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Selecting a piece of leather from the tempering chest. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas

Selecting a piece of leather from the tempering chest. Cowboy boot sho...

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

A black and white photo of a man holding a piece of bread. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man holding a piece of bread. Great Depre...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This barrage balloon builder has come to the company's storehouse to obtain more reinforcing tape to fasten the seams of a barrage balloon. Small, but vital to production, every piece of material must pass over this counter and be recorded before issuance. The storekeeper is the only man who knows the secret formula for mixing the rubber cement combination which works most effectively in making air-tight seams. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. An instructor sewing a piece of canvas

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New...

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

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A poster comes to life. "This reminds me of home" said Sergeant Vineyard as he downed another piece of Mrs. Woolslayer's devil's food cake. When refreshments were brought out, the welder and the Army Sergeant forgot all about the war and fighting and production, and embarked on a gossip session the likes of which you'll find in Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon or Vermont. As American as baseball, the Sunday afternoon visit is a friendly and democratic means of relaxation common to soldier, worker, bank president and school child alike. Proudly seated next to the Sergeant is eight-year-old Georgia Ann Woolslayer

A poster comes to life. "This reminds me of home" said Sergeant Vineya...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun of an American bomber speaks its piece. The air crew officer at the gun is equipped for any emergency of flight or combat

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to bac...

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

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young wife looking at remains of their home (on three acre piece of land owned by his mother) which had just burned to the ground. Greene County, Georgia

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young ...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Member of the Casa Grande Valley Farms shaping a piece of tin to repair the hay chopper. Pinal County, Arizona

Member of the Casa Grande Valley Farms shaping a piece of tin to repai...

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

Piece of ore in hand of prospector, Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Piece of ore in hand of prospector, Pinos Altos, New Mexico

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel plate that will be used in the production of a body for a halftrac scout car. Great numbers of bodies are turned out in this plant, which formerly made locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel pla...

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

Ware shipped to the Army Quartermaster has straw placed between each piece and is then packed in large wooden barrels. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Ware shipped to the Army Quartermaster has straw placed between each p...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Newport News, Virginia. Worker attaching wire cable preparatory to lifting a cast propellor for a C-3. Formerly propeller blades were bolted on to the shaft, but today the propeller is cast in one piece

Newport News, Virginia. Worker attaching wire cable preparatory to lif...

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

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in tra...

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

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid tool steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ration point bargain(?) piece of meat

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ratio...

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

Shaping piece of leather around rim of saddle before sewing. Saddle shop, Alpine, Texas

Shaping piece of leather around rim of saddle before sewing. Saddle sh...

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

This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm Security Administration) in Oklahoma. However, he migrated to Arizona two years ago and spent a year and a half there doing day labor in the cotton and sugar beet fields. He still has one son in Arizona doing day laborer work. Another son returned home to his family saying he wanted to be with them all and all would fare alike; the close family feeling is evident in this class of people. This man's main complaint was of the poor condition of his house. He said that owners would do nothing to help the farmer, "Why if I want a piece of wire to fix a fence, I have to steal it. Of course I have not done exactly that yet, but if I knew where there was a piece handy I would"

This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm Security Administrat...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A new heat-treating furnace being installed in one of the country's leading machine tool plants. Heat-treating is one of the most important steps in the manufacture of sturdy, accurate moving metal parts, because a given piece of metal can be made either hard or soft, brittle or tough, according to the way it has been heated, quenched and cooled

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A new heat-treating...

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

War production drive. The war production drive was incorporated in the "Keep 'Em Firing" campaign at the Oldsmobile plant. One method of calling attention to the drive is through the posting of news on the bulletin board. When a bulletin tells how a piece of equipment made in the plant figured in a campaign, enthusiasm runs high

War production drive. The war production drive was incorporated in the...

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

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker must be prepared to reach victims of bomb raids and fallen debris and give them emergency first aid treatment. It is not always possible to remove debris by hand, therefore, rescue workers' trucks carry equipment to enable the rescue squad to shore up masonry, cut through steel or stone, shut off broken mains or tunnel through conglomerate heaps of debris. The worker here shown is using an acetylene torch to cut away a stubborn resisting piece of expanded steel

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker mu...

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

Andrews County, Texas. Clamping a traveling block to piece of drill pipe to be hoisted out of hole

Andrews County, Texas. Clamping a traveling block to piece of drill pi...

