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Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas

Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas

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.

Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif.

Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two Negro women employees in North American Aviation's wing sub-assembly department at Inglewood, California, drill and rivet wing sections for fighter and bomber planes. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two Negro women employees i...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Canopy assembly. The girl worker in this scene at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. is operating a type of rivet gun, one of the steps in assembly of the canopy of the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. 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. Canopy assembly. The girl...

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Production. B-25 bombers. Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom shell plating rivet holes

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom she...

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.

Pres't Hegeman driving last rivet, Met. Life tower

Pres't Hegeman driving last rivet, Met. Life tower

Photograph shows president John R. Rogers driving last rivet, marking completion of the steel skeleton for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, New York City, 1908. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of... More

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dock house is rivet heater Willie Smith

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...

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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet to be used in the building of the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet ...

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Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Welder using special flame to melt only head of rivet so it can be removed without burning other metal of car

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Welder us...

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Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's determined that Hitler and Hirohito shall have cause to remember it. Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola, Pearl Harbor widow, drills rivet holes in the belly gun door of a U.S. bomber, soon to storm over Axis lands, showing death to the aggressors

Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's deter...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling education. Two women are pictured here learning proper method of drilling rivet holes before being employed by the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. where the "Vengeance" dive bomber is made. 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. Drilling education. Two w...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Rivet heater engaged in the construction of the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

Baltimore, Maryland. Rivet heater engaged in the construction of the L...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom shell plating rivet holes

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom she...

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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates from wood templates, or patterns. The patterns indicate rivet hole locations and other necessary information. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which used to turn out freight cars. Completed sections are carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates ...

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Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, Americans of every race and creed fight shoulder to shoulder to defeat the forces which threaten to destroy our liberties. Here, George Knockel (bucking rivet) and Lewis Ward work on the fuselage of a P-47 pursuit ship in an Eastern aircraft factory. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, America...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet a gusset to a plane wing rib 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. Women assembly workers rivet...

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Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot seats at a large Midwest rubber company converted to war production is a thorough process that must cover every rivet and adjustment. Here inspectors are operating the fore and aft track adjustment which permits the pilot to move his position backward and forward while the plane is in operation

Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot...

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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Rivet holes for the armor plates of military tanks are run on a vertical drill press in an Eastern mill

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, P...

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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dock house is rivet heater Willie Smith

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...

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

[Insurance co. pres. John Rogers Hegeman driving last rivet, Metropolitan Life building tower]

[Insurance co. pres. John Rogers Hegeman driving last rivet, Metropoli...

Nine men on Metropolitan Life building tower, New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Photo by Montauk Photo Concern, New York, N.Y.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom shell plating rivet holes

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom she...

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

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Workmen taking a rivet container out of a heat treating furnace. From here they are put into an icebox until used, when they expand to form an extremely tight joint

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Workmen taking a rivet contai...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rear monocoque. Two women workers at Vultee's Nashville Division are pictured at their jobs of inspecting rivets in a row of tail cones to be installed in the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. 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. Rivet inspection on a rea...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling a horizontal stabilizer. Here is a close-up view of a woman worker at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc., drilling rivet holes in the horizontal stabilizer for the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. 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. Drilling a horizontal sta...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching rivet holes in the frame of a ship on the ways. Nearly a million rivets were used in large naval warcraft until recently, but steel and weight is now conserved by the use of welded jointures whenever possible

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching r...

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Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers train young girls in the high school Victory Corps to become valuable members of the vast womanpower army. Sally Brown, who is learning to rivet airplane parts at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, will be ready for skilled work in the war industry when her course in riveting is completed

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers tr...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling rivet holes in the side panel of the aft monocoque. Using a hand drill, the young woman in this scene is drilling rivet holes in the side panel of the aft monocoque, a step in the fabrication process of manufacturing Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. 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. Drilling rivet holes in t...

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

Pres't Hegeman ready to drive last rivet, Met. Life tower

Pres't Hegeman ready to drive last rivet, Met. Life tower

Five men on Metropolitan Life building tower, New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). No. 422. Photo by Montauk Photo Concern, New York, N.Y.

North American Aviation Incorporated. Inglewood, California(?). A worker with a rivet gun is shown admiring a North American B-25 medium bomber

North American Aviation Incorporated. Inglewood, California(?). A work...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Tail cone sub-assembly. In this scene one girl is operating a rivet gun as another girl bucks the rivets in the tail cone sub-assembly, a fabrication operation in the manufacture of the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. 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. Tail cone sub-assembly. I...

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

Topeka, Kansas. William Massey, steel car repairer and rivet bucker, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. William Massey, steel car repairer and rivet bucker, a...

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

Topeka, Kansas. Robert L. Hill, steel car repairer and rivet driver, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. Robert L. Hill, steel car repairer and rivet driver, a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a train. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a train. Office of W...

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

Topeka, Kansas. Eladio Tostato, steel car repairer's helper and rivet heater, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. Eladio Tostato, steel car repairer's helper and rivet ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, for Fern Evans's husband was one of America's fighting men who died in action on December 7. Since February, Mrs. Evans has worked for victory at a huge West Coast aircraft plant and is shown here operating a rivet squeezer

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, fo...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming rivet holes in bottom shell plating

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming rivet hole...

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Topeka, Kansas. Manny Hughes, steel car repairer's helper and rivet heater, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. Manny Hughes, steel car repairer's helper and rivet he...

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A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair Department

A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieute...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle rivet a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. Working on the section in the vertical position saves much valuable floor space. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the B...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. Drilling rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs fewer men these days as women take over jobs that once were considered exclusively men's work. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Drilling rivet holes in a frame member for a...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two North American employees at Inglewood, California, rivet a nacelle door. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two North American employee...

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

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle rivet a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. Working on the section in the vertical position saves much valuable floor space. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the B...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet to be used in the building of the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet ...

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De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Each rivet is inspected with a magnifying glass

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Each rivet is inspected with ...

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Two North American employees rivet the nacelle for a B-25 bomber. Woman and man. Women will probably be doing eighty percent of work at this plant next year. Now approximately twenty percent

Two North American employees rivet the nacelle for a B-25 bomber. Woma...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Her husband works at the Westinghouse Electric Company

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years...

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Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling ne...

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Production. Aircraft. Samples for microscope inspection--a lowly rivet, a screw, an extruded part--prepared by a test engineer in a large Western aircraft plant. Samples are embedded in bakelite, polished to mirror finish, then etched with acid to bring out the grain. A faulty grain structure, as revealed through the microscope, will show up low-grade material or faulty processing methods in the manufacture of the part

Production. Aircraft. Samples for microscope inspection--a lowly rivet...

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Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A rivet is her fighting weapon, Oyida Beaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking National Youth Administration (NYA) training to become mechanics at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks' apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the assembly and repair Department at the base

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A rivet is her fighting weapon, ...

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

Production. Airplanes. The air compressor room of a large Western aircraft plant. Here, compressors made by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company serve rivet guns, air drills, paint sprays, hydraulic presses, and other air-operated equipment

Production. Airplanes. The air compressor room of a large Western airc...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Drilling education. These two girls are learning to drill rivet holes before being put to work on the "Vengeance" dive bombers made at the Nashville Division of Vultee Aircraft Inc. 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. Drilling education. These...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man holding a gun. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a gun. Office of War Informat...

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