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Under the supervision of naval officers, a vast training program is under way in the tool and die building at the Ford River Rouge plant. Here cadet-trainees are working under an officer's supervision. Ford River Rouge plant

Under the supervision of naval officers, a vast training program is un...

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Moore County, Texas. Tool dresser (cable tool driller's helper) operating valve which shuts off gas pressure during drilling operations

Moore County, Texas. Tool dresser (cable tool driller's helper) operat...

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

Moore County, Texas. Cable tool driller and his tool dresser

Moore County, Texas. Cable tool driller and his tool dresser

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear around the clock, four company restaurants provide food for the employees. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear ...

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

Great Falls, Montana. Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Inspecting the electolytic process. By means of this tool which is thrust down and towards the inspector he is able to detemine if deposition of copper is proceeding at the normal rate and if there are any short circuits present

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

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

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid tool steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Her mind's on her work and on her country. That small flag tells the story of this young woman's absorption in her job. Employed by a Midwest drill and tool plant, she's grinding points on drills which will be used in the production of America's ships and planes and guns. A soldier of the production front, she fights for the men on America's battlefronts. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Her mind's on her work and on her...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge is compared with a glass plug gauge which replaces it at the Frankford Arsenal. A plain ring glass gauge shows in the foreground. Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greatly 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. A steel plug gauge is comp...

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

Wellington, Kansas. Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe engineer going off to work stops in the locker room for his tool kit

Wellington, Kansas. Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe engineer going off ...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A glass ring gauge for the inspection of fuse parts. These gauges are replacing 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. A glass ring gauge for the...

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

Tool shed converted from old log house on Watson homestead. Cuivre River recreational project near Troy, Missouri

Tool shed converted from old log house on Watson homestead. Cuivre Riv...

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Tool shed converted from old log house on Watson homestead. Cuivre River recreational project near Troy, Missouri

Tool shed converted from old log house on Watson homestead. Cuivre Riv...

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In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here a naval cadet is setting up on a job on a lathe under the skilled supervision of a master mechanic

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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

Moore County, Texas. Removing the drilling tool on cable tool drilling operations

Moore County, Texas. Removing the drilling tool on cable tool drilling...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. With the most modern equipment and surroundings, the company dentist of a large Midwest machine tool plant gives free dental services and advice to all employees. A dental hygienist assists him in check-up of the employees' teeth

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. With the most moder...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in hand. That goes for everything they tackle -- like this barrage balloon, for example. The special Marine Corps units at Parris Island, South Carolina gain proficiency with this new fighting tool that the leathernecks have taken over

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the sit...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. These are spur gears piled up at a large Midwest machine tool plant producing highly essential equipment for making various war materials

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. These are spur gear...

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Tool maker inspecting finished carrier plates

Tool maker inspecting finished carrier plates

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

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. Sector status report. A mechanic is lifting a tool box

Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command...

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Machine tool experts set up a fixture to be used in drilling tank engine cylinder bores. The no. 4 Cincinnati horizontal mill which will do the work is one of many fine machines in a big automobile factory now being converted to tank production. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Machine tool experts set up a fixture to be used in drilling tank engi...

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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. 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...

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

Tool House-Garage, 3005 Circle Drive, Green Park, St. Louis County, MO

Tool House-Garage, 3005 Circle Drive, Green Park, St. Louis County, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-1940 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Tool Steel-Electric Furnace Shop, Along Lehigh River, North of Fourth Street, West of Minsi Trail Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Tool Steel-Electri...

Survey number: HAER PA-386-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Initial Construction

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depressio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Forging die block. A Long Island manufacturer of a variety of forgings is seeking complete tool and die shop facilities for the production of a number of forging die blocks similar to the item illustrated. The die forging blocks vary in size from two by four by six inches to eight by ten by twelve inches in general. Facilities capable of turning out large quantities--fifty to several hundred weekly--are desired

Forging die block. A Long Island manufacturer of a variety of forgings...

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

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten years; cutting tool joints off a drill pipe in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Not only the materials which go into the cupolas, but also the core sand used in the production of high-quality iron castings must be rigidly examined and controlled. The whole problem is essentially one for the chemist and metalurgist, so the laboratory, literally part and parcel of the cupola building, is constantly checking and rechecking during every minute that iron is being melted and poured. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Not only the materi...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many holes have to be bored in the innards of a machine tool's main casting to accomodate gears, shafts, tubings and mountings which eventually comprise its interior. This workman uses every one of the drills and reamers shown here on each milling machine bed casting that he receives

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many holes have to ...

