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Out of the rough. A gun stock takes shape under the hands of a skilled workman as the war production goes ahead at an eastern armory

Out of the rough. A gun stock takes shape under the hands of a skilled...

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

Transformer manufacture. This employee of a large Eastern electrical plant has the job of getting these big cores and coils into shape before they are lowered into steel transformer tanks and immersed in oil. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. This employee of a large Eastern electrical p...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation installing a thirty-caliber machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy five and half years. At the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, he sees that flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an Aviation Ordnance Mate

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. It's an intricate operation ins...

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

When sheet metal parts are cut on the router, they go to the hydropress department where they are placed on masonite dies and pressed to the proper shape under 3000 tons pressure

When sheet metal parts are cut on the router, they go to the hydropres...

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

This Norton cutter-grinder which had been specially adapted to grind cams on the motor shaft for the electric dry shaver which this New England plant normally produces, has now been converted to grind permanent magnet rotors for machine tool motors. The conversion was accomplished with new jigs and fixtures and slight changes in the head. This is a tricky job well suited to the skill of this plant's workers. The metal is alnico and the octagonal shape consists of surfaces which are arcs drawn from the center of the piece. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

This Norton cutter-grinder which had been specially adapted to grind c...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Last Supper with elaborate columnar frame; arched rectangle shape with circle sketched over center--possible shape change considered?]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Last Supper with elab...

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A Keller machine cutting a die shape from a plaster model. The model is at the top. A "feeler" tool runs along the surface of the model and controls the cutting tool at the bottom in such a manner that the contours of the model are duplicated with an extremely high degree of precision in the cast-iron form on the bottom. The die being made is the profiling pad for an automobile front fender. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

A Keller machine cutting a die shape from a plaster model. The model i...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. The nose of a C-47 transport plane takes shape under the expert hands of men and women workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. The nose of a C-47 transport plane ...

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Last Supper with elaborate columnar frame; arched rectangle shape with circle sketched over center--possible shape change considered?]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Last Supper with elab...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A flock of sheep standing on top of a snow covered field, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A flock of sheep standing on top of a snow covered field, Iowa. Farm S...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Civil War envelope showing Army of the Potomac, 3rd Corps, 1st Division, badge with red diamond shape]

[Civil War envelope showing Army of the Potomac, 3rd Corps, 1st Divisi...

Addressed to Mrs. E. M. Hill, North Orwell, Bradford Co., Va.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked in Washington, D.C., March 19, 1864. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

Visitors' overlook building at Hiwassee Dam. On account of interesting mountain and lake views in all directions, this structure was designed largely in a circular shape with restroom facilities at the core of the circle. Supports are steel columns, rail is designed as the one at Guntersville. Undersides of projecting canopies on these structures are finished in stucco or in large sheets of insulating board

Visitors' overlook building at Hiwassee Dam. On account of interesting...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an architectural element, dome, cathedral, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hosiery testing machine. Washington, D.C., March 23. At the request of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the U.S. Bureau of Standards has developed a hosiery testing machine. The machine simulates the force acting on a stocking at the knee and garter clasps in use. A survey was made of women's full fashioned silk hosiery from retail stores throughout the U.S. to provide a basis for a performance specification. After a few pulls, a poor stocking will show runs and lose it's shape. C.J. Pope, of the Bureau of Standards is shown with machine, 3/23/38

Hosiery testing machine. Washington, D.C., March 23. At the request of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a pope, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Science and research. Studies of non-coking coals. V.F. Parry, supervising engineer of the Golden, Colorado field station of the U.S. Bureau of Mines is "sighting a coke bubble." This procedure is used to determine if a given coke has changed its properties or it is similar to another coke. One gram of powdered coal is heated at 820 degrees centigrade for two and a half minutes. The resulting "bubble" is then compared with a standard chart to determine its characteristics, as revealed by the shape it has assumed. This research is part of a project to find ways of improving the quality of coke from western coal

Science and research. Studies of non-coking coals. V.F. Parry, supervi...

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War production forges ahead...literally. This red-hot bar is being forged to rough shape before it is machined

War production forges ahead...literally. This red-hot bar is being for...

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

The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally known as the Draughon-Moore home. The house was built in 1885 in roughly the shape of the "club" figure on the ace of clubs card in a poker deck, with three octagonal wings and a rectangular wing. According to legend, the house was built with money won from a poker game. It is now a city-owned tour home and museum

The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally known as the...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Looking toward Lynn from the northern terrace, showing the crescent shape of the beach and the Point of Pines beyond

Looking toward Lynn from the northern terrace, showing the crescent sh...

(DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Seaside Pleasure-Grounds for Cities" by Sylvester Baxter, Scribner's magazine, 23:681 (June 1898).

Roadside stand, Harlingen, Texas, in shape of pig

Roadside stand, Harlingen, Texas, in shape of pig

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells go through the first drawing operation. A brass cup formed from flat disc is fed to a huge press which draws it into a tubular shape with one rounded closed end. Washing and annealing precedes the first draw and will follow it. Washing cleanses surfaces for future operations. Annealing removes strains set in the metal by the forming and drawing operations

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiai...

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

This Norton cutter-grinder which had been specially adapted to grind cams on the motor shaft for the electric dry shaver which this New England plant normally produces, has now been converted to grind permanent magnet rotors for machine tool motors. The conversion was accomplished with new jigs and fixtures and slight changes in the head. This is a tricky job well suited to the skill of this plant's workers. The metal is alnico and the octagonal shape consists of surfaces which are arcs drawn from the center of the piece. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

This Norton cutter-grinder which had been specially adapted to grind c...

Public domain photograph of electric motor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carolyn Haines holds her award, which is in the shape of the cupola at the historic Monroe County Courthouse, at the 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium in Monroeville, Alabama

Carolyn Haines holds her award, which is in the shape of the cupola at...

The 13th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium involves two days of author readings, panel discussions, and literary entertainment, all moderated by some of Alabama's finest literary scholars. The Harper Lee Award f... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with narrow rectangular shape and abstract style]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with narrow rectangular shape...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

N.Y. Solon works out. Washington D.C., Daily workouts in the House gymnasium keep Rep. Hamilton Fish, Republican of New York, in tiptop physical shape during Congressional sessions. Rep. Fish, former football star during his undergraduate days at Harvard, still appears as if he could step into a football lineup on a minute's notice

N.Y. Solon works out. Washington D.C., Daily workouts in the House gym...

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Production. 105 millimeter shells. This red-hot billet is undergoing processing in a hydraulic press, where it will be pierced and drawn into the rough shape of an artillery shell. In pre-war days, plumbing fixtures were processed in this Midwest factory (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. This red-hot billet is undergoing p...

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

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.

1869 Boston, Jan. 1 1869 Horticultural hall dining rooms 61 Bromfield St., Boston. We have purchased the above rooms and put them in first-class "shape." ... [Boston 1869].

1869 Boston, Jan. 1 1869 Horticultural hall dining rooms 61 Bromfield ...

Air bag put into carcass. Under intense hydraulic pressure, this airbag is forced into the casing while it is still in the suction-shaping mold. The bar from the top comes down hard, forces the airbag into a pretzel shape and rams it into the carcass, where the airbag snaps back into shape and fits the new carcass perfectly

Air bag put into carcass. Under intense hydraulic pressure, this airba...

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

[Dove carrying olive branch, being stabbed by hammer and sickle and dripping blood in the shape of a star]

[Dove carrying olive branch, being stabbed by hammer and sickle and dr...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dolphin, seal, sea mammal, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

223 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are "Eleganti Apartmenti." License was recently revoked and after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there. It is in miserable shape. Location: New York, New York (State)

223 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are "Eleganti Apart...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A shape moved suddenly past me into the flame

A shape moved suddenly past me into the flame

(DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Whispering Leaves" by Ellen Glasgow, Harper's magazine, 146:341 (Feb. 1923).

Corn crib near Bartlett, West Virginia. Typically-formed crib, following shape of southeastern American Indian crib but adapted in materials by European colonists. This crib with typically flaring sides, found commonly in Michigan and Ohio

Corn crib near Bartlett, West Virginia. Typically-formed crib, followi...

Public domain image of a romantic landscape with windmill, Netherlands, 16th-17th century artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Easter bunnies' laurels threatened. Government experts enable hens to color own eggs. Washington, D.C., April 7. An interesting experiment is in progress at the National Agricultural Center, Beltsville, Maryland, whereby hens color their own eggs over a range of hues from a pearly white through brown to sky-blue. This picture of Charles A. Denton, Junior Chemist, at the nutrition laboratory, shows the method of measuring the yolk index. Eventually we may anticipate a uniformity of eggs in shape and in yolk color as well as a definite amount of proteins contained in each one. 4.7.39

Easter bunnies' laurels threatened. Government experts enable hens to ...

