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Dome of the U.S. Capitol. Ornament at spring of cupola, full size (developed) / Tho. U. Walter, architect in Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 1860.

Dome of the U.S. Capitol. Ornament at spring of cupola, full size (dev...

Print shows detail of architectural ornament for the cupola of the dome on the U.S. Capitol at Washington, D.C. "The model for this Ornament to be put up in its place on the Dome, and its effect studied before... More

Smallest is Albert Valbert (or Vallee), 14 Park St. Next in size is Adelard Dion, 1 Palmer St., works in #1 Spinning Room. Both failed to write their names correctly in English. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Smallest is Albert Valbert (or Vallee), 14 Park St. Next in size is Ad...

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

Smelt Continue to have their day at the Capitol. Washington, D.C., April 1. Little Beulah, Michigan, has succeeded admirably lately in getting itself on the map by reason of its location in the heart of Michigan's smelt industry. Today, the Mayor of Beulah, Arthur Finch, called upon Vice President John Garner and presented him with a box of the pint-size fish in recognition of the Vice President's efforts to have smelt transplanted to Texas waters. The V.P. remarked that they are just the right size for bass bait, and the Mayor still maintains that they are best for human consumption. 4-7-39

Smelt Continue to have their day at the Capitol. Washington, D.C., Apr...

Two men standing next to each other in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases, to show various stages of tuberculosis. Timer for x-ray apparatus

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Front of an x-ray tube apparatus

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmer looks at the size of the cob in judging quality of hybrid corn, Hardin County, Iowa

Farmer looks at the size of the cob in judging quality of hybrid corn,...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Kentucky. 1300 trousers a day ranging in size from a small size of 28-inch waist and 29-inch leg to a large size of 46-inch waist and 33-inch leg. These trousers are made to rigid specifications, furnished by the Army Quartermaster Corps. This straight-knife cutting machine cuts 42 wool or 63 cotton pair of trousers at one operation

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisvil...

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

The four freedoms. The panel is part of an exhibit prepared for the Office of War Information by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist. The actual size of the panel is 15 x 30 feet. Another montage of the same size, The Arsenal of Democracy, comprises a companion piece to "The Four Freedoms" panel and completes the exhibit. This exhibit will be shown by the OWI in scores of cities throughout the country

The four freedoms. The panel is part of an exhibit prepared for the Of...

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

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size of the landing wheels of a YB-17 bomber can be appreciated when compared with the sizes of the two men inspecting the landing gear. The men, a staff sergeant and a technical sergeant, belong to a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size...

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

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collecting 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 photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. "Any scrap for Uncle Sam?" Captain Charles Wentworth, a junior commando in Roanoke, Virginia, hands Mrs. John Farr a leaflet announcing the hunt for precious metal and rubber. Units of three children to a block combed every house for scrap and brought it to their own houses where city trucks carted it away

Manpower, junior size. "Any scrap for Uncle Sam?" Captain Charles Went...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Hopper of gyratory crusher; this crusher reduces the ore to a maximum size of four inches

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Hopper of g...

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.

Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American women through stores, pattern companies, and radio show how to assemble a pattern as Cynthia is doing. As they did in the last war, thousands of women are asking for sewing instructions. Streamlined methods make sewing quick and easy. To save fabric and time, size corrections are quickly made on paper before the goods is cut

Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American w...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Production of empty gelatin capsules in a special size

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. P...

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

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR, at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Mrs. M. Bery, trimming down pork to size before twenty percent pre-shrinkage treatment. Her husband is in defense work, and her three sons are in the United States Army, one in North Africa

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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

MSS [i.e., manuscript] photographed for. Prof. Kelsey, Nov. 1920. Size of book 22.5 x 16 cm

MSS [i.e., manuscript] photographed for. Prof. Kelsey, Nov. 1920. Size...

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An Experiment worth trying / / Th. Nast. Inflation bridge of (sighs) size / George Colt

An Experiment worth trying / / Th. Nast. Inflation bridge of (sighs) s...

