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National Capitol Press Inc. View of large presses of National Capitol Press Inc.

National Capitol Press Inc. View of large presses of National Capitol ...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Engineers and tool experts of a large Eastern silverware manufacturing company discuss blueprints on a bayonet order to be produced for the Army. Bayonet shown is the Springfield rifle type. The determination of management and workers alike to keep the presses rolling on war orders in this plant seems to indicate that these OEM (Office of Emergency Management) posters have been read. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Engineers and tool experts of a large Ea...

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

Dyna-Empire, Stewart Ave., Garden City. Drill presses

Dyna-Empire, Stewart Ave., Garden City. Drill presses

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

[Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street.] Location: [Boston, Massachusetts]. / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street.] Locati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Unloading one of the presses - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Unloading one of the presses - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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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

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. As presses are rollig and finished papers start coming off (see background), pressmen read the paper to catch defective press work. Pressman in foreground is filling ink fount

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. As pres...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Trechot Trading Company palm oil factory at Etoumbi. Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. Plantation manager Thyssier directing operations. Pulpy mass of husks being poured into hoppers that funnel it into presses

Trechot Trading Company palm oil factory at Etoumbi. Moyen Congo bush,...

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

R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Punch presses

R.E.F., Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, Long Island. Punch presses

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.

Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor, 61 Court Street. 15-year old girl at embossing machine. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor, 61 Court Street. 15-year old girl a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Removing cakes of clay from one of a battery of filter presses. This operation precedes the pug mill. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Removing cakes of clay from one of a battery of filter presses. This o...

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

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing fixtures were formerly processed, hot billets, soon to become shells, are rolled from a butane gas furnace by a water cooled hook. The red-hot billets will next be transferred to hydraulic presses for further processing (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing...

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

[Women operating drill presses for reaming out holes in hand grenade bodies, Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, R.I.]

[Women operating drill presses for reaming out holes in hand grenade b...

U.S. Army. Signal Corps photo. Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

15-year old girl punching sheets. Boston Index Card Co.,. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

15-year old girl punching sheets. Boston Index Card Co.,. Location: B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendorger automatic offset presses are the largest of the types of offset presses in the WPB's duplicating department. These machines are in operation twenty-four hours a day and turn out 5,000 prints an hour

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Punching out the jeeps. Parts for these hard-boiled little army cars are punched out on presses that used to produce high-priced automobiles. Assembly plants all over the country get the parts. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Punching out the jeeps. Parts for these hard-boiled little army cars a...

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

Bags full of olive pulp in hydraulic presses for extraction of oil. The pulp is pressed two different times under differet degrees of pressure and this produces two distinct qualities of oil. Lindsay, California

Bags full of olive pulp in hydraulic presses for extraction of oil. Th...

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

Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Magnolia Plantation, Cotton Gins & Presses, LA Route 119, Natchitoches...

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.

Unemployment census blanks prepared for mailing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. As rapidly as the presses in the Government Printing Office print the unemployment census blanks, workers trim and prepare them for mailing. 3,000,000 of the cards are printed daily as the pressmen keep the huge presses running on a 240hour schedule. 10/7/37

Unemployment census blanks prepared for mailing. Washington, D.C., Oct...

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Nutrition in industry. Little time is lost by these war plant employees at meal times. No one needs to go over 250 feet to return with a nourishing piping-hot mid-day meal. Complete satisfaction with the well-balanced meals provided is evidenced by the facial expressions of the workers, as they relax during lunch beside one of the massive punch presses which they operate

Nutrition in industry. Little time is lost by these war plant employee...

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

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information P...

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

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Graper crushers & presses, closer view of chute between crusher & press

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Graper crushers & ...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939.[Grape crushers & presses, showing chute bringing grapes down from the unloading platform]

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939.[Grape crushers & p...

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

Subcontracting aircraft parts. These workers at the huge airship dock, now converted to war production, are preparing dies for insertion in a powerful hydraulic press. Many parts of the aircraft for democracy are stamped out in presses such as these. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. These workers at the huge airship dock,...

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.

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A man-sized machine and a man-sized job are effectively handled by 21-year-old Virginia Grochowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Employed by a Midwest supercharger plant, this former hosiery mill worker operates these giant drill presses as expertly as any man. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A man-sized machine and a ma...

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

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Squaring away for war Production. When the last batch of watch cases goes down the line of punch presses at a Kentucky factory, the trained operator will begin turning out compass cases, radio parts and small carbine machine gun parts for our armed forces. Note safety cords on all except second worker. He's die maker seting up a new job. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Squaring away for war Produ...

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.

Dyna-Empire, Stewart Ave., Garden City. Drill presses with girls

Dyna-Empire, Stewart Ave., Garden City. Drill presses with girls

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

National Capitol Press Inc. Small presses of National Capitol Press Inc.

National Capitol Press Inc. Small presses of National Capitol Press In...

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

Working on the hydraulic presses at cotton seed mill. McLennan County, Texas

Working on the hydraulic presses at cotton seed mill. McLennan County,...

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Removing the cotton seed cake and mat from hydraulic presses after the oil has been removed. Cotton seed oil mill, McLennan County, Texas

Removing the cotton seed cake and mat from hydraulic presses after the...