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

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. The infantryman, loading a 37mm anti-tank gun, trains at Fort Benning, Georgia to do many useful military chores with the this hard-hitting piece

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. The infantryman, loading a 37mm ant...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Left: photograph of chairmaker by Doris Ulmann; chair, Kentucky; basket, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands; wooden chains made from one single piece of wood twenty feet long, Iowa; Right: basket, Hawaii; shovel and pitchfork, Connecticut; rawhide bottom chair, Texas; Garden of Eden carved by New Mexico Indians; wall hanging, WPA (Works Progress Administration),

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, repairing piece of tin which covers window of his house. Creek County, Oklahoma

Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, repairing piece of tin which covers wi...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The air raid protective services. Rescue squads must often remove debris piece by piece to get to entrapped victims

The air raid protective services. Rescue squads must often remove debr...

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

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Bad news for Axis tanks. The crew of a 57mm anti-tank gun, one of many in training at Fort Benning, Georgia already handle their piece with the snap and precision of an old timer

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Bad news for Axis tanks. The crew o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching clamps to piece of drill pipe which will be hoisted out of hole

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching clamps to piece of drill pipe which w...

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

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun of an American bomber speaks its piece. The air crew officer at the gun is equipped for any emergency of flight or combat

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun o...

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

Conversion. Automobile plant. A back shaft that holds the flywheel and clutch mechanism of a 90T96 Cleveland press awaits assembly into the big 120-ton machine. This press will perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. It was moved piece by piece for another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. A back shaft that holds the flywheel and...

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

Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. This was an old ranch house in the mountains. About thirty years ago the rancher who owned it had it dismantled and moved it piece by piece and rebuilt it at its present location. He is now dead and the house is used as a hotel principally for summer visitors

Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. This was an old ranch house in the mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning. 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia with a 60 mm. mortar. It's a piece that can do a lot of damage, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning. 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

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

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ration point bargain(?) piece of meat

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ratio...

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

Cast-iron fountain piece originally from Milan, Italy (fifty years ago), on the lawn of a house in Cortland, New York

Cast-iron fountain piece originally from Milan, Italy (fifty years ago...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place. Prefabrication of sections such as this in a nearby plant formerly making freight cars saves weeks in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's new merchant fleet. This piece is being hoisted into place, and soon the welder will begin his vital work. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place....

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available to Indian industry by lend-lease, is hauled by Bangali laborers into a munitions factory in India, where skilled native workmen will take over. This piece of equipment will increase the factory's output by two cannons monthly

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at thirty-five hundred dollars a piece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which t...

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

Conversion. Automobile plant. A back shaft that holds the flywheel and clutch mechanism of a 90T96 Cleveland press awaits assembly into the big 120-ton machine. This press will perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. It was moved piece by piece for another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. A back shaft that holds the flywheel and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Only the best of walnut goes into the gunstocks of Uncle Sam's army. An inspector in a converted hardwood flooring plant looks for the grain deviations or twists which would disqualify a piece for use in rifle "furniture." Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Only the best of walnut goes into t...

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

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in tra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. An army helmet is formed from a flat piece of sheet steel in one operation at a drawing press in a converted Eastern factory. A short time ago this same press and operator were stamping out parts for automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. An army helmet is formed f...

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

A poster comes to life."This reminds me of home," said Sergeant Vineyard as he downed a forkful of Mrs. Woolslayer's devil's food cake. When Mrs. Woolslayer said "I'd like you to try a piece of my cake," the welder and the Army Sergeant forgot all about the war and fighting and production, and embarked on a Sunday afternoon gossip session the like of which you'll find in Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon or Vermont. As American as baseball, the Sunday afternoon visit is a friendly and democratic means of relaxation, common to soldier, worker, bank president and schoolchild alike. Proudly sitting next to Sergeant Vineyard is Georgia Ann Woolslayer, eight. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life."This reminds me of home," said Sergeant Vineya...

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

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at thirty-five hundred dollars a piece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which t...

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

Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manufacture of airplane pilot seats must be thoroughly checked before being assembled in this large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. Should the precision gauge show up the tiniest imperfection in placement or drilling operations, the stamping will be discarded

Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manu...

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

The four freedoms. The panel is part of an exhibit prepared for the Office of War Information by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist. The actual size of the panel is 15 x 30 feet. Another montage of the same size, The Arsenal of Democracy, comprises a companion piece to "The Four Freedoms" panel and completes the exhibit. This exhibit will be shown by the OWI in scores of cities throughout the country

The four freedoms. The panel is part of an exhibit prepared for the Of...

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

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Fort Benning 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These men are doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Gerogia with a 60 mm. mortar. It's a piece that can do a lot of damage, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Loading a piece of machinery into a freight car at the United States Army consolidating station

Chicago, Illinois. Loading a piece of machinery into a freight car at ...

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

Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a long piece of aluminum into shorter lengths with a metal cutter in the shearing department, as shorter pieces are easier for the machine operator to handle. The outlined shape on each piece is then cut out by machine

Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a lo...

