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Foundations of house unit E. Berwyn, Maryland

Foundations of house unit E. Berwyn, Maryland

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Adobe brick chicken house on farm of Mr. Bosley. Reorganization unit, Baca County, Colorado

Adobe brick chicken house on farm of Mr. Bosley. Reorganization unit, ...

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Mr. Bosley of the reorganization unit standing in a field of sudan grass on his farm in Baca County, Colorado. This grass is one of the best cover crops which can be grown in this region in order to bring it back from its present stricken stage due to dust storms

Mr. Bosley of the reorganization unit standing in a field of sudan gra...

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Placing bale of cotton into compressing unit. Compress, Houston, Texas. After going through the compress the bale of cotton is about one third its original size

Placing bale of cotton into compressing unit. Compress, Houston, Texas...

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Boiling down sap into maple syrup in evaporator in Walter Gaylord's house in Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually but this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in the family for three generations. He has about forty head of cattle, raises poultry, and potatoes

Boiling down sap into maple syrup in evaporator in Walter Gaylord's ho...

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Working in the garden. Deshee Unit, Wabash Farms, Indiana

Working in the garden. Deshee Unit, Wabash Farms, Indiana

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Isolation unit shelters for contagious diseases at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Isolation unit shelters for contagious diseases at Okeechobee migrator...

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Detail of corner of apartment house and garage at Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit, Maricopa County, Arizona

Detail of corner of apartment house and garage at Arizona part-time fa...

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H.R. Boyer, Chief, Managing Unit, Aircraft Section, Office of Production Management (OPM). Formerly President and General Manager of Allen Corporation, Detroit

H.R. Boyer, Chief, Managing Unit, Aircraft Section, Office of Producti...

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Farm worker and his wife with their twin babies start for a walk into the nearby town. FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Farm worker and his wife with their twin babies start for a walk into ...

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Nurse looks at cut on baby's arm at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho. The nurse not only is in attendance at the trailer clinic, but makes her regular rounds of calls to the tents

Nurse looks at cut on baby's arm at the FSA (Farm Security Administrat...

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Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. This plant is working at full capacity to produce oil for the military machines fighting to preserve democracy

Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State...

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Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. This plant is working at full capacity to produce oil for the military machines fighting to preserve democracy

Oil. Here is part of the huge McKean cracking unit of the Quaker State...

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Laundry at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Laundry at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Edwin Rosskam selecting from the files pictures to be used in the center

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

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Nurse administers hypodermic to wife of farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Nurse administers hypodermic to wife of farm worker who lives at the F...

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Examination in trailer-clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Examination in trailer-clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of bullet-sealing gasoline tanks, eight-foot high bomber tires and huge 3,600-pound earth mover tires. This unit at a large Eastern tire plant is the largest of its kind in the world. It must be thoroughly and constantly inspected as it is in frequent service on war production. Here the inspector is checking the steam and pressure fittings. The mold, when open, stands more than two-and-a-half stories high and weighs over 300,000 pounds. Firestone

Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A reconnaissance unit attacking a hill during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A reconnaissance unit attacking a hill during a sh...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of a mechanized cavalry rec...

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Washington, D.C. First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the Southwest area. Two future first-aiders practicing on a member of the class. The instructor gives problems and the students must carry them out as they would in an actual bombing

Washington, D.C. First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the So...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Simmons family in their trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) t...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance uni...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction activities on a new generating unit in the new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. The walls and a portion of the intake can be seen. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction activities on a new generatin...

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

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

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New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. The soldiers of the sea have a new troop carrier that serves them well on land and in the water. A special Marine unit, training with an amphibian tractor at New River, North Carolina, is on its way from a battleship to establish a beachhead

New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. The soldiers of t...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Taking advantage of natural cover during a scouting problem of a reconnaissance unit

Fort Riley, Kansas. Taking advantage of natural cover during a scoutin...

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Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. In the Cecil Patrick trailer. For workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) cam...

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Demonstration by the Army dental unit

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army medical field service school. Demons...

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Japanese-American volunteers. Among the men from local board No. 2 on Kauai, Hawaii who reported for physical examination prior to induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat unit taking shape in the territory were these three pairs of brothers. From left to right they are: Minoru, twenty-eight, and Chitsugi Manabe, twenty-three; Tooru, eighteen, and James S. Takenaka, twenty; and Shigeo, twenty-one, and Tadao Suemori, twenty. Tooru Takenaka was still a student in high school when he went up for his physical. He volunteered because "I want to go in with my brother to do my share."

Japanese-American volunteers. Among the men from local board No. 2 on ...

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Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, all were taken in a simultaneous operation as AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers on Kauai, Hawaii, first island to begin induction into the new combat unit, underwent physical examination prior to induction of 150 men

Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, a...

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Sergeant Richard A. Walton, a welder with a mobile unit

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Sergeant Richard A....

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Entrance to Nyssa Farm family labor camp, FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile unit number 1, just established before opening of beet season. Near Nyssa, Oregon

Entrance to Nyssa Farm family labor camp, FSA (Farm Security Administr...

