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"In moth balls" until the Axis is smashed. A special machine tool that helped make a popular American automobile is crated for storage as all facilities of a big plant are converted for exclusive production of army "jeeps" and tanks. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

"In moth balls" until the Axis is smashed. A special machine tool that...

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

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

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

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

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Storage tanks and pipelines at the Mid-continent refinery

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Storage tanks and pipelines at the Mid-continent refi...

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

Cruiser training tanks arrive from America. Captain Fletcher (in tank) discusses points of interest of the first cruiser training tank to arrive in Victoria, Australia, from America. With Major General Northcott, Commanding Officer of Australia's First Armoured Division and Major General E.J. Milford, Master General of Ordnance

Cruiser training tanks arrive from America. Captain Fletcher (in tank)...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. Parts for our new M-4 tanks flow in a strong, steady stream from the production lines of a big Eastern plant. Much valuable time is gained by the machining of these bogie-wheel brackets in gangs instead of singly

Production. M-4 tanks. Parts for our new M-4 tanks flow in a strong, s...

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

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. More fuel-storage space for a mighty aerial warship. A master sergeant of a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia installs gasoline tanks in the lower section of a wing of a YB-17 bomber

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. More fuel-storage...

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

Production. M-3 tanks. Cutting a sprocket wheel for an M-3 tank on a profile machine in a large Eastern war production plant. A template showing in the upper right governs the operation. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. M-3 tanks. Cutting a sprocket wheel for an M-3 tank on a p...

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Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by hand (and by men) is done in this large Midwest drill and tool plant by women at machines. These young workers are putting precision-ground points on drills which will be used in production of America's ships, tanks and guns. It takes at least four months to train these young women in the operation of these machines, but at the end of that period their work is speedy and efficient, and this company has found that both production and the quality of the drill points have improved. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. A job which was formerly done by ...

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. Arc welders work on the partly-completed hull of a new M-4 tank at the Schenectady, New York, plant of the American Locomotive Company. M-7 mobile howitzer carriages are also produced in this plant

Production. M-4 tanks. Arc welders work on the partly-completed hull o...

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

Australia in the war. American light tanks, manned by Australian crews, are playing an important role in the development of a formidable Australian mechanized army. The tanks shown here, provided by the United States under lend-lease, are being used in training armored crews

Australia in the war. American light tanks, manned by Australian crews...

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

Australia in the war. American tanks and guns, provided under lend-lease, are performing a vital role in building up Australia's armored forces. This Australian member of a tank crew does his two-hour night watch with the aid of an American Tommy-gun

Australia in the war. American tanks and guns, provided under lend-lea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, 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. Enola O'Connell, age thirty-two, widow and mother of one child, welding part of a trailer. She is the only woman welder in the plant. This is her first job outside her house

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

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

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...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Covered tanks on flat cars

Detroit, Michigan. Covered tanks on flat cars

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irvington Varnish and Insulator Co., Newark, New Jersey. View to tanks no. 1

Irvington Varnish and Insulator Co., Newark, New Jersey. View to tanks...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Leaking tanks

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Ca...

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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.

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.

Futuristic spaceship-looking building that served as a sales office of a company selling land in the area of the Hueco Tanks State Park in El Paso County, Texas

Futuristic spaceship-looking building that served as a sales office of...

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

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 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

Wagon wheel and remnants of an old wall from the 20th-Century period when what is now Hueco Tanks State Historic Area near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas, was a privately owned ranch

Wagon wheel and remnants of an old wall from the 20th-Century period w...

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

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

Eugene O'Neill House, Freshwater Tanks, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA

Eugene O'Neill House, Freshwater Tanks, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Co...

Survey number: HABS CA-2078-H Public domain scan of oil tank, gas tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

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

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...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Turkish porter carrying tanks of kerosene on his back]

[Turkish porter carrying tanks of kerosene on his back]

Filed in: Turkey Supplies & warehouses. No. RC-2236. On mount: Turkey Supplies & warehouses. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Dalecarlia Reservoir. Tanks filtration, Dalecarlia Reservoir II

Dalecarlia Reservoir. Tanks filtration, Dalecarlia Reservoir II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a parking lot, cars, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gas tanks. Rosslyn, Virginia. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Gas tanks. Rosslyn, Virginia. Great Depression public domain photograp...