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

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. The hammer is still an important tool in ship production. These workers are bending metal fittings on a furnace slab floor, an operation in ship construction at a large Eastern yard. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. The hammer is still an important too...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Cranes do most of the lifting in the foundry of a large Midwest machine tool plant. Massive chains like this one are needed for handling the heavy flasks and finished castings

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Cranes do most of t...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. On their way to work for victory. Each of these cases contains a machine tool bound for some armament or war materials manufacturing plant somewhere in the territory of the United Nations

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. On their way to wor...

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

Thanksgiving, 1942. American workers give up the holiday to speed victory. The Blackwelder family celebrated Thanksgiving at their benches in a Glenn Martin Company plant. William P. Blackwelder works in the tool crib of the plane factory, and his wife and daughter are riveters. A son, Frank, in the Navy for one year, has been wounded four times. He has been awarded several medals

Thanksgiving, 1942. American workers give up the holiday to speed vict...

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

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...

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

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Tool Steel-Electric Furnace Shop, Along Lehigh River, North of Fourth Street, West of Minsi Trail Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Tool Steel-Electri...

Survey number: HAER PA-386-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Initial Construction

A black and white photo of a man laying on the ground. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man laying on the ground. Pie Town, New M...

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

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten years; cutting tool joints off a drill pipe in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. In this pile of scrap cast iron there are old machine tool beds, foundry flasks, pipe, boilers, automobile engine blocks -- almost anything that a magnet will pick up. Location: large Midwest machine tool foundry

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. In this pile of scr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. General view of one of the pouring floors in the foundry of a large Midwest machine tool plant showing the multiplicity of overhead and bracket covering the area as well as the evidence that production is going full tilt, using every available foot of floor space

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. General view of one...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. This milling machine head's tool casting is ready for machining. Location: a large Midwest tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. This milling machin...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. With the most modern equipment and surroundings, the company dentist of a large Midwest machine tool plant gives free dental services and advice to all employees. A dental hygienist assists him in check-up of the employees' teeth

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. With the most moder...

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

New River, North Carolina. Marine infantry. In the hands of a hard, capable leatherneck, the Browning automatic rifle is a versatile and effective fighting tool. This Marine, in training at New River, North Carolina, knows how to get the best out of it. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine infantry. In the hands of a hard, ca...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Erstwhile polisher of fine silverware, this employee of an Eastern plant now undergoing conversion to production of war essentials, is at present engaged in assembly of bomb shackles. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Erstwhile polisher of fine silverware, t...

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

Lathe operator Jan Sudol measuring inside dimension of a strander tube and adjusting the cutting tool on the lathe.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol measuring inside dimension of a strander tube...

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Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Tool Steel-Electric Furnace Shop, Along Lehigh River, North of Fourth Street, West of Minsi Trail Bridge, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Tool Steel-Electri...

Survey number: HAER PA-386-F Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Initial Construction

Tool room of barn. Waterloo project, Michigan

Tool room of barn. Waterloo project, Michigan

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

Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's tool. Mississippi

Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's tool. Mississippi

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a tractor. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a tractor. Pie Town,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into position by this forming tool as well as by use of the solvent-cement compound. Every tire built is the personal achievement of the expert tire builder. Building a larger size truck tire often consumes a full day's work! Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Sealing and shaping the bead. Each new bead must be sealed into positi...

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Moore County, Texas. Mud pits at cable tool drilling location

Moore County, Texas. Mud pits at cable tool drilling location

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the situation well in hand. That goes for everything they tackle -- like this barrage balloon, for example. The special Marine Corps units at Parris Island, South Carolina gain proficiency with this new fighting tool that the leathernecks have taken over

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. The Marines have the sit...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear around the clock, four company restaurants provide food for the employees. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. At mealtimes clear ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Tool clerk at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Tool clerk at the Allison Motors plant

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

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...

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.

Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Gardener's Tool Shed, Between Williamson Drive & Green Street, adjacent to northern driveway behind Medical Officer's Quarters C, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia

Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Gardener's Tool Shed, Between Williamson Dr...

Significance: The Gardener's Tool Shed, one of two outbuildings associated with Medical Officer's Quarters C (HABS NO. VA-1287-B), is significant as an example of a Vernacular-style utilitarian building that fo... More

Family living in tool shed of Western Coal Company mine number two. Franklin County, Illinois

Family living in tool shed of Western Coal Company mine number two. Fr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farmer drilling water well. In this picture he is loosening and tightening rope around the pulley, thus raising and lowering the drilling tool. Pie Town, New Mexico

Farmer drilling water well. In this picture he is loosening and tighte...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn Michigan. Here radically new techniques of mass production have been developed and put in use. Machine tools and dies produced at this plant themselves make mass production easier and more rapid in other factories throughout the country. The building covers 8 1/2 acres; employs 4,500 skilled workers; equipped with 3 million dollars worth of machinery. Many machinists are being trained for the Navy, here by mechanics, tool and die makers

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn...

