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Plantation owner's daughter checks weight of cotton. Kaufman County, Texas

Plantation owner's daughter checks weight of cotton. Kaufman County, T...

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State inspector determines weight per bushel of wheat. Walla Walla, Washington

State inspector determines weight per bushel of wheat. Walla Walla, Wa...

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Purebred Hampshires feeding at the Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) co-op at Waterloo, Nebraska. There are 181 head of hogs, and their average weight 160 pounds. There are also 40 sows and 219 suckling pigs

Purebred Hampshires feeding at the Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, a ...

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Mammoth weight of drop forger. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Navy yard, one of eleven arsenals which have stepped up production to top speed for the war program

Mammoth weight of drop forger. Forging part of a large gun in an easte...

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The big bell of Burma, second largest in the world (weight 80 tons,) Mingoon, Burma

The big bell of Burma, second largest in the world (weight 80 tons,) M...

H91654 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14542. Public domain photograph of Egypt, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American Museum, New York 1849, weight 576 pounds

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...

Gale, 4524 Public domain photograph of portrait print, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[First chapter of Spiritalium liber; with decortated initial C. in which baby holds a staff and rope with weight at end, possibly engineering tools]

[First chapter of Spiritalium liber; with decortated initial C. in whi...

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Mexican silver (5640 lbs. weight, Main Bldg.)

Mexican silver (5640 lbs. weight, Main Bldg.)

(DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The New Orleans Exposition," Century, 30:6 (May 1885).

Terry McGovern, who has defeated many of the best bantam weight boxers in this country

Terry McGovern, who has defeated many of the best bantam weight boxers...

Terry McGovern, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with fists raised. Illus. from: Supplement to Police Gazette, vol. LXXIII, no. 1105, Saturday, October 22d, 1898. Copyright by Richard K. Fox.

Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 30. Transportation and no parking worries. Nelm Clark, 16-year old Washington youngster, solved this problem by combining a lawn mower motor with a set of motor cycle gears to make this unusual midget auto. Costing $60 to build the contraption weighs only 150 pounds--the weight is its main feature--and if you run out of gas you easily push it or tuck it under your arm and walk home, 3/30/1937

Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 3...

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

Barn erection. Gable end panels are placed one-half at a time due to weight and length. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Barn erection. Gable end panels are placed one-half at a time due to w...

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Although weight of spinach can usually be determined by heft, scales are also sometimes used to check on weight, La Pryor, Texas

Although weight of spinach can usually be determined by heft, scales a...

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Dumping milk into container where it will be weighed and the weight automatically recorded at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho

Dumping milk into container where it will be weighed and the weight au...

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Checking weight of milk in the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery at East Berkshire, Vermont

Checking weight of milk in the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery at East ...

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

Accurate weight is recorded of the dehydrated vegetables in determining the degree of dehydration. Regional agricultural research laboratory, Albany, California

Accurate weight is recorded of the dehydrated vegetables in determinin...

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Sonoma County, California. Trap-nests on a chicken ranch. The rancher is noting the weight of an egg just laid. He keeps check on the quantity and quality of each hen's eggs, thus producing high quality pedigreed eggs for breeding purposes

Sonoma County, California. Trap-nests on a chicken ranch. The rancher ...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lower bracket of the 30,000 kilowatt waterwheel generator which Westinghouse Electric Company is manufacturing for the Watts Bar Dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), from underneath, showing hole through which the shaft is passed. The bracket supports the thrust bearing on which rests the entire rotating mechanism of the generator. It has eight arms which bear the brunt of the generator's weight. The bracket weighs 107,500 pounds

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lower bracket of the 30,000 kilowatt waterwh...

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Some Pumpkins: trotting his mile in 2:10. beating "Lightning" by nearly 5 lengths, on a descending grade; and carrying 25 lbs over weight

Some Pumpkins: trotting his mile in 2:10. beating "Lightning" by nearl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6009

Colossal iron statue of Vulcan, 56 ft. high, weight 100,000 lbs., in Mines Bldg., World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.

Colossal iron statue of Vulcan, 56 ft. high, weight 100,000 lbs., in M...

