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Devil's Lake, Wis., the Nose - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Devil's Lake, Wis., the Nose - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Two shepherd boys playing nose flutes, Albania] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[Two shepherd boys playing nose flutes, Albania] - Frank G. Carpenter ...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of Hungary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombard...

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

Barrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of the zipper-covered "manhole" in the nose of a gigantic barrage balloon, this worker has finished patching, touching up and checking the great bag, and is ready to give the signal to deflate the balloon, pack it and ship it to Uncle Sam's army training fields where balloon squadrons are learning the technique of handling the blimp-sized gas bags. This ship is of the ballonet type. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. All out for defense! Scrambling out of th...

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

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Conveyor line showing assembly of nose section of B-26 bomber

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Conveyor line showing assembl...

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

Working on the nose of one engine of an interceptor plane. Lake Muroc, California

Working on the nose of one engine of an interceptor plane. Lake Muroc,...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. The ear, nose and throat doctor examining George Camblair at the induction station

Baltimore, Maryland. The ear, nose and throat doctor examining George ...

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

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Assembling the nose section of a Pratt and Whitney engine

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Assembling ...

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

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator] - A black and white photo of a woman on a plane

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator] - A black and white photo of a woman on ...

Photograph shows nose art on a B24 bomber depicting a pin-up with the name "Bonnie" written next to the image. Written on back: 466BG ; 2E AD, Attlebridge, Eng.

"Two ton snub nose 1948 Chevy," refurbished by Woody Boggs

"Two ton snub nose 1948 Chevy," refurbished by Woody Boggs

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain image of a truck, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

The yellow pest - putting its nose into everything / Dalrymple. Joseph Pulitzer

The yellow pest - putting its nose into everything / Dalrymple. Joseph...

Print shows President William McKinley sitting at a desk, holding a large paper that shows "President McKinley's War Policy". A newspaper reporter, most likely Joseph Pulitzer", leaning through an open window a... More

Circleville, Ohio's "Hooverville" (see general caption). Begins to talk: "No man in the United States had the trouble I had since 1931. No man. Don't talk to me. I'm deaf. I lost my farm in 1931. I went to work in an acid factory. I got acid spilt on me; burnt my nose and made me blind. Then I get those awful headaches. I've been to lots of doctors, but that doesn't help me. They come on at sundown. No man in the United States had the trouble I had since 1931." (This last repeated many times through his talking.) "No man. It must be getting on to 6 o'clock now. My head's beginning to pain."

Circleville, Ohio's "Hooverville" (see general caption). Begins to tal...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill.

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter ha...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the f...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels for B-25 bombers lined up for inspection at a big Western aircraft plant. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25, has called this bomber the best militiary plane in existence. Many men and women were quickly trained in this plant for the various operations necessary to the making of a modern bomber. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels for B-25 bombers lined up for in...

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

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Installation of the pilot enclosure in the nose section

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Installation of the pilot enc...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. The bombadier's compartment in the nose

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

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Huge machines used to cold nose rough turned shells

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator]

[Nose art on a B24 Liberator]

Photograph shows a B24 bomber painted with red zig-zag stripes. Color transparency is filed as MISC-05-338. Written on slide mount: Striped Ass [...], 466 BG.

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Anthony's Nose, Hudson River, N.Y.

Anthony's Nose, Hudson River, N.Y.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fjord, arctic landscape, mountains, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 1/4 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and ...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio du...

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

As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Naval Air Base, Texas

As an NYA trainee working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is l...

Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end of the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Getting a nose door ready to put on a C-87 transport plane at the end ...

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Making bull nose plug in casing for pipe going under railroad tracks

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels and engines for B-25 bombers ready to go to the assembly lines of a Western aircraft plant. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25 in the raid on Tokyo, has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels and engines for B-25 bombers rea...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Huge machines used to cold nose rough turned shells

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Threading the nose of a shell in the finishing machine with the cutter on the inside of the nose

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Assembling the nose of a Pratt and Whitney engine

Warner Robins, Georgia. Air Service Command, Robins Field. Assembling ...

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

[President Dwight Eisenhower giving a television speech in the White House about science and national security, next to a nose cone of an experimental missile which had been into space and back]

[President Dwight Eisenhower giving a television speech in the White H...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Pres. Eisenhower delivering television address to nation about science, White House, Washington, D.C., 11/7/57, WKL". On contact sheet folder: cf. USNW&R, v. 43, 11/15/57, p. 145... More

[President Dwight Eisenhower looking at a nose cone of an experimental missile which had been into space and back, during a television speech in the White House about science and national security]

[President Dwight Eisenhower looking at a nose cone of an experimental...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Pres. Eisenhower delivering television address to nation about science, White House, Washington, D.C., 11/7/57, WKL". On contact sheet folder: cf. USNW&R, v. 43, 11/15/57, p. 145... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

The nineteenth century booming under its very nose

The nineteenth century booming under its very nose

(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 119.

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A partly-finished Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship, including center and nose section, is swung over a rolling cradle to begin its trip down the assembly line of a large Western aircraft plant. As the ship moves from station to station along this line it will receive its engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A partly-finished Lockheed P...