One cartoon shows Indian on wheeled platform in front of War Dept. with Interior Dept. across the street. The other cartoon shows two men lifting rag baby to "Inflation bridge (sighs) size, with sign "Democrati... More

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Ernest T. Weir, arch-foe of the New Deal and Chairman of the National Steel Corporation, suggested before the National Monopoly Committee that it was 'easier for a company our size to operate and make a profit than a company with the size and ramifications of the U.S. Steel Corporation.' A.F. Feller, Counsel for the Committee and Special Assistant to the Attorney General, termed this statement by Weir the important yet made before the committee

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Ernest T. Weir, ...

A black and white photo of two men sitting next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been working in Mule Room #1 Merrimac Mill, Lowell, one year. Michael Keefe (next in size) 32 Marion St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for eight months; apparently 13 years old. Cornelius Hurley, 298 Adams St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for six months; about 13 or 14 probably. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been wo...

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

Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, investigator saw at work at her knitting machine perched up on a box, as she was too short to reach. The next in size was seen raveling. Both were steady workers. Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Showing the enormous size of the columns of the Acropolis. F.G.C. One of the most beautiful buildings of the Acropolis. Six ladies hold up the portico. There were seven until an English Lord came along and took one off to jolly old England.

Showing the enormous size of the columns of the Acropolis. F.G.C. One ...

Photographs show Frank Carpenter looking at columns and the Erechtheum (Erechtheion) temple at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1441 (top image), and... More

Preparing the engraved plate for the new small size paper currency

Preparing the engraved plate for the new small size paper currency

Photograph shows a man checking the printing plate (?). In album: Washington, D.C., 1 June 1929 to 27 Sept. 1929, v. 3, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company, p. 8, no. 42985. Forms part of: National Photo... More

Placing bale of cotton into compressing unit. Compress, Houston, Texas. After going through the compress the bale of cotton is about one third its original size

Placing bale of cotton into compressing unit. Compress, Houston, Texas...

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

Adobe bricks, shaving one down to size, Penasco, New Mexico

Adobe bricks, shaving one down to size, Penasco, New Mexico

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

"Open the doors," says Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, to Manager Sloan of the National and Civilian Defense Exposition at New York's Grand Central Palace. In the background is part of the 15 x 30 foot poster Carlu designed for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM). The panel shown represents the Arsenal of Democracy while another of equal size is entitled The Four Freedoms. These panels, designed according to a technique in photomontage used only once before, will be seen in a number of cities from coast to coast

"Open the doors," says Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, to Manager S...

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

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Assembly workers are nearly ready to put the final section of the huge 15 x 30 foot photmontage The Four Freedoms in place. On the other side of the scaffolding was the Arsenal of Democracy panel, equal in size. The two were displayed in Defense Square, Washington for a month beginning November 7, 1941. Designed for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) by the eminent poster artist Jean Carlu, they were shown first in New York and after the Washington showing went on a tour of many cities throughout the country

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Assembly workers are n...

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Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Checking over a dummy of hiArsenal of Democracy panel is the eminent posters artist Jean Carlu. The panel, which measured 15 by 30 feet, is on exhibit now at the National and Civilian Defense Exposition at Grand Central Palace, New York along with another of the same size representing the Four Freedoms. Shown under the auspices of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM), they will shortly be seen in a number of cities from coast to coast

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Checking over a dummy ...

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Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Cotton khaki and wool serge trousers are turned out here at the rate of 1300 a day to the designs and rigid specifications of the Army Quartermaster Corps. 34 sizes ranging from a small 28 inch waist with 29-inch leg to large size with a 46-inch waist and 33-inch leg. Here Frank Ernwine lays out patterns. He has been at his trade for forty-five years and helped make Army uniforms in World War I

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisvil...

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

Manpower, junior size. Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's small-fries, but to these youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia, it's fat collection day. As part of their junior commando activities, these boys and girls collect all fats and greases from local housewives during the week, and turn it over to school authorities on Saturday. From here, the fats are sent to a rendering plant where precious glycerin will be derived from it

Manpower, junior size. Saturday's a holiday for most of the nation's s...

