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Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Type 7, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Type 7, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 3, 213 Tenth Street, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 3, 213 Tenth Street, Honolulu, Honolulu...

Significance: The housing planned for the new Air Base was designed "in keeping with the Hawaiian atmosphere and traditions" with some buildings placed on curving streets and amidst extensive landscaping plants... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Exterior Cranes, 50-Ton Portal Crane Type, Waterfront Crane Track System, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Exterior Cranes, 50-Ton Portal Crane Ty...

Significance: Portal cranes at Pearl Harbor are intrinsically tied to the daily functions of the dry docks. Moreover, the design of the dry docks is governed by the functions, size, and maneuvering limits of th... More

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Maintenance Hangar Type, Midway Street, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Maintenance Hangar Type, Midway Stree...

Significance: The buildings represent the purpose of the air station. They were the first hangars built at the base. Their size and function make them focal points of the base. They are an important part of ... More

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Maintenance Hangar Type, Midway Street, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Maintenance Hangar Type, Midway Stree...

Significance: The buildings represent the purpose of the air station. They were the first hangars built at the base. Their size and function make them focal points of the base. They are an important part of ... More

Hamilton Field, Warehouse Type C, Second Street, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Warehouse Type C, Second Street, Novato, Marin County,...

Significance: The buildings are significant as examples of the application of an important architectural trend (Spanish Colonial Revival) adapted to reflect California's mission heritage in a dramatic departure... More

Hamilton Field, Warehouse Type C, Second Street, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Warehouse Type C, Second Street, Novato, Marin County,...

Significance: The buildings are significant as examples of the application of an important architectural trend (Spanish Colonial Revival) adapted to reflect California's mission heritage in a dramatic departure... More

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Central-Entry Single-Family Housing Type, Between Bragg & Grime Streets near Ayres Avenue, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Central-Entry Single-Family H...

Significance: The wood Craftsman housing designs show a conscious response to popular and regional architectural styles, and to the tropical environment of the site. These houses at Schofield combine some of t... More

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Central-Entry Single-Family Housing Type, Between Bragg & Grime Streets near Ayres Avenue, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Central-Entry Single-Family H...

Significance: The wood Craftsman housing designs show a conscious response to popular and regional architectural styles, and to the tropical environment of the site. These houses at Schofield combine some of t... More

Lincoln Park Homes, Type C Residential Building, West Colfax Avenue & Marispoa Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Lincoln Park Homes, Type C Residential Building, West Colfax Avenue & ...

Significance: The Lincoln Park Homes complex is one of Colorado's earliest public housing projects. One of three such projects planned by the Denver Housing Authority soon after the agency's formation in 1938, ... More

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 6, 212 Eleventh Street, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, NCO Housing Type 6, 212 Eleventh Street, Honolulu, Honol...

Significance: The Type 6 duplex housing units were part of the development of Hickam Air BAse in the late 1930s and early 1940s as the Army Air Corps shifted its operations from Ford Island and utilized the lar... More

Ogden Arsenal, Igloo Type Magazine, 6359 Hickory Avenue, Layton, Davis County, UT

Ogden Arsenal, Igloo Type Magazine, 6359 Hickory Avenue, Layton, Davis...

Significance: Building 1825 provides particularly vivid insight into the processes involved in the storage of highly explosive components like munitions. In addition, this building contributes to an understand... More

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type A, South end of Third Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type A, South end of Third Stre...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-A Building/structure dates: 1945 Initial Construction

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type A, South end of Third Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type A, South end of Third Stre...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-A Building/structure dates: 1945 Initial Construction

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Headquarters Branch, Magazine Type, Kolekole & Guadalcanal Roads & Thirty-first Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Headquarters Branch, Magazine Type, Kolekole...

Significance: These buildings serve as excellent intact examples of military ammunition storage construction from the pre-WWII and World War II period, and are significant as part of the initial base constructi... More

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Guard-Watch Tower Type, Near A Avenue between Fourth & Sixth Streets, Ninth Street & D Avenue intersection, & F Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Guard-Watch Tower Type, Ne...

Significance: These buildings serve as excellent intact examples of military construction in the 1930s, and are significant as part of the initial base construction. Survey number: HABS HI-219

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Two-Story House, Front Gable Type, Ambler, Montgomery County, PA

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Two-Story House, Front Gable Type, Ambler,...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-T Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Two-Story House, Front Gable Type, Ambler, Montgomery County, PA

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Two-Story House, Front Gable Type, Ambler,...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-T Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keasbey & Mattison Company, 2 1/2 Story House Type, Church Street, Ambler, Montgomery County, PA

Keasbey & Mattison Company, 2 1/2 Story House Type, Church Street, Amb...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-Z Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nevada Test Site, Japanese Village, Type C Elevation, Area 4, Yucca Flat, 4-04 Road near Rainier Mesa Road, Mercury, Nye County, NV

Nevada Test Site, Japanese Village, Type C Elevation, Area 4, Yucca Fl...

