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Standard Oil tanks in Roumania Roumania has a fleet of Black Sea boats operating from Constanza to Constantinople. This is the Emperor Trajan medallion on the bow of the bot [i.e., boat] which carried me to the Orient.

Standard Oil tanks in Roumania Roumania has a fleet of Black Sea boats...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including Standard Oil tanks and a medallion on the bow of a Romanian boat. Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1305 (top image) and no. 1306 (bottom im... More

Palestine disturbances 1936. Tel-Aviv Jetty, as in December 1936, 200 ms. [?] Seaward 6.50 wide with three tanks of decauville rails

Palestine disturbances 1936. Tel-Aviv Jetty, as in December 1936, 200 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Air films (1937). I.P.C [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Haifa oil tanks

Air films (1937). I.P.C [i.e., Iraq Petroleum Company]. Haifa oil tank...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. - A couple of tanks driving down a dirt road

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. - A couple of tanks driving down a dirt ro...

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

Oil storage tanks out of Kilgore, Texas

Oil storage tanks out of Kilgore, Texas

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Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., A...

Photograph shows woman ironing. Public domain reproduction of art deco poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

8th Army in Tripoli. Journey's end, for a while. British tanks and crews line up on Tripoli's waterfront after capturing the city

8th Army in Tripoli. Journey's end, for a while. British tanks and cre...

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Troops in Australia. Led by Australian-manned American light tanks, Allied infantry attack Buna. This picture, taken during the actual fighting, shows the dense tropical growth under which the battle was fought

Troops in Australia. Led by Australian-manned American light tanks, Al...

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A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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.

The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoured forces, is a "white" scout car which has been converted into an ambulance for use with tanks. It has been proven to have a fine cross-country performance

The Army uses "lend-lease" equipment now being used by British armoure...

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

Oil tanks and pipes, Grundy County, Iowa

Oil tanks and pipes, Grundy County, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salinas, California. Guayule rubber "worms," the form that the rubber assumes as the bagasse sinks to the bottom of settling tanks at Intercontinental Rubber Producers

Salinas, California. Guayule rubber "worms," the form that the rubber ...

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Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turning roll that will soon be installed in one of our steel mills to increase the production of steel plate and sheet to supply the tanks, ships and gun parts that are required under our expanded war program. A scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turni...

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A fifty-foot steel ramp boat, just completed at a Southern boatyard, makes a trial run. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks, and other equipment on hostile shores. The yard is also making torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats, and other Navy craft

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A fifty-foot steel ramp boat,...

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A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeance to be wrecked on the Axis powers, this little lady is contributing to their defeat. She has gathered up an old bicycle tire and other odds and ends to contribute to the scrap rubber collection drive. Reclaimed rubber made from these materials is playing an imcreasingly important part in the war effort. Large percentages of "reclaim" are now being used in many material articles, such as combat tires, self-sealing gas tanks, etc.. Help build up Uncle Sam's scrap rubbe pile by contributing any no longer used rubber articles you may have

A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeanc...

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

Production. Industrial alcohol. These 40,000 gallon tanks in the fermenting room of a converted whiskey distillery produce industrial alcohol by the action of yeast upon cooked grain whose starches have been changed to sugars by the enzyme action of malt

Production. Industrial alcohol. These 40,000 gallon tanks in the ferme...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Tanks which contain spray for the orchard

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Feeding the batch into what glass men call "the doghouse"--the charging end of a furnace--this worker is servicing one of the tanks used to manufacture fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Feeding the batch...

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.

Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines which will power a fifty-foot steel ramp boat to be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and equipment on enemy shores. The large Southern boatyard doing the work is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

Manpower. Boatyard workers. Installing one of the twin diesel engines ...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young employees of a Midwest drill and tool company are operating cylindrical grinders. This work is delicate and difficult, for the drills must be tapered accurately to size. The drills will be used in manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and in all war production where metal must be worked. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young emp...

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

Storage tanks at a gasoline plant

Storage tanks at a gasoline plant

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

Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper refining operation. Sheets of pure copper are formed by electrolysis, later melted and poured into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper re...

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. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Three fifty-foot steel ramp boats, just completed at a Southern boatyard, await trial runs. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. The yard is also making torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Three fifty-foot steel ramp b...

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Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. The Army's motorcycles, as well as its trucks, tanks, and other motorized equipment, pay regular visits to the wash rack. Wherever possible, modern military vehicles receive the same scrupulous attention once given to the army horses and mules

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. The Army's motorcycles...

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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.

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp boat, which has just passed its trial runs at a Southern boatyard, is removed from the water to be prepared for railroad shipment. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. They are powered by twin diesel engines. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp b...

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fifty-foot steel ramp boat in a Southern yard, building boats used in landing men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. Torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft are also made at this yard

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Gas welding a plate for a fif...

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.

Conversion. Toy factory. Closeup of one of the hexagonal brass terminals in a screw machine recently converted to war production. Terminals are used for radio filter boxes in tanks and jeeps. Keystone

Conversion. Toy factory. Closeup of one of the hexagonal brass termina...

