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Seattle, Washington. Boeing aircraft plant. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Riveters working on the fuselage section

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

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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Torpedo boats need veneer of Philippine mahogany, which will be cut from these slabs, or flitches. A sling-load of quarter flitches being lowered into a heating vat in preparation for knife slicing at a Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Torpedo boat...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs ships to carry its guns and tanks and planes to the battlefronts of the world. A few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards, workmen were busy laying the keel for a new ship in America's growing Victory Fleet

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs sh...

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Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Ann Jorjus, who has one brother in the service, checking a 105 mm. howitzer for eccentricities at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Ann Jorjus, who has one brother in the ...

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Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfathers, both seventy, D.L. Zimbrough and F.M. Webb, work on nearby lathes in an Eastern shipyard now turning out minesweepers for the Navy. The yard has kept up an excellent production by bringing many older workers out of retirement. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. Grandad's doing a grand job. Two grandfather...

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. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This 5B spinning machine in the plant of an Eastern parachute manufacturer is the latest type doubling and twisting machine. It makes shroud lines for parachutes

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This 5B spinning machine in t...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Stockrooms are as busy as the assembly lines at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Stockrooms are as busy as th...

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Transformer manufacture. Oval wrapped copper coils which go into power transformers; demand for these transformers has increased in direct ratio to America's increased production of war materials. Transformers are used in almost every phase of the armament program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Oval wrapped copper coils which go into power...

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Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes place in one of the Midwest's largest airplane plants. These engines will see duty over Berlin, Tokyo and other points of vital interest to the United Nations

Production. Aircraft engines. Final touch-up of airplane motors takes ...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. The finished gas mask face pieces in the foreground were just flaps of rubber without eye pieces, outlet valves, straps, tabs, and other accessories when they started on the long moving belt at the far end of the line. By the time they've reached this end, however, a hundred pairs of hands have worked on them, machining, clamping, riveting, testing, and inspecting each one until the completed masks are packaged in the final stages of production. All this activity takes place in a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to war work. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. The finished gas mask face pie...

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Production. Mercury. Drawing off mercury sludge at the end of a condensing system in a New Idria, California extraction plant. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Drawing off mercury sludge at the end of a conden...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Spot welders

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

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A noontime rest for a full- fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Nacelle parts for a heavy bomber form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A noontime rest for a full- ...

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. Rita Allen sands V-blocks to remove marks made by milling machines. This razor factory has converted many of its machines to the production of tool posts which are essential to war production. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Rita Allen sands V-blocks to remove ma...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. A thirty-eight-and-a-half-ton Bliss Marquette No. 40 1/2-84 press, removed from a building that is being entirely cleared and converted to other war production, is lowered to a flat car for shipment to its new location. There it will form hood sides for 4 x 4 and 6 x 6 army trucks. The large I-beam spans placed through the die opening save dismantling and permit two cranes to share the weight, thus permitting quicker removal. Chevrolet Motor, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. A thirty-eight-and-a-half-ton Bliss Marq...

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Production. Copper. Part of the copper concentrating plant of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Part of the copper concentrating plant of the Phel...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Installing one of the four engines of a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber on one of the assembly lines of 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. Installing one of...

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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. High-speed lathe operators in the plant of a large manufacturer of firearms perform precision operations on the barrels of machine guns. The plant also employs many women in turning out vital weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. High-speed lathe operato...

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Production. Subchasers. These two men, cutting steel for the making of subchasers in a Southern shipyard, knew nothing of their new trade a short time ago. One was a farmer, the other an engineer on a fishing boat. Both were trained at the shipyard which they have since helped to earn the Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. These two men, cutting steel for the making of...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Not only the materials which go into the cupolas, but also the core sand used in the production of high-quality iron castings must be rigidly examined and controlled. The whole problem is essentially one for the chemist and metalurgist, so the laboratory, literally part and parcel of the cupola building, is constantly checking and rechecking during every minute that iron is being melted and poured. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Not only the materi...

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Production. Lead. Reopened mine workings near Creede, Colorado. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Reopened mine workings near Creede, Colorado. Creede...

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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Inspection of the tail assembly for a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Inspection of the tail ...

