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Transformer manufacture. Part of a large Eastern electrical plant where large transformer tanks are shaped and welded. Power transformers are an important part of America's war effort. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Part of a large Eastern electrical plant wher...

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

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

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

Australia in the war. Australian troops demonstrate lend-lease tanks at an armored division camp somewhere in Australia. Tanks are transported on trucks to save wear and tear on the fighting vehicles

Australia in the war. Australian troops demonstrate lend-lease tanks a...

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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,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. M-4 tanks. The new M-4 tanks which will soon be hurling their might against the Axis roll toward the end of the production line in the Schenectady, New York, plant of the American Locomotive Company. M-7 mobile howitzer carriages are also made in this plant

Production. M-4 tanks. The new M-4 tanks which will soon be hurling th...

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

Lend-lease shipments from the United States. 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 land-lease shipment to one of the Allies

Lend-lease shipments from the United States. American M-4 tanks on a b...

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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...

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

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division. Storage tanks III

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemical Division. Storage tanks ...

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Water Tanks, Rainier Avenue, Port Gamble, Kitsap County, WA

Water Tanks, Rainier Avenue, Port Gamble, Kitsap County, WA

Survey number: HAER WA-161 Building/structure dates: 1880-1920 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000746

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.

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.

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

One of the large "tanks" in Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

One of the large "tanks" in Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in ...

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

Oil storage tanks in Brownsville, Texas

Oil storage tanks in Brownsville, Texas

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 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

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

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

French manufacturer talks tanks with President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., June 11. Louis Renault, prominent French auto manufacturer, leaving the White House today after a conference with President Roosevelt on war material production. Renault said he was interested chiefly in mass production of tanks, and his discussion with Mr. Roosevelt was a prelude to conferences during the next few days with leading American industrialists. His interpreter said he would probably see William S. Knudsen and Henry Ford

French manufacturer talks tanks with President Roosevelt. Washington, ...

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

Old forts built centuries ago to hold back the Turkish invasion In the terraced garden rising behind his home on the Bosphorus, the Honorable G.B. Ravendael [i.e., Ravndal], American Consul-General in Constantinople, points out the Giant's Hill (or Goliath's Hill??) over on the Asiatic side and in the shelter of it the huge tanks of Standard Oil Co.

Old forts built centuries ago to hold back the Turkish invasion In the...

Photographs show a palaces on the shores of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1370 (top image) and no. 1371 (bottom image). Text under image no. 1370:... More

[Fuel tanks on conveyors] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Fuel tanks on conveyors] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Griffith Consumers Co. Draining of storage oil tanks

Griffith Consumers Co. Draining of storage oil tanks

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

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

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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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M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky.

M-3 tanks in action, Ft. Knox, Ky.

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

Tractors clustered around gasoline tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

Tractors clustered around gasoline tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 1/2 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...

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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. One of each of these stamps is reproduced separately below the picture of the book. Important note: Actual dimensions of the point ration stamps are 7/8 inch x 1 inch, while the unit stamps are 7/16 inch x 1 inch. The U.S. Secret Service requests that ration stamps not be reproduced in actual size, but less than 3/4 or over 1 1/2 times. Also, stamps should not be reproduced in color. This photograph, if reproduced, same size, meets these requirements

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

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

New American tanks leaving for the desert. Large numbers of American light and medium tanks that have arrived in the Middle East are being sent on to the desert by train

New American tanks leaving for the desert. Large numbers of American l...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks. Whenever possible rivets are replaced by welded sections, but much of the steel plate, such as the hull front plate on which these men are working, is too heavy for welding. These skilled workers are preparing the plate for riveting at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal, in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Thousands of rivets are used in the produ...

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London (vicinity), England. Mark 5 "Covenanter" type heavy tanks on a freight train on the way from a factory to their unit in Britain's Northern command

London (vicinity), England. Mark 5 "Covenanter" type heavy tanks on a ...

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

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...

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Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. In the new M-4 tanks (right), the designers and the engineers got together to provide fighting advantages over and above those of the older M-3 tanks (left). Location: Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. In the new M-4 tanks (right), the desi...

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

One of Uncle Sam's new M-4 tanks is fueled for a training cruise at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where men of the armored forces are developed into hard-bitten "tankers"

One of Uncle Sam's new M-4 tanks is fueled for a training cruise at Fo...

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

Transformer manufacture. This employee of a large Eastern electrical plant has the job of getting these big cores and coils into shape before they are lowered into steel transformer tanks and immersed in oil. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. This employee of a large Eastern electrical p...

