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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...

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Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia, are doing away with the overhead belt system of operating their machines. Delays are too frequent and they will not brook delays in war production. The machines are being converted to direct gear transmission

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger ...

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

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, Carr's repair plant in De Land, Florida, is now subcontracting on war production. When De Land organized its machines and manpower into a community pool to handle war work, it was discovered Carr's had two things: first class machinery that would work tolerances down to a split hair and first class machinists. Now, much of the precision work on the pool's contract is handled in his plant

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. A typical small metalworking shop, ...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Steel for war production is saved by reconditioning the wooden tug "Raymond" at the Seabrook, Louisiana yard of the Standard Dredging Corporation. To avoid replacing it by a new steel tug, general repairs are made on this vessel needed on war projects. Pontoon pipes are in the foreground. Standard Dredging Corporation

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Steel for war product...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Lacing head harnesses of gas masks after they have passed through all the stages of assembly and made ready for packaging, is the job of this young woman who works in a large Midwest vacuum cleaner factory which has been converted to war production. Note the lei of string she's wearing--the better to lace the masks with! Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Lacing head harnesses of gas m...

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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

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

Production. Submarine chasers. Pleasure craft give way to Navy construction. Scale model of the last sailboat built at an Eastern yard now making subchasers and other Navy boats is stored away as the company goes all out for war production. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. Pleasure craft give way to Navy constru...

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Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers ...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The fine machinery and skilled operators of a commercial watch case factory are now producing precision radio parts for the armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The...

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A black and white photo of a man holding a bucket. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a bucket. Office of War Infor...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to bac...

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Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper discharging copper ore at the large crushing plant of the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company. Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war production

Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper discharging copper ore at 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

Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot seats at a large Midwest rubber company converted to war production is a thorough process that must cover every rivet and adjustment. Here inspectors are operating the fore and aft track adjustment which permits the pilot to move his position backward and forward while the plane is in operation

Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Even with the family quarantined for chicken pox, war production goes on in the basement workshop of George Carell, Passaic, New Jersey

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Even with the family quara...

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Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons fo...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Contact print either attached to or in original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War ... More

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the process, ruined a good truck, delayed an important lumber shipment, created a dangerous situation on the highway, and nearly cost a number of lives. Such accidents seriously hinder war production

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the p...

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. Cash registers to gun magazines. The captain of the production guard of a large cash register plant keeps his force more than ever on the alert since the company's plant went on war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. The captain of the produc...

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. Automobile industry. Goodbye to all this--for the duration anyway. The last lone car leaves the factory before conversion of this plant to war production. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Goodbye to all this--for the duration...

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job--shaping of wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal product. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Office of War Informati...

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Production. 105 millimeter shells. Plumbing fixtures came off these assembly lines in peace time, but today Giles Knowles and his fellow workers produce 105 millimeter shells in a Midwest plant now converted 100 percent to war production. Knowles, a minor league baseball pitcher, broke a league record for strike-out; now he's out to break the company record for shell production (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. Plumbing fixtures came off these as...

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

Women workers at quartermaster corps. Women workers of all racial groups are being drawn into war production. These employees of an Eastern quartermaster corps depot are sewing sleeves into army overcoats. Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps

Women workers at quartermaster corps. Women workers of all racial grou...

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

Baseball players in war production. "Frenchy" Uhalt, center fielder with Hollywood Club, puts his gloves aside to work in the research department at Douglas Aircraft

Baseball players in war production. "Frenchy" Uhalt, center fielder wi...

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.

Baseball players in war production. George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians, does his bit at the California Ship Building Corporation where he helps build Liberty ships

Baseball players in war production. George Stovall, retired manager of...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. A back shaft that holds the flywheel and clutch mechanism of a 90T96 Cleveland press awaits assembly into the big 120-ton machine. This press will perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. It was moved piece by piece for another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. A back shaft that holds the flywheel and...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Another skilled worker "enlists" for the duration. When the Kentucky watch case factory for whom she has worked twenty years converted to war production, this lady was ready to join the procession of war workers. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Another skilled worker "enl...

