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Farmer's children hauling water for stock near South Heart, North Dakota

Farmer's children hauling water for stock near South Heart, North Dako...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Administration office and water tower. Berwyn, Maryland

Administration office and water tower. Berwyn, Maryland

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins Water Front, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

White pine logs left by original exploitation of white pine timber. These were found in a swamp (when covered with water the logs do not rot) on Matt Henry's cut-over farm near Tipler, Wisconsin

White pine logs left by original exploitation of white pine timber. Th...

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The All-American Canal under construction, Imperial County, California. This big earth ditch will open new territory for cultivation by bringing water for irrigation to deserts of southern California adjacent to the Imperial Valley

The All-American Canal under construction, Imperial County, California...

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Water peddler in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is paid fifteen cents a barrel for delivering water to the shack homes. See general caption no. 21

Water peddler in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is paid f...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro boy drinking "milk" made of flour and water. He was sick and his mother, the wife of a sharecropper, had given him this as a delicacy. Near Marshall, Texas

Negro boy drinking "milk" made of flour and water. He was sick and his...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lewis boy getting water from old well, typical of most in area where wells are very often polluted. Coffee County, Alabama

Lewis boy getting water from old well, typical of most in area where w...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Filling tank with water to be used in road construction. Gaines County, Texas

Filling tank with water to be used in road construction. Gaines County...

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Faro Caudill pouring water from his well into watering trough made of hollowed-out log. Pie Town, New Mexico

Faro Caudill pouring water from his well into watering trough made of ...

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Water trough and Y.M.C.A. (Young Mens Christian Association) welcome sign in square in center of town. Columbus, Georgia

Water trough and Y.M.C.A. (Young Mens Christian Association) welcome s...

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Farmer's son and collie dog driving the cows back to the barn after watering them at the brook. All other sources of water supply were frozen for two months during very severe winter. Clinton Gilbert's farm. Woodstock, Vermont

Farmer's son and collie dog driving the cows back to the barn after wa...

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Mules are taken into the yard for a couple of hours at noon during mid-summer to cool and water them. King and Anderson Plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Mules are taken into the yard for a couple of hours at noon during mid...

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Jack Whinery's daughter washing her hands. This picture was taken in the dugout with natural lighting. Notice the water cooler in cooling room at right. This cooling room is built cellar-like into the ground. Pie Town, New Mexico

Jack Whinery's daughter washing her hands. This picture was taken in t...

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.

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delivered by a dealer to a large Philadelphia paper mill. There it will be chopped up and combined with water, then pressed into pasteboard packing so vitally needed for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delive...

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

Row of adobe dwellings in Costilla, New Mexico. Well in square supplies several families with water

Row of adobe dwellings in Costilla, New Mexico. Well in square supplie...

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Sea jeeps. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-built amphibian reconnaissance car, carrying soldiers equipped for combat duty takes to the water in special tests staged recently in the Detroit area. This picture shows how the new transportation arm propelling itself as a boat to the opposite shore. The boat steers in the water the same as on land

Sea jeeps. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-bui...

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

An old black and white photo of a woman making pottery. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

An old black and white photo of a woman making pottery. Pie Town, New ...

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.

Hauling water in milk cans after pipes have frozen. Putney farm, Woodstock, Vermont

Hauling water in milk cans after pipes have frozen. Putney farm, Woods...

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Hauling water in milk cans after pipes have frozen. Clinton Gilbert's farm, Woodstock, Vermont

Hauling water in milk cans after pipes have frozen. Clinton Gilbert's ...

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Excess water after irrigating field drains back into ditch and then goes onto near farm. The practice spreads weeds seeds although it does conserve water. Chamisal, New Mexico

Excess water after irrigating field drains back into ditch and then go...

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

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the tobacco barn. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the t...

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Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is made in the center, bricks are heated, water is poured over them. After the Indian gets inside is well covered with many blankets and the outside is also covered with cloths and blankets. He stays in there for several hours, sweats, and becomes very weak. A skull in front, outside, is their "medicine." Other Indians watch and stand around and smoke. Near Lame Deer, Montana

Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is ...

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Conduit crossing the Owyhee River Valley carrying irrigation water to Dead Ox Flat from the Owyhee Reservoir. Vale-Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon

Conduit crossing the Owyhee River Valley carrying irrigation water to ...

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Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Georgia

Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Ge...

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Cherry orchards at Emmett, Gem County, Idaho. Notice the wide irrigation ditches. Water for irrigation is supplied by the Black Canyon Reservoir

Cherry orchards at Emmett, Gem County, Idaho. Notice the wide irrigati...

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Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. One of the catchment areas on a hillside for catching and storing rain water. The water supply is one of the serious problems of the island

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. One of the catc...

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

Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is made in the center, bricks are heated, water is poured over them. After the Indian gets inside is well covered with many blankets and the outside is also covered with cloths and blankets. He stays in there for several hours, sweats, and becomes very weak. A skull in front, outside, is their "medicine." Other Indians watch and stand around and smoke. Near Lame Deer, Montana

Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is ...