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

Resident of Mays Avenue camp taking out a piece of glass from boy's foot. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Resident of Mays Avenue camp taking out a piece of glass from boy's fo...

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

Colonel Lilly auctioning off a piece of cake at pie supper in Muskogee, Oklahoma. See general caption number 24

Colonel Lilly auctioning off a piece of cake at pie supper in Muskogee...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place. Prefabrication of sections such as this in a nearby plant formerly making freight cars saves weeks in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's new merchant fleet. This piece is being hoisted into place, and soon the welder will begin his vital work. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place....

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Plumbing is secured into position preparatory to filling in base with cinders. Most of the plumbing is pre-fabricated at a central shop on the construction site, then moved in one piece to the desired location

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Plumbing is secured into position...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Automobile plant. Preparing to swing back and clear the long toggle arm of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press so the large connecting rod can be brought in place under the crankshaft. The 120-ton machine will perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. It was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war productions. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Preparing to swing back and clear the lo...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Three United States Engineers learning to operate a field piece

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Three United States Engineers learning to oper...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rural scrap collection. Farmyard scrap collected at the Wright farm, Dexter, Michigan was made into an impressive pile. Mr. Wright, shown adding still another piece, was one of the men who gave wholehearted help to the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB)

Rural scrap collection. Farmyard scrap collected at the Wright farm, D...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wartime food demonstration. Made without sugar and butter, this piece of cake is nevertheless delicious if Mrs. W.L. Sommer's expression is an indication. The cake was baked for a wartime food demonstration in Alexandria, Virginia

Wartime food demonstration. Made without sugar and butter, this piece ...

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

The four freedoms. The panel is part of an exhibit prepared for the Office of War Information by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist. The actual size of the panel is 15 x 30 feet. Another montage of the same size, The Arsenal of Democracy, comprises a companion piece to "The Four Freedoms" panel and completes the exhibit. This exhibit will be shown by the OWI in scores of cities throughout the country

The four freedoms. The panel is part of an exhibit prepared for the Of...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many minds, many heads, many skills went into the construction of this large, hydraulically-operated milling machine. The slender shaft just below the figure "100" in the upper right is a tracer finger, so called because it feels its way gently around the edge of a pattern so that the cutters reproduce the pattern exactly in tough steel. This tracer, so sensitive that it can be deflected with the edge of a piece of cardboard, controls the movement of tons of machinery exerting fifteen or twenty horsepower of cutting force

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many minds, many he...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Ramy Presley sets Cleco fasteners with a pistol-like tool to hold a belly piece of a consolidated transport in place previous to riveting. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87, and is now coming off the production lines of a Western plant in great numbers. It carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Ramy Presley sets Cleco ...

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

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ration point bargain(?) piece of meat

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ratio...

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

Father and son driving tractors out of the farmyard to a piece of land a mile down the highway where they will disc and plow. Grundy County, Iowa

Father and son driving tractors out of the farmyard to a piece of land...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Subcontracting aircraft parts. This worker at a large Ohio plant, is shaping a large piece of aluminum into the desired conture for fitting leading edges of the various control surfaces and outer wings. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. This worker at a large Ohio plant, is s...

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

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor plate after flame-cutting and before machining. Every plane must be perfectly flat to ensure a tight fit in the tank. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor ...

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

Mobile defender. A big piece for a railway gun is polished up. Worker at an eastern arsenal, engages in a finishing operation on the trunnion bearing ring for an 8-inch gun railway carriage

Mobile defender. A big piece for a railway gun is polished up. Worker ...

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

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in tra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military person with a firearm, machine gun, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southeast Missouri Farms. Wife of sharecropper cutting piece of fatback from slab in kitchen of shack home

Southeast Missouri Farms. Wife of sharecropper cutting piece of fatbac...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Protection piece. The finished assembly of a 37 mm anti-aircraft gun carriage receives final adjustments in an eastern arsenal

Protection piece. The finished assembly of a 37 mm anti-aircraft gun c...

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

The blacksmith and carpentry shop on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta. At the right is a piece of cotton hanging up which Uncle George the blacksmith who has lived there fifty years keeps for good luck. Mississippi

The blacksmith and carpentry shop on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mi...

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Girl reciting her piece at Americanization program at high school. Eufaula, Oklahoma

Girl reciting her piece at Americanization program at high school. Euf...

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

Flour or sugar sacks are satisfactory for bagging hams. Fasten a piece of twine or wire securely to the bag, for hanging the meat. The twine or wire should not go through the meat

Flour or sugar sacks are satisfactory for bagging hams. Fasten a piece...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. The muzzle break of a machine gun for the Air Corps must be right. An inspector in a big auto plant now converted to war work examines each piece as it travels down the production line. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. The muzzle break of a machi...

