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Tracy, California. A gasoline tank truck delivering gasoline to a filling station

Tracy, California. A gasoline tank truck delivering gasoline to a fill...

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

Conversion. Automobile industry. The last automobile engines in a large Midwest factory to be completed prior to its conversion to tank production. These engines will be used to fill government orders for spare parts. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. The last automobile engines in a larg...

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.

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. A good type of soldier mans the M-3 tanks at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Fort Knox school for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the Axis on our far-flung battle lines and on more than equal terms

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. A good type of soldier mans the M-3 tanks a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

High pressure storage tank at a gasoline plant

High pressure storage tank at a gasoline plant

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Tanks, as well as the Army's trucks, motorcycles and other motorized equipment, pay regular visits to the wash rack. Wherever possible, modern military vehicles are kept in spic and span condition and mechanically ready for strenuous action

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Tanks, as well as the ...

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

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. High-pressure storage tank

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. High-pressure storage tank

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

Australia in the war. One member of each Australian tank crew remain continuously on guard during periods of inactivity. These are American tanks furnished under lend-lease

Australia in the war. One member of each Australian tank crew remain c...

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

Oswego, New York. Workers in the Fitzgibbons tank factory listening to the speeches by the United Nations during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. Workers in the Fitzgibbons tank factory listening to...

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

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Oil tank installation. Vultee workers are shown installing an oil tank behind the engine firewall on the sub-assembly engine mounting. This Wright "double cyclone" engine powers the "Vengeance" dive bomber made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Oil tank installation. Vu...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Tank tops in storage

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Tank tops in stora...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. M-4 tanks and M-7 mobile howitzer carriages roll off the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York. A portion of an M-7 shows in the right foreground, followed by three M-4's and another M-7

Production. M-4 tanks. M-4 tanks and M-7 mobile howitzer carriages rol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tank, military activity, armed forces world wat two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. As the train goes through Argo, Illinois, it passes a long train of oil tank cars of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

San Augustine, Texas. A meeting of the town council to discuss buying a new water tank to replace the one which was destroyed by the March tornado. Left to right around the table: Troy Mitchell, city manager; J.W. Ritchie, tinner; H.D. Clark, department store owner; Mayor Alonzo Rushing, druggist; Mr. Ramsey, city attorney; R.V. Hall, grocer; Clyde Smith, grocer; and Frank Phillips, city secretary

San Augustine, Texas. A meeting of the town council to discuss buying ...

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

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad parts. This woman is a skin dryer. After head has been put on mold, it is covered with a delta wash which makes a hard finish. Skin dryers dry off this surface with the flame of an oil torch

Buffalo, New York. Symongton-Gould, makers of tank, ship and railroad ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge alongside a United Nations freighter that will carry them together with food and other war necessities, as part of a lend-lease shipment to one of our allies

Transportation. Lend-lease shipments. American M-4 tanks on a barge al...

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

American Enka Corp., Morristown, Tennessee. Viscose tank

American Enka Corp., Morristown, Tennessee. Viscose tank

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

Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. Buildings from tank

Hoffmann-LaRoche, Nutley, New Jersey. Buildings from tank

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

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Testing tank

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Testing ta...

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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba -tank w dog

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba -tank w dog

Title and date from log book. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 8725, frame 26. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project, Childs System, Stand Pipe (Surge Tank), Forest Service Road 708/502, Camp Verde, Yavapai County, AZ

Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project, Childs System, Stand Pipe (Surge ...

Survey number: HAER AZ-65-CC Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction

Machine operator Orlando Lee at work at dyeing tank; dye is absorbed by the silk as rollers are rotated.

Machine operator Orlando Lee at work at dyeing tank; dye is absorbed b...

Forms part of a group of images taken in the dye house adjacent to the main Joseph Teshon, Inc. building on September 12, 1994.

Machine operator Orlando Lee at work at dyeing tank; skeins of undyed silk are placed on rollers.

Machine operator Orlando Lee at work at dyeing tank; skeins of undyed ...

Forms part of a group of images taken in the dye house adjacent to the main Joseph Teshon, Inc. building on September 12, 1994.

Machine operator Orlando Lee at work at dyeing tank; dye is absorbed by the silk as rollers are rotated.

Machine operator Orlando Lee at work at dyeing tank; dye is absorbed b...

Forms part of a group of images taken in the dye house adjacent to the main Joseph Teshon, Inc. building on September 12, 1994.

