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Raw sugar stored in warehouse of C. & H.S.R. Co. 25000 tons shown in this picture

Raw sugar stored in warehouse of C. & H.S.R. Co. 25000 tons shown in t...

The brush cutter, a tractor pulling five tons of rollers, tears up the ground for seed planting, fire trails and road building. Withlacoochee Land Use Project, Florida

The brush cutter, a tractor pulling five tons of rollers, tears up the...

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Consolidated Coal Company, Lake Creek Mine, Johnston City, Illinois. Abandoned. This mine will never work again. Williamson County, Illinois once produced 11,000,000 tons of coal a year and led the state in output. Since 1923, output has steadily declined until now it falls short of 2,000,000 tons. At one time sixteen mine whistles blowing to work could be hard from the center of Herrin. Now only two mines are working and these two will probably be abandoned within the next year

Consolidated Coal Company, Lake Creek Mine, Johnston City, Illinois. A...

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

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Open hearth steel is also made at this plant. Raw materials are charged into an open hearth furnace by means of this charging mechanism. The open hearth furnaces have a capacity of about 100 tons of steel per heat

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here a junk dealer unloads his truck in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills (Carnegie Steel, Chicago, Illinois)

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

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Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons of rubber were used in such erasers -- the same quantity as would make 200,000 army gas masks

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons ...

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

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. On the tenth day 1575 tons of ship are in place. The lower deck is being completed and the upper deck amidship is erected with the inner stack installed

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

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B-29 Super Fortress bomb load. This is the largest laod that the B-29 has carried to date. A total of ten tons

B-29 Super Fortress bomb load. This is the largest laod that the B-29 ...

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

Naval increase on the way. Washington, D.C., June 2. Assist. Secretary of the Navy, Charles Edison, today signed final confirmation on awards to private shipyards for the construction of twenty-four naval vessels totaling 159,800 tons. Approximate cost will be $350,000,000. Picture shows, left to right: Warren McLaine, Assist. to Judge Advocate General of the Navy; Rear Admiral W.B. Woodson, Judge Advocate General of the Navy; and Charles Edison, Assist. Secretary of the Navy

Naval increase on the way. Washington, D.C., June 2. Assist. Secretary...

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Laying the keel of the North Dakota at Fore River Yards, first of the Amer. dreadnoughts - 20,000 tons

Laying the keel of the North Dakota at Fore River Yards, first of the ...

Photograph showing shipyard works at the construction of the battleship U.S.S. North Dakota at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Co... More

A group of men standing in front of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men standing in front of a building, West Virginia. Farm Se...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in a dump hewn from solid rock one hundred feet below the surface in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. Aerial bombs of 250 tons shipped from the Unite...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel materials that can be converted into steel for the national defense production program (U.S., Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

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The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons of rubber, enough to makes 17,000 tires, are used in the construction of each of these battleships. Tons more are needed for the naval planes that are making history over the world. Medical and communication requirements--and countless other needs of the Navy--are met

The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons o...

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Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant canned 2400 tons of salmon this fall

Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the s...

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

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the s...

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Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second from left) explains to Brooklyn housewives, whom she has enlisted in tin can salvage drive, how to prepare collected tin cans for the Department of Sanitation trucks. Since March 15th, she has organized twenty-five large apartment houses in the Borough Park section into units for salvage work. In each house a squad of three women, tenants in the apartment, collect once weekly from every housewife, tin cans accumulated during the previous week. In the cellar, each squad processes the cans, removes labels and bottoms, flattens them and deposits them into ashcans and barrels for pickup by department of sanitation trucks. Today twenty-five tons of empty processed cans have been collected through the efforts of Mrs. Kaplitt and other housewives in the territory across the East River. Left to right: Mrs. T. Cohen, Mrs. B. Kaplitt, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Rubins

Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second fro...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent to every part of the country and to almost every country in the Western hemisphere where they are needed in war production factories. These giants supply the power essentials to the production of ships and guns and tanks, as well as all other war essentials. Cranes capable of handling seventy-five tons hoist completed transformers to flatcars. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent t...

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Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four inches tall, looks small indeed as he uses air pressure to clean the lid of the world's largest vulcanizing unit in an Eastern tire plant. The top section of this mold being prepared to vulcanize a large bullet-sealing gasoline tank, weighs sixteen tons and can also be used to vulcanize tires over ten feet in diameter

Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four in...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Lutz, butcher, who also writes both hymns and patriotic songs, some of which he has sent to Army camps. He collected five tons of scrap

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Lutz, butcher, who also writes both hym...