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

[Muhammad Ali, bust portrait] / World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg.

[Muhammad Ali, bust portrait] / World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Ros...

NYWT&S staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

[Chinese Emperor(?) and Empress(?) seated on raised platform with musicians seated in front of them; the Emperor appears to have lost his nose and part of his right shoulder, the Empress part of her scalp]

[Chinese Emperor(?) and Empress(?) seated on raised platform with musi...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Camel kiss; camel nibbling at his master's nose.

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Camel kiss; camel nibb...

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Sandberg taking nose prints, 7/7/22

Sandberg taking nose prints, 7/7/22

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

Bansy (Bunsee - Bamboo Nose Flute), Dayton C. Miller Collection

Bansy (Bunsee - Bamboo Nose Flute), Dayton C. Miller Collection

Flemish (artist nationality) marine painter, etcher, and ethnographer (artist role) Recto: l. l.: 2.me Section. ; bottom center: BANSY. ; l. r.: Livraison. 24.me ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Paul Ritti / July 19... More

Production. 155mm shells. Heating 155mm shells in the salt bath of an Ajax furnace before nose forming operations are performed in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Heating 155mm shells in the salt bath of an ...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a consolidated B-24 bomber is being lowered to place in a fuselage meting fixture at a Western aircraft plant. Here, tail fuselage, wing center section and nose section are joined. This bomber carries a heavy bomb load and is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high-accuracy boming missions. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a co...

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

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. The nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship in a jig at a large Western aircraft plant. This nose section will later be joined or "mated" to a center section and the partly-finished body will begin its trip down the final assembly line where engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. The nose section of a new Lo...

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

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An armorer in a large Western aircraft plant tests machine gun controls in the partly-finished nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. This section is now ready for the operation of "mating" it to the center section. The ship will travel down the main assembly line to receive engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An armorer in a large Wester...

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

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Mrs. Dean-Boyd saw at once what Nicky meant -- Ethel had the Dean nose

Mrs. Dean-Boyd saw at once what Nicky meant -- Ethel had the Dean nos...

(DLC/PP-1932:0039). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "She couldn't marry both" by Royal Brown, Ladies home journal, 36:19 (Sept. 1919).

A boxing match, or another bloody nose for John Bull / W. Charles, del et sculp.

A boxing match, or another bloody nose for John Bull / W. Charles, del...

The artist gloats over naval losses suffered by England early in the War of 1812, in particular the defeat of the warship "Boxer" by the American frigate "Enterprise" in September 1813. King George III stands ... More

Removing nose from 6 inch shell

Removing nose from 6 inch shell

Public domain image of a group of people, ceremony, event, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

His nose was thin and overlong--

His nose was thin and overlong--

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The False Faces" by Louis Joseph Vance, Saturday evening post, 190:22 (Oct. 27, 1917).

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. In the transparent nose of a mighty YB-17 bomber, a sergeant of a bombardment squadron stationed at Langley Field, Virginia handles the machine gun

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. In the transparen...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a Western aircraft plant. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a...

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

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Capt. Ben Pine, the man who raced the schooner "Gertrude Thebaud" against the Canadian schooner "Blue Nose" for the fisherman's trophy, is one of the three men who made Gloucester. The others were Tom Carrol and Ray Adams

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Capt. Ben Pine, the man who raced the schoo...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Advanced assembly includes riveting and drilling the nose of the bomber made in the giant Willow Run plant. Open spaces will be fitted with a form of Plexiglas to give the bombardier a complete wide-angle view. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Advanced assembly includes riveti...

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

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Two girl workers in the Long Beach, California, plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company, put finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F heavy bomber. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Two girl workers in the Long Beach, C...

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

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A line of fuselage nose sections for B-17F heavy bombers moving in an overhead conveyor trolley toward the final assembly line at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A line of fuselage nose sections for ...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a consolidated B-24 bomber is being lowered to place in a fuselage meting fixture at a Western aircraft plant. Here, tail fuselage, wing center section and nose section are joined. This bomber carries a heavy bomb load and is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high-accuracy boming missions. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A tail fuselage for a co...

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

Working on the nose of one engine of an interceptor plane. Lake Muroc, California

Working on the nose of one engine of an interceptor plane. Lake Muroc,...

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

[Defeat of Roman Nose by Colonel Forsyth]

[Defeat of Roman Nose by Colonel Forsyth]

Title from shelflist card. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The United States Army" by Francis V. Greene, Scribner's, 30:605 (Nov. 1901).

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Nose Hangar, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Nose Hangar, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyen...

Survey number: HAER WY-16-G

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia, April. The marks and spots on his face are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i....

Stereograph showing a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was... More

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virginia, April. The marks and spots on his face are blood issuing from his mouth and nose. The wound is in the head, caused by a fragment of shell

C.S. soldier killed in the trenches at the storming of Petersburgh (i....

Stereograph showing a soldier wearing a gunner's haversack, which confirms his identity as an artilleryman. The photographer placed a broken gun sponge in the scene as a prop, which indicates that the image was... More

[Half length image of bearded tramp in hat, touching finger to nose with full length image of same tramp to the left]

[Half length image of bearded tramp in hat, touching finger to nose wi...

