tests. 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 at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. An Army sentry guards new B-17F (Flying...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negro workers employed in the aircraft factory of a larger Eastern navy yard, contributes to the happy landings of our air warriors. Walker is shown working on olios, a part of the landing gear of fighting craft

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

A black and white photo of a man in a military uniform. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a military uniform. Office of War ...

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

Brass shavings from cartridge cases. One of the last processes in making anti-aircraft cartridges is machining the head of the case. This worker in an eastern Navy yard is one of thousands who are producing ammunition for the expanded Navy war program

Brass shavings from cartridge cases. One of the last processes in maki...

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Buffalo, New York. At the wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak, who are of Polish descent. They are employed at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy. Guests and orchestra at the wedding feast

Buffalo, New York. At the wedding of Cecelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Now...

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President's trip abroad meeting with Churchill. President Roosevelt is about to cut into birthday cake. Enroute in a big plane from Trinidad to Miami on his 61st birthday anniversary, he had to forego his customary personal address to celebrate at birthday balls throughout the United States for the benefit of infantile paralysis suffers. At his right is his chief military advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy. Looking on with deep interest from the other side of the table is Harry L. Hopkins. Lieutenant Cone, captain of the plane, is at Hopkins' left

President's trip abroad meeting with Churchill. President Roosevelt is...

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Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Robert "Red" Mortensen, of Norwegian extraction, ski champion, serves as a machinist's mate in the U.S. Navy, while his wife, Barbara, serves the homefront by manning a fire tower on Pine Mountain overlooking her hometown of Berlin

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Robert "Red" Mortensen, of Norwegian...

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Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Helen Joyce, one of the many women now working for the Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Company. She has one child and her husband is a seaman first class in the U.S. Navy

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Helen Joyce, one of the many women now w...

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.

Plastic tableware for the Navy. Durable plastic tableware, designed to replace china and aluminum dishes used on naval vessels, is made of impregnated fabric molding material. Here the operator weighs out the correct amount of material for a molding operation as shown in the press at the left

Plastic tableware for the Navy. Durable plastic tableware, designed to...

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Coast Guard anti-saboteur patrol. "Vital war shipping must be protected on the docks....as well as on the high seas," reads an official order by Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. These armed Coast Guardsmen are shown getting their orders at a East Coast port before they start their patrol in the blitz buggies

Coast Guard anti-saboteur patrol. "Vital war shipping must be protecte...

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

Washington, D.C. Members of a wood-making class at Woodrow Wilson High School making model planes for use by the U.S. Navy

Washington, D.C. Members of a wood-making class at Woodrow Wilson High...

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

New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Two sailors at Times Square on D-day looking at the latest news line on the Times building

New York, New York. June 6, 1944. Two sailors at Times Square on D-day...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of the bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British fleet, taken from the obsesrvatory under the command of Admirals Cochrane & Cockburn, on the morning of the 13th of Sept. 1814 ... / J. Bower sc Philadelphia.

A view of the bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the Brit...

Photograph of an engraving by John Bower showing the British fleet bombarding Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. Caption continues: which lasted 24 hours & thrown from 1500 to 1800 shells in the night attempte... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Surgeons' Garage, Intersection of Service Road & driveway behind First Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Hospital Point, Surg...

Significance: This structure is associated with the naval hospital housing complex at Hospital Point. It is stylistically compatible with the Craftsman-Style residences of Facilities 301 & 302, and was built a... More

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Bending Shop & Oven, 2900 Main Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

United Engineering Company Shipyard, Bending Shop & Oven, 2900 Main St...

Field notes with main record CA-295 Significance: The bending shop and oven (building no. 19) is a contributing structure in the United Engineering Company Shipyard historic district that has been determined el... More

Lone Sailor statue, part of the U.S. Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Lone Sailor statue, part of the U.S. Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Ave...

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

U.S. ship of the line in a gale

U.S. ship of the line in a gale

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6847

Victorious bombardment of Port Royal, S.C. Nov. 7th. 1861: by the United States fleet, under command of Commodore Dupont

Victorious bombardment of Port Royal, S.C. Nov. 7th. 1861: by the Unit...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6883

James River, Virginia U.S.S. Casco, light-draft monitor

James River, Virginia U.S.S. Casco, light-draft monitor

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Dona... More

Gun Park, Pensacola Navy Yard, Fla

Gun Park, Pensacola Navy Yard, Fla

Photograph shows four men standing amidst rows of armaments at the Pensacola Navy Yard. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Fundin... More

Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of the breach

Fort Pulaski, Ga. Interior view of the breach

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. ... More

James River, Virginia Sailors on deck of U.S.S. Monitor; cookstove at left

James River, Virginia Sailors on deck of U.S.S. Monitor; cookstove at ...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Dona... More

A powder monkey on the Pawnee ..