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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings are carried on a label pasted on the handle of a glass plug gauge, which replace steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Markings on other gauges are produced by acid etching. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings are carried on a ...

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Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen rock. Tower 800 feet high from its base

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen roc...

Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Clipper ship Three Brothers, 2972 tons: The largest sailing ship in the world

Clipper ship Three Brothers, 2972 tons: The largest sailing ship in th...

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Calomba Sugar Mill, Luzon, Philippines. 1200 tons cane, daily

Calomba Sugar Mill, Luzon, Philippines. 1200 tons cane, daily

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A group of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Navy aircraft. Gruman torpedo bombers. The Avenger. These dual purpose aircraft, already tested in battle, are the U.S. Navy's new torpedo-bombers, capable both of hedge-hopping waves to press home a torpedo attack and flying high above enemy targets to drop tons of high explosives. Manufactured to Gruman, these deadly bombers are heavily armed and armored. Generally they are given fighter protection, they are carrier based

Navy aircraft. Gruman torpedo bombers. The Avenger. These dual purpose...

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

B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Mighty four-engine B-24 Liberator bombers are playing an important role in Allied bombing missions. Capable of carrying more than six tons of bombs, the B-24 range of 3,000 miles enables it to penetrate deep into enemy territory

B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Mighty four-engine B...

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Tons of tarpaulin are required for covering certain types of Army trucks. Worker above is unpacking tarpaulin, and a very small portion of the huge stock always carried on hand is shown in the background

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Tons of tarpaulin are required for cov...

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A white-hot steel ingot riding into the blooming mill. This ingot weighs about 2 1/2 tons. From it, bar and tool stock will be made. Ford River Rouge plant

A white-hot steel ingot riding into the blooming mill. This ingot weig...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This may look like one of the games you used to play with your erector set, but that tank, which is about to be deposited on a railroad flat car by a fifty-ton crane weighs more than twenty-eight tons. It's one of the new M-3s being built for the Army by the Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit

Chrysler tank arsenal. This may look like one of the games you used to...

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When sheet metal parts are cut on the router, they go to the hydropress department where they are placed on masonite dies and pressed to the proper shape under 3000 tons pressure

When sheet metal parts are cut on the router, they go to the hydropres...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Straight into the roaring flames of the cupola, the operator moves his crane with the loaded basket. With this equipment, one operator can handle many tons of material an hour, keep cupolas in continuous operation, producing many tons of molten iron per hour. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Straight into the r...

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A westbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad diesel freight train pulling out of a railroad yard. It consisted of 100 cars, about 6000 tons

A westbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad diesel freight trai...

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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Mr. A.E. Smith and Mr. Stanley Farrow (left to right) of Army Ordnance's Gage Section, discuss glass gauges, which replace steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in Government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Mr. A.E. Smith and Mr. Sta...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings on the handles of new glass gauges, which replace steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal, are produced by acid etching. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Markings on the handles of...

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

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen rock. Tower 800 feet high from its base

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen roc...

Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Steamship Adriatic 5,888 tons, 1350 horse power: George Steers naval constructor & builder engines built at Novelty Works New York

Steamship Adriatic 5,888 tons, 1350 horse power: George Steers naval c...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6149

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen rock. Tower 800 feet high from its base

Devil's Tower. From W[est] side showing millions of tons of fallen roc...

Blurry image of Devils Tower surrounded by fallen rocks at base. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

The Woodard Coal Mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania which broke the world's record by mining 1,000,000 tons of coal for the year 1905

The Woodard Coal Mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania which broke the worl...

Photograph shows man standing on railroad tracks with Woodward Coal Mine facility in background. No. 1592. Additional title on item: Pennsylvania. Plymouth Woodward Coal Mine.

Hydraulic ore-unloaders that lift 1800 tons an hour, and laden lake vessel, Cleveland, Ohio

Hydraulic ore-unloaders that lift 1800 tons an hour, and laden lake ve...

2 men with shovels in foreground. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Undewrood. No. 7966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Great Lakes; Freighters; Industry... ... More

Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River levee costing approximately one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Growing 2819 cane in foreground. Capacity is one thousand tons per day. Serves territory in twenty mile radius. Works October through December. St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River l...