V37182 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright - 1890 - Shober & Carqueville, Chicago." Caption for smaller image: I'll see you again. Created by "Shober & Carqueville, Chicago." No. 1168. Pieces missing from corners.... More

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 1/4 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and ...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane.

A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under constru...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes. As an National Youth Administration (NYA) trainee, Elmer gets practical experience at the Corpus Christi naval air base in Texas. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Working inside the nose of a PB...

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing the nose door of a consolidated transport plane, one of the last assembly line operations at a Western aircraft plant. Here womanpower and manpower work together or various sections of the plane. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Installing the nose door...

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

Kansas City, Kansas. A row of nose wheels for planes in a conveyor at an assembly plant of North American Aviation, Inc.

Kansas City, Kansas. A row of nose wheels for planes in a conveyor at ...

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

Enid, Oklahoma. Tiger, a six-month-old Great Dane, earned his sergeant's stripes the hard way, by rousing a whole barracks of men at the Oklahoma flying school each morning. His cold nose against a soldier's cheek is the signal to get up. His master, Lieutenant Robert E. Davidson of Enid, is lifting the 125 pound Tiger into a plane

Enid, Oklahoma. Tiger, a six-month-old Great Dane, earned his sergeant...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Mated fuselage, nose and wing center sections of a consolidated transport plane are lowered as a unit into the carriage on which the shell will travel along the final assembly line. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Mated fuselage, nose and...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Perched at the nose of a Navy PBY flying ship, two sailors check the huge motor to keep them in first class condition while the plane is in service. These men are aviation mechanics nates stationed at the Naval Air

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Perched at the nose of a Navy P...

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

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Repairing a break in the plexiglass nose of a B-26 bomber

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Repairing a break in ...

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Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks, On either side of Hangar Access Apron at Northwest end of Project Looking Glass Historic District, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Looking Glass Airborne Command Post, Nose Docks...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-F Building/structure dates: 1958-1959 Initial Construction

A boxing match, or another bloody nose for John Bull / W. Charles, del et sculp.

A boxing match, or another bloody nose for John Bull / W. Charles, del...

The artist gloats over naval losses suffered by England early in the War of 1812, in particular the defeat of the warship "Boxer" by the American frigate "Enterprise" in September 1813. King George III stands ... More

[Kyōgen play with three characters, one wearing a large hat and a disk over his nose]

[Kyōgen play with three characters, one wearing a large hat and a disk...

Signature or inscription in upper right corner. Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

B-24 Liberator Bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Cross-section of the C-87 Liberator Express shows the transport as an adaptation of the B-24 Liberator bomber. In the Liberator Express, the fuselage is stripped, the nose is closed, turrets are eliminated and a large loading door installed. It has a top speed of over 300 miles per hour and a range of approximately 3,000 miles

B-24 Liberator Bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Cross-section of the...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage balloon into position for joining with the other half. These workers have come to the final assembly step in producing barrage balloons for American air defense. Four steps in final production are shown in this photo: the half-balloon they are dragging in; the nose of a ship on the right which is in the process of being deflated for packing and shipping; and the inflated balloon in the background which is being inspected for final okay before being shipped. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Tugging a finished half of a barrage ball...

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

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michogan. Loading the frames on the assembly fixture of the nose section. This is the first operation in the sub-assembly operation

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michogan. Loading the frames on the ass...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. The nose of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber, just off the assembly line and paint shop at Ford's big Willow Run plant, and now ready for its test flights. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. The nose of a new...

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

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. The bombadier's compartment in the nose

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

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A mechanic in a large Western aircraft plant reaming and truing connecting holes before a center and nose section are "mated." As the plane body travels down the final assembly line, engines, wings, landing gear and other equipment are added

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A mechanic in a large Wester...

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"Two ton snub nose 1948 Chevy," refurbished by Woody Boggs

"Two ton snub nose 1948 Chevy," refurbished by Woody Boggs

Event: A visit to Pettry Bottom. Public domain image of a truck, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A rendition of the scary clown Pennywise from the movie "It" is part of Melissa Glendinning's spooky tableau that starts with a 1,425-pound pumpkin at the annual Pumpkinfest, a colorful fall festival in Damariscotta, Maine

A rendition of the scary clown Pennywise from the movie "It" is part o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Nose Hangar, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Nose Hangar, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyen...

Survey number: HAER WY-16-G

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Nose Hangar, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne, Laramie County, WY

Wyoming Air National Guard Base, Nose Hangar, Cheyenne Airport, Cheyen...

Survey number: HAER WY-16-C

Don't you douch dat nose - Public domain American music sheet

Don't you douch dat nose - Public domain American music sheet

[ Danny Kaye onstage at the Roxy Theatre, standing at microphone, thumb to nose]

[ Danny Kaye onstage at the Roxy Theatre, standing at microphone, thum...

The back of photograph reads '1945,' but Danny Kaye did not appear at the Roxy Theatre in 1945. These photographs were most likely from Kaye's Roxy run in 1943. (General) The Library of Congress provides acces... More

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