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.

De Land pool. Moving circus. War production in Florida cost these circus animals their winter home for the duration. They are shown as the Johnny J. Jones show vacated its winter quarters at the Volusia County fairgrounds to make room for subcontractors in the De Land pool, who turned the fairgrounds' buildings into a large war production plant

De Land pool. Moving circus. War production in Florida cost these circ...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker back to the lathe. Employed now by a small Eastern manufacturing firm which used to make floor waxers but is now completely converted to war production, this worker had only a trade school course in mechanics taken fifteen years ago as background for his new job. He operated his own confectionery business until the sugar shortage forced him into a new field. But he's glad to be aiming gun-sight parts at the Axis. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker ...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Sighting one of the "guns" of production. A diemaker in a converted Kentucky watch case factory sets his machine for the production of fine parts for carbines, machine guns and military radios. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Sighting one of the "guns" ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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.

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Operating nibbler for sheet metal in training for war production at Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Operating nib...

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.

Conversion. Farm implements to gun parts. A milling operation is performed on a Bofors gun slide in a large Midwestern farm implement plant now converted to war production. The plant also makes marine steam cargo winches for the Maritime Commission

Conversion. Farm implements to gun parts. A milling operation is perfo...

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New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission, at the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production, sponsored by the Office of War Information. She is looking at a cartoon, autographed by Mayor La Guardia of New York City, who submitted the idea for this illustration

New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baseball players in war production. Outfielder Vince DiMaggio, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been working at the California Ship Building Corporation since last October. He's one of the many former athletic stars who are helping to smash the Axis by building the equipment needed by America's fighting men

Baseball players in war production. Outfielder Vince DiMaggio, of the ...

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Steel production. Iron for America's war industries. Trains of cinder ladles that serve the brick furnaces are kept busy in these days of all-out war production. Republic, Youngstonw

Steel production. Iron for America's war industries. Trains of cinder ...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial experience, this young woman has taken over a delicate job in a large Midwest drill and tool company. Her part in America's war production consists of grinding small drills to a high tolerance on this clearance-grinding machine. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial exper...

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War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production. The Board for Individual Awards, composed of engineers and technical experts who contribute their time to evaluating production ideas, is shown at a Washington session. Left to right: Charles B. Francis, Carnegie, Illinois Steel Corporation; Dr. J.L. Bray, Purdue University; Paul H. Stanley, Pitcairn Auto-Gyro Company; L.A. Poole of War Production Drive's Awards Field Operations Branch; Whiting Williams of Cleveland, Ohio; James B. Gent, United Steel Workers (USW) and William P. Hill, Bethlehem Steel

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at NYA (National Youth Administration) school

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant that normally produces electric dry shavers is now busy turning out spring collets for machine tools to be used in war production. On this Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder, he used to turn out rotor shafts for the motor of the shaver. To convert his machine to the larger grinding job, it was necessary only to exchange the normal one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel for a three-inch wheel and to increase the feed of the cooling solution. This worker was used to working to a tolerance of .0002 inches on the motor shafts so he finds it simple to attain the comparatively rough tolerance of .002 inches required on this war work. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant ...

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

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young employees of a Midwest drill and tool company are operating cylindrical grinders. This work is delicate and difficult, for the drills must be tapered accurately to size. The drills will be used in manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and in all war production where metal must be worked. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young emp...

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Aluminum casting. Thirty-seven-millimeter armour piercing shot used in anti-tank guns are produced in this giant Midwest factory now converted to war production. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Thirty-seven-millimeter armour piercing shot used in...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Entrance to the basement workshop of George Carell, Passaic, New Jersey. Mr. Carell is a member of a war production subcontract pool orgainized by the Howe Machinery Company of his city. Note the sign forbidding admission to visitors

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Entrance to the basement w...

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Industrial demands soar. Much of our reduced oil supply must be "earmarked" for countless war production needs, such as feeding these oil-fired rotary furnaces melting aluminum for airplane engine parts

Industrial demands soar. Much of our reduced oil supply must be "earma...