A powder monkey on the Pawnee ..

Photograph shows a young boy with his hands tucked into his pants standing at ease in front of a large gun aboard the sloop of war, USS Pawnee. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). No. 42. Capti... More

Charleston, S.C. The Citadel seen across Marion Square

Charleston, S.C. The Citadel seen across Marion Square

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

Charleston, S.C. St. Michael's Church. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Charleston, S.C. St. Michael's Church. Washington DC sterescope card, ...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

Paymaster Joseph Adams Smith of U.S. Navy in uniform J. Nal y Ca., Fotografia Francesa, Calle Ancha ..., Cadiz

Paymaster Joseph Adams Smith of U.S. Navy in uniform J. Nal y Ca., Fot...

Photograph shows identified sailor, who served aboard USS Kearsage during the Civil War. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Earl Sheck, Oxford, Maryland, Nove... More

Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate blockade runner Robert E. Lee)

Norfolk, Virginia Steamer U.S.S. Fort Donelson (former Confederate blo...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Dona... More

Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Lewis Payne, in sweater, seated and manacled

Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Lewis Payne, in sweater, seated and manacle...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. This photograph has background of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, w... More

Civil War veteran Patrick J. Sheridan Elmer Chickering, 21 West St., Boston ; The Royal Studio, Elmer Chickering, proprieter, 21 West St., Boston

Civil War veteran Patrick J. Sheridan Elmer Chickering, 21 West St., B...

Photograph shows portrait of Union veteran Patrick J. Sheridan in naval uniform with medal. Notation on recto: "Patrick J. Sheridan, 33." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) P... More

Point of Rocks, Virginia, vicinity. Crew of U.S. Army gunboat General Foster ashore with howitzers

Point of Rocks, Virginia, vicinity. Crew of U.S. Army gunboat General ...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Dona... More

Aiken's Landing, Virginia. Double-turreted monitor U.S.S. on James River

Aiken's Landing, Virginia. Double-turreted monitor U.S.S. on James Riv...

Caption from negative sleeve: Aiken's Landing, James River, Place where prisoners were exchanged. Double turreted monitor ONONDAGA. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2543A) and right (LC-B811-2543B) halves of a ste... More

Charleston, S.C. Houses on the Battery; the nearest is burned out

Charleston, S.C. Houses on the Battery; the nearest is burned out

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

Betty Herndon Maury Maury diary,, Confederate States of America.

Betty Herndon Maury Maury diary,, Confederate States of America.

Diary (1861 June 3-1863 February 18) written chiefly at Fredericksburg, Va., containing detailed comments on the progress of the Civil War, especially in the local area, hardships suffered by Confederate soldie... More

Charleston Navy Yard , Quarters J, 311 Navy Way, North Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Charleston Navy Yard , Quarters J, 311 Navy Way, North Charleston, Cha...

2018 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: As an integral part of the Charleston Navy Yard Officers' Quarters historic district, Quarters J is both regionally and nationally significant. Prior to the l... More

Newport Harbor scenes, Newport, Rhode Island

Newport Harbor scenes, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1, Small fishing boat with cabin in Newport Harbor, looking southwest from Long Wharf; Yacht Club in background; 2-3, View of Newport Harbor looking south from Long Wharf; Treadway Inn (new, modern ... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Boiler Shop, Waterfront Avenue, west side between A Street & Third Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Boiler Shop, Waterfront Avenue, west side ...

Significance: Building 89/91 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 89/91 is significant historically and architecturally. Historically, it is important as one of the oldest ... More

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Boiler Shop, Waterfront Avenue, west side between A Street & Third Street, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Boiler Shop, Waterfront Avenue, west side ...

Significance: Building 89/91 is a contributing element of the Mare Island Historic District. Building 89/91 is significant historically and architecturally. Historically, it is important as one of the oldest ... More

Newport Black Ensemble Theatre Group (NBET) workshop at the "old Navy Y" (YMCA), 50 Washington Square, Newport, Rhode Island

Newport Black Ensemble Theatre Group (NBET) workshop at the "old Navy ...

Index data: 1, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 2, Barbara McDowell (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 3-4, Arndra "Weedy" Durden (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 5, Left to right: Frank S. Young (da... More

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