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

Allied soldiers inspect the wreckage of one of the tanks of the German Tenth and Fifteenth Panzer Divisions. Photo made at Porto Farina where the Nazis were trapped

Allied soldiers inspect the wreckage of one of the tanks of the German...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Miscellaneous tanks in storage

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Miscellaneous tank...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Proctor and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Drums and storage tanks filled with glycerine

Proctor and Gamble Distributing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Drums and s...

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

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chlorine Plant, New Martinsville, West Virginia. Oblique view of tanks

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chlorine Plant, New Martinsville, West Virginia...

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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.

Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. Building no. 28, three tanks on platform, from left

Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. Building no. 28, three tank...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. Treads for M-4 tanks awaiting installation as the powerful mobile forts roll down the production lines of the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York

Production. M-4 tanks. Treads for M-4 tanks awaiting installation as t...

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Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. Tanks and buildings, through steel framework

Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. Tanks and buildings, throug...

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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.

Rear view of new C-82 showing twin boom tail and square interior. This is the first war plane designed solely for hauling military cargo. It is in the 50,000 pound class and in its weight and bulk carrying capacity, will enable the air transport of ninety percent of the heavy equipment of a standard triangular Infantry Division. It may be used to carry troops, paratroops, and equipment up to the size of tanks

Rear view of new C-82 showing twin boom tail and square interior. This...

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

Griffith Consumers Co. Installing 25,000 gallon tanks at 16th and Spring Rd. V

Griffith Consumers Co. Installing 25,000 gallon tanks at 16th and Spri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The "World's Largest Six-Pack" tanks at the G. Heilemann Brewing Company, La Crosse, Wisconsin

The "World's Largest Six-Pack" tanks at the G. Heilemann Brewing Compa...

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

Native peoples from three eras depicted their civilizations in rock pictures at what is now Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

Native peoples from three eras depicted their civilizations in rock pi...

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

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Fresh Water Tanks, East of Mesa Road & north of Kieper Road, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Fresh Water Tanks, East of Mesa Road & nor...

Significance: The water tanks (Facility Nos. 188A and 188B), built circa 1916, are considered significant for their association with United States (U.S.) Naval history and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY)... More

Silver King Mining Company, Water Tanks, Park City West, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Water Tanks, Park City West, Park City, Su...

Survey number: HAER UT-22-E Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bathing tanks near Hercules, Mexico

Bathing tanks near Hercules, Mexico

Photo shows the former San Francisco Street (today Avenida 16 de Septiembre), facing north. The corner in the foreground probably shows the crossing with Prisciliano Sánchez Street. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012)

Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. engine scooping water; train running 25 miles an hour.

Double tracks and tanks (N. Y. & L. B. R. R.) near Long Branch, N. J. ...

Photograph shows train moving along track; water coming from underneath train. Copyright 1894 by F. W. Blauvelt, N. Y.

Burning of the Standard Oil Co's tanks, Bayonne, N.J. /

Burning of the Standard Oil Co's tanks, Bayonne, N.J. /

From Edison films catalog: This picture shows a street scene at Constable Hook, Bayonne, N.J. In the background rise immense volumes of dense black smoke from the burning oil, reaching high in the heavens. Outl... More

View over Village Deep Gold Mine, showing battery, tanks and shafts

View over Village Deep Gold Mine, showing battery, tanks and shafts

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

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.

"Shell" oil tanks near Haifa showing bridge across R.R. [i.e., railroad]

"Shell" oil tanks near Haifa showing bridge across R.R. [i.e., railroa...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil tanks, Lincoln, Nebraska. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Oil tanks, Lincoln, Nebraska. Great Depression public domain photograp...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loading liquid feed onto truck from tanks at distillery near Owensboro, Kentucky

Loading liquid feed onto truck from tanks at distillery near Owensboro...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gasoline storage tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

Gasoline storage tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

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

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Highway gas tanks and signboard approaching town. See general caption

Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Highway gas tanks and signboard ...

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War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tan...

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Day laborer changing plow points on tractor-drawn four-row planter. Gasoline tanks in the background, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Day laborer changing plow points on tractor-drawn four-row planter. Ga...

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

War Production Board poster. Poster produced by the WPB for distribution to war industry plants, especially factories producing tanks or parts of tanks. The original is 28 12 inches by 40 inches and is printed in full color. It was designed by the OWI from a painting by C.C. Beall. Copies may be obtained from Central Distribution Service. Office of Emergency Management, 1516 14th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C

War Production Board poster. Poster produced by the WPB for distributi...

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). 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

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. ...

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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

Civilian protection. Armed with carrier tanks and pressure sprays, these auxiliary firemen are disposing of an incendiary bomb by applying a fine spray of water. This accelerates the burning of the bomb and prevents the fire from spreading

Civilian protection. Armed with carrier tanks and pressure sprays, the...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, 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

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.

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. "This is ain't no time to bunt." And this workman at a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation is batting out a hit by speeding carefully inspected packs of fiberglass retainer mats to the shipping department. These are supplied under Army and Navy specifications for storage batteries, to be used in submarines, tanks, and rough-riding reconnaisance cars

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. "This is ain't no...