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Farm unit. Burlington project, North Dakota

Farm unit. Burlington project, North Dakota

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W.D. Connor, Jr., chief, Lumber Unit, Office of Production Management (OPM)

W.D. Connor, Jr., chief, Lumber Unit, Office of Production Management ...

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H.R. Boyer, Chief, Managing Unit, Aircraft Section, Office of Production Management(OPM). Formerly President and General Manager of Allen Corporation, Detroit

H.R. Boyer, Chief, Managing Unit, Aircraft Section, Office of Producti...

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

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

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No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that started the first generators of Tenessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Douglas Dam, a vital war power-production unit, Patrick P. Marshall, steam-fitter, said: "I realized that any day I was absent was a day given to the enemy." Marshall had been on the job for 374 consecutive workdays. He was chosen among eighteen workers, all of whom never missed a day of work on Douglas, to speak for the employees. He is shown here being congratulated by W.L. Batt, War Production Board (WPB) vice-chairman, on the completion of a job that is making aluminum for bombers ahead of schedule

No absenteeism here. Knoxville, Tennessee. As he threw the switch that...

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Hogs owned by the cooperative. Deshee Unit, Wabash Farms, Indiana

Hogs owned by the cooperative. Deshee Unit, Wabash Farms, Indiana

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A black and white photo of a window in a room. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a window in a room. Great Depression FFSA /...

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Mrs. Christiansen of the Christiansen canning unit sealing cans. During 1939 she canned 2300 quarts which included 20 mutton, 2 beeves, 5 pigs. Fish was tried very successfully. In this cooperative agreement, there were twenty-five users and outside of the cooperative there were ten others who used Mrs. Christiansen's services

Mrs. Christiansen of the Christiansen canning unit sealing cans. Durin...

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A black and white photo of a bed in a room. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a bed in a room. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

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U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. As a U.S. Army transport plows through the Atlantic on its way to Liberia, Africa, the Negro crew of a 37mm anti-aircraft gun holds a shipboard practice session. The soldiers, members of a U.S. Army Engineer's unit, were especially interested in Liberia, a Negro Republic founded by their ancestors whose governmental system is patterned on that of the U.S.

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. As a U.S. Army transport plows th...

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Part of the fine dairy herd at the Arizona Part-Time Farms, Chandler Unit, Maricopa County, Arizona

Part of the fine dairy herd at the Arizona Part-Time Farms, Chandler U...

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Closet space in apartment of family living and working at the Arizona Part-Time Farms, Chandler Unit, Maricopa County, Arizona

Closet space in apartment of family living and working at the Arizona ...

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Farm unit. Burlington project, North Dakota

Farm unit. Burlington project, North Dakota

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Nurse with group of farm workers as she makes her calls in the afternoon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Nurse with group of farm workers as she makes her calls in the afterno...

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Oil. Parts of the huge distillation unit at Bradford, Pennsylvania, a unit of the Quaker State Refining Company

Oil. Parts of the huge distillation unit at Bradford, Pennsylvania, a ...

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Young farm worker in tent at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Young farm worker in tent at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mi...

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Nampa, Idaho. Mobile unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for migratory farm workers. Tents of staff members and the power unit in the background

Nampa, Idaho. Mobile unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) ca...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portable irrigation unit in bean field, Starkey Farms, Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Portable irrigation unit in bean field, Starkey Farms, Morrisville, Pe...

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Tents at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory farm labor camp mobile unit. Athena, Oregon

Tents at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory farm labor c...

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Nurse at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit, examines throat of baby in trailer-clinic. Wilder, Idaho

Nurse at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp m...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Jeeps of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit in a smokescreen during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Jeeps of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit ...

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Farm workers who live at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community mobile unit vote for camp council members. Friendly Corners, Arizona

Farm workers who live at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm w...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit in action during a sham battle

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Douglas Hartshorne, Head, Educational Unit, General Salvage Section, Conservation Division, War Production Board (WPB)

Douglas Hartshorne, Head, Educational Unit, General Salvage Section, C...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Driver of a scout car of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit

Fort Riley, Kansas. Driver of a scout car of a mechanized cavalry reco...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps. "Old Swampy's behaving pretty good today." Marines of a balloon barrage unit training at Parris Island have a good word to say for one of the big bags that has gained a reputation for temperamental performance

Parris Island. Marine Corps. "Old Swampy's behaving pretty good today....

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Airplane mechanics of a mobile unit working on the rudder of a B-26

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Airplane mechanics ...

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Sergeant Robert Steele, machinist with a mobile unit

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Sergeant Robert Ste...