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In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here naval cadets are being instructed in lathe operation by the skilled instructor- mechanics

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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A machinist operating a small milling machine. This milling machine is a machine tool used to turn out parts for shell machine. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

A machinist operating a small milling machine. This milling machine is...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. So covered with coolant that neither the cutter nor the work can be seen, this small milling machine is having clutch teeth cut in its face. As in this case, the fixtures required to hold or turn small pieces of work properly are frequently many times larger and more intricate than the piece being made. Site: a Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. So covered with coo...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Engineers and tool experts of a large Eastern silverware manufacturing company discuss blueprints on a bayonet order to be produced for the Army. Bayonet shown is the Springfield rifle type. The determination of management and workers alike to keep the presses rolling on war orders in this plant seems to indicate that these OEM (Office of Emergency Management) posters have been read. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Engineers and tool experts of a large Ea...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled at the yards of a large foundry of a machine tool builder. Scrap is an important element in making high-grade cast iron for machine tools

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled a...

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Moore County, Texas. Cable tool driller at work

Moore County, Texas. Cable tool driller at work

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. Milling machines and machine castings. We are inclined to compare all liquids with water. Iron trickles through little channels with a speed that makes water look sluggish -- a surprising thing until you realize that, molten or not, it's still heavy as iron. Location: a large Midwest machine tool factory

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. We are inclined to ...

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

Moore County, Texas. Cable tool driller at work

Moore County, Texas. Cable tool driller at work

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.

School in war. Los Angeles Polytechnic High. A corner of the tool room in the machine shop of the Los Angeles, Polytechnic High School. This shop is kept busy every day from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. the next morning, training workers for war production jobs in the Los Angeles area

School in war. Los Angeles Polytechnic High. A corner of the tool room...

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

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the production front is this pneumatic drill that anthracite miners use to produce hard coal. Servicemen learned how anthracite is mined at a miners' rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the produ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Brigadier General H.F. Safford, Chief of theProduction Service Branch, Ordnance Department, examines an exhibit of standard types of new 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. Brigadier General H.F. Saf...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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. 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...

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

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. A steel plug gauge, since replaced by a glass gauge at the Frankford Arsenal, is shown checking an inside diameter of a cartridge case. 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. A steel plug gauge, since ...

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

Tool House-Garage, 3005 Circle Drive, Green Park, St. Louis County, MO

Tool House-Garage, 3005 Circle Drive, Green Park, St. Louis County, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-1940 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work

Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Gardener's Tool Shed, Between Williamson Drive & Green Street, adjacent to northern driveway behind Medical Officer's Quarters C, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia

Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Gardener's Tool Shed, Between Williamson Dr...

Significance: The Gardener's Tool Shed, one of two outbuildings associated with Medical Officer's Quarters C (HABS NO. VA-1287-B), is significant as an example of a Vernacular-style utilitarian building that fo... More

Woman guiding the drilling tool for water well drilling. Pie Town, New Mexico

Woman guiding the drilling tool for water well drilling. Pie Town, New...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Here is most important tool, a machine built to turn 105 mm shells. Workmen here are checking the spindle lineup before the machine is shipped. Photo made at Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., tool and die makers, Detroit, Michigan

Here is most important tool, a machine built to turn 105 mm shells. Wo...

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

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten years; cutting tool joints off a drill pipe in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten...

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

Conversion. Automobile industry. Working far into the night, tool engineers and layout experts work on the complete conversion of the great automobile assembly plant to war work. The Plymouth Company, Chrylser Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Working far into the night, tool engi...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A view of the manufacturing area of a large machine tool plant. The finished parts and sub-assemblies stacked in the foreground give some idea of the complexity of machine tools. One average milling machine has about 2000 separate metal parts, most of which require much more skill and care than those of the automobile

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A view of the manuf...

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.

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from production of safety razors to tool-posts. Only conversion necessary in this instance is of the tool holding the V-block, which is held in place by the magnetic chuck. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from prod...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A meal on the march. Machine hands in the tool and die room of a converted automobile plant take lunch periods right on the job. The slotting machine behind them perforates metal shapes used in the production of army "jeeps" and tanks. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

A meal on the march. Machine hands in the tool and die room of a conve...