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Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia. They're out to win the war by gathering up every piece of scrap metal, every bit of worn-out rubber, and all waste fats and greases in the town

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanok...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. After lucite (a shatter-proof plastic "glass") is formed for transparent enclosures, the edges are cut to the right size on an enemy wheel at the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, California. 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. After lucite (a shatter-pro...

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

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The car loading end of a bridge at the Seventeenth Street dock of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company. The bucket drops coal into the hopper at the top, it is sized over screens, the proper size coal goes down the chute on the left into the car, and the rest goes down the chute on the right back on the coal pile

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The car loading ...

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

Manpower, junior size. Notes from parents giving permission to their sons and daughters to join the Roanoke, Virginia junior army are received by teacher Doris Jordan. Now these newly appointed junior commandos are ready to collect scrap for victory

Manpower, junior size. Notes from parents giving permission to their s...

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

Manpower, junior size. Discussing the best ways to collect the maximum of scrap from the neighborhood, Mrs. Bertha Traynham of Roanoke, Virginia finds that her young grandson is well informed about locations of the most productive garrets and cellars. An evangelist, Mrs. Traynham promises to help the drive by talking about it at her meetings

Manpower, junior size. Discussing the best ways to collect the maximum...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Rolls of newsprint ready to be rewound and cut to size

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Rolls of newsprint ready to be re...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a United State Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. "The pit," where cut and trimmed lumber is sorted in piles according to size. In the background is part of the mill, and the sawdust pile

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C-82. Newest transport shown at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. First war plane designed solely for hauling military cargo: troops, paratroops and equipment up to the size of tanks. This aircraft is now in production for the Army Air Forces

C-82. Newest transport shown at demonstration of equipment held by Uni...

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

MSS [i.e., manuscript] photographed for. Prof. Kelsey, Nov. 1920. Size of book 22.5 x 16 cm

MSS [i.e., manuscript] photographed for. Prof. Kelsey, Nov. 1920. Size...

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pos-Ka-Ka or White Face, Winnebago celebrated for the size of his nose

Pos-Ka-Ka or White Face, Winnebago celebrated for the size of his nose

Pos-Ka-Ka or White Face, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Photo possibly by B. H. Gurnsey.

Scene on farm in southeastern Alaska, where small fruits and vegetables grow to twice the size usual elsewhere in the U.S.

Scene on farm in southeastern Alaska, where small fruits and vegetable...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

[New York City Police Dept. activities: taking Bertillon measurements--foot size]

[New York City Police Dept. activities: taking Bertillon measurements-...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Bertillon syst... More

Smallest is James Veary. The next in size are sweepers; Thomas Munds, 3 Blackburn St.; Thomas Heywood, 7 Peniman St.; Romeo Perrault, 26 Reynolds St.; they are doubtful in age. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Smallest is James Veary. The next in size are sweepers; Thomas Munds, ...

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

Cutting out embroidery on the dirty kitchen floor. Battista family, 259 E. 151 St. N.Y. On the right is the married daughter, who lives down stairs and usually works there. On her right next to the boy is Flora, said to be 9 years old and very much stunted in size. "Been sick." Next to her is the mother and next is Linda, 11 years old. The baby, dirty and covered with sores, was being handed about. Probably has impetego. Location: New York, New York (State)

Cutting out embroidery on the dirty kitchen floor. Battista family, 25...

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

Farm building on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owned by loan company. Straw barn was built by tenant because of inadequate size of barn recently erected by the loan company

Farm building on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owned by loan ...

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A black and white photo of a man in a straw hat, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a straw hat, Iowa. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. The x-ray plate is contained in the apparatus in front of the girl. The apparatus in the foreground contains an x-ray tube

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Cutting sheeting to size with power driven hand saws speed up the work of the sheeting crew

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Cutting sheeting to size with pow...