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Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in tra...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. Preparing to swing back and clear the long toggle arm of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press so the large connecting rod can be brought in place under the crankshaft. The 120-ton machine will perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. It was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war productions. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Preparing to swing back and clear the lo...

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

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to bac...

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

Father and son preparing a piece of land for corn planting. Grundy County, Iowa

Father and son preparing a piece of land for corn planting. Grundy Cou...

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Cleared piece of land, fence, and uncleared land. Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho

Cleared piece of land, fence, and uncleared land. Priest River Valley,...

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Andrews County, Texas. Unscrewing a piece of drill pipe by means of a rotary table. The pipe is being pulled out of the well to change the bit

Andrews County, Texas. Unscrewing a piece of drill pipe by means of a ...

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Chicago, Illinois. Freight handlers moving a very heavy piece of freight at the United States Army consolidating station

Chicago, Illinois. Freight handlers moving a very heavy piece of freig...

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Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a long piece of aluminum into shorter lengths with a metal cutter in the shearing department, as shorter pieces are easier for the machine operator to handle. The outlined shape on each piece is then cut out by machine

Bell Aircraft Corporation. Niagara Falls, New York. Woman cutting a lo...

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

Measuring the top piece. Demonstration of home screen door construction. Saint Mary's County, Ridge, Maryland

Measuring the top piece. Demonstration of home screen door constructio...

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Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, repairing piece of tin which covers window of his house. Creek County, Oklahoma. See general caption number 23

Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, repairing piece of tin which covers wi...

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Delivery of the first heavy tanks. This is what happens when a truck gets in the path of Uncle Sam's new fifty-seven-ton giant tank. Running over this piece is as much trouble for the tank as running over a curb in an average automobile. The revolving turret on top of the tank contains a three-inch gun and a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. This is what happens when a truck g...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Cementing with a paint brush. This worker is a fabric cementer busy applying a rigging patch to the side of a new barrage balloon. Although the fabric looks mussed at the moment, it will be stretched tight and smooth when the new piece of fabric is added. Seams are triple protected against leaks, folded over, cement-welded, taped on both sides with overlapping rubber adhesive tape. Such seams will never pull apart under pressure. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Cementing with a paint brush. This worker...

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmers drove in from the surrounding countryside in their black buggies to gossip and buy a needed piece of equipment for the coming year at a farm auction

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mennonite farmers drove in from the su...

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This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm Security Administration) in Oklahoma. However, he migrated to Arizona two years ago and spent a year and a half there doing day labor in the cotton and sugar beet fields. He still has one son in Arizona doing day laborer work. Another son returned home to his family saying he wanted to be with them all and all would fare alike; the close family feeling is evident in this class of people. This man's main complaint was of the poor condition of his house. He said that owners would do nothing to help the farmer, "Why if I want a piece of wire to fix a fence, I have to steal it. Of course I have not done exactly that yet, but if I knew where there was a piece handy I would"

This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm Security Administrat...

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

The remaining household goods after fire destroyed the home of a farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) on a three acre piece of land owned by his mother. Greene County, Georgia

The remaining household goods after fire destroyed the home of a farm ...

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Resident of Mays Avenue camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, taking piece of glass out of boy's foot. See general caption 21

Resident of Mays Avenue camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, taking piece of...

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Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at thirty-five hundred dollars a piece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which t...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Placing additional felt around piece of pipe which was found defectively wrapped by inspector

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Southeast Missouri Farms. Sharecropper's wife cutting off piece of fatback from slab in kitchen

Southeast Missouri Farms. Sharecropper's wife cutting off piece of fat...

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Lady buying piece of pottery at curio store. Pie Town, New Mexico

Lady buying piece of pottery at curio store. Pie Town, New Mexico

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Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. This was an old ranch house in the mountains. About thirty years ago the rancher who owned it had it dismantled and moved it piece by piece and rebuilt it at its present location. He is now dead and the house is used as a hotel principally for summer visitors

Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. This was an old ranch house in the mo...

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

As the steel rollers revolve, the worker slashes out a section of a size easy to handle and rolls it into an armful. He holds his razor tightly against the drum until the proper amount has rolled up, then makes a quick, diagonal slash across the drum, cutting this piece away from the milling roll, and carries it away to a nearby truck. Usually there are about a half-dozen arm-sized rolls of prepared rubber in each completed batch. They are cut away in succession until all have been used up. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

As the steel rollers revolve, the worker slashes out a section of a si...

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Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Grinding a piece of sugar cane with a primitive homemade press at a farm laborer's home

Utuado, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Grinding a piece of sugar cane with a ...

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Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism

Fort Knox. Garand rifle. A young soldier of the armored forces, in tra...

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