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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is a row of charging boxes loaded with limestone, the main ingrediant in the production of quality steel. These boxes will shortly dump their loads into open hearth furnaces

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is a row of charging boxes l...

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Lines of sheet metal formed into top and back panels for the cabs of Army trucks arrive at the truck plant daily in huge shipments loaded compactly into railroad freight cars. Four carloads are required for an average day's production

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Lines of sheet metal formed into top 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

H.K. Masters, consultant of miscellaneous minerals, Materials Branch, Production Management

H.K. Masters, consultant of miscellaneous minerals, Materials Branch, ...

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

George Livingston, chief of Food Supply Section, Agricultural Division

George Livingston, chief of Food Supply Section, Agricultural Division

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Close-up showing men putting stencils in place on the hood of a Dodge Army truck

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Close-up showing men putting stencils ...

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

Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Section, Office of Price Administration

Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Se...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Dr. Donald H. Wallace. Head Economic Analyst, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

Dr. Donald H. Wallace. Head Economic Analyst, Office of Price Administ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Application for gasoline ration cards B1, B2, B3. B cards are issued to car owners whose vocational requirements make necessary the use of more gasoline than provided by the basic allotment card A. An applicant for a B card must present evidence that he is the owner of a registered vehicle and that he has need for more gasoline than he can obtain on the A card

Application for gasoline ration cards B1, B2, B3. B cards are issued t...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Hayden Raynor, assistant to Mr. Stettinius, Division of Priorities

Hayden Raynor, assistant to Mr. Stettinius, Division of Priorities

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

Insignia of Air Raid Protective Services

Insignia of Air Raid Protective Services

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Mr. Vannevar Bush. Chief of Scientific Research and Development, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Mr. Vannevar Bush. Chief of Scientific Research and Development, Offic...

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

Elvise Davison. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Elvise Davison. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo...

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

Mr. Walter C. Shorter. Assistant to the Director of Purchases, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Mr. Walter C. Shorter. Assistant to the Director of Purchases, Office ...

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

E. Stanley Glines - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

E. Stanley Glines - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Mr. A.L. Williams. Assistant to the Assistant Deputy Director, Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Mr. A.L. Williams. Assistant to the Assistant Deputy Director, Priorit...

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

Diversion on board a troopship bound for the Middle East Picture shows - an Indian officer taking a lesson on the bagpipes ("Presbyterian Whistles") from a Scots officer.

Diversion on board a troopship bound for the Middle East Picture shows...

British Official photo: BF 244. No. BO 772. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

The Manchesters in the Far East A battalion of the Manchester Regiment in the Far East is busily engaged in preparing for anything the future may have in store and the art of camouflage is not being overlooked. Photo shows - a Vickers gun in use during an exercise.

The Manchesters in the Far East A battalion of the Manchester Regiment...

British official photograph: BF-27. No. BO-665. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

New Army helmet. Corporal French L. Vineyard, Company M, 12th Infantry. Wearing combat pack, uniform, and old "basin type" helmet. Arlington Cantonment, Arlington, Virginia

New Army helmet. Corporal French L. Vineyard, Company M, 12th Infantry...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Civilian defense. Here is a portable electric power saw to cut flooring and heavy beams. It is part of the equipment of the New York City Emergency Service truck displayed in October at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden by the New York Police Department. This saw, which operates on 110-volt direct current generated by the truck, can be used as far as 2000 feet from the truck

Civilian defense. Here is a portable electric power saw to cut floorin...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Afred T. Palmer or Howard Hollem. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Ov... More

Rubber reclamation. They help produce reclaimed rubber. Workers at a big Midwest recovery plant where junked rubber is prepared for processing into thousands of essential products. In many of these products reclaimed material serves better than raw rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. They help produce reclaimed rubber. Workers at a b...

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

Part of 5,000 large oval serving dishes ready for shipment to the Army Quartermaster. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Part of 5,000 large oval serving dishes ready for shipment to the Army...

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

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in Malaya have burnt thousands of bales of rubber, destroyed rubber factories and smashed machinery. Indian sappers and miners are seen mining a bridge near Kuala Lumpur.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

British Official photo: FLM.798. No. BO-890. Notation on recto: Still photograph from a motion picture on the destruction of supplies and facilities as the British Army retreated. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collec... More

Owen D. Young. Special Representative of the National Defense Mediation Board and William H. Davis, Chairman of the Board, in the latter's office in Washington, D.C. (September 3, 1941)

Owen D. Young. Special Representative of the National Defense Mediatio...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Here a shipfitter and a crew foreman check the plans to make certain they properly locate a prefabricated section for a new ship, part of Uncle Sam's "Liberty Fleet," under construction at a large Eastern yard. Bethlehem- Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Here a shipfitter and a crew foreman ch...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. George Miller, plumber, is foreman of the central plumbing assembly shop. He and his helpers assemble most of the plumbing for this 300-unit defense housing project

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. George Miller, plumber, is forema...

