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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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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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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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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...

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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...

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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 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...

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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.

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war productio...

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. "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...

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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...

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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...

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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. 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...

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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

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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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...

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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.

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Clearing away for war production. The last batch of watch case backs will soon be cleaned and another skilled operator at a large Kentucky plant will work on the production of compass cases, bomb fuse baffles and parts for carbine and machine guns. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Clearing away for war produ...

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

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...

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

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; ...

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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...

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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. 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...

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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; ...

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. 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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

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The labor-management committee of the Titeflex Metal House Company, Newark, New Jersey set up this suggestion box to enlist employee's ideas for stimulating war production. Local and national awards are made for suggestions accepted

The labor-management committee of the Titeflex Metal House Company, Ne...

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Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared for testing in a large Eastern plant given over almost entirely to the manufacture of transformers. Transformers are vital to almost every phase of war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared f...

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

New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia, speaking at the opening of the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia, speaking at the opening of the e...

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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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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

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...

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

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. 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...

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

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 ...

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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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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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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...

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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...

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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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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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Out of the rough. A gun stock takes shape under the hands of a skilled workman as the war production goes ahead at an eastern armory

Out of the rough. A gun stock takes shape under the hands of a skilled...

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War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of Midway meet at the Capitol to join in Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. Lieutenant Mary Lohr, Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, recently awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon for gallant service at Bataan, and Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway, will speak to war workers in about 1800 war plants on December 7. They were selected by the War Production Drive Headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB) to participate with Honorable Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, in personal messages for transcription as a feature of Pearl Harbor Day observance, which is being held under auspices of war production Labor-Management Committees

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Preparing a huge automobile production machine for temporary storage, maintenance man cleans up the machine prior to conversion to war production. The Plymouth Company, Chrylser Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Preparing a huge automobile productio...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. American women of many racial groups are furnishing manpower for war production. This Negro girl is a machine operator in the aircraft factory of an Eastern navy yard. She is turning out small parts for assembly in another part of the plant

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. American women of many racial group...

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Transformer manufacture. Before transformer coils are wound, condenser plates must be inspected. These transformers are vital to war production and are used to produce power in almost every phase of America's war effort. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Before transformer coils are wound, condenser...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A workman in the marble forming department of a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation looks at the record to see whether his department is meeting war production needs. His smile indicates that he is hitting the bull's-eye for national defense

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A workman in the ...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on an overtime job. Making bomb sights comes easy to him, for he has had long experience in precision work at a commercial Kentucky watch case factory now entirely on a war production basis. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on a...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. A worker in the Passaic, New Jersey machine shop of the Howe Machinery Company changes a milling head to a planer head on a planing machine, to convert it from production of one type of essential war production to another

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. A worker in the Passaic, N...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war production in. One of the last batches of luxury items is put through a Kentucky watch case plant now engaged in the production of gun parts, fuse baffles, compass cases and other essentials for our fighters. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Compacts out, war productio...

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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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Production. Marine boilers. Burning a hole in a large hyperbolic valve block that will be part of a hyperbolic press in a powder factory. Site: a Midwest plant converted to war production

Production. Marine boilers. Burning a hole in a large hyperbolic valve...

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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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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

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

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on an overtime job. Making bomb sights comes easy to him, for he has had long experience in precision work at a commercial Kentucky watch case factory now entirely on a war production basis. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on 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

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Her left hand knows what her right one is doing! Each is operating two looms: her right hand guides a loom which produces silk for women's stockings, while her left hand rests on one which is producing mosquito netting for American armed forces. At present this plant is forty percent converted from production of stockings to netting, but with additional orders more looms will be converted to this essential war production. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Her left hand knows what her right one is...

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Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sending a million sparks into the air during the process of merging the two ends of a bogie roller ring at a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. These rollers, placed inside the steel and rubber tanks tracks, are used to support the weight of Army tanks

Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sendin...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. These workers at the huge airship dock, now converted to war production, are preparing dies for insertion in a powerful hydraulic press. Many parts of the aircraft for democracy are stamped out in presses such as these. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. These workers at the huge airship dock,...

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Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manufacture of airplane pilot seats must be thoroughly checked before being assembled in this large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. Should the precision gauge show up the tiniest imperfection in placement or drilling operations, the stamping will be discarded

Airplane seat production. Each piece of aluminum necessary to the manu...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volume for victory. His skill in the making of luxury items is an asset for a Kentucky watch case factory now producing compass cases, fuse baffles, gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volume for victory. His ski...

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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...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An electric furnace preheats aluminum junction boxes to speed welding at an Eastern plant engaged in war production. The plant formerly made metal screens for doors and windows

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. An electric furnace prehe...

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. Employees crowd from suburban trains through factory gates to take their places in the vast clockwork of war production. The plant in which they work turns out essential war items: tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Employees crowd from suburban trains...

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