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Mexico - unloading shells - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Mexico - unloading shells - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[The abandoned palace of Viceroy Alexieff, destroyed by Japanese shells - Port Arthur]

[The abandoned palace of Viceroy Alexieff, destroyed by Japanese shell...

H63739 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7758.

Transfer of 8" shells, League Isl'd.

Transfer of 8" shells, League Isl'd.

Photo shows armored cruiser USS Brooklyn (CA-3) at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb. 1913, during the American Marines mobilization to go to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Re... More

Mexican women separating meat from shells. Pecan shelling plant. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican women separating meat from shells. Pecan shelling plant. San A...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Operating a valve servicing on of the gas compressors in the TVA's new synthetic plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is 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. Op...

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

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for automobiles

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells ...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A gas-cooling 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. The ammonia thus secured is 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 ...

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

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). If you didn't know better, you might think Mrs. Smuda spent the day comfortably darning socks for the family. Less than an hour before these pictures were made, this fifty-five-year-old mother and grandmother was skillfully tapering shells for machine guns at the Frankford Arsenal

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). If you didn't know better, you might think ...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Baskets of partly-finished cartridge cases for antiaircraft shells pass under the critical eye of a foreman as they are returned from pickling to the next press operation. The Midwest plant which makes these cases finishes them for loading with propelling charge and explosive shell

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Baskets of partly-finished cartridge ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a boat. Office of War Info...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

M-10 tank destroyer. The M-10 "tank destroyer" is one of the Army's most effective weapons for land combat. It is a speedy, maneuverable land cruiser with great firepower. Notice the sloped contour of the hull and turret to deflect enemy shells. This destroyer, known as the M-10, is being produced in large numbers at the General Motors tank arsenal

M-10 tank destroyer. The M-10 "tank destroyer" is one of the Army's mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Korean Conflict. Men of the 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division, covering up behind rocks to shield themselves from exploding mortar shells, near the Hantan River in central Korea

Korean Conflict. Men of the 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 35t...

Photo by the Signal Corps, U.S. Army. No. SC 365622.

[Russia's fleet lying under great Golden Hill forts, being sunk by Japanese shells -- Port Arthur]

[Russia's fleet lying under great Golden Hill forts, being sunk by Jap...

H63737 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7801.

[Confederate cannon with shells captured during the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863]

[Confederate cannon with shells captured during the siege of Port Huds...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: Be Ye Doers of the Word and Not Hearers Only;" with shells, blades]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: B...

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

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of chi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Design drawing for tall, narrow pair of stained glass windows with shells and chalice, over opaque panes]

[Design drawing for tall, narrow pair of stained glass windows with sh...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Basimycetes. - Schwammpilze. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Basimycetes. - Schwammpilze. Book illustration from Library of Congres...

Illustration shows stinkhorn mushrooms. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationst... More

A view of the bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the British fleet, taken from the observatory under the command of Admirals Cochrane & Cockburn on the morning of the 13th of Sepr. 1814 which lasted 24 hours, & thrown from 1500 to 1800 shells in the night attempted to land by forcing a passage up the ferry branch but were repulsed with great loss / J. Bower, sc. Philadelphia.

A view of the bombardment of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, by the Brit...

Title from item. Re-engraving of earlier print shows the British fleet bombarding Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, during the War of 1812. Purchase; Old Print Shop; 2012; (DLC/PP-2013:004).

Acres and acres of empty oyster shells. Piles 15 deep in places. Shells are used all over the town to make streets, railroad beds, etc. Many of these piles are said to be the work of young shuckers. Location: Florida.

Acres and acres of empty oyster shells. Piles 15 deep in places. Shell...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

German locomotive in the Somme damaged by French shells

German locomotive in the Somme damaged by French shells

Photograph shows a soldier standing next to a German locomotive which was damaged by French shells in the Somme, France during World War I.

Turkish girls no longer run from cameras and picture takers no longer fear irate Turk husbands As in New York ferryboats play over the waters of Constantinople and peanut shells, fruit skins and crying babies decorate the decks.

Turkish girls no longer run from cameras and picture takers no longer ...

Photographs show pedestrians including women and a porter on the Galata Bridge and a ferryboat, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1398 (top image) and no. 1399 (bott... More

[Scene in a German battery as an explosion kills horses in foreground; in background soldiers continue to load shells into a cannon and carry on with their work]

[Scene in a German battery as an explosion kills horses in foreground;...