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Owyhee Dam which impounds water for the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project. Malheur County, Oregon

Owyhee Dam which impounds water for the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dam, cascade, water stream, waterfall, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Holyoke is a city of canals which supply water to the paper mills that line their banks. Massachusetts

Holyoke is a city of canals which supply water to the paper mills that...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna, oldest of the five Dante girls lends a hand with a drill press. Anna operates the Bantam Beauty Salon, but because she has difficulty with hot water during the winter, she closes the shop from early January through March. Her "boyfriend" (Anna says they are not engaged) works regularly at the American Brass Company in Torrington. If he puts in an eight-hour day there, he works for another four hours at the Dante Electric. Often now, however, he puts in a twelve-hour day in Torrington, and on those days does not work for Dante

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, showing insulators and bus wires, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Laborers removing mud and water from the drag hole

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a pipe, pipeline, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Certain oils and organic chemical compounds form the reagents with which the finely ground sulphide ore mixed with water is agitated. This makes possible the phenomenon of flotation of the ore

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Certain oil...

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.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension lines that carry current generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kern County, California. Mill of the Tungsten Chief Mine. Pulverized tungsten ore is mixed with water and then run over a vibratory table where the ore is further concentrated; in this picture the final concentrates appear in the two pans in the lower left hand corner

Kern County, California. Mill of the Tungsten Chief Mine. Pulverized t...

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. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp boat, which has just passed its trial runs at a Southern boatyard, is removed from the water to be prepared for railroad shipment. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. They are powered by twin diesel engines. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp b...

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Flathead Valley special area project, Montana. Cleared land with ditches holding water on John Wardnow's farm

Flathead Valley special area project, Montana. Cleared land with ditch...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. One arm of the cofferdam wall at Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A carpenter at a Southern shipyard checks the framing of a new seventy-eight-foot motor boat. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A carpenter at a Southern sh...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy wooden vessels are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hull is ready for launching and fitting it is removed from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. A partly completed generator in the new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. A long line of completed generators extends back the full length of the room. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. A partly completed generator in the new ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A freight train stopping for water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New Mexico

A freight train stopping for water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain image of Chicago cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Routine inspection of "Mae West" life preserving vests worn by flyers on all patrols over water

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calumet City, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt railroad locomotive stopping for water on its way back to Franklin Park, Illinois after having made a delivery at Hammond, Indiana

Calumet City, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt railroad locomotive sto...

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San Augustine, Texas. A meeting of the town council to discuss buying a new water tank to replace the one which was destroyed by the March tornado. Left to right around the table: Troy Mitchell, city manager; J.W. Ritchie, tinner; H.D. Clark, department store owner; Mayor Alonzo Rushing, druggist; Mr. Ramsey, city attorney; R.V. Hall, grocer; Clyde Smith, grocer; and Frank Phillips, city secretary

San Augustine, Texas. A meeting of the town council to discuss buying ...

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

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. A "head" of water, released from a dam upstream to carry the logs down to the rivers, reaching the top of a falls on its steep journey down Dennison Bog Brook

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, bound down the mountain a half mile to the spring where she gets her drinking water, and if there is no rain, her wash water too. On her back is strapped a metal water pack, which holds three gallons and weighs thirty pounds when full

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cabin, Water Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Cabin, Water Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia

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Herman Gerling carrying water from the spring. Near Wheelock, North Dakota

Herman Gerling carrying water from the spring. Near Wheelock, North Da...

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Water supply near potato pickers' shacks. Monmouth County, New Jersey

Water supply near potato pickers' shacks. Monmouth County, New Jersey

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daughter of tenant farmer near Muskogee, Oklahoma, changing water in goldfish bowl. Refer to general caption number 20

Daughter of tenant farmer near Muskogee, Oklahoma, changing water in g...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sugar beet worker drinks water. Adams County, Colorado

Sugar beet worker drinks water. Adams County, Colorado

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children of Mays Avenue camp pumping water from thirty-foot well which supplies about a dozen families. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Refer to general caption 21

Children of Mays Avenue camp pumping water from thirty-foot well which...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Water running from pipe into irrigation ditch. La Pryor, Texas

Water running from pipe into irrigation ditch. La Pryor, Texas

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Daughter of tenant farmer living near Muskogee, Oklahoma, changing water in goldfish bowl. Refer to general caption number 20

Daughter of tenant farmer living near Muskogee, Oklahoma, changing wat...

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Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set up camp rents for five dollars per month; they have to clear it themselves. No water, lights or sanitary facilities. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set ...

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The waterboy, who takes water in his cart to the men working in the fields all day. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

The waterboy, who takes water in his cart to the men working in the fi...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

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Camp Livingston construction worker cooking outdoors in front of shack which he built out of lumber he purchased or found nearby. This is along main highway on government property so he does not have to pay rent. Water is hauled from a nearby church faucet as there are no sanitary facilities. Alexandria, Louisiana

Camp Livingston construction worker cooking outdoors in front of shack...

