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Body of U.S. Ambassador to Cuba arrives in Washington for burial. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. High officials of the State Department were at the Navy Yard this morning to receive the body of J. Butler Wright, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, as it arrived aboard the U.S. Cuiser Omaha. Ambassador Wright, who died in Cuba last week after an operation, will be buried in Washington Cathedral

Body of U.S. Ambassador to Cuba arrives in Washington for burial. Wash...

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Air conditioned hen house is latest. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. Biddy increases the production of eggs in an air-conditioned hen house, U.S. Department of Agriculture experts have discovered after extensive experiments. The first temperature controlled maternity ward for hens has just been put into operation at the governmental experimental farm here. The hens have voiced their approval by laying more frequently; also a more uniform egg. R.B. Nestler poultry expert, is pictured as he removes the eggs from the automatic chute in the new room. Note the air conditioning apparatus on the ceiling, 8/9/38

Air conditioned hen house is latest. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. Biddy i...

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Vibrating screening operation. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

Vibrating screening operation. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

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Southeast Missouri Farms Project. House erection. Shop assembled trusses are raised in place by regular erection crew of five men. No scaffolding is necessary for this operation

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. House erection. Shop assembled truss...

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Madame Dronet. First operation in spinning carded cotton into thread. Erath, Louisiana

Madame Dronet. First operation in spinning carded cotton into thread. ...

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A black and white photo of a man on a horse pulling a cart of hay, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse pulling a cart of hay, Ark...

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Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex.

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, ...

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Operation, Herrin Hospital (private), Herrin, Illinois

Operation, Herrin Hospital (private), Herrin, Illinois

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FIRST LADY CHRISTENS NEW FLEET OF AIRLINER. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 4. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON ONE OF A NEW FLEET OF DOUGLAS AIRLINERS PUT INTO OPERATION TODAY BY THE PENNSYLVANIA-CENTRAL AIRLINES. THE NEW PLANES, TO BE KNOWN AS THE CAPITAL FLEET, WILL OPERATE ON SIX SCHEDULES DAILY FROM WASHINGTON. C. BEDELL MONRO, PRESIDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-CENTRAL AIRLINES, IS ALSO IN THE PICTURE

FIRST LADY CHRISTENS NEW FLEET OF AIRLINER. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 4...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Second operation in wheel and tire assembly, inserting the locking ring by means of which the tire is secured to the wheel

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Second operation in wheel and tire ass...

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Operation at Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

Operation at Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

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De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Final operation for the center wing assembly

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Final operation for the cente...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. New B-24E (Liberator) bombers, just off the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, are lined up for test flights before they are accepted by the Army. 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. New B-24E (Libera...

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A black and white photo of a group of surgeons. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of surgeons. Great Depression FFSA ...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. 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. Looking up one of...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Large plane parts are formed on a special hydraulic press in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation. Two women employees keep it in constant operation during their shift. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Large plane parts are forme...

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Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by e...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal bulldozer was used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal b...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest tools at the Inglewood, Calfornia plant of North American Aviation Incorporated. Day and night, shifts of girl employees use this huge hydraulic press to form thousands of sheet metal parts for United Nations war planes. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid in Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women take over the operati...

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Production. Copper (refining). Transfer cars at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Transfer cars at a large copper refinin...

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Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper refining operation. Sheets of pure copper are formed by electrolysis, later melted and poured into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper re...

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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer panels for our combat planes will be made from this half-round log of walnut being withdrawn from the steaming vat of a Midwest factory. Great care must be taken in this vatting operation to raise various species of wood to the temperatures at which they can be cut smoothly. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer panel...

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Operation at the Cairns General Hopsital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona

Operation at the Cairns General Hopsital at the FSA (Farm Security Adm...

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A black and white photo of a hospital room. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a hospital room. Office of War Information ...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. A new B-24E (Liberator) bomber, just off the assembly line at Ford's big Willow Run plant, gets a last-minute inspection before taking off on 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. A new B-24E (Libe...

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Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Doctor and a nurse at a (mock) operation

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Doctor and a nurse at a (mock) ...

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Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities

Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount c...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription automatic typewriter unit for the WPB correspondence. These machines in operation are some of the twenty dictator transcribing machines. This unit turns out almost 4,000 letters weekly

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription...