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Unemployed miner, Herrin, Illinois. General caption: Williamson County, Illinois, once produced 11,000,000 tons of coal per year, and led the state in output. Since 1923, output has steadily declined until now it falls short of 2,000,000 tons. At one time, sixteen mine-whistles blowing to work could be heard from the center of Herrin. Now only two mines are running and those will probably be abandoned within the next year. The Herrin office of the UMWA (United Mine Workers of America) was once the most active in the state. Today it is no longer self-sustaining. These pictures were taken in the Herrin UMWA office on a day when the mines were not working. They show the type of miners still employed in Williamson County but faced with the almost certain prospect of being discarded by the industry when the last mine is closed

Unemployed miner, Herrin, Illinois. General caption: Williamson County...

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A black and white photo of a man in a vest and tie, possibly related to: U.M.W.A. (United Mine Workers of America) official, Herrin, Illinois. General caption: Williamson County, Illinois once produced 11,000,000 tons of coal a year, and led the state in output. Since 1923 output has steadily declined until now it falls short of 2,000,000 tons. At one time, sixteen mine whistles blowing to work could be heard from the center of Herrin. Now only two mines are working and these two will probably be abandoned within the next year. The Herrin office of the U.M.W.A. was once the most active in the state. Today it is no longer self sustaining. These pictures were taken in the Herrin U.M.W.A office on a day when the mines were not working

A black and white photo of a man in a vest and tie, possibly related t...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year. General caption: Many of the miners displaced by machinery in the larger mines are left stranded after mines are abandoned; have opened shallow primitive workings on the coal seam where it occurs close to the surface. The output of these shallow mines, known locally as gopher holes, is processed by a crude method and sold to truckers at about half the price of deep-vein coal. Many of the gopher holes have no storage in the tipple, and the miners underground are idle when no truck is waiting at the chute to load coal. Wages of gopher hole miners run from seventy-five cents to five dollars per day, and many miners earn less than WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers. Some of the larger gopher holes, such as Blue Ribbon Number 2 at Spillertown, Williamson County, are better equipped, pay better wages, and produce as high as 40,000 tons a year

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fire insurance map, fire insurance plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from Uncle Sam's salvage drive are fast "getting in the scrap." Steelworker George Woolslayer shows Chief John Evans (left) and Sergeant French Vineyard one of the scrap yards at Allegheny- Ludlum where tons of old metal await loading into open-hearth furnaces. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from U...

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Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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This huge hydropress is operated day and night by women employees. Thousands of sheet metal parts are formed daily on this press. Worked from four sides using same die. Beds with metal to be shaped is rolled into place under hydraulic press. 3000 tons total pressure

This huge hydropress is operated day and night by women employees. Tho...

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Great Falls, Montana, Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire rods are stacked in warehouse by this machine which can stack several tons at once

Great Falls, Montana, Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire rods are s...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A special small power cultivator cleans the space between the rows, but the rows themselves must be weeded by hand. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provided a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A spec...

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Hundreds of tons of critically needed metal have been saved for the war effort by means of these substantially paperboard boxes which give perfect protection to both fresh and frozen fish fillets, which are an important item during the war

Hundreds of tons of critically needed metal have been saved for the wa...

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R.T.Y.C. Schr. Cambria 199 tons: James Ashbury Esq., London and Brighton, owner

R.T.Y.C. Schr. Cambria 199 tons: James Ashbury Esq., London and Bright...

Artists: Charles R. Parsons and Lyman W. Atwater. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5685

The yacht "Maria" 216 tons: modelled by R.L. Stevens Esq. built by Mr. Capes 1844 and owned by Messes JC. RL. & E.A. Stevens of Hoboken, N.J.

The yacht "Maria" 216 tons: modelled by R.L. Stevens Esq. built by Mr....

Artist: Charles Parsons (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7360

The yacht "Henrietta" 205 tons: modelled by Mr. William Tooker, N.Y. built by Mr. Henry Steers, Greenpoint, L.I.

The yacht "Henrietta" 205 tons: modelled by Mr. William Tooker, N.Y. b...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7357

The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the direction of I.K. Brunel, F.R.S. -- D.C.L. commanded by Capt. William Harrison

The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3370

Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged (56 tons), World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.

Biggest wheel on earth (240 ft. diam.) with heaviest axle ever forged ...

