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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles of the War Production Program. Here in the women's department of the Dante Electric Company, three workers of the Dante family help in the production of electrical parts for submarines. Mr. Dante just made a slight adjustment on the mechanical screw driver operated by Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. In the center, Mr. Artie Shaw is working on a similar machine, while Mary Dante puts her down for observation duty on the local airplane watching post. Bertha Kreig, of nearby Harwinton, is working at the right rear, while in the right foreground, Mrs. Dante is making an adjustment on a light joiner

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small sho...

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

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine tools and the old grind stone, somewhat modernised--all find a part in our war production program. These workers finish off one of the many parts that go to make up the equipment that helps to turn out the steel required for tanks and ships and guns. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine to...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. Class work is part of their training to be expert tool and die makers

Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Steel mill equipment. The expanded War Production Program calls for more and more steel to make the tanks, ships, guns that are required. Finished parts for additional steel mill equipment are here receiving their final inspection at a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. The expanded War Production Program calls for mo...

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

Transformer manufacture. A large Eastern electrical company where huge power transformers, vital to America's war effort, are produced. Power transformers are essential to almost every phase of America's war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. A large Eastern electrical company where huge...

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

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium caliber gun rushed for the war production program in an eastern arsenal

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium ...

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.

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric company, George Matheson, expert electrical worker, skillfully adjusts spools of copper wire feeding on to the large 120 turn coils which he turns. Production of all such electrical equipment has been greatly stepped up due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric com...

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.

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed toward completion under the war production program. Guns shown here are being turned out in the major caliber shop of a large eastern arsenal

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed tow...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles of the War Production Program. Here in the women's department of the Dante Electric Company, three workers of the Dante family help in the production of electrical parts for submarines. Mr. Dante just made a slight adjustment on the mechanical screw driver operated by Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. In the center, Mr. Artie Shaw is working on a similar machine. Bertha Kreig, of nearby Harwinton, is working at the right rear

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small sho...

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

Steel mill equipment. The expanded War Production Program calls for more and more steel to make the tanks, ships, guns that are required. Finished parts for additional steel mill equipment are here receiving their final inspection at a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. The expanded War Production Program calls for mo...

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. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and skilled winding of coils for distribution transformers; for this reason, women are often preferred for the job. Production of these coils has been stepped up enormously due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and ski...

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

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and skilled winding of coils for distribution transformers; for this reason, women are often preferred for the job. Production of these coils has been stepped up enormously due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and ski...

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.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Polishing spindle sleeves in a large Midwest plant producing essential machine tools for the war production program

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Polishing spindle s...

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

Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. Class work is part of their training to be expert tool and die makers

Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. C...

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

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium caliber gun rushed for the war production program in an eastern arsenal

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium ...

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

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech...

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

For the ramparts. A series of medium caliber guns nears completion in an eastern arsenal. Men shown are engaged in the exterior inspection of liners on guns for the war production program

For the ramparts. A series of medium caliber guns nears completion in ...

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

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric company, George Matheson, expert electrical worker, skillfully adjusts spools of copper wire feeding on to the large 120 turn coils which he turns. Production of all such electrical equipment has been greatly stepped up due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric com...

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

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles of the War Production Program. Here in the women's department of the Dante Electric Company, three workers of the Dante family help in the production of electrical parts for submarines. Mr. Dante just made a slight adjustment on the mechanical screw driver operated by Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. In the center, Mr. Artie Shaw is working on a similar machine. Bertha Kreig, of nearby Harwinton, is working at the right rear

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small sho...

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. Merry-go-round plant. John Brown used to weld rails for merry-go-round. The carrousel plant in which he worked is now engaged in producing parts for a war production program under several subcontractors. He finds the transition to the welding of steel shipping frames for airplane motors an easy one. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. John Brown used to weld rails for me...

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

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed toward completion under the war production program. Guns shown here are being turned out in the major caliber shop of a large eastern arsenal

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed tow...

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

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and skilled winding of coils for distribution transformers; for this reason, women are often preferred for the job. Production of these coils has been stepped up enormously due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and ski...

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

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and skilled winding of coils for distribution transformers; for this reason, women are often preferred for the job. Production of these coils has been stepped up enormously due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and ski...

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 mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine tools and the old grind stone, somewhat modernised--all find a part in our war production program. These workers finish off one of the many parts that go to make up the equipment that helps to turn out the steel required for tanks and ships and guns. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine to...

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

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

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

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