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Salvage. Wool reclamation. Yarn made from reclaimed and virgin wool is carded in an Eastern plant. This process makes wool blend into roving, preparatory to the spinning operation

Salvage. Wool reclamation. Yarn made from reclaimed and virgin wool is...

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Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Baskets of partly-finished cartridge cases for antiaircraft shells pass under the critical eye of a foreman as they are returned from pickling to the next press operation. The Midwest plant which makes these cases finishes them for loading with propelling charge and explosive shell

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Baskets of partly-finished cartridge ...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Completing a center wing section for a B-24E (Liberator) bomber in the vertical position at Ford's big Willow Run plant. 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. Completing a cent...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. 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. Looking up one of...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Meat rationing preview. Reporters make their own news. Washington correspondents get preview of meat rationing in operation with Office of Price Administration officials behind counter. In left foreground is Mrs. Philip Crowlie, OPA's "typical housewife," explaining the system to a woman reporter, while Harold Rowe, food rationing chief, figures point values on the scale

Meat rationing preview. Reporters make their own news. Washington corr...

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Yolanda Giorlando working at tube-winding operation.

Yolanda Giorlando working at tube-winding operation.

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 12, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.

Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.

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Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.

Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Jaime Diaz at work on "beaming" operation.

Jaime Diaz at work on "beaming" operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the plant; she is using a "winding machine" to wind cotton threads from skeins onto bobbins; the thread is called "cotton 60".

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

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A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integrated steel producer in Weirton, West Virginia, and one of the world's largest producers of tin plate products

A portion of the ISG Weirton Steel operation, was once a fully integra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation. In 1983, employee... More

Operation at Provident Hospital on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Operation at Provident Hospital on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

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The experiment in full operation, Political Cartoon

The experiment in full operation, Political Cartoon

An anti-Jackson satire, critical of the President's federal treasury policy and of Vice-President Van Buren's influence on the administration's fiscal program. The print specifically attacks Jackson's plan to d... More

Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe /

Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and cont...

Relief shown by hachures. From the Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers in LC Manuscript Division. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance list. Acquisitions cont... More

Huge converters in operation, steel works, Pittsburg [i.e. Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Huge converters in operation, steel works, Pittsburg [i.e. Pittsburgh]...

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FISK, BRADLEY A. AS REAR ADMIRAL AND FIRST CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATION, RIGHT, WITH REAR ADMIRAL BADGER

FISK, BRADLEY A. AS REAR ADMIRAL AND FIRST CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATION, R...

Two men standing next to each other on a dock. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maizwood Product Corporation, Dubuque, Iowa. Cutting table in operation

Maizwood Product Corporation, Dubuque, Iowa. Cutting table in operatio...

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Ancient brain surgery. Miss Helen Hecker, secretary to Dr. [...] Curator of Physical Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, poses with an ancient trephined skull discovered in Alaska by Dr. Hrdlicka, which is believed to prove that brain surgery was practiced there as long ago as 2,000 years. Dr. Hrdlicka made his discoveries from the lower strata of an ancient settlement on Kodiak Island. He believes that trephining among the Indians was a practical surgical operation, designed to relieve pressure against the brain from a skull fracture, and to remove bone splinters. It also is believed possible that these holes were bored in skulls, at times, to let out evil spirits causing headaches, 11/23/35

Ancient brain surgery. Miss Helen Hecker, secretary to Dr. [...] Curat...

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JAMES ROOSEVELT AND MRS. DUPONT AT HOSPITAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 22. MRS. EUGENE DUPONT TRYING TO HIDE HER FACE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHERS AS SHE LEFT THE HOSPITAL WITH JAMES ROOSEVELT AFTER BOTH OF THEM HAD CALLED TO FIND OUT HOW MISS ETHEL DUPONT WAS RECOVERING AFTER HER EMERGENCY OPERATION. ETHEL DUPONT IS THE DAUGHTER OF MRS. EUGENE DUPONT AND THE FIANCEE OF JAMES ROOSEVELT, SON OF THE PRESIDENT

JAMES ROOSEVELT AND MRS. DUPONT AT HOSPITAL. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY...

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Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank hollowed from a tree and a windlass still in operation. Farmers in this region have to make many of their own devices because of lack of funds to purchase manufactured equipment

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank ...