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

Befire dies are shipped they are tested on these tryout presses where the new dies are put into actual use and their operation scrutinized very closely by expert machinists. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Befire dies are shipped they are tested on these tryout presses where ...

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.

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Transporting plates from shaver to presses on truck. Each plate weighs about fifty pounds, is made of lead alloy and is remelted after each printing in Autoplate

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Transpo...

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

Where the jeeps come from. A row of Fericute presses in a plant that had produced high-priced automobiles is now stamping out small parts for the tough little army machine. The parts are shipped to assembly plants all over the coutry. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Where the jeeps come from. A row of Fericute presses in a plant that h...

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.

[Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street.] Location: [Boston, Massachusetts]. / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street.] Locati...

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

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the large...

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

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army. Continuous chain conveyors in the stamping department of a converted auto radiator plant where presses form helmets from sheet steel and trim them at the edges. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army...

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

Stepping up jeep production. Fericute presses in a plant converted from the making of high-priced automobiles stamp out small parts for shipment to various assembly plants where tough little army cars are made. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Stepping up jeep production. Fericute presses in a plant converted fro...

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.

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garland, Box Elder County, UT

Utah Sugar Company, Garland Beet Sugar Refinery, Factory Street, Garla...

Significance: The history of the beet sugar industry in Utah began at the Lehi Plant of the Utah Sugar Company. In that plant on 15 October 1891, Edward Dyer reached into a whirling centrifugal and withdrew a h... More

Action around the hydraulic presses. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Action around the hydraulic presses. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan Co...

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

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy. Heavy anchor chains are among the parts produced here, and powerful presses are used in the various machining operations

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shop...

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Eric Weidemeyer, 2080 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park. Drill presses

Eric Weidemeyer, 2080 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park. Drill presses

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

Conversion. Toy factory. Presses that once turned out metal toys and motion picture projectors are now being converted to production of filter boxes to be used in jeeps and tanks. Keystone

Conversion. Toy factory. Presses that once turned out metal toys and m...

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.

Pot presses at the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia

Pot presses at the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia

African American men working. Title and other information transcribed from caption card, with update from T.B. to T.C. Williams. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Expositio... More

Map making, Interior Dept. printing presses

Map making, Interior Dept. printing presses

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Women aircraft workers. Hands that rocked the cradle operate drill presses today, and surpass their male competitors in speed and precision of work. Site: a West Coast aircraft plant. Lockhead

Women aircraft workers. Hands that rocked the cradle operate drill pre...

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

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The front visor of a steel army helmet is "spanked," or formed into shape. The helmet had an oval shape before this operation, which is performed on one of the many presses of an Eastern plant that formerly made automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The front visor of a steel...

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.

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the largest cold steel hydraulic press in the world, Chattanooga, Tenn. This press can shape steel plates several inches in thickness

Maintenance man at the Combustion Engineering Co. working at the large...

12002-35. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Removing cotton cake from hydraulic presses after oil has been removed. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Removing cotton cake from hydraulic presses after oil has been removed...

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.

National Capitol Press Inc. View of large presses of National Capitol Press Inc

National Capitol Press Inc. View of large presses of National Capitol ...

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

Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn

Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engine...

12002-35. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Battery of hydraulic presses and machine for removing cotton seed oil cake from mats after the oil has been removed. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Battery of hydraulic presses and machine for removing cotton seed oil ...

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

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Heavy presses trim the edges of army helmets that have been formed on drawing presses. All these presses, which were stamping out auto radiator parts a short time ago, were retooled for conversion to war work. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Heavy presses trim the edg...

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

Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4702. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendorger automatic offset presses are the largest of the types of offset presses in the WPB's duplicating department. These machines are in operation twenty-four hours a day and turn out 5,000 prints an hour

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

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Removing cotton cake from hydraulic presses after oil has been removed. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Removing cotton cake from hydraulic presses after oil has been removed...

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

Removing cotton cake from hydraulic presses after oil has been removed. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Removing cotton cake from hydraulic presses after oil has been removed...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England plant normally produces electric dry shavers. On this drill press the heads of the shavers are drilled before slotting to form the rack. Drill presses and other productive machines have now been converted to war production. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England plant normally pro...

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

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Graper crushers & presses, closer view of chute between crusher & press

The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Graper crushers & ...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engine...

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

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Three presses

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Three presses

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.

Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Location...

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

Battery of hydraulic presses which are used for pressing oil from the cotton seed. Cotton seed oil mill, McLennan County, Texas

Battery of hydraulic presses which are used for pressing oil from the ...

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.

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

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

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A die maker. Dies are metal blocks with the pattern or contour of a part reproduced on their surface. They are used in presses or gorging hammers for forming identical metal parts

A die maker. Dies are metal blocks with the pattern or contour of a pa...

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.

Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine

Stamping labels. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Location:...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4702. Hine no. 4703. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Operating an automatic press. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Lewis W. Hine. Humane [?] Press. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Operating an automatic press. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Stre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Heavy presses trim the edges of army helmets that have been formed on drawing presses. All these presses, which were stamping out auto radiator parts a short time ago, were retooled for conversion to war work. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Heavy presses trim the edg...

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