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

Conversion. Toy factory. Closeup of one of the hexagonal brass terminals in a screw machine recently converted to war production. Terminals are used for radio filter boxes in tanks and jeeps. Keystone

Conversion. Toy factory. Closeup of one of the hexagonal brass termina...

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Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the process, ruined a good truck, delayed an important lumber shipment, created a dangerous situation on the highway, and nearly cost a number of lives. Such accidents seriously hinder war production

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people sitting at a long table. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people sitting at a long table. Office of War Information P...

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

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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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Last of the old order. A half-emptied box at a punch press holds the final batch of brass parts for women's compacts to be processed in a Kentucky watch case factory before complete conversion to war prodution. Note safety cords attached to operator's arms. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Last of the old order. A ha...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. His hair is white, but his eye is keen. Fifty years of precision work for a Kentucky watch case manufacturer, now converted to war production, gave this aritsan rare skill in developing fine dies for the arsenal of democracy. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. His hair is white, but his ...

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

Aluminum casting. Uncle Sam's soldiers on the production lines of defense pour a large magnesium casting. The molten alloy enters the runner box first. Magnesium is one of the most valuable metals for war production. Exact purpose of this casting is kept secret. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Uncle Sam's soldiers on the production lines of defe...

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Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely changed over to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as...

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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; ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Older men are playing a more and more important part in war production. An elderly employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, turns out a heavy quota of sheet metal parts for war planes on a hand press at the Inglewood, California plant. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Older men are playing a mor...

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

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding pipes on a power transformer tank. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Little giants. Tiny fuse baffles, vital to victory, are produced for the Picatinny Arsenal in a Kentucky plant that formerly made watch cases. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Little giants. Tiny fuse ba...

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Slogans bring home the importance of all-out war production to those who compose them as well as those who read them. This employee of the A.O. Smith Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reaches for an entry blank as he reads the instructions for a slogan contest in his plant

Slogans bring home the importance of all-out war production to those w...

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

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

Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians as Vince DiMaggio slides home during a lunch-hour softball game in the California Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards. DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, has been a warehouseman at the California shipyards since last fall; Stovall has worked as checker in the yards for more than a year

Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, re...

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

A black and white photo of a man on a ladder. Office of War Informatio...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Before conversion to war production, the New England plant employing this veteran craftsman built rowing shells for varsity crews. The plant now produces life rafts for the Navy

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Before conversion to war prod...

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

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia, are doing away with the overhead belt system of operating their machines. Delays are too frequent and they will not brook delays in war production. The machines are being converted to direct gear transmission

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger ...

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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...

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at NYA (National Youth Administration) school

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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.

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

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

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

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The fine machinery and skilled operators of a commercial watch case factory are now producing precision radio parts for the armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. 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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant (floor space: 500' x 900') to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. This hand milling machine, formerly used in manufacture of automobile motors, has been converted to production of airplane engines. In peacetime it was used to mill the pulley keyway on the front of crankshafts. It cost $150 to convert this $1,800 machine with installation of a special fixture to enable milling of staking nicks at each end of crankpin oil hobs. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Women work side by side with men to smash the Axis. Arming test of M-48 fuse bodies part of the routine inspection of shell parts at a former cash register factory now engaged in war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Women work side by side w...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Volusia County, Florida Vocational School, believes women make just as good welders as men. He is shown here with a new class starting in aircraft welding, part of the training program of the De Land pool to provide workers for war production. Left to right are Jane Parker, whose husband already is a war welder and plans to volunteer for the Navy when she can take his place; Kathleen Nowlin, stenographer, an English girl who is a naturalized American citizen; and Sybil Meyers, a housewife

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor ...

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Baseball players in war production. Lunch hour at California Ship Building Corporation finds two of baseball's major leaguers talking things over. As fellow ship-builders at the California shipyards, George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians, and Vince DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, agree that they're both members of the greatest American team in existence--the team that's all out to beat the Axis

Baseball players in war production. Lunch hour at California Ship Buil...