Detail of mural depicting local history, including the era of an oil boom in which the Shell Oil Company created a giant, open oil storage tank that later became a local museum attraction the "Million-Barrel Museum" in Monahans, Texas

Detail of mural depicting local history, including the era of an oil b...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Lib... More

[Tank ploughing its way through a trench and starting toward the German line, during World War I, near Saint Michel, France]

[Tank ploughing its way through a trench and starting toward the Germa...

Copyright by Committee on Public Information, New York City. Signal Corps photo 20951. No. 2669. National Photo Company Collection. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Th... More

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Storage Tank, December Seventh Avenue & D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Storage Tank, December Seventh Avenue & D Stre...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-P Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Water Storage Tank, North Cooper Street & East McClouskey Avenue, Aurora, Adams County, CO

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Water Storage Tank, North Cooper Street &...

Survey number: HABS CO-172-B Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction

East Broad Top Railroad & Company, Water Tank at Coles Station, East Broad Top Railroad & Company (at Milepost 24.3), 0.5 miles east of Coles Valley Road, Saltillo, Huntingdon County, PA

East Broad Top Railroad & Company, Water Tank at Coles Station, East B...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1150 Survey number: HAER PA-644 Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Helium Tank Building No. 1, Near intersection of Meffett Avenue & Maxfield Street, Tustin, Orange County, CA

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Helium Tank Building No. 1, Near inte...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-C Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Storage Tank, December Seventh Avenue & D Street, Commerce City, Adams County, CO

Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Storage Tank, December Seventh Avenue & D Stre...

Survey number: HAER CO-21-W Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eureka No. 40, Sand House & Tank, East of State Route 56, North of Little Paint Creek, Scalp Level, Cambria County, PA

Eureka No. 40, Sand House & Tank, East of State Route 56, North of Lit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London Submarine Escape Training Tank, Albacore & Darter Roads, Groton, New London County, CT

U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London Submarine Escape Training Tank, ...

Significance: The Submarine Escape Training Tank was constructed for the purpose of training U.S. Navy submariners in the use of re-breathing apparatus and in emergency procedures for escaping from disabled sub... More

U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London Submarine Escape Training Tank, Albacore & Darter Roads, Groton, New London County, CT

U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London Submarine Escape Training Tank, ...

Significance: The Submarine Escape Training Tank was constructed for the purpose of training U.S. Navy submariners in the use of re-breathing apparatus and in emergency procedures for escaping from disabled sub... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array Warning System, Clean Lubrication Oil Storage Tank & Enclosure, End of Spencer Paul Road, north of Warren Shingle Road (14th Street), Marysville, Yuba County, CA

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: Building 5767 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force erected Building 5767 during 1985-1990 as a sheltered oil storage tank. Survey number: HAE... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array Warning System, Clean Lubrication Oil Storage Tank & Enclosure, End of Spencer Paul Road, north of Warren Shingle Road (14th Street), Marysville, Yuba County, CA

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: Building 5767 is an ancillary structure at the PAVE PAWS compound on Beale Air Force Base. The Air Force erected Building 5767 during 1985-1990 as a sheltered oil storage tank. Survey number: HAE... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Combination Smokestack, Water Tank & Privies, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: The large chimney that towers over the terminal facilities of the Central of Georgia is a monument to ... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Combination Smokestack, Water Tank & Privies, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: The large chimney that towers over the terminal facilities of the Central of Georgia is a monument to ... More

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Tank No. 3, Clay Avenue Extension, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Tank No. 3, Clay Avenue Extension...

Survey number: HAER PA-221-F Public domain photograph of manufacturing workers, factory building, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Tank No. 3, Clay Avenue Extension, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company, Tank No. 3, Clay Avenue Extension...

Survey number: HAER PA-221-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beaumont St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Water Tank, Third & D Streets, Beaumont, Butler County, KS

Beaumont St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Water Tank, Third & D Stre...

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

Beaumont St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Water Tank, Third & D Streets, Beaumont, Butler County, KS

Beaumont St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Water Tank, Third & D Stre...

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

[Reservoir tank, Savannah, Georgia]

[Reservoir tank, Savannah, Georgia]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hold from top of the ballast tank

Hold from top of the ballast tank

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Star and crescent tank [Spindletop, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and vicinity, Texas - oil industry].

Star and crescent tank [Spindletop, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and vicinit...

Photo copyrighted by The Bernier Publ. Co., N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. #10.