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Examining rice to determine progress of milling operation, Crowley, Louisiana, state rice mill

Examining rice to determine progress of milling operation, Crowley, Lo...

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Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years operation. Now being dismantled. Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, Malone, Washington

Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years operation. N...

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Jerry Vardiman's income from the cooperative will probably increase in value as the livestock and poultry enterprises reach their productive peak. The project has been in operation only two years. Osage Farms, Missouri

Jerry Vardiman's income from the cooperative will probably increase in...

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Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, a "Hulett" ore unloader in operation, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania R.R. ore docks, a "Hulett" ore unloader in operation, Cle...

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Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter operated by a crew...

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Plowing and harrowing with team of horses. Grundy County, Iowa. Use of horses for this operation is rare in Grundy County

Plowing and harrowing with team of horses. Grundy County, Iowa. Use of...

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With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. First Sergeant Vancito Stephens, New York City; Private Alonzo Dantzler of Cedarville, New Jersey and Corporal Glenville Riley, Brooklyn, New York watch the operation of intricate anti-aircraft machinery at their post with an airfield security detachment in Hawaii

With an airfield security detachment in Hawaii. First Sergeant Vancito...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

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Adding tread rubber stock. When the fabric carcass has been built to the proper number of layers and cushion rubber has been added under the tread, the thick, extra tough tread rubber is added, having been molded to the proper shape by extrusion in a previous operation. Mechanical guides help this builder to put the tread on absolutely straight, so the tire will be in perfect balance. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Adding tread rubber stock. When the fabric carcass has been built to t...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's shop, where steel plates are bent to fit the sidings of warcraft under construction. This is an operation requiring a high degree of skill

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This worker is in the plate-bender's...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture of forty-millimeter Bofors gun mounts and carriages. This arc welder wearing a protective mask is completing a skilled operation on part of a gun mount in a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture ...

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In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here naval cadets are being instructed in lathe operation by the skilled instructor- mechanics

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A worker tests the smooth working precision of the elevating mechanism assembly of a thirty-seven-millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Planes of 300 miles an hour and better present a fast-moving target which requires precision operation in the anti-aircraft gun that must follow their flight to protect America's lives and property. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A worker tests the smooth working precision...

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Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis explaining the operation of a rifle to a U.S. Negro trooper somewhere in England

Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis explaining the operation of a rifl...

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Because of the time and difficulties which would be encountered in buying a new staking machine, engineers of a Midwestern company converted an old standard arbor press into an air-operated machine, pictured above, which stakes screws in a twenty- millimeter shell booster. The results of the air-powered machine were a definite saving of time and elimination of fatigue which resulted from the operation of manually operated press. The young lady operating the machine was an operator of a machine for making loose-leaf notebook binders before she became employed on war work

Because of the time and difficulties which would be encountered in buy...

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Parris Island, South Carolina. The operation board at the U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp

Parris Island, South Carolina. The operation board at the U.S. Marine ...

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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...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Operator of this universal milling machine is John J. Morris shown here cutting steel disc covers for his company's normal product--cube steak machines. Today, Morris used the same machine adapted to war subcontract work- -the cutting of large hexagonal nuts for a government arsenal. "Hexing a nut" is a very simple job with a machine designed to shape the entire piece in one operation, but such a machine is not available and time is short. Morris, therefore, shifts the round piece of steel stock three times, cutting two sides in each operation. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Operator of this universal milling m...

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

Good temper. Quenching operation following the heat treatment of gun parts in an eastern arsenal

Good temper. Quenching operation following the heat treatment of gun p...

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Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Competent instructors and well-equipped shops make for a successful vocational training school. This experienced Negro machinist is teaching a young Negro trainee the intricacies of lathe operation. After completion of the course in the WPA vocational training school, the student will be qualified for a job in one of our great arsenals of democracy

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Compet...

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

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...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Screws for valve rocker arms of Pratt and Whitney airplane engines are polished on a Gardner machine in a large Eastern plant. This operation is one of many high precision specifications which insure excellence of our fighting planes. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Screws for valve rocke...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Ambassador Grew (left), Edsel Ford stand beside a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber after an inspection trip through Ford's big Willow Run plant. 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. Ambassador Grew (...

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Production. Copper (refining). Copper ingots on conveyors at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Copper ingots on conveyors at a large c...