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Cattle at water hole. Rappahannock County, Virginia

Cattle at water hole. Rappahannock County, Virginia

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Filling tanks with water to be used in road construction. Gaines County, Texas

Filling tanks with water to be used in road construction. Gaines Count...

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Water from mountain streams is piped to hydroelectric plant at Brigham, Utah, which furnishes the electricity for the town

Water from mountain streams is piped to hydroelectric plant at Brigham...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roosevelt Dam which stores water for the Salt River Valley, centering around Phoenix, Arizona. The dam is at Roosevelt, Arizona

Roosevelt Dam which stores water for the Salt River Valley, centering ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man laying on the ground. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man laying on the ground. Pie Town, New M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children hauling water from nearby home to the school near Morehead, Kentucky

Children hauling water from nearby home to the school near Morehead, K...

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Camp Livingston worker's tent near Fort Beauregard, these are along the main highway on government property so they do not have to pay rent. Most of the people cook outdoors and haul water from a nearby church faucet. There are no sanitary facilities and most of them, who live in tents or shacks, have brought their own lumber for building, or made them out of old trucks. Alexandria, Louisiana

Camp Livingston worker's tent near Fort Beauregard, these are along th...

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

Water from mountain streams is piped to hydroelectric plant at Brigham, Utah, which furnishes the electricity for the town

Water from mountain streams is piped to hydroelectric plant at Brigham...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Streetcars which have been converted into dwellings. These rent for twenty-five dollars per month. They are equipped with electricity, running water and bathrooms. San Diego, California

Streetcars which have been converted into dwellings. These rent for tw...

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Conduit carrying irrigation water from Owyhee Reservoir to farm land on the Vale-Owyhee Project. Malheur County, Oregon

Conduit carrying irrigation water from Owyhee Reservoir to farm land o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Showers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho. There is no one thing that the migratory farm workers appreciate more at the camps, both permanent and mobile, than the hot water for bathing and laundry

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

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery cooling fresh milk in water trough on his farm. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Member of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery cooling fresh milk in wa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be supplied by the Black Canyon irrigation project. Canyon County, Idaho. He has spent about three thousand dollars for buildings and is ready to start farming when, he hopes, he gets water in the fall of 1942

Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be s...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corozal, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Going along a country road to the spring to get water

Corozal, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Going along a country road to the spr...

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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for c...

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.

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Crushed copper ore bin; ore from this bin is mixed with water and passed through a series of rollcrushers where the ore is reduced to the fineness of coarse sand

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Crushed cop...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Checkin...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. The upstream face of the spillway at the new Fort Loudoun Dam. This dam is located further upstream than any of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this damn will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. The downstream face of the spillway of the new Fort Loudoun Dam. This dam is located further upstream than any of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this damn will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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San Juan, Puerto Rico. Fetching water from a spigot which services many people in the huge slum area known as "El Fangitto" ("the mud"). The people must wade through the mud to get to the water spigot

San Juan, Puerto Rico. Fetching water from a spigot which services man...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension lines that carry current generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension ...

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Washington, D.C. Checking battery water

Washington, D.C. Checking battery water

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp boat, which has just passed its trial runs at a Southern boatyard, is removed from the water to be prepared for railroad shipment. Boats of this kind are used in making beach landings of men, tanks and other equipment on hostile shores. They are powered by twin diesel engines. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. A new fifty-foot steel ramp b...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free of water, are now being rolled into sheets. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These "crumbs" of synthetic rubber, free ...

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Ben Bow chromite mill, Stillwater County, Montana. Mill in which chrome ore mixed with water is finely ground before final concentration

Ben Bow chromite mill, Stillwater County, Montana. Mill in which chrom...

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Washington (southwest section), D.C. Negro woman drawing water from an outdoor hydrant

Washington (southwest section), D.C. Negro woman drawing water from an...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. A generator winder works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. A generator winder works at the winding of...

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Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's "400" fleet of locomotives lined up for coal and water at a coaling station

Chicago, Illinois. One of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's "400...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas catridges; repair kit to mend bullet in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flashlight with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water markers; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Volunteer auxiliary firemen must learn to master the control of the water stream from their fire hoses. Certain conditions call for spray, others for a steady stream of water. These volunteers in Washington, D.C., are trained to know just how best to handle the hose nozzles

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Volun...

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New York Central Railroad engine getting water at an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard

New York Central Railroad engine getting water at an Indiana Harbor Be...

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. A "head" of water released from a dam upstream carrying the logs in its path down to larger streams and rivers of water

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. A...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Three-storied house, Water Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Three-storied house, Water Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia

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Farmyard of Matt Henry near Tipler, Wisconsin. A primitive water tank hollowed from a tree and a windlass still in operation. Farmers in this region have to make many of their own devices because of lack of funds to purchase manufactured equipment

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Bean pickers camp in grower's yard. No running water. Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton, Oregon

Bean pickers camp in grower's yard. No running water. Oregon, Marion C...

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