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Wellington, Kansas. Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe engineer going off to work stops in the locker room for his tool kit

Wellington, Kansas. Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe engineer going off ...

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.

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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Williamsburg, Virginia, Christiana Campell's tavern garden. Azaleas to tool house

Williamsburg, Virginia, Christiana Campell's tavern garden. Azaleas to...

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Tool House-Garage, 3005 Circle Drive, Green Park, St. Louis County, MO

Tool House-Garage, 3005 Circle Drive, Green Park, St. Louis County, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-1940 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work

Carving birds from is hobby of Washingtonian. Washington, D.C., June 25. Using only a common jackknife as a tool, Ellis Miller, has become an expert at whittling birds from wood. Mr. Miller, a mechanic by profession, acquired his hobby through the game of Monopoly. Trying his hand at the game, he liked it and decided to own a set, but determinied at the same time, that his would be home-made. Carving the tokens from wood, Mr. Miller's first creations were images of a tea kettle, flat iron, locomotive, hat, and shoe. He finally carved a duck. In creating new feathered specied, he found his duty as a craftsman to check the authenticity of cono[...] he consulted the pictures of the audubon bird and this was the start of Mr. Miller's hobby

Carving birds from is hobby of Washingtonian. Washington, D.C., June 2...

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Tool shed of sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri

Tool shed of sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri

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Cable tool driller, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

Cable tool driller, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman on a swing. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman on a swing. Pie Town, New Mexico. F...

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Special shell reaming tool; length, three and seven-sixteenths inches

Special shell reaming tool; length, three and seven-sixteenths inches

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Time clock and tool boxes at the vocational school for aircraft construction workers. San Diego, California

Time clock and tool boxes at the vocational school for aircraft constr...

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Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn Michigan. Here radically new techniques of mass production have been developed and put in use. Machine tools and dies produced at this plant themselves make mass production easier and more rapid in other factories throughout the country. The building covers 8 12 acres; employs 4,500 skilled workers; equipped with 3 million dollars worth of machinery. Many machinists are being trained for the Navy, here by mechanics, tool and die makers

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn...

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

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a total of 160 years of experience as skilled machinists. They are contributing this experience to the De Land, Florida production pool. Left to right: A.B. Kenyon, seventy, retired tool maker; William E. Mansfield, seventy-one, who made weapons and munitions for Winchester Arms in the first World War; and M.E. Carr, sixty-seven, owner of a plant which is sub-contracting aircraft work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a ...

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Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. Eric Westerberg, son of Karl Axel Westerberg, came from Eskilstuna, Sweden in 1924. He is married, and is employed as a skilled tool and die maker at the Dearborn plant of the Ford Motor Company

Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. Eric Westerberg, son of Karl Axel W...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. This overhead crane runs the full length of a large Midwest machine tool plant. The foundry ingredients in this picture, front to rear, are crushed limestone, pig iron, scrap cast iron and, in the far background, sand. The crane distributes these materials in bins under the roof of the foundry, from which they are automatically weighed into huge iron baskets in the charge make-up pits

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. This overhead crane...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled at the yards of a large foundry of a machine tool builder. Scrap is an important element in making high-grade cast iron for machine tools

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled a...

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Production. Airplanes. A toolmaker's apprentice at work on a Pratt and Whitney automatic tool room machine in a large Western aircraft plant. He is working on a flap track for a Lockheed Model 58

Production. Airplanes. A toolmaker's apprentice at work on a Pratt and...

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. Milling machines and machine castings. Machine tool builders would be helpless without a great number and variety of machine tools for their own work. A special horizontal milling machine is here performing an operation on the column of what will become a knee and column type milling machine

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Machine tool builde...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A new heat-treating furnace being installed in one of the country's leading machine tool plants. Heat-treating is one of the most important steps in the manufacture of sturdy, accurate moving metal parts, because a given piece of metal can be made either hard or soft, brittle or tough, according to the way it has been heated, quenched and cooled

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A new heat-treating...

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Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving the plant of the Ford Motor Company where his son is employed as an expert tool and die maker and he is foreman of the rough stock department of the Johansson gauge division. They drive twenty-five miles to and from work in their Ford car

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women handle all stockroom work at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. Here, a girl checks a jig out to an employee in the tool departmart. This plant produces the battle tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Women handle all stockroom ...

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Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Inspecting a gear with a steel ring, since replaced by a glass gauge 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. Inspecting a gear with a ...

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

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