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.

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. All set but for the overhead lighting. This 15 x 30 foot panel and a second of life size entitled the Four Freedoms were displayed in Defense Square, Washington for a month beginning November 7, 1941. The panels, entitled The Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Deomocracy, were designed for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist. They were shown first in New York and after the Washington showing went on a tour of many large cities throughout the country

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. All set but for the ov...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of the Arsenal of Democracy panel designed by Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, for the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and seen first at the National and Civilian Defense Exposition in New York's Grand Central Palace. Mr. Carlu, in shirtsleeves, is explaining his new technique in photomontage while the panel, which will measure 15 x 30 feet, awaits assembly. The Arsenal of Democracy and a panel representing the Four Freedoms, of equal size, will be showing in several other cities after the close of the New York show

Part of the Arsenal of Democracy panel designed by Jean Carlu, eminent...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the...

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

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the American people that waste materials are vital to the war effort. Printed in three colors -- black, red and white -- it was designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for distribution through the Bureau of Industrial Conservation. Its size is 20 x 28 in.

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Symons crusher which reduces ore in size from a maximum of four inches to one inch before it is sent to the 20,000 ton ore storage bins

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Symons ...

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Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Tremendous piles of spikes will be sorted out according to size and put away in kegs for salvage purposes

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Tremendou...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. A series of roll crushers reduce the size of ore from a maximum of one inch to the size of coarse sand

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. A series of...

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

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia, but they are "scrappers for victory." The little sisters of our fighting men back up their big brothers at the front by joining America's junior army. These fifth graders receive final instructions from their teacher on the scrap collection drive

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. An automatic torch cuts a pipe elbow to size in a Midwest plant. Elbows are cut to any length and angle from bent pipes. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. An automatic to...

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

Manpower, junior size. The third front--unified, enthusiastic, patriotic--banded together where there are no sides but "our side." School children in Roanoke, Virginia listened eagerly as speakers explained to them the work of the junior commandos

Manpower, junior size. The third front--unified, enthusiastic, patriot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making bits for a pneumatic drilling machine is to heat a rod of the proper size; this rod is placed into machine which punches and forms the bit; this process is called drop forging. Bit plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. First step in making b...

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

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? Junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile. When the truck appears, every youngster in the neighborhood pitches in to help load it

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? ...

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

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Production of gelatin capsules in a special size

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. P...

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The superintendent and one of the spinners, Catawba Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Others smaller still. Ten boys and girls this size and smaller out of a force of 40 employees. Location: Newton, North Carolina.

The superintendent and one of the spinners, Catawba Cotton Mills, Newt...

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

Agriculture finds new ways to keep flowers free from destructive insect pests. Beltsville, MD, Aug. 30. The bureau of Plant Quarantine and Entomology of the Dept. of Agriculture, has perfected treatments that keep tiny thrips from ruining Gladiola blooms, it worked them out by subjecting the bulbs to various treatments, planting the bulbs in a large field at the experimental station at Beltsville, MD, and examining the plants as they bloomed. The bulbs were numbered and the records of the treatment they received before being planted. A record of the condition of the flowers on the plants from each bulb was also kept. These records showed that treating bulbs with naphthalene flakes - easily obtained at stores dealing in chemicals - killed all thrips present in the [..] the flowers are examined when they reach full [...] is noted and their size is measured, [...] the left and G.V. Johnson, are [...] and checking the records

Agriculture finds new ways to keep flowers free from destructive insec...

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Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodation was developed through several intermediate steps and experiments in prefabrication, in answer to the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority's) need for housing for temporary use on construction projects in remote localities. The scheme permits fabrication at a distance from the job (about 600 miles in this instance), thus reducing dependence on overtaxed accommodations at the construction project. After completion of the project, the demountable housing is quickly removed elsewhere. Some of the earlier TVA demountables have been moved three times from project to project. The design shown here is particularly light in weight due to full use of the recently developed stressed-skin system of plywood construction. It is built largely of weatherproof plywood. The large bay across the front greatly enhances the size of the living room. The trailer houses, on the basis of experience to date, are entirely competitive in cost with traditionally constructed housing of the same floor area. On account of being constructed in shops rather than in the field, they are produced with much closer tolerances, considerably better finish, and with equipment designed and constructed with greater detail and superior utilization of space

Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodat...