Photograph is a reproduction of a painting by Oskar Merté, 1924. Stamp on back: Landesverband d. ehem. K. B. Schw. Urt., 1923. Handwritten notation indicates that the painting is in the Armee Museum, Munich. F... More

Production. 155mm shells. A carload of 155mm shell bodies ready for shipment from the converted auto plant in which they were made. They will be taken to loading plants where they will be filled with propelling and explosive charges. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. A carload of 155mm shell bodies ready for sh...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. 155mm shells. Unloading completed 155mm shell bodies from an overhead drying conveyor at a converted Midwest auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Unloading completed 155mm shell bodies from ...

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

Production. 155mm shells. Government inspectors check the painting of 155mm shells as they pass by on the overhead drying conveyor of a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Government inspectors check the painting of ...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. An operator adjusts a gate valve in the ammonia condenser 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. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals into 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. An...

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

Fort Story coast defense. Soldiers at Fort Story, Virginia, unloading sixteen-inch shells in casemates. The rope tied around the soft copper rotating band

Fort Story coast defense. Soldiers at Fort Story, Virginia, unloading ...

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

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Inspection and finishing operations on artillery shells in a converted Midwest auto plant. Workers keep pace with conveyors that were formerly used to speed production of automobile parts

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Inspection and finishing o...

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

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Adjusting a valve servicing one of the gas compressors in 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. The ammonia thus secured is 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. Ad...

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

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Samples of ordnance made by Rex Manufacturing Company, New Rochelle, world's largest manufacturers of compacts, now converted to army buttons, insignia, and cartridge shells

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Samples of ordnance made by Rex Manu...

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

Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these funnels on a distribution line in a large Midwest loading plant. TNT, used almost exclusively in shells, looks like a good grade of maple sugar. It is believed that soon the United States will use only TNT in bombs also. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. TNT is poured into shells through these fun...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Process inspection of a shell: testing interior diameters and threads

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Stamping a 60 mm. shell

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Rough turning a shell

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Stamping a 60 mm. shell

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Shopping for victory with war bonds. These are what war bonds buy. These are 50-caliber armor-piercing shells and a 100 dollar war bond pays for 1,000 of them. A 100 dollar bond buys 1,000 chances of making a Zero really nothing!

Shopping for victory with war bonds. These are what war bonds buy. The...

Picryl description: Public domain image of knight armor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Rough turning a shell, showing young machine operator

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. 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.

Doing their bit - students of McKinley Manual Training High School, Washington, D.C., with 4-inch shells they have made

Doing their bit - students of McKinley Manual Training High School, Wa...

Four students, posed with large shells, on street. J224536 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 19019

Effects of shells upon the enemies rifle pits at the crossing over the Rappahannock--June 5th

Effects of shells upon the enemies rifle pits at the crossing over the...

Shelling of 2nd Florida confederate regiment following Franklin's crossing. Signed lower left: Alfred R. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 27, 1863, p. 409 with the title "Ef... More

Dance Shells of ocean quick step - Public domain musical sheets

Dance Shells of ocean quick step - Public domain musical sheets

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: Be Ye Doers of the Word and Not Hearers Only;" with shells, blades]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "St. James Major: B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All are oyster-shuckers in Barataria Canning Company. The boy reaching into the car is Bill May, five years old, who makes 15 cents a day, "when he wants to work." Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

All are oyster-shuckers in Barataria Canning Company. The boy reaching...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A native house riddled by shells from Dewey's fleet near Manila

A native house riddled by shells from Dewey's fleet near Manila

Stereo copyrighted by R.Y. Young (American Stereoscopic Co.). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Pile of oyster shells, Shellpile, New Jersey

Pile of oyster shells, Shellpile, New Jersey

Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is done with the finger tips. Lighting conditions are very poor. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is...

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

Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is done with the finger tips. Lighting conditions are very poor. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is...

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

India in the war. Indian soldiers in action before the capture of Keren. This gun hurled approximately 24,000 shells a day. Note the shadow of camouflage on the field gun

India in the war. Indian soldiers in action before the capture of Kere...