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Placing pieces of leather into crimping machine to shape the lowers of the boots. Boot shop, Alpine, Texas

Placing pieces of leather into crimping machine to shape the lowers of...

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

Air bag put into carcass. Under intense hydraulic pressure, this airbag is forced into the casing while it is still in the suction-shaping mold. The bar from the top comes down hard, forces the airbag into a pretzel shape and rams it into the carcass, where the airbag snaps back into shape and fits the new carcass perfectly

Air bag put into carcass. Under intense hydraulic pressure, this airba...

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

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with 6th Corps badge with cross shape] / Gibson's Photograph Gallery, Army of Potomac.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with 6th Corps badge with cross...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, Pa., 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part... More

Snow in the mountains of Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The unusual crescent shape patches of light in the shadows were caused by the partial eclipse of the sun

Snow in the mountains of Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The unusual cr...

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

Forming the back of a plate. This process is known as jiggering. A plaster of Paris mould forms the shape of the face of the plate. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Forming the back of a plate. This process is known as jiggering. A pla...

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

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Storage yard and traveling crane for loading; in the foreground are copper wire bars; the shape of these is especially adapted for the rolling mill

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Storage yard an...

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Christ Bearing His Cross," in mandorla shape with Calvary crosses and Lamb]

[Design drawing for stained glass window "Christ Bearing His Cross," i...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

PRESIDENT GETS BASEBALL 'ANNIE OAKLEYS.' WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 13. PRESIDENT AND MRS. ROOSEVELT ARE NOW ALL SET FOR THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES THIS SUMMER. TODAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE CLARK GRIFFITH, PRESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON SENATORS, AND FORD FRICK, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE, PRESENTED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WITH HIS ANNUAL BASEBALL PASS AND ALSO LEFT FOR MRS. ROOSEVELT A FANCY POCIETBOOK CONTAINING ONE. THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE ALSO TOLD GRIFFITH AND FRICK THAT HIS ARM WAS IN SHAPE TO THROW OUT THE FIRST BALL IN SEASON'S OPENER IN D.C. BETWEEN YANKS AND SENATORS

PRESIDENT GETS BASEBALL 'ANNIE OAKLEYS.' WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 13. PR...

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the ...

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

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. A problem in charting a course takes shape; every member of the class is keenly interested

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are formed by successive drawing operations, from a flat brass disc into an elongated tubular shape with one rounded closed end. These shapes are trimmed before going on to the heading operation, with the more familiar flat surface, with priming hole, ready for loading

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiai...

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.

A bogy assembly for an Army halftrac scout car takes shape on the production line of an Ohio truck plant. When it's completed it must be able to stand rigid inspections. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

A bogy assembly for an Army halftrac scout car takes shape on the prod...

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

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...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel disc covers with this universal milling machine. These disc covers were part of the cube steak machines which are the normal products of the New England plant where he is employed. Today, however, Morris used the same machine retooled for subcontract work--the cutting of large hexagonal nuts for a government arsenal. For cube steak machinery there was only one milling wheel, instead of the two shown above. "Hexing a nut" is a very simple job with a machine designed to shape the nut in a single operation, but such a machine is not available and time is short. Morris, therefore, shifts the round steel stock three times, cutting two sides at a time. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. John J. Morris used to cut steel dis...

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

[Paris in shape of man holding fork and cup, different foods of France and page of text]

[Paris in shape of man holding fork and cup, different foods of France...

Illus. in: Eugene Briffault, Paris a table, Paris : J. Hetzel, 1846, p. 5. Ref. copy may be in Leonard Beck, Two "Loaf-Givers", p. 193. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The voice of the nation. [Declaration of independence printed in shape of the Liberty bell] July 4, 1776. Sesqui-centennial souvenir supplement - The Frankford Dispatch July 2, 1926.

The voice of the nation. [Declaration of independence printed in shape...

Collecting old bottles is hobby of retired professor. Washington, D.C., Nov. 27. Bottles here, bottles there, and bottles everywhere amply describes the home here of W. Edwin Priest, retired Professor of History in the Washington high schools. Now 78 years old, Professor Priest has been collecting bottles of every imaginary kind, shape, and variety for 40 years. He now has over 1,000 bottles in his prized collection. Prof. Priest is shown holding the latest addition--the most valuable one--the little bottle which was found in Chaldea, home of the early christians, and said to be over 4,000 years old

Collecting old bottles is hobby of retired professor. Washington, D.C....

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