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

Civilian defense uniforms. Summer "parade." This girl is wearing a messenger's insignia

Civilian defense uniforms. Summer "parade." This girl is wearing a mes...

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 group of men standing next to each other. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A group of men standing next to each other. America during Great Depre...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). No caption on print in lot. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Pic... More

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). The welder is a valuable man in our defense industries. This one is working on the bow section of a new destroyer for Uncle Sam's Navy. Welding insures durability, cuts down weight and means a considerable saving in steel

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). The welder is a valuable man in our ...

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

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is 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

A black and white photo of a train in a field, Symanski Brothers. Troy, New York

A black and white photo of a train in a field, Symanski Brothers. Troy...

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

Steel production. The workers behind the steel industry's war production drive. Open hearth furnace men deserve the rest given them while the furnace is being charged. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. The workers behind the steel industry's war producti...

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

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong alloy" akynubym sheet being placed in annealing oven. This sheet stock is of vital importance to the defense program in the manufacture of airplanes

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress, Civilian defense uniforms. Canteen worker

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress, Civilian defense unifor...

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 with a hose. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man with a hose. Office of War Informatio...

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

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the crude-stripping tower, one of the many steps in the manufacture of the lubricants of war. Thousands of gallons of crude oil pour through this tower daily; it is here that impurities are extracted. Only the best oil is used for military purposes

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. Here is the cru...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricians wiring defense homes at Franklin Terrace housing project. Defense homes are provided with electricity, sewage, police and fire protection. In many cases, a lump sum for all services is paid to the city in lieu of taxes

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricians wiring defense homes...

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

Shenandoah Valley. H.B. Alexander standing beside his corn stripping machine in his cannery at Port Republic, Virginia

Shenandoah Valley. H.B. Alexander standing beside his corn stripping m...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Civilian protection. Field emergency units of many characters will provide stretchers and carry first air equipment for field treatment of casualities. The "M.D." next to the caduceus on the doctor's armbank shows that he is a registered physician

Civilian protection. Field emergency units of many characters will pro...

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

Civilian protection. First Air treatment is the field to the victim of an emergency by members of a first aid group, in this case consisting of a doctor, denoted by the "M.D." and caduceus on the armband, and a nurse's aide

Civilian protection. First Air treatment is the field to the victim of...

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

One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for America's mechanized army is the discharge of metal from a 300 pound carrying pot into ingot molds. The molten aluminum was first tapped from a furnace into the carrying pot. Aluminum Industries

One of the first operations in the production of aluminum parts for Am...

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

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for trailer wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. The picture shows the close bond between successive layers of paper smoothed on over a forging mold. The secret of the final hardness and the strength of the material lies in the formula of the solution with which the paper is impregnated. Round corners of the trailer toes, formerly made of metal, are also made by this process

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for...

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

An Oerliken magazine for a 20mm anti-aircraft gun is inspected on the production line of a large plant that formerly made cash registers. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

An Oerliken magazine for a 20mm anti-aircraft gun is inspected on the ...

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

The following members and alternates attended the first meeting of the War Production Board (WPB), held January 20th, 1942, in the conference room of the new Social Security building. Seated, left to right: Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator; Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the Board; Henry A. Wallace, Chairman of the Board of Economic Welfare

The following members and alternates attended the first meeting of the...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Photographed by William Perlitch or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United Stat... More

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. Tires of a war housing trailer are removed as soon as this home for a war worker's family is delivered. The Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles uses these tires for further deliveries. The branded tires may be seen at the top

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. Tires of a war housing trailer are r...

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

Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in war plants, but it's serious business here, for these two are among the hundreds of young people employed in a West Coast aircraft plant. He's a leadman and is instructing her in the use of a power rivet-squeezing machine

Women aircraft workers. Looks like "boy meets girl" in wartime and in ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces. After he has completed his training at Fort Benning, Georgia, he'll know a lot of new ways to put the heat on the Axis

Fort Benning. Armored forces personnel. Soldier of the armored forces....

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

Mrs. Smuda's son. He used to drive a bakery wagon, but now he drives a truck for Uncle Sam. Private Edwin Smuda at camp "somewhere in the South" is one of America's many fighting men with mothers who are working just as hard for Victory as they are. Mrs. Eva Smuda, fifty-five, works eight hours a day in Frankford, Pennsylvania's arsenal where she tapers cartridge cases for 50mm shells. Another mother and son combination that means death to the Axis

Mrs. Smuda's son. He used to drive a bakery wagon, but now he drives 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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Like the chef who eats his own cooking, Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation uses its own fiberglass pipe covering. Here a maintenance man at one of the plants applies weatherproof paint to a section of high pressure steam piping. More than 200 miles of similar pipe covering is now conserving heat in Army cantonments throughout the country

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Like the chef who...