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

Frankford Arsenal. Weighing shells during process of inspection

Frankford Arsenal. Weighing shells during process of inspection

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

Mrs. Smuda's son. He used to drive a bakery wagon, but now he drives a truck for Uncle Sam. Private Edwin Smuda at camp "somewhere in the South" is one of America's many fighting men with mothers who are working just as hard for Victory as they are. Mrs. Eva Smuda, fifty-five, works eight hours a day in Frankford, Pennsylvania's arsenal where she tapers cartridge cases for 50mm shells. Another mother and son combination that means death to the Axis

Mrs. Smuda's son. He used to drive a bakery wagon, but now he drives a...

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

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). She's a mother and a grandmother, she works at a U.S. arsenal tapering shells for fifty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns and she loves listening to news broadcasts and Bing Crosby. Eva Smuda, fifty-five, who came to America from Poland at the age of three, has one son in the Army, and a son, daughter and a son-in-law working with her at the Frankford Arsenal

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). She's a mother and a grandmother, she works...

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

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Tastes good! After tapering fifty-millimeter cartidge shells for America's machine gun battallions, you'd think Mrs. Smuda would be ready for bed. But she's still full of pep and ready to fix dinner for the daughter, son-in-law and grandchild who live with her. This time it's stew, based on a recipe from her native Poland

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Tastes good! After tapering fifty-millimete...

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

Production. 105 millimeter shells. One of the many women workers in a Midwest shell plant which formerly made plumbing fixtures, inspects future gifts for the Axis. Her job requires infinite precision and patience, for the inside of every shell must be carefully inspected for flaws which might accidently cause explosions (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. One of the many women workers in a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, chariot, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Lubricating fluid pouring on the base end of a shell which is being finished

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Conveyor to the painting and packing department

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Stamping shell for identification

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. In a plant producing rowing shells and model ships, life rafts for the Navy are the order of the day. These workers are attaching rope netting to the body of the raft which is made of plywood sections

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. In a plant producing rowing s...

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

Worker spoons sweet potato batter into pie shells.

Worker spoons sweet potato batter into pie shells.

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Sweet Potato Pie, Inc., 140 Auburn Street, Paterson.

Worker spoons sweet potato batter into pie shells.

Worker spoons sweet potato batter into pie shells.

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Sweet Potato Pie, Inc., 140 Auburn Street, Paterson.

Mae Bongalis holding a pail of cracked black walnut shells

Mae Bongalis holding a pail of cracked black walnut shells

Black walnut season is marked by the appearance on many porches of coal buckets (as five gallon plastic buckets are called) filled with aromatic green nuts ready to be cured, hulled, and then cracked. The proce... More

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of chi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1984. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1306. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congr... More

Varn & Platt Canning Co. Adult shucker whowing [i.e., showing?] the rough, dirty shells and the "finger-stalls" because "Our fingers got so sore." Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Varn & Platt Canning Co. Adult shucker whowing [i.e., showing?] the ro...

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

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of chi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Communion chalice/host with symbols: shells, keys, etc.]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Communion chalice/host w...

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

Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied Forces, Tien-tsin, China

Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied ...

D24252 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12027. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cystoidea. - Beutelsterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Cystoidea. - Beutelsterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows marine animals. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln... More

A Japanese field battery firing shells over the mountains into doomed Port Arthur

A Japanese field battery firing shells over the mountains into doomed ...

H64023 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Destroying Russian ships and town -- terrific rain of great Japanese shells -- in Port Arthur]

[Destroying Russian ships and town -- terrific rain of great Japanese ...

H63715 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7802.

A dead war monster--Russian battleship 'Peresviet' wrecked by Japanese shells, Port Arthur harbor

A dead war monster--Russian battleship 'Peresviet' wrecked by Japanese...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

"We give them houses to live in." About 50 persons housed in this miserable row of dilapidated shacks, located on an old shell-pile, and partly surrounded by a tidal marsh. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina.

"We give them houses to live in." About 50 persons housed in this mise...

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

Adult shucker whowing [i.e., showing] the rough, dirty shells and the "finger-stalls" because "Our fingers get so sore." Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Adult shucker whowing [i.e., showing] the rough, dirty shells and the ...

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

Holes torn out by huge shells. Where our boys fought in Belleau Woods, France

Holes torn out by huge shells. Where our boys fought in Belleau Woods,...

Two soldiers make their way though broken debris of wooded area. J236435 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 18724.