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Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to defend America. It's ours to ensure that defense by a constant supply of guns, ships, tanks and ammunition

Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to defend America. It's ours to...

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

"Tankers," the tough, durable lads who man our traveling forts. These men, members of the crews of M-4 tanks, are about ready to graduate from the Fort Knox, Kentucky school for soldiers of the armored forces

"Tankers," the tough, durable lads who man our traveling forts. These ...

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

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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

A woman welder at North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into the B-25 bombers

A woman welder at North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for ...

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

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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Manpower. Americans all. Their common hatred of fascism bridges the gulf in ancestory of these two Americans, one of Irish descent, the other born in Rumania. Working together with one urgent goal uppermost in mind - victory for the United Nations. J.Powers (left) and J.M. Deli are processing parts for America's medium tanks in a Midwest tank plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Their common hatred of fascism bridges the gu...

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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.

Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dwarfs the husky worker inside it. In addition to locomotives, the plant doing this work also turns out tanks and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dw...

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

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

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

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Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Dipping copper cathodes after they have been removed from refining tanks; the cathodes will next go to the refining furnace

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

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.

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...

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Production. Industrial alcohol. In the "high wine" room of a former whiskey distillery, high-test ethyl alcohol (190 proof) is produced for the making of explosives. Fifteen huge copper tanks are used for the storage, proofing and gaugeing of the alcohol

Production. Industrial alcohol. In the "high wine" room of a former wh...

Public domain photograph of a storage tank, 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...

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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...

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How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to United Nations include more than planes, tanks and guns. Soldiers and civilians in countries threatended by the Axis countries must have food. Allied war factories need raw materials and machine tools. Longshoremen are accustomed to stacking bags of flour for shipment along with weapons

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to Uni...

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Dye house machine operator Martino Cardone tending silk in dyeing tanks.

Dye house machine operator Martino Cardone tending silk in dyeing tank...

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

Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks Sta...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The more than 200 "mask drawings" in the park, the most in North America, are the artistic legacy of different prehistoric peoples wh... More

Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock drawings, or pictographs, in a restricted area of Hueco Tanks Sta...

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The rocky surroundings of Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

The rocky surroundings of Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in th...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The "tanks" are rock depressions that collected water, thus becoming attractive to settlers and passersby. For a time the area was ow... More

Naval Air Station Fallon, Fuel Tanks, 800 Complex, off Carson Road near intersection of Pasture & Berney Roads, Fallon, Churchill County, NV

Naval Air Station Fallon, Fuel Tanks, 800 Complex, off Carson Road nea...

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Naval Air Station Fallon, Fuel Tanks, 800 Complex, off Carson Road near intersection of Pasture & Berney Roads, Fallon, Churchill County, NV

Naval Air Station Fallon, Fuel Tanks, 800 Complex, off Carson Road nea...

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Spindletop, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and vicinity, Texas - oil industry: Train of Tanks [tank cars]

Spindletop, Beaumont, Port Arthur, and vicinity, Texas - oil industry:...

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General interior view Oxnard, [California], factory showing diffusion battery filter presses, carbonation tanks, slicing machines, and beet scales

General interior view Oxnard, [California], factory showing diffusion ...

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Storing butadiene. Butadiene storage tanks at the Institute plant at Institute, West Virginia. The pressure of the butadiene gaseous is so high that only huge spherical tanks can hold large volumes

Storing butadiene. Butadiene storage tanks at the Institute plant at I...

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Oil tanks near Midland, western Texas

Oil tanks near Midland, western Texas

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Waste is reduced to a minimum in the production of M-3 tanks. This worker at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton monsters are made, is one of a small Army whose job it is to collect metallic chips and cuttings from the various machining operations. This material is carefully segregated and sold for reuse

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Waste is reduced to a minimum in the prod...

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more steel. These highly skilled machinists are doing their part to expand and maintain America's steel production capacity. Heavy castings that will form the backbone of steel mill equipment are being machined in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. Aetna. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber from old tires. Salvaged rubber, in the form of small pieces, passes over dewatering screens after it leaves the wash tanks. The pieces are secured by dissolving the fabric from gold casings cut into small sections after renewal of bead portions. The process, known as the xylos process, is employed in a large Midwest rubber plant. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber from old tires. Salvaged rubber, in the for...

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Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. The best is none too good for the mechanized divisions of our Army and Navy. These are distillation units with run-down and coal storage tanks in the foreground

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. The best is non...

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Oil well derricks and tanks in field near Wichita, Kansas

Oil well derricks and tanks in field near Wichita, Kansas

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Conversion. Fuel oil to coal heating system. Guests can keep warm and tanks can crash German lines at the same time as a result of this Washington hotel's conversion from a fuel oil to a coal heating system. The man installing the coal plant appears dwarfed by the tremendous size of the furnace

Conversion. Fuel oil to coal heating system. Guests can keep warm and ...

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Production. M-4 tanks. A strong, steady stream of mighty M-4 tanks is flowing from our arsenal of democracy. These heavy steel hulls and bogie-wheel assemblies in an Eastern plant give some idea of the massive construction of our new land battleships

Production. M-4 tanks. A strong, steady stream of mighty M-4 tanks is ...

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