Survey number: HABS NV-27-C Building/structure dates: 1962 Initial Construction

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Transit Shed Rail Yard Type, Between Pinter & Gilliss Avenues below rail yard, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Transit Shed Rail Yard Type, Between Pint...

Significance: Buildings 619 and 719 are contributing elements of the Naval Supply Annex Stockton Historic District. The historic district was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Histori... More

Mrs. Abrams, 15 E. 118th St., N.Y. (ground floor). Makes hair-puffs and switches in her parlor. Dresses hair also. The neighbors, in dark inner bed-room, converse as she works. Husband (photo on the wall) is a painter. Many so-called Hair Dressing Parlors, are of this type. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Abrams, 15 E. 118th St., N.Y. (ground floor). Makes hair-puffs an...

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

The old folks at home. This is the type of people that stand for all that is best in Roumanian life. They are peasants of a great rolling grain country and have worked on the soil since childhood. It is this type of Balkans people to whom the American Red Cross aid was extended

The old folks at home. This is the type of people that stand for all t...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Roumania. On caption card: (11593) Used in: Junio... More

Petra. El-M'esrah area. Pedimented doorway of corniced monument. Highly decorated type with double pilasters

Petra. El-M'esrah area. Pedimented doorway of corniced monument. Highl...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petra. Wadi-Ed-Dêr. Early type rectilinear tomb with idol niche to left of door

Petra. Wadi-Ed-Dêr. Early type rectilinear tomb with idol niche to lef...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this victoria with the velvet robed driver for twenty cents an hour. Every one can be a prince or princess for an hour Type of Roumanian peasant girl. Upon her wedding day an olive twig must be held over her head by one of the men attendants and if once it is dropped, even during the dancing and feasting, bad luck will be her lot and the gaiety will be dispelled in a jiffy.

Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this ...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a horse-drawn carriage driver in his carriage, Bucharest; and a young woman wearing a head scarf. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1265 ... More

A new use for discarded automobile horns has been discovered by Dr. William C. Fowler, health officer of Wash., D.C. Dr. Fowler has adapted an old rams-horn type auto horn, a relic of the days when they blew them with bulbs, and fitted it to his radio to serve as a loud speaker. This gives as good a tone as any he could buy, he says

A new use for discarded automobile horns has been discovered by Dr. Wi...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New type amphibian plane, 1/19/25

New type amphibian plane, 1/19/25

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A concrete-lined ditch which was the type of open ditch in which the anopheles minimus mosquito would not breed in this section of India

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A concrete...

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

Ramallah type (Wedad Khuri). Weddad in finely embroidered Ramallah costume, seated, 3/4 figure

Ramallah type (Wedad Khuri). Weddad in finely embroidered Ramallah cos...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Snowlodge, Tourist Cabin Type F No. 442, 480' southwest of Snowlodge, West Thumb, Teton County, WY

Snowlodge, Tourist Cabin Type F No. 442, 480' southwest of Snowlodge, ...

Survey number: HABS WY-126-H National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 82001839

Hamilton Field, Exterior Lighting Type A, East of Nave Drive, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Exterior Lighting Type A, East of Nave Drive, Novato, ...

Significance: The exterior lighting fixtures installed at Hamilton between 1931 and 1935 are important features of the historic landscaping as well as contributing structures to the historic district. They ref... More

Washington sees new type autogiro, Washington, D.C. Oct. 2. An experimental auto giro, capable of being driven on highways as well as being flown in the air, was delivered to the Bureau of Air Commerce today at the Department Commerce today at the Department Commerce building . The ship, piloted by the veteran autogiro pilot James G. Ray, was driven down Pennsylvania Avenue after landing in a park near the United States Treasury. The Bureau of Air Commerce will make acceptance test flights with the autogiro

Washington sees new type autogiro, Washington, D.C. Oct. 2. An experim...

Public domain photograph of large public building, square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Type of house and farmer to be removed from land development area. Pennington County, South Dakota

Type of house and farmer to be removed from land development area. Pen...

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

Type of land being purchased for public domain. Pennington County, South Dakota

Type of land being purchased for public domain. Pennington County, Sou...