Production. 155mm shells. Spray painting the outsides of 155mm shells in a De Vilbiss spray booth in a converted Midwest auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Spray painting the outsides of 155mm shells ...

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. 155mm shells. Removing 155mm shells from an overhead conveyor to cool after the nosing operation has been performed. From here they will be forwarded for shot blasting and finish turning. Site: a converted Midwest auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Removing 155mm shells from an overhead conve...

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

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it is, if it's metal our steel mills need it. They need it today as they've never needed it before. They need it to provide the "ring of steel" which will protect this country from any possible enemy

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Studies in the high-pressure synthesis of gases are being made continuously in the TVA laboratories in the Muscle Shoals area. The plants served by these laboratories make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the manufacture of high explosive shells, elemental phosphorus for incendiary bombs and shells, phosphoric acid and highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizers

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Studies in the...

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

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for ...

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

Production. Pipe fittings. Forging shop crew of a Midwest plant serve the world's largest machine of its kind a nine inch upsetter. This machine is used for forging 75 mm shells for the Army. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Forging shop crew of a Midwest plant serve ...

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

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War I...

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

It's hard to recognize the production layout of a well-known auto plant in machine lines that win with wartime production. It's shells instead of auto parts now--but American industry can turn out the orders for war as well as for peace. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

It's hard to recognize the production layout of a well-known auto plan...

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The art of metal drawing is employed to turn brass discs punched from rolled sheets into long tubular cartridge case to carry the powder charges that send explosive shells up to meet enemy aircraft. The first operation is performed by a press which forms the flat disc into cups

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The art of metal drawing is employed ...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Mortar crew removing caps from shells which they are about to fire

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Mortar crew removing ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro w...

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

Production. 105 millimeter shells. Plumbing fixtures came off these assembly lines in peace time, but today Giles Knowles and his fellow workers produce 105 millimeter shells in a Midwest plant now converted 100 percent to war production. Knowles, a minor league baseball pitcher, broke a league record for strike-out; now he's out to break the company record for shell production (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. Plumbing fixtures came off these as...

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Livens projectors containing gas-filled shells ready to be fired

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Livens projectors conta...

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

Production. Shell loading. Infra-red rays dry the paint on shells in these compartments at a large Midwest loading plant. The production of shells never stops here, three shifts of workers being spread "round the clock." Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. Infra-red rays dry the paint on shells in t...

Public domain photograph of greenhouse plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. At his old job making rowing shells for varsity crews, this veteran craftsman now helps produce plywood life rafts for Navy ships. Here he is shown at work on the frame of a rowing shell

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. At his old job making rowing ...

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

Montgomery, Alabama. Cotton and peanut shells on the sidewalk

Montgomery, Alabama. Cotton and peanut shells on the sidewalk

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

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Conveyor to the painting and packing department

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Gravesite of Judith Henry, killed by Yankee shells at First Battle of Bull Run

Gravesite of Judith Henry, killed by Yankee shells at First Battle of ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing St. James with shells]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing St. James with shells...

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

[In Port Arthur during the bombardment -- raging fire near Golden Hill started by Japanese shells]

[In Port Arthur during the bombardment -- raging fire near Golden Hill...

H63705 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7759.

[Morris Island, S.C. Two 100-pdr. Parrott guns and stacks of shells inside Fort Putnam]

[Morris Island, S.C. Two 100-pdr. Parrott guns and stacks of shells in...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

South Sea Conchological Co. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

South Sea Conchological Co. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

Two men in booth selling conch shells. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spirobranchia. - Spiralkiemer. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Spirobranchia. - Spiralkiemer. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

Illustration shows marine animals. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln... More

A geographical curiosity: Mt. Edwards, in Glacier National [...] This peak, 9,000 feet high, was part of an ocean bed 100 mi[...] ago. Enormous pressure from far below forced it upward, [...] glaciers, rains, and snows gnawed at its sides. Shells and other forms of ocean life are found encrusted in the rocky slopes

A geographical curiosity: Mt. Edwards, in Glacier National [...] This ...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

George Woodward - The voice of the ocean / K.

George Woodward - The voice of the ocean / K.

Illustration shows President Taft sitting on the seashore with a cluster of seashells around him that are labeled "H. Taft, Sherman, Knox, Aldrich, Ballinger, Root, [and] Cannon"; he is holding two labeled "Cha... More

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