Ferris wheel; 13-star U.S. flag in foreground. H55153 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. 17. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: ... More

Steamer loading sugar alongside dock in Honolulu, [Hawaiian Islands]; cargo capacity 12,000 tons. The small steamers are discharging sugar into large one.

Steamer loading sugar alongside dock in Honolulu, [Hawaiian Islands]; ...

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Memphis. The Sphinx of Memphis. 14 feet high, 26 feet long, weight 90 tons

Memphis. The Sphinx of Memphis. 14 feet high, 26 feet long, weight 90 ...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. The production of many tons of high quality steel depends on the efficiency with which this electrician installs the power lines to new transformers used in conjunction with electric furnaces

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. The production of many tons of hi...

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.

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to ...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are used in the construction of these ways, where American mechanical genius is employed in the production of ships for our new two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are used in the construction of these ways, where American mechanical genius is employed in the production of ships for our new two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. Workmen inspect the powerful crank of a DF-1600-60 press that weighs eighty-seven tons. The machine is being cleaned and adjusted before moving to its new assignment of drawing army truck parts in a former automobile factory. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Workmen inspect the powerful crank of a ...

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Labels. North Africa, long starved by the Axis, sees the American flag on tea from the United States, 800 tons of it. Six million half-and-quarter-pound flag-stamped packages have been distributed so far. Fourteen million packages of cotton goods, used clothing, condensed and powder milk, sugar, tobacco, and other essentials have gone into North Africa since our occupation in November

Labels. North Africa, long starved by the Axis, sees the American flag...

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Steamship Adriatic 5,888 tons, 1350 horse power: George Steers naval constructor & builder engines built at Novelty Works New York

Steamship Adriatic 5,888 tons, 1350 horse power: George Steers naval c...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6149

The "Great Eastern" steam ship, 22,500 tons

The "Great Eastern" steam ship, 22,500 tons

141 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Parsons. "Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y., Oct. 28, 1859, No. 141."

General view of the blast furnaces (daily output 3500 tons), Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania

General view of the blast furnaces (daily output 3500 tons), Steel Wor...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 13101. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa. H-; Industry Steel 1907; Photog. I.; Geogr.; Shelf.

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies of junked automobiles, rotting in ugly auto graveyards from coast to coast. They will now provide some of the millions of tons of scrap steel so badly needed for defense production. They are baled up in this manner to prevent their burning away when they are thrown into the blazing inferno of an open hearth steel furnace. Open hearth furnaces are fed with approximately 50 percent scrap steel

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies ...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

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Soldiers inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia. Tank was manufactured by the Trackless Tank Corporation of New York, and submitted to the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, for inspection. Preliminary tests indicate that the tank may be adaptable for reconnaissance purposes, possibly replacing scout cars. Tank weighs 10 tons. During initial, brief tests at Fort Knox, Kentucky, it made 45 miles an hour across rough country, with a 37 mm gun and two machine guns mounted in its turret; its designer says it can travel 85 mph on level ground. It is powered by a 250 horsepower diesel engine, and carries 1/2-inch armor. Tentative plans of the Army call for a redesign of the superstructure for better arming of the tank

Soldiers inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort My...

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Victory food from American waters. Typical pier hand on docks at Gloucester, Massachusetts. A famous fishing center for centuries, this port now ships thousands of tons of fish to the Army and Navy

Victory food from American waters. Typical pier hand on docks at Glouc...

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Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successf...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in the Salinas Valley of California. Note the abundant seed stalks occurring on these irrigated plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in...

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

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars containing fifty tons of copper ore are dumped by an unloading mechanism into a 200 ton hopper

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars contai...

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View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collected over a period of two weeks in all the boroughs of the city of New York by Department of Sanitation trucks. Men of the department work on their own time to collect the critical war metal

View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collec...

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Striking telling blows at the Axis. Each blow of this machine stamps out a cowl for an army jeep from a flat steel sheet under 350 tons prssure. The 126-ton Bliss double-action press is regular equipment of one of the world's largest automobile plants. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Striking telling blows at the Axis. Each blow of this machine stamps o...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing the sand line is one of the chores that fall to the "tallow pot," or firemen of a railway locomotive. In addition jobs like this, the "tallow pot" serves up an average of eight to ten tons of coal each eight hour day to the big "hog" or locomotive. This man fires a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. The ship sliding down the ways just twenty-four days after her keelplates were laid. It will take ten days longer to install furnishings. The ship weighs 3200 long tons and is known as a 10,500 ton cargo vessel

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

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Cleveland, Ohio. Unloading iron ore by means of Hewlett [i.e., Hulett] unloaders at the Pennsylvania Railroad docks. Each bucket load weighs approximately seventeen tons

Cleveland, Ohio. Unloading iron ore by means of Hewlett [i.e., Hulett]...