H55147 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tom Sayers, champion of England born at Pimlico near Brighton, Sussex 1826, height 5 ft. 8 inches, lowest feichting weight 10 st. 10 lbs / / lith. by Cameron & Walsh, 32 & 34 John St., N.Y.

Tom Sayers, champion of England born at Pimlico near Brighton, Sussex ...

Print shows Tom Sayers, full-length portrait, facing right, in boxing stance. Includes list of fights with opponent's name and date of bout. 680 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in t... More

[Fly weight boxing champion of the world, Pancho Villa, on the left, boxing with Flores, Philippine Islands]

[Fly weight boxing champion of the world, Pancho Villa, on the left, b...

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[J. Lemm, heavy weight wrestler]

[J. Lemm, heavy weight wrestler]

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Possible key metal monopoly committee's study. Washington, D.C., May 8. The temporary National Economic Committee turned its investigation today upon the little known beryllium industry. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Co-chairman of the Committee, is shown here with Andrew Gahagan, President of the Beryllium Corp., of Temple, Pennsylvania, examining the crude ore and a sample hammer which is made from an alloy with beryllium. Gahagan described beryllium as an element, fourth in atomic weight from hydrogen, which can be combined with copper or nickel and certain other metals, to produce alloys of extraordinary hardness, lightness, and strength. The committee suspects that the metal may become a key material in industrial and war supply problems

Possible key metal monopoly committee's study. Washington, D.C., May 8...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Memphis. The Sphinx of Memphis. 14 feet high, 26 feet long, weight 90 tons

Memphis. The Sphinx of Memphis. 14 feet high, 26 feet long, weight 90 ...

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Olive crushing and pressing. Process of winding the suspended weight on a rod resting on the forked beam

Olive crushing and pressing. Process of winding the suspended weight o...

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight...

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G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Line. The locomotive in process of keeling over on to its wheels as the steam-wintch [i.e., winch] chuggs heavily on its weight over double its tested strength

G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Li...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Checking weight of five-pound cans of cherries. Canning plant, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Checking weight of five-pound cans of cherries. Canning plant, Sturgeo...

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Purebred Hampshires feeding at the Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) coop at Waterloo, Nebraska. There are 181 heads of hogs, and their average weight 160 pounds. There are also 40 sows and 219 suckling pigs

Purebred Hampshires feeding at the Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, a ...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This raw silk used in manufacturing parachute cloth and shroud lines was reeled in China or Japan. The operator is removing the covering and checking the weight of a Japanese bale

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. This raw silk used in manufac...

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Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for rounded corners of house trailer tops. These corners, made of successive layers of paper impregnated with a special hardening solution, have great structural strength and are light in weight. Easy installation is another valuable feature of the material as used in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company

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

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Great Falls, Montana, Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Refining tanks in which the anodes of impure copper are refined by electrolytic means to the pure cathode copper. The anodes are placed in the tank as they are received from the Anaconda smelters; between these anodes are suspended starting sheets which are thin sheets of electrolytic copper; the cathode sheets remain in the tank until sufficient copper from the anode has been deposited on the cathode to give it a weight of approximately 170 pounds

Great Falls, Montana, Electrolytic copper refinery of Anaconda Copper ...

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Washington, D.C. Students at the Woodrow Wilson High School are examined annually by the visiting doctor. In preparation for this, the school nurse records each student's height and weight on his chart

Washington, D.C. Students at the Woodrow Wilson High School are examin...

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Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed as to past history and work qualifications, Mabel Goodwin has a physical examination at the Bell Aircraft plant. A nurse records her height and weight. She is forty-five, worked in a factory in the last war, and has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen

Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed as to past history and work...

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Alongside the largest and most powerful locomotive in the world (weight 240 tons) Transportation Building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A.

Alongside the largest and most powerful locomotive in the world (weigh...

H59786 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. 8555. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Transportation; Railroads Locomotives; Exhibitions 19... More

Ingot weight seven and a half tons being taken from soaking and put to be rolled into plates, steelworks, Homestead, Pennsylvania

Ingot weight seven and a half tons being taken from soaking and put to...

H96330 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Steel Industry; Geogr.