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

Pennsylvania: A couple of men working on a machine in a factory. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A couple of men working on a machine in a factory. Great...

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.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Lens contained in an apparatus for x-ray photographs

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into position by this forming tool as well as by use of the solvent-cement compound. Every tire built is the personal achievement of the expert tire builder. Building a larger size truck tire often consumes a full day's work! Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into positi...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valves and needles for blood transfusion bottles are turned out by O. Trumbull Scalbon, who with his father manufactures parts under subcontract to Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois. Here he checks the size of thread and concentricity of a tube

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valves and needles for blood tr...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These young employees of a Midwest drill and tool plant are operating cylindrical grinders which taper drills to specified size. Used in the manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and all war production where metal is used, these drills demand precise and accurate grinding. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These ...

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Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more important game. This Roanoke, Virginia youngster is one of America's thousands of school age boys and girls who are self-appointed scrap collectors for the duration

Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more impor...

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Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia! Ensign Andrew Blair, U.S. Navy Reserves extends congratulations to the youngsters at their scrap rally for their whole-hearted efforts to collect material for Uncle Sam's armed forces

Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Vi...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial groups contribute their skills to war production. This Negro worker is checking the size and shape of a propeller blade in a large Eastern airplane propeller factory. Reading the blade with a template requires keen eyes and high precision. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial gro...

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Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School drum and bugle corps in Roanoke, Virginia started the junior commando rally with a fanfare and a drum roll. Outside of the auditorium, the "military band" prepared to enter the hall where Roanoke school children awaited the opening of the rally that was to number them as part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our armed forces

Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School dr...

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Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Billet heating furnace and intermediate rolls where the copper wire bar, which is the blunt white bar in left center, is converted to the rod at its immediate right and further reduced to size of that shown in right foreground

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Billet heating ...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two Negro welders, who are receiving their training in machine shop practice, building up an undersize shaft by arc welding to be re-machined to size

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Virginia. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves--no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns, ships, and ammunition they need to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a nei...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of the bathroom in the four-room defense housing unit where the Heaths live. Ann had quite a trying time getting used to the size of the new apartment, after having lived most of her life with her parents in a single furnished room in Torrington

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter...

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CG-10A. A new design developed to explore the feasibility of carrying very large equiment by glider. This has the largest cargo space of any glider and the largest payload. Note size of truck which has just driven off glider

CG-10A. A new design developed to explore the feasibility of carrying ...

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CG-16. An experimental design having a large payload but limited cargo space, this glider is part of the study which has been made to determine the limit in size for tactical usefulness fo gliders

CG-16. An experimental design having a large payload but limited cargo...

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Statue to (South) Vietnamese Martyrs in a Hoa-Binh (Area of Peace) in Port Arthur, Texas. The small park also features gardens and statue of Mary three times life size was built by parishioners of Queen of Vietnam Martyr's Catholic Church, in gratitude for their escape from war-torn and the city that welcomed them

Statue to (South) Vietnamese Martyrs in a Hoa-Binh (Area of Peace) in ...

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

MSS [i.e., manuscript] photographed for. Prof. Kelsey, Nov. 1920. Size of book 22.5 x 16 cm

MSS [i.e., manuscript] photographed for. Prof. Kelsey, Nov. 1920. Size...

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Stylobate of dome, full size - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Stylobate of dome, full size - Public domain architectural plan drawin...

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The very smallest boy is Henry Fournier, 261 Jefferson Ave., Castle Hill, has worked 2 months in #2 Spinning Room. The next in size is Adelard Gagnon, 32 Perkins St., works in Spinning Room. Next in size (front row) is Adelard Dion, 1 Palmer St., works in #1Spinning Room. Smallest in back row is Albert Valbert, 14 Park St. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

The very smallest boy is Henry Fournier, 261 Jefferson Ave., Castle Hi...