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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...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paris, France. The Renault workshops on the Ile Seguin and adjacent banks of the Seine were completely destroyed and in fact, rendered unusable for many years on the night of March 3 by the Royal Air Force bombing attack. Tanks, lorries and staff cars were being manufactured for Germany. View of bomb damage in a workshop where industrial vehicles were formerly repaired, showing wrecked lorries in the foreground

Paris, France. The Renault workshops on the Ile Seguin and adjacent ba...

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

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

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Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where automobiles were manufactured twenty-four hours a day up until a few weeks ago. These giants will soon be converted to production of tanks for Uncle Sam's army. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where auto...

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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...

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

Women aircraft workers. In a West Coast aircraft plant, this young woman is trimming material for the bullet proofing of gas tanks. The material is developed from pure latex, is highly gasoline solvent and seals bullet holes

Women aircraft workers. In a West Coast aircraft plant, this young wom...

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

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.

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

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

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

Production. 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 an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Paso, Texas, Phelps Dodge refining company. Electrolytic tanks in which sheets of pure copper are formed. The sheets are later melted and cast into ingots

El Paso, Texas, Phelps Dodge refining company. Electrolytic tanks in w...

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Washington, D.C. On morning of July 21st, the last day before stricter gas rationing went into effect, cars were parked in front of gas stations long before they opened, waiting to fill their tanks on the quota of their old ration cards. Cars were parked and left without their drivers who returned at eight o'clock when the station on upper Wisconsin Avenue near the District line opened

Washington, D.C. On morning of July 21st, the last day before stricter...

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. America's armed might grows greater every day. These M-3 tanks, lined up for inspection at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are but a few of the many powerful weapons with which our forces are equipped. These M-3s are being used in training tank crews

Fort Knox, Kentucky. M-3 tanks. America's armed might grows greater ev...

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

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A massive ship propeller of manganese bronze is calibrated for later machine operations. The huge war production plant in which it was made is also turning out tanks and locomotives. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A massive ship propeller of manganes...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories 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 the cover of self-sealing fuel tank. Goodrich

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

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

Fort 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 personnel, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Storage tanks

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Detroit, Michigan. Flat cars loaded with covered tanks

Detroit, Michigan. Flat cars loaded with covered tanks

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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 armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Australia in the war. Australian troops of an armored division enjoy a short rest period during training maneuvers. These American tanks, furnished under lend-lease, are playing an important role in the development of United Nation's mechanized forces

Australia in the war. Australian troops of an armored division enjoy a...

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

Vaughn, New Mexico. Oil storage tanks at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard

Vaughn, New Mexico. Oil storage tanks at the Atchison, Topeka and Sant...

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Charleston (vicinity), West Virginia. Gasoline storage tanks along the Kanawha River

Charleston (vicinity), West Virginia. Gasoline storage tanks along the...

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

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Men at the wheels of large valves regulate the flow of oil into oil tankers at a U.S. Atlantic coast seaport. The oil, flowing from large storage tanks on the dock, is being transhipped to the armed forces of the U.S. and other of the United Nation. Through valves like these pour the derivative products of some of the 1,601,250,000 barrels of oil which the U.S. oil industry will produce this year. The fact that a U.S. Liberator four-motored bomber consumes 1,800 gallons of gasoline in one six-hour bombing run, enough to supply the average citizen motorist with fuel for four or five years of motoring, indicates the heavy volume of oil supplies required in the modern war

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Tanks and scales

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

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

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.

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

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 photograph - 1930s California, United States, 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...

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Uncle Sam shows how troops traveled 75 years ago and today in military pageant held at Camp Holabird, Maryland. Seventy-five years ago Uncle Sam's troops moved and carried their supplies by ox-cart and now today, they use high-powered tanks to carry them against the enemy. All this was shown to public at the Military Transportation Pageant held at Camp Holabird, Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, by the United States Army

Uncle Sam shows how troops traveled 75 years ago and today in military...

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Parade of M-4 (General Sherman) and M-3 (General Grant) tanks in training maneuvers, Ft. Knox, Ky. Note the lower design of the M-4, the larger gun in the turret and the two hatches in front of the turret

Parade of M-4 (General Sherman) and M-3 (General Grant) tanks in train...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, 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...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. These workers are doing a dual welding operation on fuel oil tanks for the bottom of a "Liberty Ship" under construction at a large Eastern yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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.