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

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows Ernest Williams, high school student, how to install a cylinder on an aircraft engine in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School that is turning out hundreds of workers for Florida's war production program

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Instructor Gil Angell shows...

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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Electric arc-welders run a long seam on a new high-pressure boiler. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Electric arc-welders run a lo...

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

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A woman welder working on a part of the exhaust system for a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A woman welder working ...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. A workman in a manhole of a high-pressure boiler drum. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. A workman in a manhole of a h...

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Power for torpedoes. Torpedo bulkhead on the heavy lathe at an eastern Navy arsenal. Production has speeded up to twenty-four hours a day for our two-ocean Navy

Power for torpedoes. Torpedo bulkhead on the heavy lathe at an eastern...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder, training for war production. Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder, train...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Clerical jobs along the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach, California, plant are as necessary as the mechanical jobs in producing finished warplanes. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Clerical jobs along the asse...

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Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric company, George Matheson, expert electrical worker, skillfully adjusts spools of copper wire feeding on to the large 120 turn coils which he turns. Production of all such electrical equipment has been greatly stepped up due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric com...

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. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a S...

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Production. Submarine chasers. They'll sight the U-boats from this crow's nest of a subchaser under construction at an Eastern boatyard. The first painting being given the mast and spars will be repeated many times during the vessel's term of service. A sailor never gets very far away from a paint pot. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. They'll sight the U-boats from this cro...

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Production. Bombers. High speed bomber production at new plant. Advanced manufacturing methods ensure record output. Fixtures are used in places instead of jigs. Frame section is riveted by the man at the right, while the man at the left bucks up the rivets

Production. Bombers. High speed bomber production at new plant. Advanc...

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

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Laboratories assembly line at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, showing inspection, labeling and wrapping of blood transfusion bottles containing intravenous solution

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Laboratories assembly line at B...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. A spot welder

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

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Conversion. Automobile industry. To convert automobile assembly plants into war production plants, much of the old machinery must be removed. This workman, perched high, is helping to speed the changeover by removing an overhead conveyor. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. To convert automobile assembly plants...

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First stage in a big Navy gun. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Navy yard arsenal. This is one of eleven arsenals which have stepped up production to top speed for the war program

First stage in a big Navy gun. Forging part of a large gun in an easte...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. One of the assembly lines 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. One of the assemb...

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Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the wareho...

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Night view of one of the four plants of a Southern boat building company now producing ramp boats, torpedo boats and other Navy craft. Production of fifty-foot steel ramp boats was underway before the building itself was completed. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Night view of one of the four...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Men and women from all walks of life, like the members of this riveting team, contribute their skills to the production of B-17F heavy bombers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Men and women from all walks of life,...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass a...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. New styles in feminine fashion are provided by ornaments made of lathe turnings from the metal salvage pile at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. New styles in feminine fashi...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Steady of eye and hand, women workers at the great Willow Run bomber plant are among those throughout the country who are relieving serious shortages of skilled workers by doing such semi-skilled jobs as the one shown here. She's welding parts of the cooling system direct to the supercharger. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Steady of eye and hand, women wor...

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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Electrical wiring assemblies for B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers are made up on forming boards at the Boeing plant in Seattle. The Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes, has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere

Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Electrical wiring assemblies for B-17F...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Storing up trouble for the Axis. Heavy production of 75 mm shell forgings is the order of the day at one of the the many big Midwest plants now entirely converted to war production. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Storing up trouble for the Axis. Heavy prod...

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

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

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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...

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. Submarine chasers. Another harrier of the U-boats nears completion at an Eastern boatyard. Many new 110-foot wooden subchasers are taking to the water these days at yards in all parts of the country. Marine Construction, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Another harrier of the U-boats nears co...

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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. Before and after! This New England plant, whose normal product is electric dry shavers, now is converting to the production of machine tool parts to speed war production. At the right the worker is drilling pressure pinholes in the heads of the shavers; at the left the worker drills center holes in the spring collets which will be used to hold the work in turning machines now being made for the war production effort. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. Before and after! This New England ...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitney airplane motor ready for shipment to an aircraft factory is enclosed by a protective pliofilm jacket before the upper portion of the shipping case is put in place. This is only one of many safeguards that are thrown around the engine and each of its parts during every manufacturing and handling operation. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitne...