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Mechanics of a mobile unit removing the engine of a plane

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Mechanics of a mobi...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Edwin Rosskam and Milton Tinsley making the scale paste-up from the original dummy

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

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

The poultry unit on the cooperative. Wabash Farms, Indiana

The poultry unit on the cooperative. Wabash Farms, Indiana

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Labor unit home and buildings, Western Slope Farms, Colorado

Labor unit home and buildings, Western Slope Farms, Colorado

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U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. The Naval armed guard on a Liberia bound transport stages a gun drill with a 4 inch deck gun and a heavy anti-aircraft machine gun. The Negro troops, members of a highly trained engineer unit of the U.S. Army, made the trip to Africa without incident

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. The Naval armed guard on a Liberi...

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Ruben R. Rawls, O.B.A. Price Division, Fuel Section, Coal Unit

Ruben R. Rawls, O.B.A. Price Division, Fuel Section, Coal Unit

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

Feeding the dairy herd of the Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit, Maricopa County, Arizona

Feeding the dairy herd of the Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit, ...

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Chicken shelter on the Arizona part-time farms, Chandler Unit. Maricopa County, Arizona

Chicken shelter on the Arizona part-time farms, Chandler Unit. Maricop...

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

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

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Lewis A. Jones, Branch Chief, Electrical Unit, Purchasing Section, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Lewis A. Jones, Branch Chief, Electrical Unit, Purchasing Section, Off...

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Community building at the Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit, Maricopa County, Arizona

Community building at the Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit, Mari...

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Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit

Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit

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C. D. Scully, Jr., Business Specialist, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Administration

C. D. Scully, Jr., Business Specialist, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Off...

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Poet and historian turns to films. Carl Sandburg is shown here as he was writing the commentary for "Bomber", national defense motion Picture just completed by the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) film unit. Mr. Sandburg is famous as the Pulitzer prize winning author of "The War Years," monumental biography of Abraham Lincoln, and as the author of numerous poems and other works. Mr. Sandburg is also famous as a musician, newspaper columnist and authority on Americans. The commentary for "Bomber" was his first excursion into film making. He volunteered his services to the defense program and served without pay

Poet and historian turns to films. Carl Sandburg is shown here as he w...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal in New York. In the visual unit of the Farm Security Administration. Scale paste-up of the agricultural paste-up

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

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Washington, D.C. First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the Southwest area. Three members of the class applying splints, hand, head and arm bandages to a member of the class

Washington, D.C. First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the So...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. In a trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Simmons family in their trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a cavalry rifle unit going through a smokescreen during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a cavalry rifle unit going through a sm...

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Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. In a trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) c...

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Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. The soldiers of the sea have a new troop carrier that serves them well on land and in the water. A special Marine unit, training with an amphibian tractor at New River, North Carolina, is on its way from a battleship to establish a beachhead

New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. The soldiers of t...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. The order to "open fire" during a sham battle involving a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit

Fort Riley, Kansas. The order to "open fire" during a sham battle invo...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A sergeant of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit

Fort Riley, Kansas. A sergeant of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance ...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph ser...

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Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Barbara Ann DeHolt, daughter of a worker, in their trailer

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit of FSA (Farm Security Administration) cam...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way. A member of a marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription automatic typewriter unit for the WPB correspondence. These machines in operation are some of the twenty dictator transcribing machines. This unit turns out almost 4,000 letters weekly

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit setting up their gun during a sham battle

Fort Riley, Kansas. A machine gun unit setting up their gun during a s...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. "The Marines have landed, and have the situation well in hand." A special leatherneck unit, training with new amphibian tractors at New River, North Carolina, is ready for any shore opposition as its land-and-water troop carrier brings them ashore in full battle gear to establish a beachhead

New River, North Carolina. Marine amphibian tractor. "The Marines have...

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Washington, D.C. First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the Southwest area. Four members of the class demonstrating the proper way to transport a victim if a stretcher is not available

Washington, D.C. First aid class of the air raid warden unit in the So...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Elam Habecker, real estate man and Secretary of Lititz borough for the past nine years, arrives at his office at 7:15 to read the paper and listen to war news on the radio. One son is a Lieutenant Commander who was at Pearl Harbor. One daughter is a nurse with the Jefferson unit in Egypt. The hat rack in the corner belonged to General Sutter on whose land gold was found in 1849 in California, who died in Lititz

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Elam Habecker, real estate man and Secretary of ...

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Cooling unit at Phillips gasoline plant

Cooling unit at Phillips gasoline plant

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Mobile power unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community mobile unit. Friendly Corners, Arizona

Mobile power unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm worke...

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Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

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Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for workers at Burlington ordnance plant.

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit FSA (Farm Security Administration) traile...

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Filipino American Red Cross surgical dressing unit, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Mrs. Conchita Perez and Mrs. J. Weldon Jones, wife of former insular uuditor and acting high commissioner of Philippines for year and a half

Filipino American Red Cross surgical dressing unit, Washington, D.C. L...

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Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C., of the type of prefabricated temporary emergency dwelling unit Unitee States plans to ship to Great Britian under lend-lease. Materials have been allotted by War Production Board, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement fo these houses. Bids for the construction of these units were to be in by March 5, 1945

Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Wa...

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Construction on house unit E. Berwyn, Maryland

Construction on house unit E. Berwyn, Maryland

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