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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator of a high-speed lathe in a large firearms plant, performs an operation on the barrel of a machine gun. Many women workers are also employed in this plant in producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator ...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by el...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A large tracer-controlled multiple spindle vertical hydraulic milling machine being tried out on the runoff line of a large machine tool plant, for its eventual job of helping to make master connecting rods for radial aircraft engines. Four of the partially completed rods are mounted on the fixtures in the foreground. When in operation, the machine will have fixtures for eight such rods, so that while the completely automatic tracing finger guides the four cutters (extreme background) around one set of four rods, the operator can be unloading and reloading the other four fixtures with new parts to be milled. This machine will probably be the fourth or fifth of a series of perhaps a dozen different sizes and types of machine tools which will each have to perform their operations before these parts become finished connecting rods

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A large tracer-cont...

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. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refinin...

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Making ready for the intricate wiring of a ship's gun is shown by Andrew S. Horn, a first class machinist from Ohio. Following him up with the wiring operation is R.V. Presby, a first-class electrician, from Tennessee, Ordnance Shop. Navy yard, Pearl Harbor

Making ready for the intricate wiring of a ship's gun is shown by Andr...

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Production. Zinc. Husky worker in a large zinc smelting operation. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Husky worker in a large zinc smelting operation. Fro...

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On board the fishing boat Alden, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Part of the crew adjusting the seining nets to the seining boat on the first morning out. Franasco Parisi checking the small motor. This operation is performed at ten knots per hour

On board the fishing boat Alden, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Par...

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Production. Zinc. A stream of molten zinc flows from a furnace at a large smelting operation. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A stream of molten zinc flows from a furnace at a la...

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Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

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Jelina Cubic at work at the winding operation.

Jelina Cubic at work at the winding operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Jelina Cubic at work at the winding operation.

Jelina Cubic at work at the winding operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the plant; she is using a "winding machine" to wind cotton threads from skeins onto bobbins; the thread is called "cotton 60".

Cindy Fanslau working at winding operation on the first floor of the p...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., textile plant, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Head technician Herman Valles sets up loom for operation.

Head technician Herman Valles sets up loom for operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

A moment in the cutting operation.

A moment in the cutting operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting cutting and spreading operations at Garden State Cutting Company on Gray Street just off 21st Avenue. The pace on the floor is very fast. The photographs provided he... More

Jaime Diaz at work on "beaming" operation.

Jaime Diaz at work on "beaming" operation.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia

Logging transport operation, Naoma, West Virginia

Event: Driving Route 3. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This is not Havana, Cuba. It's a colorful scene in the corner of a vendor's operation in Havana, Texas, a tiny town in Hidalgo County, Texas

This is not Havana, Cuba. It's a colorful scene in the corner of a ven...

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A ewe and her newborn lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

A ewe and her newborn lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherdi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Brewhouse kettles holding 482 barrels of beer apiece at the MillerCoors Brewery, the world's largest single brewing operation and one of the Denver area's perpetually popular visitor attractions, in Golden, Colorado. Following mergers in the early 2000s, operations of the former Coors Brewing Company, founded in 1873 by German immigrants Adolph Coors and Joseph Schueler, are now part of joint ventures with the multinational SABMiller brewer and Canada's Molson Brewing Company

Brewhouse kettles holding 482 barrels of beer apiece at the MillerCoor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Vice President of the new Consumers Distribution Corporation. Washington, D.C., Sept. 2. The U.S. Government through the Resettlement Administration, has agreed to the operation of the entire business section of [...]

Vice President of the new Consumers Distribution Corporation. Washingt...

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Radica & Doodica, Joint Hindoo twins after operation

Radica & Doodica, Joint Hindoo twins after operation

Photo shows conjoined twins Radica and Doodica who were separated by Dr. Eugene-Louis Doyen in 1902. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

[Banana conveyors in operation, New Orleans, La.]

[Banana conveyors in operation, New Orleans, La.]

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If you intend to join voluntarily before the military service bill comes into operation, do not delay until the last moment [...] Join now / printed by David Allen & Sons, Ltd., Harrow, Mdx.

If you intend to join voluntarily before the military service bill com...

Poster is text only. Poster no. 146. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Cost of operation I

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

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