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Transporting the new small size currency, Washington, D.C

Transporting the new small size currency, Washington, D.C

Two guards with guns in an armored truck. National Photo Company Collection.

Noted British artist completes portrait of President Hoover. Douglas Chandor, noted British portrait painter, shown at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington with the much discussed picture of President Hoover which he completed today at the White House. This final sitting, which lasted 30 minutes, took place in the Cabinet meeting room. The painting is life size, three quarter length, and shows the President seated at the head of the Cabinet table, 1/23/31

Noted British artist completes portrait of President Hoover. Douglas C...

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Uncle Sam to standardize garmet sizes. Washington D.C., July 23. To enable fathers and mothers to order clothes with the confidence that a size 8 or 10, is all its supposed to be in length and breadth, the Bureau of Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is undertaking the leadership of project in which colleges and universities will cooperate to discover the clothing dimensions needed by today's children.. Special attention is being paid to racial characteristics as the experts believe that race and neighborhood has something to do with a youngster's size. Dr. Eleanor Hunt, associate anthropometrist, Bureau of Home Economics, is shown training one of the first classes on taking scientific measurements of the human body, 7/23/37

Uncle Sam to standardize garmet sizes. Washington D.C., July 23. To en...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Back of the x-ray camera

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Making an x-ray exposure by photographing the fluorescent screen

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The Franklin Terrace defense housing project at Erie, Pennsylvania is completed with spacious, wide-paved streets. Because of its size (300 homes are being constructed) the most modern road building machinery was used throughout. Here a street is carefully graded to receive the filling and paving materials

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The Franklin Terrace defense hous...

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Manpower, junior size. A mild-mannered little girl--she looks as though she would rather tuck her baby doll into bed than toss old iron into a waiting scrap truck. But along with thirty-million other young Americans, she is a "scrapper for victory" and is spending her days gathering scrap for Uncle Sam's fighting men

Manpower, junior size. A mild-mannered little girl--she looks as thoug...

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Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia, but they are "scrappers for victory." The little sisters of our fighting men back up their big brothers at the front by joining America's junior army. These fifth graders receive final instructions from their teacher on the scrap collection drive

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia,...

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A group of people standing in front of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people standing in front of a building. Office of War Infor...

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Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Some of the metal scrap which will have to be assorted according to size and shape

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Some of t...

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Conservation. Truck tires runs 146,000 miles. This truck tire has run 146,000 miles. It is now planned to retreat it with a life expenctancy of at least half the original mileage. The tire is size 9.75 x 20, weighs 129 pounds and was run at an air pressure of 70 pounds. Miss Jean Spanitz, stenographer in the Division of Motor Transportaion, Office of Defense Transportation, poses with the tire

Conservation. Truck tires runs 146,000 miles. This truck tire has run ...

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Production. Shell loading. These 2,000-pound bombs will carry death and destruction to the Axis from a huge shell-loading plant in the Midwest. The arsenal makes even deadlier gifts for Hitler--4,000-pound "block busters" and shells of still greater size. Ravenna ordnance plant

Production. Shell loading. These 2,000-pound bombs will carry death an...

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Reading, Pennsylvania. May M. Link, working at the anvil, straightening bolts for reclamation. She can tell the size of the bolts merely by looking at them

Reading, Pennsylvania. May M. Link, working at the anvil, straightenin...

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Hands going home from Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. Little girl came from the mill. Evidently a "helper." I saw others about her size in the mill spinning. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina.

Hands going home from Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. Little girl came ...

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Boy does not work but is same size as some we saw yesterday. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Boy does not work but is same size as some we saw yesterday. Location...

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Examining the new small size currence [sic] at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Examining the new small size currence [sic] at the Bureau of Engravin...

Photograph shows women examining currency. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a hat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a hat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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