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

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Murals on the outside walls of this plant suggest production of animal traps. The plant is now converted to the making of armor-piercing bullet cores and other war essentials

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Murals on the...

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

Defense plant poster. Robert C. Weaver, chief of Negro Employment and Training Branch of Labor Division, Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Lawrence Cramer, executive secretary of President Committee on Fair Employment Practice

Defense plant poster. Robert C. Weaver, chief of Negro Employment and ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Divisi... More

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thirty-seven-millimeter gun, this young worker is one of the millions of Americans hard at work behind the men behind the guns. Site of these operations is a factory which formerly made locks and safes, before its conversion to production of guns and gun mounts. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thir...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. The cupolas spout. As the molten iron pours from the cupola, a special ingredient is added through the pipe and funnel shown here -- one which helps to give the cast iron special qualities which have been predetermined by careful research and constant check-up. Site: a large Midwest machine tool foundry

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. The cupolas spout. ...

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

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of one of our new bombers. He, his gun and his plane are typical of the personnel and equipment that have gained world respect for the American Air Force

Mitchell Field. An American knight of the air mans the upper gun of on...

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

An old black and white photo of a woman holding a gun. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a woman holding a gun. 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

Production. Making boilers. Great care is taken in producing steam boilers for the Army in a big Midwest plant. A defect detected by X-ray examination of the steel is chipped out by an air hammer

Production. Making boilers. Great care is taken in producing steam boi...

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

Transformer manufacture. These bus bars are made primarily of copper; they're part of the workings of giant transformers which are necessary to war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These bus bars are made primarily of copper; ...

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

W.L. Finger, chief consultant, rubber unit, Materials Branch, Production Division

W.L. Finger, chief consultant, rubber unit, Materials Branch, Producti...

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

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

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

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

Gas rationing booklet. This is the inside of the front cover and the first page of the new "A" gasoline coupon book, which motorists in the East Coast rationed area will need to obtain their basic rations of gasoline when the coupon plan goes into effect in July. Instructions appearing inside the front cover warn holders against tearing out the coupons and presenting them loose at a service station. The six coupons on the first page are marked "A-1," which means they may be used at any time during the first two months after the plan goes into effect. Coupons on the following pages are numbered "A-2," "A-3," etc., and will be good during the respective two-month periods. The book rations gasoline for the period of one year

Gas rationing booklet. This is the inside of the front cover and the f...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the huge seventy-two inch mills used to produce smooth, bright cold-rolled finish on steel sheets. The two highly polished center rolls are reinforced by heavier rollers to assure uniform reduction in the thickness of the sheet. These mills are used in the production of high quality steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the huge seventy-t...

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

Robert L. Hallett, Consultant on Tin, Metals and Minerals Section, Office of Production Management (OPM). Chief Chemist of National Lead Company

Robert L. Hallett, Consultant on Tin, Metals and Minerals Section, Off...

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

Milton R. Singleton - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Milton R. Singleton - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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

Samuel Slotky, Office of Emergency Management (OEM), Regional Information Consultant

Samuel Slotky, Office of Emergency Management (OEM), Regional Informat...

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

Left to right: Ferdinand Smith, National Secretary, National Maritime Union. He is from New York. Alderman Earl B. Dickerson of Chicago, a member of the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices; and Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board. These two men came in on an appointment arranged by Phil

Left to right: Ferdinand Smith, National Secretary, National Maritime ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Kent Owens - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Kent Owens - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Ready for a bath. Ready for a bath in oil are these gun stocks. The oil will preserve them in the strenuous days ahead in war work

Ready for a bath. Ready for a bath in oil are these gun stocks. The oi...

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

Mr. Ralph Lazarus - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Mr. Ralph Lazarus - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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

Robert L. Hallett, Consultant on Tin, Metals and Minerals Section, Office of Production Management (OPM). Chief Chemist of National Lead Company

Robert L. Hallett, Consultant on Tin, Metals and Minerals Section, Off...

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam's defense industries. Not only are welded connections as strong as, or stronger than, riveted connections, but they mean a saving steel and in overall weight. This welder is working on the engine support assembly of an M-3 tank at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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

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

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

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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These newly cast steel gear blanks will be used in new machinery for the refining and manufacturing of iron and steel. High quality alloys are needed for the machinery to produce steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These newly cast steel gear blank...

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

Part of 5,000 large oval serving dishes ready for shipment to the Army Quartermaster. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Part of 5,000 large oval serving dishes ready for shipment to the Army...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Construction of first floor. Asphalt paper is spread over a cinder filling. Later, wire reinforcements are laid over the paper, preparatory to the laying of cement floor. The entire operation, from filling in with a cinder vase to laying the concrete floor, is accomplished in a few hours

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Construction of first floor. Asph...