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

Type of stock farmer at weighing-in room, stockyards, Aledo, Illinois

Type of stock farmer at weighing-in room, stockyards, Aledo, Illinois

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

Type of land on project at Las Cruces, New Mexico. Note large yuccas

Type of land on project at Las Cruces, New Mexico. Note large yuccas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dry desert landscape, sand, sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval stores processing plant under construction. This type of plant (first one at Jacksonville, Florida, second at Valdosta, Georgia) will probably revolutionize the turpentine industry; in future, farmers will cut their own trees and deliver their own raw gum to this type of plant. Near Valdosta, Georgia

Naval stores processing plant under construction. This type of plant (...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Navy not interested. Washington, D.C., April 26. The U.S. Navy is not interested in experimenting with autogiros but would be pleased if someone else were to develop them to a point suitable for naval use, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison told the House Military Affairs Committee today. He was testifying at the hearing on a bill by Rep. Frank Dorsey to authorize a $2,000,000 appropriation for experimentation by the War Department with the rotor type of aircraft, 4/26/38

Navy not interested. Washington, D.C., April 26. The U.S. Navy is not ...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jebel el-Druze & Hauran. Basra Eski Sham. Street in town with Roman columns & pavement, with good village type

Jebel el-Druze & Hauran. Basra Eski Sham. Street in town with Roman co...

Public domain image of Rome, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cone-row puller type of mechanical corn picker. Robinson farm, Marshall County, Iowa

Cone-row puller type of mechanical corn picker. Robinson farm, Marshal...

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

Type of hay pusher which is used in the Uncompahgre River Valley. Ouray County, Colorado

Type of hay pusher which is used in the Uncompahgre River Valley. Oura...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Twelve of these bell type carburizing furnaces are in twenty-four hour operation at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. They are employed to barburize final drive gears, transmission parts and other parts of the twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks in production there

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Twelve of these bell type carburizing fur...

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

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

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

Public domain photograph of ornamental engraving print, decor, decorated panel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

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

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

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor exhibiting the type of knife used in his meat cutting demonstration before a group of FSA supervisors and officials at a district meeting at San Angelo, Texas

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor exhibiting the type of k...

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

Old house in Silverton, Colorado. This was the type of house built by mine and mill operators in the early days. The type of house built in the early days indicates that the owners felt that the mining operations would be one of a permanent nature

Old house in Silverton, Colorado. This was the type of house built by ...

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

Trimming a fast one. A skilled workman fits the beading around the cockpit of a fast motor launch intended for the U.S. fleet. Boats of this type are being turned out rapidly at an eastern Navy yard

Trimming a fast one. A skilled workman fits the beading around the coc...

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.

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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

War Housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including sections for doors and windows, is fabricated horizontally. The crew working here will later move to another site and repeat the procedure. This circulation of crews who are experienced in one type of construction adds to the speed with which defense homes are being built. Two crews of forty men each are used to raise the stud frames of a four-unit defense home. On the project shown here, one crew started the framework at 8:30am, fabricating it horizontally, and finished it at noon. The other crew moved in shortly after, erected the stud frame, ends, and floor joists, and finished the entire framework by 4:30pm the same day

War Housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The entire framework, including secti...

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.

Aircraft tire manufacture. Workman packages airplane tires of type in common use on U.S. military fighter aircraft. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Workman packages airplane tires of type in ...

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

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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

This North American B-25 bomber, similar to the type used to bomb Tokyo, has established a unique combat record in several war theaters. Lieutenant General Henry H. Arnold, deputy chief of staff for air, said the B-25 can "go farther, faster, and carry more bombs than the best ships of our enemy"

This North American B-25 bomber, similar to the type used to bomb Toky...

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

One of the many intricate performances necessary to the production of aluminum parts for Uncle Sam's mechanized army involves the tapping of a pound tilting type crucible furnace to obtain flow of molten metal into the smaller pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the many intricate performances necessary to the production of ...

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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. From an overhead feed, two bands of all-glass warp yarns are fed into a standard type loom that converts them into a narrow fiberglass fabric to wrap high-pressure steam lines on modern war vessels

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. From an overhead ...

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

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A winch man at the controls who has an important job as he controls the amount of trawl cable that is unwound from the winch. The amount of cable let out depends upon the depth of water, type of bottom, and tide conditions

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A winch ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of the Swedish Club listening to a lecture by Elmer Peterson, Minneapolis radio commentator. On the extreme right is Mr. Hugo Seashore from Sjostrand. Mr. Seashore was born in Halmstad, a province of Halland, Sweden. He is superintendent of a type of setting company in Minneapolis. In his younger days he was a light heavyweight prize fighter. On the left is Mr. Gust Roos, an interior decorator. Mr. Roos was born in Umeo, near the city of Vestros, province of Vestmanland, Sweden, and came to this country when he was twenty-seven years old

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Members of the Swedish Club listening to a lec...