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

Latest types of tanks rumble past The Capitol in Annual Army Day Parade. Washington, D.C., April 6. Memories of the World War were revived today as the latest types of tanks, preceded by 20,00 soldiers and veterans, paraded past the U.S. Capitol in the Annual Army Day Parade which marked the 22nd anniversary of America into the World War. Thousands braved a heavy downpour to view the parade. 4-6-39

Latest types of tanks rumble past The Capitol in Annual Army Day Parad...

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

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Elizabeth Little, age 30, the mother of two children, spraying small parts. Her husband runs a farm

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

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

British tank men study U.S. tanks between battle in Egypt. British tank crews in Egypt train for the use of tanks arriving for the U.S.A. Experts on the U.S. machine give impromptu lessons, then the men climb aboard and examine every detail themselves. A gunner giving a talk on the 75mm gun

British tank men study U.S. tanks between battle in Egypt. British tan...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Official British photo. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pictu... More

This is the beginning of the many operations which finally result in rubber tires for the tanks and planes of the armies of the world democracy. This native is tapping a rubber tree and drawing off latex on a rubber plantation in the Netherlands East Indies, which, with British Malaya, supplies more than 90 percent of our raw rubber imports

This is the beginning of the many operations which finally result in r...

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

Oil. Vital operations in the refining of lubricants for the war machines of democracy are performed here. These are the solvent storage and surge tanks of the McKean plant of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania

Oil. Vital operations in the refining of lubricants for the war machin...

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

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. This is the new fifty-seven-ton tank, known as the M-1 in the initial demonstration. Notice that the gun turrets are on the top, making it possible for the tank to take advantage of irregular land, sheltering the lower part and shooting from revolving turrets on top. In the turret are three-inch guns and a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. This is the new fifty-seven-ton tan...

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

Milk being delivered to Twin City Milk Producers Association, Elk River, Minnesota. Here it is put in truck tanks and delivered to bottling and pasteurizing plants in the cities

Milk being delivered to Twin City Milk Producers Association, Elk Rive...

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

Oil tanks. Bridgeport, Wisconsin

Oil tanks. Bridgeport, Wisconsin

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

A black and white photo of a grain elevator. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a grain elevator. Office of War Information...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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.

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, b...

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

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

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

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

Testing M-4 tanks. A battleship of the land, one of America's mighty M-4 tanks tops the ridge of a test hill as trial runs are made at an Eastern manufacturing plant

Testing M-4 tanks. A battleship of the land, one of America's mighty M...

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

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Assembled tower sections and chiller tanks at the Mid-continent refinery

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Assembled tower sections and chiller tanks at the Mid...

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

Production. War housing trailers. Fifteen gallon water tanks for war housing trailers are made in the metal shop of the Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles. Experiments to find satisfactory substitutes for metal tanks have not been successful to date. The nearest approach to a solution was a specially treated wooden tank

Production. War housing trailers. Fifteen gallon water tanks for war h...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, steady stream from the production lines of our arsenal of democracy. These bogie wheels being assembled in an Eastern plant give some idea of the massive construction of our new land battleships

Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, stead...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Great Falls, Montana, Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Refining tanks in which the anodes of impure copper are refined by electrolytic means to the pure cathode copper. The anodes are placed in the tank as they are received from the Anaconda smelters; between these anodes are suspended starting sheets which are thin sheets of electrolytic copper; the cathode sheets remain in the tank until sufficient copper from the anode has been deposited on the cathode to give it a weight of approximately 170 pounds

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

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

Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. The M-3 tank packs a wallop which the Axis is only beginning to feel. One of these capable monsters, with a tough American crew aboard, is put through its paces in the training area near Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. The M-3 tank packs a wallop which the ...

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

El Paso. Texas, Phelps Dodge refining company. Electrolytic tanks holding sheets of pure copper that will later be melted and poured into ingots

El Paso. Texas, Phelps Dodge refining company. Electrolytic tanks hold...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and butadiene, a highly volatile gas "cracked" from crude petroleum. These raw materials for synthetic rubber are piped from freight cars into these storage tanks. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These tanks contain vegetable fats and bu...

