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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fifty-foot steel ramp boats under construction at a Southern boatyard. These fenders are made of jute rope to save the manila cordage formerly employed for this purpose. The steel ramp boats on which they will be used are for the landing of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fi...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. This worker is applying covering to self-sealing tanks, an important safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. This worker is applying covering to self-seal...

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

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Soldiers in training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, clean the guns of their light tanks. The Army is very particular about its weapons and other equipment, and one of the first lessons the recruits learned is to give them the attention they require

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Soldiers in training a...

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

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fifty-foot steel ramp boats under construction at a Southern boatyard. These fenders are made of jute rope to save the manila cordage formerly employed for this purpose. The steel ramp boats on which they will be used are for the landing of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Cordage fenders for use on fi...

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

Pearl Harbor bombing. Burning oil. Streaming from the shattered fuel tanks, oil turned parts of Pearl Harbor into a sea of flames, following the Japanese attacks. This picture was taken from near the naval air station boat landing. Barely visible through the smoke area are a damaged U.S. battleship and the capsized USS Oklahoma

Pearl Harbor bombing. Burning oil. Streaming from the shattered fuel t...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass a...

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Manpower. Boatyard workers. This drill press operator is one of many efficient workers producing steel ramp boats which will be used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on enemy shores. The yard is also turning out motor torpedo boats, smaller wooden ramp boats and other Navy craft. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This drill press operator is one of many e...

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.

Fighting the Axis--and fighting time. Every day counts as a battle in America's great war production drive with general delay leading Hitler's forces. The above photograph of a factory display board shows one of the ways in which this fact is being emphasized in the production trenches. So many days gone out of 1942, so many days remaining in which to turn out the planes and tanks and guns and ships for which the President called

Fighting the Axis--and fighting time. Every day counts as a battle in ...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Two employees of North American's Inglewood, California, plant hold armfuls of rubber which is placed around gasoline tanks in the wings of B-25 bombers. The material prevents vacuum formations. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Two employees of North Amer...

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. The workers are placing unvulcanized self-sealing fuel tanks in the vulcanizer, to weld the component parts securely together. These tanks are a valuable safety development in military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. The workers are placing unvulcanized self-sea...

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Production. M-4 tanks. Better striking power and better protection for our soldiers are provided by the mighty M-4 tank. A machine operation on a tank turret is performed in an Eastern plant

Production. M-4 tanks. Better striking power and better protection for...

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. Americans all. Checo Blanco comes from a long line of Americans, some of whom probably resented those "immigrants" who came over here on the Mayflower. An Apache Indian from the Mescalaro Reservation in Arizona, Blanco is fighting to protect the land of his forefathers from encroachment by the Axis wreckers. He's a skilled machine operator who is processing parts for Uncle Sam's medium tanks in a huge Midwest plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Checo Blanco comes from a long line of Americ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. One of our new battleships of the land, a mighty M-4 tank that will disturb a lot of Axis plans. In the welded hulls of these massive machines are armament that ensures tremendous firepower in the hands of tough, resourceful "tankers." Location: Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. One of our new battleships of the land...

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El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refinng company. Working at the electrolytic tanks in which sheets of pure copper are formed

El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refinng company. Working at the electroly...

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Manpower. Americans all. Husky, bright-eyed Joe Gore, Jr., is a young American of Polish descent who is determined that Hitler shall be driven from Poland and kept from America's shores. An expert machine operator, Joe is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans of every possible background and heritage who are turning out medium tanks for Uncle Sam's fighting men in a Midwest tank plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Husky, bright-eyed Joe Gore, Jr., is a young ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Chiller tanks at the Mid-continent refinery

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Chiller tanks at the Mid-continent refinery

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Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

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Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. These workers are applying covering to self-sealing tanks, an important safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. These workers are applying covering to self-s...

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

Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midwest medium-tank plant, Herman Silldorf is an American of foreign-born parents. A skilled machine operator, young Silldorf, whose parents came here from Germany, processes parts for medium tanks with the hope that some day soon he'll be driving one of those tanks, taking a direct (instead of an indirect) slap at the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midw...

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

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

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company makin...

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.

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chlorine Plant, New Martinsville, West Virginia. Caustic building, and tanks

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

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

Kansas City, Kansas. Military tanks on their way through the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard

Kansas City, Kansas. Military tanks on their way through the Atchison,...

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Australia in the war. Testing the light guns on American tanks at an Australian armored unit's camp somewhere in Australia. The corporal in the foreground keeps contact between the tank crews and the men at the targets

Australia in the war. Testing the light guns on American tanks at an A...

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B-29 Super Fortress on display at Washington National Airport. Note fuel tanks in foreground which is necessary to fill fuel tanks--equivalent to railroad tank car

B-29 Super Fortress on display at Washington National Airport. Note fu...

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

Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld'g /

Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld'g /

This film is a spectacular pan of the downtown area of San Francisco as seen from south of Market Street. The location among low ruins was ideal to view the tall ruined buildings along and north of Market Stree... More

Orlando Lee operates tanks with silk inside.

Orlando Lee operates tanks with silk inside.

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 Nelson Beniquez washing silk in tanks.

Machine operator Nelson Beniquez washing silk in tanks.

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

Stand for water tanks in Watsonville, California

Stand for water tanks in Watsonville, California

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

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El ...

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

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El ...

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

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

Rock formations in Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El ...

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

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27...

Significance: The Tank and Settling Basin complex is an intact surviving example of an industrial architectural type used during one of the final stages of lime flux production. Survey number: HAER WV-49-H

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27...

Significance: The Tank and Settling Basin complex is an intact surviving example of an industrial architectural type used during one of the final stages of lime flux production. Survey number: HAER WV-49-H

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Tanks & Settling Basins, County Route 27...

Significance: The Tank and Settling Basin complex is an intact surviving example of an industrial architectural type used during one of the final stages of lime flux production. Survey number: HAER WV-49-H

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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S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Ammonia Storage Tanks, 1805 South Bannock Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Ammonia Storage Tanks, ...

Survey number: HAER CO-71-G Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Ammonia Storage Tanks, 1805 South Bannock Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Ammonia Storage Tanks, ...

Survey number: HAER CO-71-G Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, 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

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