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Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia, are doing away with the overhead belt system of operating their machines. Delays are too frequent and they will not brook delays in war production. The machines are being converted to direct gear transmission

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). Workers at the shop of Wilbarger ...

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Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These young employees of a Midwest drill and tool plant are operating cylindrical grinders which taper drills to specified size. Used in the manufacture of guns, ships, tanks and all war production where metal is used, these drills demand precise and accurate grinding. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Women at work for victory. These ...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is cleaning wing parts with solvent, a necessary process prior to painting. Location: a large Midwest factory, recently converted from manufacture of automobile bodies to essential war Production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is cleaning wing parts ...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for making bomb dies. The owner of a small factory and his wife inspect blue prints of the addition they need to accomodate their war production, on orders. Fifty, instead of seven men, will man the new shop. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Before a large Eastern manufacturer of automobile radiators converted to war production, this workman's job was soldering radiator cores. His job now is welding rims on army helmets. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Before a large Eastern man...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Converted for victory. The same machine and operator that were producing watches not long ago are now making precision radio parts for our armed forces

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Converted for victory. 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

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for a nation of jitterbugs has given way to the preparation of trainer-plane motors for a nation dedicated to victory, in this Chicago factory now converted to war production. Bernice Strutz (left) and Clara Bernas are pictured at their pre-war work of installing regulating screws in a piano keyboard. Today they assemble pneumatic motors for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for ...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded as a tourist playground without machines or men capable of war production. Since Pearl Harbor, along the highways and byways of the state, precision machinery is daily being discovered in small shops like this, which are producing close-tolerance work for the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded ...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Only a short time ago ninety cars per hour were made on this assembly line. From the pit shown above, final inspection and installation of small parts on the bottom of the car were made. To prepare this plant for war production, the pit will have to be filled in. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Only a short time ago ninety cars per...

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial groups contribute their skills to war production. This Negro worker is checking the size and shape of a propeller blade in a large Eastern airplane propeller factory. Reading the blade with a template requires keen eyes and high precision. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. Workers of many racial gro...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. It's just a shell of its former self, this automobile assembly line which has been dismantled, its stripped parts stored, converted, or pooled. This will shortly be the setting for important war production. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. It's just a shell of its former self,...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Operating nibbler for sheet metal in training for war production at Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Operating nib...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping wing section of an airplane in bath, a necessary process prior to painting. Location: a large Midwest factory, recently converted from manufacture of automobile bodies to essential war production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping wing section...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. The lost chord won't be found till the war is over! One of the last electric organs to be made for the duration comes off the line in a Chicago factory now converted to war production. Note octagonal trainer-plane motor in background already undergoing assembly. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. The lost chord won't be found t...

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding pipes on a power transformer tank. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Erstwhile piano keyboard assemblers, Clara Bernas (left) and Bernice Struts, employees of a Chicago piano factory which has been converted to war production, now assemble crank bearings for pneumatic trainer-plane motors. Bernice operates the electric screwdriver. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Erstwhile piano keyboard assemb...

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Asphalt-line paperboard container designed for the shipment of frozen eggs. The new substitute container, which replaces the conventional tinplate container, releases over seven million pounds of tinplate this year for vital war production

Asphalt-line paperboard container designed for the shipment of frozen ...

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

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). In his left hand this worker at Wilbarger and Sons, Harrisonburg, Virginia, holds a special chuck designed and made at the plant to cut in half the time required for an order of the small parts for war production which he holds in his other hand

Subcontracting (Wilbarger and Sons). In his left hand this worker at W...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back the production drive. A die maker in a converted Kentucky watch case factory brings rare ability to the plant's new job of making compass cases, fuse baffles, machine gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back t...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the pro...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit bu...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

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The jeeps are coming. Great stacks of hood tops are stamped out by a 100-ton Hamilton press in a plant that used to produce thousands of automobiles daily. The plant is working on an even faster pace now on war production. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

The jeeps are coming. Great stacks of hood tops are stamped out by a 1...

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Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufactu...

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