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

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as...

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

Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. The M-3 tank packs a wallop which the Axis is only beginning to feel. One of these capable monsters, with a tough American crew aboard, is put through its paces in the training area near Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. The M-3 tank packs a wallop which the ...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

After the oil is extracted from chopped olives by means of hydraulic pressure, the oily mixture is pumped into settling tanks where the oil rises to the top and the non-oily liquids sink to the bottom. Lindsay, California

After the oil is extracted from chopped olives by means of hydraulic p...

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

Sturdy cargo ships fill the sea lanes leading to all fronts, bearing guns, tanks, and planes for the United Nations. The Liberty ships are visible in this section of the convoy

Sturdy cargo ships fill the sea lanes leading to all fronts, bearing g...

Public domain photograph of a tank, military armed vehicle, construction vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Automobile industry. "Take it away, lady"--the last private passenger car to be made in a Midwest auto plant is driven away by its owner. Tanks instead of luxuries are America's new order. The Plymouth Company, Chrylser Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. "Take it away, lady"--the last privat...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sealing fuel tanks must be covered with cloth. Women are doing a large portion of the work in turning out these tanks. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sea...

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

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This operator of a portable power grinder 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 operator of a portable power grinder ...

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

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery; 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...

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

Conversion. Toy factory. Presses that once turned out metal toys and motion picture projectors are now being converted to production of filter boxes to be used in jeeps and tanks. Keystone

Conversion. Toy factory. Presses that once turned out metal toys and m...

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.

Australia in the war. American tanks, furnished under lend-lease, contribute to building up of Australia's armored forces. These are medium tanks lined up on the range ready for practice

Australia in the war. American tanks, furnished under lend-lease, cont...

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

Cincinnati, Ohio. Gas storage tanks as seen from the towboat Ernest T. Weir on the Ohio River

Cincinnati, Ohio. Gas storage tanks as seen from the towboat Ernest T....

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

Farm lands and oil storage tanks west of Pampa, Texas along the tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Farm lands and oil storage tanks west of Pampa, Texas along the tracks...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Goffs, California. Military tanks from a nearby army camp, loaded on flat cars along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Needles and Barstow, California

Goffs, California. Military tanks from a nearby army camp, loaded on f...

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

Manchester Street Generating Station, Fuel Oil Tanks Nos. 7 & 8, 460 Eddy Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Manchester Street Generating Station, Fuel Oil Tanks Nos. 7 & 8, 460 E...

Significance: The two identical, 42,500-barrel, steel Fuel Oil Tanks #7 and #8 (originally known as #1 and #2) are each approximately 100 feet in diameter and surrounded by a 14 feet high concrete dike. They s... More

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.

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...

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

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

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

Conrad Refining Company Oil Refinery, Bulk Tanks & Pump Station, 90 feet northeast of Office & Warehouse Building, Conrad, Pondera County, MT

Conrad Refining Company Oil Refinery, Bulk Tanks & Pump Station, 90 fe...

Significance: The bulk fuel tanks and pump station are modern additions to the site. Consequently, these structures do not contribute to the historical and architectural value of the Conrad Refining Company Oi... More

The head guard on the South Eastern Railway, 1885--The engine is one of Richard Christopher Mansell's "Gunboat" 0-4-4 tanks, built for Greenwich, Woolrich and Blackheath local services

The head guard on the South Eastern Railway, 1885--The engine is one o...

Two men on locomotive and conductor(?), with left arm stretched outward, at car in foreground, London. Probably by John Thomson, F.R.G.S.

[Military tanks] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Military tanks] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Copy photograph of soldiers and trucks (top); copy photograph of soldiers and tanks (bottom)]

[Copy photograph of soldiers and trucks (top); copy photograph of sold...

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

Egypt. Cairo. Types & characters. Camels loaded with water jars & tanks

Egypt. Cairo. Types & characters. Camels loaded with water jars & tank...