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Home for defense worker. One of the homes for defense workers which the Tennessee Valley Authority is building in the Muscle Shoals area in northern Alabama. In this project, the TVA is acting as agent of the Federal Works Administrator

Home for defense worker. One of the homes for defense workers which th...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Negative copied from print in lot. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informati... More

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan, in the bathroom of the Rogan's new defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania. His father is a drill press operator at the nearby plant of the General Electric Company, which is working three shifts on defense contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Bernie Rogan, son of Mr. and Mrs....

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

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have f...

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New Army helmet. Corporal French L. Vineyard, Company M, 12th Infantry. Wearing combat pack, uniform, and old "basin type" helmet. Arlington Cantonment, Arlington, Virginia

New Army helmet. Corporal French L. Vineyard, Company M, 12th Infantry...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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

Singapore U.S. made Brewster "Buffalo" pursuit ships being mass-assembled in a hangar in Malaya for the use of Britain's Royal Air Force in the Far East.

Singapore U.S. made Brewster "Buffalo" pursuit ships being mass-assemb...

British official photograph: K. No. BO-426. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

The four freedoms. The people gather on a million street corners to discuss a million problems. Only in a democracy are they free to discuss the affairs of their nation and the affairs of the world. Only in a democracy would we find this free mingling of a dozen different races. The scene is Columbus Circle, New York

The four freedoms. The people gather on a million street corners to di...

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Civilian protection. This volunteer civilian defense worker, an auxiliary fireman, is preparing to extinguish an incendiary bomb. He carries the sandbag before his face to protect him from the molten magnesium sizzling forth like fat from a frying pan. He will drop the whole bag on the bomb, and the heat of the bomb will burn through the burlap, releasing the sand. The sand will then run onto and around the bomb

Civilian protection. This volunteer civilian defense worker, an auxili...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. War production is in large measure a story of conversion, a story of using at once facilities already available while newer facilities are being readied. Formerly an airship dock, this huge building--thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports--is now the scene of many busy shops turning out aircraft sub-assembly parts. Either new housing close to the plant or vastly improved public transportation will eventually have to be supplied, for the tires on the cars of the workers, and perhaps even the cars themselves, will in many instances give in before the end of the present emergency. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. War production is in large measure a st...

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

Worker in Carl Wilbarger's machine shop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the heart of the Shenandoah, Valley

Worker in Carl Wilbarger's machine shop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the...

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American Catalinas in the Far East For several months past American built Catalina flying boats have been patrolling the Indian Ocean and China Seas.

American Catalinas in the Far East For several months past American bu...

Photograph shows Catalina flying boats flying from Singapore to patrol the seas. Caption continues: Their work takes them on long distance patrols from the civilisation of Singapore to sparsely inhabited islan... More

Saint Paul's Evangelical Reformed Church just north of Weyer's Cave, Rockingham County, Virginia

Saint Paul's Evangelical Reformed Church just north of Weyer's Cave, R...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift at the Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. These women are employed in the manufacture of eight-man pyramidial tents to house the expanding defense army in the field

Women in defense. Women employees checking in for the second shift at ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

The air raid protective services. Ability to pick one's way along treacherous debris is a requisite for members of rescue squads. They are trained to dislodge bombing victims from debris and to carry them as smoothly as possible on stretchers to the nearest first aid stations

The air raid protective services. Ability to pick one's way along trea...

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This is the Herbster shoe supply. A new pair of shoes a month is needed by the family. Mrs. Herbster finds that shoe prices have not increased

This is the Herbster shoe supply. A new pair of shoes a month is neede...

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Steel production. American blast furnaces are breaking all records these days. The iron they produce will be converted to steel to meet the needs of our armed forces. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Steel production. American blast furnaces are breaking all records the...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are enga...

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

"V" backed by a million soldiers Photo shows - he gives the "V" sign from a port-hole of a ship as he arrives at Singapore - and his "V" is backed by a million Indian troops and the rest of the empire as well.

"V" backed by a million soldiers Photo shows - he gives the "V" sign f...

Photograph shows soldier from the British Indian Army with his head and right arm emerging from a port hole. British Official photo: K-1254. No. BO-681. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubb...

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

Civilian defense uniforms. Summer "parade." This girl is wearing a messenger's insignia

Civilian defense uniforms. Summer "parade." This girl is wearing a mes...

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

Shenandoah Valley. Worker in the Penn Foundry Manufacturing Company at Waynesboro, Virginia, one of the largest shops in the Shenandoah Valley

Shenandoah Valley. Worker in the Penn Foundry Manufacturing Company at...

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