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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee operates a turret lathe in the machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. She handles the machine as skillfully as a man. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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. This woman employee operate...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a woman employee operates a turret lathe under the close supervision of a skilled machinist in North American's modern machine shop

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a wom...

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Left to right: Bertha Carlotta, twenty-nine, a machinist testing axles; Anna Plecenik, twenty-four, a machinist's helper, working a drill press; Mary Stefanski, thirty-seven, a blacksmith's helper; Cecelia Wadkowski, thirty-five, a machinist operating a turret lathe; and Susan Topolosky, thirty-two, a machinist's helper operating a radial dial press

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards ...

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.

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill press, and arbor press facilities for the manufacture of a five-inch assembly housing

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill pres...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro turret-lathe worker, who is receiving training in machine shop practice, learning a filing operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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. A woman employee operates a...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under subcontract, John Kerr operates a turret lathe for tapping and drilling valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by the prime contractor. Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under ...

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

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant since August 1941, leaving a job as machinist in Torrington to work here. With his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Heath was among the first to move into the new government housing project near the plant, leaving a furnished room in Torrington to occupy a spacious four-room apartment in the eighty-unit project

Bantam, Connecticut. Fred Heath has been operating at a turret lathe a...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, internal thread grinder, internal grinder, cylindrical grinder, and lapping and heat treating facilities

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, ...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millim...

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

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under subcontract, John Kerr operates a turret lathe for tapping and drilling valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by the prime contractor, Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill press, and arbor press facilities for the manufacture of a five-inch assembly housing

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill pres...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a Midwest tank plant, Michael is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans whose sole purpose during working hours is to get as many tanks as possible off the lines and ready for shipment to the fighting fronts. Michael's grandparents, with whom he lives, cling to the Slavic language and to many "old country" customs, but Michael and his brothers and sisters are as American as the Smiths and Joneses. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra go...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck for a newly acquired second-hand turret lathe, which this Eastern cube steak machinery plant recently bought from a nearby shoe factory in order to speed work on new defense subcontracts. Here it holds a three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nut, which has just been threaded by the tap seen in the background. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck f...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck for a newly acquired second-hand turret lathe, which this Eastern cube steak machinery plant recently bought from a nearby shoe factory in order to speed work on new defense subcontracts. Here it holds a three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nut, which has just been threaded by the tap seen in the background. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck f...

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

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-fi...

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

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

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

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe is this man's specialty. Location: a large eastern Navy arsenal

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe ...

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.

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop tests the accuracy of his work with a micrometer

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is fini...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for the production of Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns mounts and carriages at a large Midwest rubber factory involves skilled precision operations. Here an expert workman is making the final cut on a vertical turret lathe. When this operation is complete, the bronze ring will be moved to the gear for the concluding operation

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for ...

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

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of the bathroom in the four-room defense housing unit where the Heaths live. Ann had quite a trying time getting used to the size of the new apartment, after having lived most of her life with her parents in a single furnished room in Torrington

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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. A woman employee operates a...

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

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two turret-lathe workers, Negro and white, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, watching a cutting-off operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

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

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Pho...

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

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Pho...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millim...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

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

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Turret-lathe workers, Negro and white, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, carrying out an operation on a turret lathe

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a woman employee operates a turret lathe under the close supervision of a skilled machinist in North American's modern machine shop

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a wom...

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

Worm shaft which may be made in a tool shop having turret lathe, tool room screw cutting lathe, horizontal milling machine, drill press, and heat treating facilities

Worm shaft which may be made in a tool shop having turret lathe, tool ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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

[Woman working turret lathe in training school, Lincoln Motor Co., Detroit, Mi., during World War I]

[Woman working turret lathe in training school, Lincoln Motor Co., Det...

U.S. Army Industrial Service Section, Women's Branch photo. No. 35761. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is finished on a huge turret lathe, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif

In North American's modern machine shop, another aircraft part is fini...

12002-38. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information P...

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

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop tests the accuracy of his work with a micrometer

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop ...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, internal thread grinder, internal grinder, cylindrical grinder, and lapping and heat treating facilities

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe is this man's specialty. Location: a large eastern Navy arsenal

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe ...

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

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-fi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Alternate series LC-USE638- Image source: General Electric; G-003 DC, NB-2049. Negative copied from print in lot. Title and other information from capt... More

Worm shaft which may be made in a tool shop having turret lathe, tool room screw cutting lathe, horizontal milling machine, drill press, and heat treating facilities

Worm shaft which may be made in a tool shop having turret lathe, tool ...

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

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a Midwest tank plant, Michael is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans whose sole purpose during working hours is to get as many tanks as possible off the lines and ready for shipment to the fighting fronts. Michael's grandparents, with whom he lives, cling to the Slavic language and to many "old country" customs, but Michael and his brothers and sisters are as American as the Smiths and Joneses. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra go...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he's been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families to move into the new war workers' homes in Bantam, the Heaths, who have been married for five years, had previously been living in a furnished room in Torrington. Mrs. Heath formerly lived in Winsted, a town of about 25,000 people just a dozen miles from Torrington. They are proud of their new home and of the comfortable new furniture they bought on the installment plan in Torrington. They have besides the kitchen, a large living room, a modern bath, a medium-sized master bedroom and a smaller room for their three-year-old daughter, Ann

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. Fred Heath runs a turret lath...

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A little girl standing in a bathroom next to a toilet. Office of War Information Photograph

A little girl standing in a bathroom next to a toilet. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More