The air raid protective services. Auxiliary police number among their most important duties the guarding of various points where saboteurs might hope to operate. Gas tanks, power houses, telephone exchanges and water works are attractive places for anyone bent on sabotage.

The air raid protective services. Auxiliary police number among their ...

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

Acetylene tanks, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Acetylene tanks, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. This is what happens when a truck gets in the path of Uncle Sam's new fifty-seven-ton giant tank. Running over this piece is as much trouble for the tank as running over a curb in an average automobile. The revolving turret on top of the tank contains a three-inch gun and a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. This is what happens when a truck g...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card and print in lot. Tra... More

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factories 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 women are doing the final finishing work on bullet-sealing fuel tanks, a new development vitally important to the safety of military aviators. Goodrich

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

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

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

Storage tanks - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Storage tanks - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where automobiles were manufactured twenty-four hours a day up until a few weeks ago. This giant will soon be converted to production of tanks for Uncle Sam's army. If conversion is not practical, the machine will be pooled or stored. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where auto...

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

Phillips refinery. Borger, Texas. Tank cars and storage tanks

Phillips refinery. Borger, Texas. Tank cars and storage tanks

Picryl description: Public domain image of an architectural element, dome, cathedral, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox. Machine guns. The .30 caliber machine gun is a powerful weapon of great range and effectiveness. It is used in various forms on planes, tanks, ships and other types of mechanized equipment

Fort Knox. Machine guns. The .30 caliber machine gun is a powerful wea...

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Irean Smotinski, age twenty-nine, and ex-housewife, cleaning a chassis before it goes to the paint room

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. On the third day the bottom is completed except for forward and aft ends, and on it have been set inner bottom tanks for fuel or ballast. The midships bulkhead has been raised

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction ...

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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. On the sixth day, 850 tons of the ship are in place. Bulkheads and girders below the second deck are in place. The bulkheads and inner bottom tanks were prefabricated

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction ...

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Bizerte, Tunisia. Bursts of bombs from a Flying Fortress exploding at the Bizerte naval base held by the Axis. Not only was shipping struck but great damage was done to shops and oil tanks along the coast line

Bizerte, Tunisia. Bursts of bombs from a Flying Fortress exploding at ...

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

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

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Scene showing tanks in action during the mimic battle staged at Camp Franklin, Md., May 12, by the U.S. Tank Corps for the graduating class of the Army War College. Real ammunition was used by all the attacking forces

Scene showing tanks in action during the mimic battle staged at Camp F...

A black and white photo of a group of men in a field, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date (year) based on date of negatives i... More

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...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Nantucket tanks, Massachusetts], gelatin silver print

[Nantucket tanks, Massachusetts], gelatin silver print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXVIII J 20. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: American scenes, a LOT which in ... More

A group of men standing next to tanks - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to tanks - FSA / Office of War Informatio...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Precipitation tanks at gold mine where gold is precipitated out of cyanide solution. Mogollon, New Mexico

Precipitation tanks at gold mine where gold is precipitated out of cya...

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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 28 ton rolling arsenals for the Army

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

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A black and white photo of a row of tanks. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a row of tanks. America during Great Depres...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the solution and vacuum towers of the Quaker State refinery at Oil City, Pennsylvania. This refinery is working at full capacity to assure our military forces of ample supplies of the high-grade lubricants needed to operate ships, guns, tanks, and planes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. These are the s...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow lengths of molten steel--steel composed partly of roller skates, reapers, radiators and other scrap collected from America's homes and farms. This strip steel will see action as armor plate on the nation's tanks or battleships

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow...

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Fort Benning. Armored forces, Georgia. The irresistable roll of America's mighty new army is already shaping world events. Medium tanks (M-3) flanked by halftrac scout cars are put through their paces by trainees of the armored forces at Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Benning. Armored forces, Georgia. The irresistable roll of Americ...

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. Employees crowd from suburban trains through factory gates to take their places in the vast clockwork of war production. The plant in which they work turns out essential war items: tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Employees crowd from suburban trains...

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Testing M-4 tanks. Down the steep side of a test hill, as well as up difficult ascents and over many obstacles, a mighty M-4 tank performs brilliantly during the trial runs at an Eastern manufacturing plant

Testing M-4 tanks. Down the steep side of a test hill, as well as up d...

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Self-sealing fuel tanks. The heavy paper building forms for bullet-sealing tanks must be covered with cloth. Women are doing a large portion of the work in turning out these tanks. This girl is ironing the fabric to remove wrinkles and smooth out the surfaces of the cloth covering the building form. Goodrich

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

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

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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