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

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Welding a nozzle on a new high-pressure boiler by electric arc method. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Welding a nozzle on a new hig...

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Production. Aircraft. George "Randy" McCraw decorating a Vega Ventura bomber. Every ship that rolls off the line carries a cartoon aimed at the Axis. George came to work as a spray painter, then shifted to painting British insignia on sides of ships. He sometimes amused his fellow workers by drawing faces on ships during lunch hour, and was prevailed upon to put a big drawing on a ship for a special occasion. The idea took, and now George puts a gag drawing on each ship. The paint washes off with gasoline, but overseas gossip says these ships go into combat still bearing assorted Rudy Ostriches, Donald Ducks, Porky Pigs and a host of other cartoon characters

Production. Aircraft. George "Randy" McCraw decorating a Vega Ventura ...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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

De Land pool. Moving circus. Even circuses made way for war in Florida. When the De Land, Florida industrial pool found it lacked buildings to fulfill a million-dollar war contract, it asked the Johnny J. Jones circus to move out of its winter quarters at the county fairgrounds so that the fair's seventeen-foot buildings could be used as a war plant. Within a few weeks, war production machines of sixteen different companies pooled into one community assembly line and began pounding out weapons beneath the gay circus banners on the domed buildings in the background

De Land pool. Moving circus. Even circuses made way for war in Florida...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Vertical stabilizer inspection. Women inspectors are shown inspecting the vertical stabilizers upon receipt from the sub-contractor prior to installation on "Vengeance" dive bombers made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Vertical stabilizer inspe...

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[Scene from "Othello" with Paul Robeson as Othello and Uta Hagen as Desdemona, Theatre Guild Production, Broadway, 1943-44]

[Scene from "Othello" with Paul Robeson as Othello and Uta Hagen as D...

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Plywood autographic registers. A war model autographic register made entirely of plywood is inspected by Nathaniel G. Burleigh, director of Service Equipment Division of War Production Board (WPB). The registers are used by commercial firms in writing duplicate orders, by receptionists in filling out admission passes to office buildings, and for many other purposes

Plywood autographic registers. A war model autographic register made e...

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Production. Magnesium. Workers' cars parked under a section of the high-tension transmission lines which bring electrical power to Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert

Production. Magnesium. Workers' cars parked under a section of the hig...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Zinc. Truck-drawn trailers of ore containing zinc and lead are dumped at this point in a large concentrator. 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. Truck-drawn trailers of ore containing zinc and lead...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a truck, 1930s, Great Depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

May O'Donnell as the Mother in the first production of Appalachian Spring, 1944

May O'Donnell as the Mother in the first production of Appalachian Spr...

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Washington, D.C. Andre Armengaud, since the liberation of Paris technical advisor of Ministry of Production, and since arrival in the United States head of the French Mission of Industrial Production

Washington, D.C. Andre Armengaud, since the liberation of Paris techni...

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Ciba (pharmaceutical production), Summit, New Jersey. Entrance through trees

Ciba (pharmaceutical production), Summit, New Jersey. Entrance through...

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Mr. Henry E. Dixey supported by Rice's Company of Players will appear in the first production on any stage of Messrs. William Gill and Henry E. Dixey's kaleidoscopic representation. . . entitled The seven ages.

Mr. Henry E. Dixey supported by Rice's Company of Players will appear ...

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French Farmers, September 29, 1789, Memoranda on Salt Production, in French

French Farmers, September 29, 1789, Memoranda on Salt Production, in F...

Memoranda on Salt Production, in French

Production, America's answer! / Jean Carlu.

Production, America's answer! / Jean Carlu.

Promotional goal: U.S. B1.J. 1942. Public domain scan of French poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wm. A. Brady presents the big production and musical snapshot, Foxy Grandpa.

Wm. A. Brady presents the big production and musical snapshot, Foxy Gr...