Gas tank at 26th & G - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Gas tank at 26th & G - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a water tank 500,000 gallon oil tank, Avery, Idaho

An old black and white photo of a water tank 500,000 gallon oil tank, ...

Photograph shows a large oil tank in foreground with partial cutover lands in the background. Copyright 1911 by H. English, Avery, Idaho.

[Military tank?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Military tank?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military shooting, machine gun, artillery, armed conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An education for you Join the tanks U.S. Army / / J.P. Wharton, 1st Lt. Tank Corps.

An education for you Join the tanks U.S. Army / / J.P. Wharton, 1st Lt...

U.S. Army Tank Corps recruiting poster showing a man making repairs to a tank. A.G.O.R.S. no. 208, 10-24-19.

Hamilton Field, Auxiliary Water Storage Tank No. 2, West of Escolta Avenue Tennis Courts, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Auxiliary Water Storage Tank No. 2, West of Escolta Av...

Survey number: HABS CA-2398-CQ Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joyce Estate, Water Tank, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles north of County Road 335, Grand Rapids, Itasca County, MN

Joyce Estate, Water Tank, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles ...

Significance: There is no documentary or pictorial evidence concerning the age or origins of the Water Tank. A description of the Joyce Estate, published in 1922, noted that the sleeping cottages in the Main C... More

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank hollowed from a tree and a windlass still in operation. Farmers in this region have to make many of their own devices because of lack of funds to purchase manufactured equipment

Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank ...

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

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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

Water tank for sale, York, Nebraska

Water tank for sale, York, Nebraska

Public domain scan of oil tank, gas tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gas tank. Oklahoma City oil field, Oklahoma

Gas tank. Oklahoma City oil field, Oklahoma

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

M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-4 tank, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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

M-4 tank line, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-4 tank line, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chuck and bedroll wagon of the tank gang on the highway. Near Marfa, Texas

Chuck and bedroll wagon of the tank gang on the highway. Near Marfa, T...

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

Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Tank commander, Ft. Knox, Ky.

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Loading tank onto truck at farm machinery warehouse, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Loading tank onto truck at farm machinery warehouse, Minneapolis, Minn...

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

M-3 tank and crew using small arms, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-3 tank and crew using small arms, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A huge canvas is used to protect the Chrysler M-3 tanks enroute to various Army posts, or to ports for shipment overseas. These twenty-eight ton land battleships are about to leave the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A huge canvas is used to protect the Chry...

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

Great Depression: . Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

Great Depression: . Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man standing next to a wagon. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man standing next to a ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of two men working on a farm, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

An old photo of two men working on a farm, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Every citizen can get his share. Our democratic way of sharing the limited amount of gasoline means a new stance for the service station attendant. He keeps an eye on the guage instead of on the tank. Every man gets what is coming to him--no more

Every citizen can get his share. Our democratic way of sharing the lim...

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

Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, and he even admits it's a mighty important and necessary job, but it can't compare with stopping building tanks and going to work on pie and milk. He's eating his lunch in the midst of a pile of wheels and runners for M-3 tanks at the huge Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, ...

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

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the acid test for desert warfare in the maneuvers near Iron Mountains, California. Colonel R. Downing of DeKalb, Missouri, Corporal L. Roberts from Graham, Texas, and Lieutenant M. Hutchison, Enterprise, Alabama. For firing power, the M-7 has a 105 mm Howitzer and a 50 caliber automatic gun. Iron Mountains, California.

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the aci...

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

Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoining the Chrysler tank arsenal, near Detroit. This is one of the twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks, the steel monsters which will make our mechanized forces the equal of any in the world in tank warfare. The lower of the two barrels is that of a 75 mm warfare gun, the upper of a 47 mm. anti-aircraft gun, both standard equipment on these tanks. In addition, four machine guns are mounted on each M-3

Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoi...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals for the Army

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant re...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam's defense industries. Not only are welded connections as strong as, or stronger than, riveted connections, but they mean a saving steel and in overall weight. This welder is working on the engine support assembly of an M-3 tank at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine is placed in one of the Army's huge M-3 tanks. This mechanic is employed at the Chrysler tank arsenal, on the outskirts of Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton tanks are being made

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 4...

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

Real estate office near Detroit, Michigan. "Near tank plant" refers to Hudson ordnance plant

Real estate office near Detroit, Michigan. "Near tank plant" refers to...