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

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are the first official pictures released in the United States of the recent meetings of Premier I.V. Stalin, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain; and W. Averrell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt. The three men met in the middle of August, 1942, at the request of the Soviet leader, and held a series of conversations concerned with the future conduct of the war. Also present was V.M. Molotov, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The meetings lasted four days. Molotov, Churchill, and Harriman review Russian troops at Moscow civil airport. Note new type of jackets Russian soldiers are wearing

Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are...

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

"Putting on the skin" of this rowing shell was the type of work formerly done by a New England boat builder. The company now produces plywood rafts and instrument coverings under navy contracts

"Putting on the skin" of this rowing shell was the type of work former...

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

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. Bailey, FSA (Farm Security Administration) county supervisor, visiting Reed Hall on his unproductive farm in the hill section of this county. Mr. Bailey is attempting to recruit men from this type of farm for farm labor training and relocation in more productive farming areas

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. Bailey, FSA (Farm Security Admini...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Houses for Britain. Living room (twelve feet, eleven inches by eleven feet seven inches) in a model of prefabricated, temporary, emergency dwellings of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. Detail of windows, two open and two fixed. All glass to be supplied in England

Houses for Britain. Living room (twelve feet, eleven inches by eleven ...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses for Britain. Partitions between rooms being put up in model house erected at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. by the Federal Public Housing Authority, of the type of prefabricated temporary emergency dwelling which United States plans to ship to Great Britiain under lend-lease

Houses for Britain. Partitions between rooms being put up in model hou...

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

Houses for Britain. Workmen about to put a panel in place in the model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. This house is of the type of pre-fabricated temporary emergency house which the United States plans to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. War Production Board has allotted materials ot FEA for 30,000 of these houses. The Federal Public Housing Authority of National Housing Agency will undertake procurement of these units

Houses for Britain. Workmen about to put a panel in place in the model...

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

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Waikele Branch, Guard-Watch Tower Type, On ridge above Tunnel C-11, on Prime Road on ridge above Tunnel B-5, & on ridge above Tunnel D-14, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Waikele Branch, Guard-Watch Tower Type, On r...

Significance: These structures serve as excellent examples of military construction, and have served a significant role at the base since their completion. Survey number: HABS HI-263

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Three-Bedroom Duplex Type 4, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive and Elm Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Inert Storehouse Type, Northeast of Fourth Street & D Avenue intersection, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Inert Storehouse Type, Nor...

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

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Inert Storehouse Type, Northeast of Fourth Street & D Avenue intersection, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Inert Storehouse Type, Nor...

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

Presidio of San Francisco, Motor Vehicle Shed Type, West end of Crissy Field, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Presidio of San Francisco, Motor Vehicle Shed Type, West end of Crissy...

Significance: These four vehicle sheds were built in 1940, and designed according to the Army's 700-series standard plans. They represent the mobilization of the Army for World War II, an Army that had not com... More

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type L, 702 Julian Avenue, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type L, 702 Julian Avenue, Honolulu, H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Officer House with Garage Type, Franklin & Saratoga Avenues, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Officer House with Garage Type, Frank...

Significance: These housing units are significant as the quarters of the senior officers of the Naval Air Station. Two of the three garages are historic buildings that contribute to this historic group of stru... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Housing Area 1, Two-Story Duplex Type, Bounded by Kamehameha Highway, Plantation Drive, South Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Housing Area 1, Two-Story Duplex Type, ...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, M-Shaped Four-Bedroom Duplex Type 5, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, M-Shaped Four-Bedroom Duplex Type 5, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, M-Shaped Four-Bedroom Duplex Type 5, Birch Circle, Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Senior Officers' Quarters Type D, 29 Makalapa Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Senior Off...

Significance: This housing type is significant as the residence of flag officers of the Navy in Hawaii from 1941 to the present, and as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a gro... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Senior Officers' Quarters Type D, 29 Makalapa Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Naval Housing Area Makalapa, Senior Off...

Significance: This housing type is significant as the residence of flag officers of the Navy in Hawaii from 1941 to the present, and as an example of Hawaiian residential architecture during the 1940s, in a gro... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Duplex Type 1, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, and Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built in Hawaii and throughout the nation under the Capehart... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Duplex Type 1, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, and Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built in Hawaii and throughout the nation under the Capehart... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Duplex Type 1, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, and Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built in Hawaii and throughout the nation under the Capehart... More

Hamilton Field, Warehouse Type B, Escolta Avenue & Fourth Street, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Warehouse Type B, Escolta Avenue & Fourth Street, Nova...