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A train of six bombs from United States Army Air forces planes drops on the base of Mandang on the north coast of New Guinea held by the Japanese. During this raid more than thirty-eight tons of bombs were dropped on the airdrome and other vital objectives

A train of six bombs from United States Army Air forces planes drops o...

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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Checking an inside diameter of a cartridge case with one of the glass gauges, which replace steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal, are produced by acid etching. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Checking an inside diamete...

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Huge Jamesway dairy barn, containing milking pens and room for 120 tons of hay, at Laudholm Farm, Wells, Maine

Huge Jamesway dairy barn, containing milking pens and room for 120 ton...

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

The deteriorating remains of "Tex Randall," a very big Texan (47 feet tall and weighing seven tons) erected in the city of Canyon in the Texas panhandle by industrial-arts teacher Harry Wheeler in 1959

The deteriorating remains of "Tex Randall," a very big Texan (47 feet ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Tex is constructed of concrete, with an internal structure of pipe, rebar, and wire mesh. He originally wore real denim jeans and a r... More

Docks with two miles frontage, holding 200,000 tons of iron ore, Two Harbors, Minn.

Docks with two miles frontage, holding 200,000 tons of iron ore, Two H...

Stereograph showing man in foreground standing among a thicket of small trees looking across the water towards dock holding iron ore. H73723 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood. U-854... More

The Lick telescope, length 57 feet, diameter of object glass 36 inches, total weight 40 tons / W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith. Cleveland, O.

The Lick telescope, length 57 feet, diameter of object glass 36 inches...

Print shows an interior view of the Lick Observatory with the Lick telescope mounted on a large stand and being manipulated by a man standing on the top level, with a man sitting on a small moveable platform be... More

The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the direction of I.K. Brunel, F.R.S. -- D.C.L. commanded by Capt. William Harrison

The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3370

Miner looking at daily reports (company work sheets) checking number of tons of slate he loaded during shift. Also to find out whether or not they work the next day. Caples, West Virginia

Miner looking at daily reports (company work sheets) checking number o...

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Sacramento Pit copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. This is a pit 435 feet deep. In 1911 a shaft was sunk into the slopes of the east wall. In 1917 a dynamite charge blew off the top rock of the crown and dredges were worked to excavate the pit's ore bodies. By 1931 the pit floor was too narrow for dredges to work in. The ore was taken out by caving in the walls into the lower mine levels. Between 1917 and 1931 the mine, which covers thity-five acres, yielded 20,843,667 tons of ore. The mine is today abandoned. This development by the Phelps Dodge Company

Sacramento Pit copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. This is a pit 435 feet ...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel materials that can be converted into steel for the national defense production program (U.S., Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are used in the construction of these ways, where American mechanical genius is employed in the production of ships for our new two-ocean navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Transportation within the mine is as carefully planned and coordinated as in a busy freight yard. A system of block signals and switches and miles of track make it possible to move out thousands of tons of coal a day

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less frequent as Uncle Sam pushes his all-out drive to conserve rubber. Many of these discarded tires could easily be reconditioned and used for many thousands of miles. Other discards are immediately baled up and reused by rubber plants. Two tons of reclaimed rubber will go as far as one ton of crude rubber

Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less fr...

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Old rails for new shells. Abandoned street car tracks are being pulled up in Washington, D.C., to add badly needed steel to the nation's scrap pile. Although some of the rails will be reused, hundreds of tons will go into steel furnaces to make new war materials. As the rails are anchored firmly, much steel is recovered when they are dug up

Old rails for new shells. Abandoned street car tracks are being pulled...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule nursery beds. This machine mows the seedlings off to a uniform height for ease in digging and packing. The tops are collected in a bin on the machine and disposed of outside of the nursery. The tops are worthless for rubber production. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule n...

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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Checking an inside diameter of a cartridge case with one of the glass gauges, which replace steel gauges at the Frankford Arsenal, are produced by acid etching. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Checking an inside diamete...

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