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

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Moving tank armor for our fighting forces. A small overhead crane in an Eastern mill moves a section of protective plate

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

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

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. The new fifty-seven-ton tank, known as the M-1 leading a parade of tanks in its initial tryout demonstration. Background is the M-3 medium thirty-eight-ton tank. The other two are the M-3 light thirteen-and-a-half-ton tanks

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. The new fifty-seven-ton tank, known...

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

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Cutting tools for planers in an armor plate mill are forged from high speed steel on the steam hammer of a big Eastern mill producing tank armor

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

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.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These are prefabricated inner bottom tank sections, ready to be set in place and welded into a unit. Fabricated in an old freight car plant, they will be used in ships of the "Liberty Fleet" being built in a large Eastern shipyard. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. These are prefabricated inner bottom ta...

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Preparing to install non-leaking gasoline tanks on the chassis of a halftrac scout car. The Eastern plant in which the body is made and installed formerly produced locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Preparing to install non-leaking g...

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

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. M-3 tank crew members, in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, get intensive practice in meeting every situation that may arise on the battlefield. The Fort Knox school for tank crews has graduated many men who are now ready to meet the Axis on our far-flung battle lines and on more than equal terms

Fort Knox. M-3 tank crews. M-3 tank crew members, in training at Fort ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the massive cast-steel hull of this M-4 tank, a crew of hard-bitten "tankers" is rehearsing a few fighting tricks at a training school of the armored forces at Fort Knox, Kentucky

In the massive cast-steel hull of this M-4 tank, a crew of hard-bitten...

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

Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army, on maneuvers in Louisiana, needs plenty of gas during this training period. These gasoline-supply men are filling five-gallon cans directly from the tank cars, later to be dropped off at various field depots

Lieutenant General Walter Kreuger's Third Army, on maneuvers in Louisi...

Public domain scan of oil tank, gas tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas climbing into a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for our armored forces, are graduating tough, competent "tankers" who will soon be giving the Axis some pointers on modern warfare

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, K...

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

One of North American Aviation's many women employees assembles a B-25 tank structure

One of North American Aviation's many women employees assembles a B-25...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Hot tar tank tender at the site of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. His job is to supply hot tar used to fill cavaties in the bed rock. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Hot tar tank ...

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.

Fort Benning. Tank forces. A medium tank (M-3) bristles with cannon, anti-aircraft guns, Tommy guns and pistols as soldiers of the armored forces in training ar Fort Benning, Georgia prepare for a sally

Fort Benning. Tank forces. A medium tank (M-3) bristles with cannon, a...

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Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds ma...

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

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details for open naval sights are inspected in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out tank gun mount housings and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details f...

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Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Smoothing a copper blank before it is lightly greased; this copper blank will then be placed in an electrolytic tank; a deposit of copper will form which will make the starting sheet which will then be stripped from the copper blank

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper ...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. A burning armored tank, showing the effects of a hit by a "Molotov cocktail" grenade

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. A burning armored tank, showing the effects of...

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

Conversion. Automobile industry. Much larger and heavier than passenger car parts, medium tank parts demands many changes in production machinery before the tank sections can be accomodated. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Much larger and heavier than passenge...

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

Australia in the war. American medium tanksand their Anzac crews lined up for review at a camp in Australia. Along with other lend-lease equipment, these tanks are helping in the development of a formidable Australian mechanized army

Australia in the war. American medium tanksand their Anzac crews lined...

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

New Orleans, Louisiana. Tank lighter under construction at the Higgins shipyards

New Orleans, Louisiana. Tank lighter under construction at the Higgins...

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Oswego, New York. Workers in the Fitzgibbons tank factory listening to the speeches by the United Nations heroes during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. Workers in the Fitzgibbons tank factory listening to...

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

A black and white photo of a tank in the mud. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a tank in the mud. Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: General Motors. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United... More

San Augustine, Texas. A meeting of the town council to discuss buying a new water tank to replace the one which was destroyed by the March tornado

San Augustine, Texas. A meeting of the town council to discuss buying ...

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

Cattle passing a wrecked tank. The Allied military government is giving Sicilian farmers every aid possible so that they can till their farms once again

Cattle passing a wrecked tank. The Allied military government is givin...

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[American soldier reads a newspaper in the shade under a U.S. Marine tank in Beirut, Lebanon] / [TOH].

[American soldier reads a newspaper in the shade under a U.S. Marine t...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Columbia Falls Radar Site Receive Sector Three Water Storage Tank, At the end of Shadagee Ridge Road, Columbia Falls, Washington County, ME

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Columbia Falls Radar Site ...

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