Significance: Facility No. 412 was the first warehouse constructed on base to serve the Quartermaster post exchange. In 1960 it was used as a Supply and Equipment Warehouse. By 1966 this building functioned v... More

Keasbey & Mattison Company, 2 1/2 Story Double House, Side Gable Roof Type, 212-218 Mattison Avenue, Ambler, Montgomery County, PA

Keasbey & Mattison Company, 2 1/2 Story Double House, Side Gable Roof ...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-W Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Ready Magazine-1943 Type, Adjacent to Hangars 110 & 111, on or near Midway Street, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Ready Magazine-1943 Type, Adjacent to...

Significance: These small concrete structures are part of the response to the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Oahu. They were built in order to have ammunition storage close at hand to important buildings.... More

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Duplex Housing Type with Corner Entries, Between Hamilton & Tidball Streets near Williston Avenue, Wahiawa, Honolulu County, HI

Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Duplex Housing Type with Corn...

Significance: The wood Craftsman housing designs show a conscious response to popular and regional architectural styles, and to the tropical environment of the site. These houses at Schofield combine some of t... More

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type N, 204B Second Street, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Hickam Field, Officers' Housing Type N, 204B Second Street, Honolulu, ...

Significance: The Type N housing units were part of the development of Hickam Air Base in the late 1930s and early 1940s as the Army Air Corps shifted its operations from Ford Island and utilized the larger are... More

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Steel Warehouse Type, Between James & Humphreys Drives south of Embarcadero, Stockton, San Joaquin County, CA

Naval Supply Annex Stockton, Steel Warehouse Type, Between James & Hum...

Significance: Buildings 213, 214, 312, 313, 314, 411, 412, 413, 414, 510, 511, 512, 609, 610, 611, 612, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 810, 811, 812, and 813 are contributing elemen... More

Hamilton Field, Company Officers' Quarters Type E, South Oakwood Drive & Las Lomas Drive, Novato, Marin County, CA

Hamilton Field, Company Officers' Quarters Type E, South Oakwood Drive...

Significance: The Type E Company Officers' Quarters (COQ) are among the original residential units designed by the Constructing Quartermaster's Office at Hamilton Army Air Field. The quarters were equipped wit... More

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Magazine Type 1, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, & Ninth Streets, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, West Loch Branch, Magazine Type 1, Fourth, F...

Significance: These structures serve as excellent examples of military ammunition storage construction from the 1940s, and are significant as part of the WWII buildup of the base. Survey number: HABS HI-211

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Single-Family Type 6, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

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

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Single-Family Type 6, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Two-Bedroom Single-Family Type 6, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ogden Arsenal, Igloo Type Magazine, East Side of Pine, between Georgia & Maine Streets, Layton, Davis County, UT

Ogden Arsenal, Igloo Type Magazine, East Side of Pine, between Georgia...

Significance: Building 1484 provides particularly vivid insight into the processes involved in the storage of highly explosive components like munitions. In addition, this building contributes to an understand... More

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type C, Intersection of Third & M Streets, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Naval Supply Center, Warehouse Type C, Intersection of Third &...

Survey number: HABS CA-2614-C Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, Three-Bedroom Single-Family Type 9, Birch Circle, Elm Drive, Elm Circle, and Date Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Headquarters Branch, Magazine Type, Fourteenth Street near Kwajalein Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Headquarters Branch, Magazine Type, Fourteen...

Significance: These buildings serve as excellent intact examples of military ammunition storage construction from the World War II period, and are significant as part of the WWII build-up of the base. Survey n... More

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehart) Housing, U-Shaped Three-Bedroom Duplex Type 2, Acacia Road, Birch Circle, and Cedar Drive, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

Camp H.M. Smith and Navy Public Works Center Manana Title VII (Capehar...

Significance: The housing area was constructed as a Capehart project in 1959 for Marine Corps and Navy personnel. It was one of many similar projects built throughout Hawaii and the nation under the Capehart Ac... More

Presidio of San Francisco, Storehouse Type, West end of Crissy Field, Maudlin Street, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Presidio of San Francisco, Storehouse Type, West end of Crissy Field, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2619 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000232

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Worker's Housing Type A, Fourth Street, Cannelton, Perry County, IN

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Worker's Housing Type A, Fourth Street, Cannelt...

Survey number: HAER IN-1-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75000011

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