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Blending. Many batches of synthetic rubber latex are batched and blended in concrete storage tanks at the Institute plant. This blending assures uniformity of the product. After blending the rubber content is separated by coagulation

Blending. Many batches of synthetic rubber latex are batched and blend...

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

Storage. Butadiene, chief ingredient of synthetic rubber, is stored in nine tanks at the Institute plant operated by the United States Rubber Company at Institute, West Virginia. These tanks will hold butadiene for three days operations, the equivalent of more than 180,000 passenger car tires

Storage. Butadiene, chief ingredient of synthetic rubber, is stored in...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oil storage tanks out of Kilgore, Texas

Oil storage tanks out of Kilgore, Texas

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

New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Transportation hopes may soon be helping to solve the oil shortage in the East. The car is a standard automobile-type steel box car fitted with four steel tanks enclosed in wooden boxes. It has a capacity of 12,200 gallons--considerably more than the average tank car serving the East

New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Trans...

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

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lowered into place on an M-4 tank. Machine guns have already been installed and the General Sherman will be ready for the test track. Designed by the Army Ordnance Department and built under ordnance supervision, the M-4 embodies new advances in design based on battlefront experience. Cast steel construction of the hull expedites production

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lower...

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

Troops in Australia. American tanks, manned by Australian crews, led the attack on Buna. This picture, taken during the fighting, shows the thick tropical growth under which the battle was fought. A chain of heavily fortified Japanese pillboxes was smashed by the tanks

Troops in Australia. American tanks, manned by Australian crews, led t...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is the final check, before, this 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine is installed, not in a plane but in one of the army's huge M-3 tanks. The mechanics are employed at the Chrysler tank arsenal, on the outskirts of Detroit, where 10,000 men are engaged in the production of these twenty-eight ton monsters

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is the final check, before, this 400...

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

Conversion. Toy factory. This worker formerly produced toy wheels on this press; now his converted press adds to Uncle Sam's might in production of condenser caps for the Signal Corps, and of radio filter boxes for jeeps and tanks. Keystone

Conversion. Toy factory. This worker formerly produced toy wheels on t...

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Washington, D.C. Empty gas tanks at Esso filling station on the waterfront

Washington, D.C. Empty gas tanks at Esso filling station on the waterf...

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

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

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Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A warship of the skies takes on a load of fuel. Two corporals of a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia fill the gas tanks of a huge YB-17 bomber just before takeoff

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Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Sheets of copper being prepared for the electrolysis tanks

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso, Texas. Sheets of copper being ...

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Women aircraft workers. Three little maids in aircraft school? They're learning the use of templates, used in training material for bullet proofing gas tanks in a West Coast airplane factory. Vega

Women aircraft workers. Three little maids in aircraft school? They're...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These workers are removing crumbs from the perforated boxes below the coagulating and extractor tanks. The rubber drips into these boxes from the tanks and the water previously added to dissolve the soap in the solution runs off through the perforations in the box. This rubber will now be prepared for the wash mill. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These workers are removing crumbs from th...

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Production. Locomotives. Crouched in a turbine intake casing, a welder does his bit in the production of essential war equipment. The plant in which he works produces tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

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In North American's tank department, a woman employee rivets a rib. Tanks like these with high test gasoline enable United Nations bombers to fly faster and farther

In North American's tank department, a woman employee rivets a rib. Ta...

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Transformer manufacture. Winding insulating tape on copper coils of a power transformer, this employee of a large Eastern electrical company is helping to supply America's armed forces with ships, guns and tanks necessary to defeat the Axis. Transformers are essential to almost every phase of the armament program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. This light tank, used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for the armored forces, is helping to turn out fighters who will give the Axis some new ideas of what trouble really is

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. This light tank, used at Fort Knox, ...

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Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

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Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Bad news for Axis tanks. The crew of a 57mm anti-tank gun, one of many in training at Fort Benning, Georgia already handle their piece with the snap and precision of an old timer

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Bad news for Axis tanks. The crew o...

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. This girl is applying sealing ply material to a covered building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing fuel tanks, an important new safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, b...

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Pipeline and storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Pipeline and storage tanks

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Pumping station of the Great Lakes pipeline company. The Mid-continent refinery storage tanks are in the background

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