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Federal Theatre Marionette Division - Production Plan - Curriculum

Federal Theatre Marionette Division - Production Plan - Curriculum

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Production Records - Administrative File. The Production Records - Administrative File (1934-40 and undated) consists of 8 containers (Boxes 960-967) and is comprised of adve... More

Rocky Flats Plant, Non-Nuclear Production Facility, South of Cottonwood Avenue, west of Seventh Avenue & east of Building 460, Golden, Jefferson County, CO

Rocky Flats Plant, Non-Nuclear Production Facility, South of Cottonwoo...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... More

Maid in America, a revusical production in two acts and eleven scenes.

Maid in America, a revusical production in two acts and eleven scenes.

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Hamlin and Mitchell's original production of the greatest of all musical extravaganzas, The wizard of Oz.

Hamlin and Mitchell's original production of the greatest of all music...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and return to Charlestown, through the upper Carolinas; containing details on the present state of agriculture and the natural production of these countries; as well as information relative to the commercial connections of these states with those situated to the eastward of the mountains and with lower Louisiana. Undertaken in the year x, 1802, under the auspices of His Excellency M. Chaptal, minister of the interior. With a very correct map of the states in the centre, west and south of the United States

Travels to the westward of the Allegany mountains, in the states of Oh...

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E.H. Sothern and Virginia Harned, special production of Hamlet

E.H. Sothern and Virginia Harned, special production of Hamlet

Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cin'ti & N.Y." Management, Daniel Frohman. N.Y. no. 8846. Upper left corner missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production

Miscellaneous collection of photographs of aircraft production

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One of the substations supplying the enormous quantities of electric power needed in steel production. Clairton, Pennsylvania

One of the substations supplying the enormous quantities of electric p...

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R.C. Allen, consultant, ferrous minerals and alloys, Production Division

R.C. Allen, consultant, ferrous minerals and alloys, Production Divisi...

Keeping score in the war production drive. 3) All squared away for a quick trip to the gallows is our friend Adolf. Here's still another of the "scoreboards" suggested by the War Production Board (WPB) for use in plants which are taking part in the war production drive. Squares are interchanged and their changing pattern keeps pace with the factory's progress toward its goal. When that goal is reached, Herr Hitler's loud mouth has been effectively closed. Make it soon!

Keeping score in the war production drive. 3) All squared away for a ...

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Mr. Maury Maverick, Chief, State and Local Government Requirements Branch, Division of Civilian Supply, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Mr. Maury Maverick, Chief, State and Local Government Requirements Bra...

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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Final inspection of a wing for a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Final inspection of a w...

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Dr. E.M. Hopkins, chairman of Minerals and Metals Group, Division of Priorities, Office of Production Management (OPM), Office for Emergency Management (OEM)

Dr. E.M. Hopkins, chairman of Minerals and Metals Group, Division of P...

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Charles Tudor, Art Director, Division of Information, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Charles Tudor, Art Director, Division of Information, Office of Produc...

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Dr. E.R. Weidlein, Chief, Section of Chemicals and Allied Products, Office of Production Management (OPM). Director of Mellon Institute

Dr. E.R. Weidlein, Chief, Section of Chemicals and Allied Products, Of...

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Left to right are: Al Gerson, buyer; Ben Taft, automobile graveyard inspector, War Production Board (WPB); Frederick G. Zander, seller. Close up of U.S. inspector of auto graveyards with buyer and seller of buses inside one of the buses

Left to right are: Al Gerson, buyer; Ben Taft, automobile graveyard in...

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Production. Diesel engines. Old hands and green hands back America's war production drive. An apprentice learning to operate a screw machine at a Midwest plant producing diesel engines for the Navy

Production. Diesel engines. Old hands and green hands back America's w...

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

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. This lathe at the Beery and Sons shop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is being fitted for production of a small part needed by a war contractor. To the left of the lathe are some of the hurriedly constructed jigs and chucks turned out at the shop to speed delivery of various bits and pieces, often cutting the schedule as high as ninety-percent

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conver...

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Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and the boiler house of another furnace are the background for a train of cinder ladles. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and t...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

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Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM), and currently (September 2, 1941) lend-lease Administrator. Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, Minerals and Metals Executive of the Priorities Division. President of Dartmouth College

Edward R Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, Office...

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Conference held at the Office of Production Management offices in Washington, D.C. August 19, 1941. Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, confers with William S. Knudsen, Office of Production Management (OPM) Director-General

Conference held at the Office of Production Management offices in Wash...

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