Tire testing machine. Washington, D.C., May 20. Testing wear and tear on tires with this tire testing machine at the Bureau of Standards is W.D. [?] hold, the machine simulates road tests traveling from 20 to 60 mph, the only difference is that the load on the tires is heavier than the normal weight of cars that the tires are made for [...]

Tire testing machine. Washington, D.C., May 20. Testing wear and tear ...

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Writing down weight of milk given by one cow at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona. Exact and completed milk records are kept on all dairy cows

Writing down weight of milk given by one cow at the Casa Grande Valley...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching rivet holes in the frame of a ship on the ways. Nearly a million rivets were used in large naval warcraft until recently, but steel and weight is now conserved by the use of welded jointures whenever possible

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching r...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's "Liberty fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard.All parts are prefabricated in thus huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, crypt, chamber, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sonoma County, California. Taking a hen out of a trap-nest on a chicken ranch. Hens can get into these trap-nests but can't get out, enabling the rancher to check on the number and weight of eggs of each hen

Sonoma County, California. Taking a hen out of a trap-nest on a chicke...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way. A member of a marine balloon barrage unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. When a husky leatherneck...

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Sonoma County, California. Noting weight of a freshly-laid egg at a chicken ranch. By using trap-nests the rancher can determine the number and size of eggs each hen lays and thus produce high quality, pedigreed eggs

Sonoma County, California. Noting weight of a freshly-laid egg at a ch...

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Rear view of new C-82 showing twin boom tail and square interior. This is the first war plane designed solely for hauling military cargo. It is in the 50,000 pound class and in its weight and bulk carrying capacity, will enable the air transport of ninety percent of the heavy equipment of a standard triangular Infantry Division. It may be used to carry troops, paratroops, and equipment up to the size of tanks

Rear view of new C-82 showing twin boom tail and square interior. This...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Door Weight on Barn. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Door Weight on Barn. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Marshall, Howard W. Gravity door-closing device in west-facing doorway of barn The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklif... More

Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was said to be 5 or 6 years old. Nearby, I found Jack who said he was 8 years old, and who was carrying a bag full of Saturday Evening Posts which weighed nearly 1/2 of his own weight. The bag weighed 24 pounds, and he weighed only 55 pounds. He carried this bag for several blocks to the car. Said he was taking them home. Location: Sacramento, California / Lewis W. Hine.

Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening ...

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Observing work of the busy bee. E.L. Sechrist, associate agriculturist of the bee culture laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, makes tests of how much work the bees accomplish under different weather conditions be checking the weight of the colonies. During a good honey flow under favorable weather conditions, a colony increases in weight as much as 20 pounds in a single day, 1/20/30

Observing work of the busy bee. E.L. Sechrist, associate agriculturist...

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Correct way to bake turkey. (4) In this very scientific kitchen each bird is weighed before it goes into the oven as a difference in weight demands a change in cooking time

Correct way to bake turkey. (4) In this very scientific kitchen each b...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately four-year-old guayule plant. The seedlings remain in the nursery for eight or nine months, the age of the shrub being determined by the length of time it is in the field. Guayule reaches maturity in from four to six years. At maturity the plant is about three feet in height. The rubber content is from eighteen to twenty percent of the dry weight

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately ...

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Virgil Burns and Fred Ringler, members of co-op (FSA (Farm Security Administration)) in charge of hog department. Two Rivers Non-Stock Cooperative, Waterloo, Nebraska. There are 181 head of hogs, average weight 160 pounds. There are also 40 sows and 219 suckling pigs

Virgil Burns and Fred Ringler, members of co-op (FSA (Farm Security Ad...

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Experimental suspension trusses of boards. The board suspension bridge slipped its anchorage without breaking, under a weight of 84,000 pounds, exclusive of its own weight; span 100 feet, versed sine 10 feet

Experimental suspension trusses of boards. The board suspension bridge...

No. 16 (handwritten) and 2517 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was said to be 5 or 6 years old. Nearby, I found Jack who said he was 8 years old, and who was carrying a bag full of Saturday Evening Posts, which weighed nearly 1/2 of his own weight. The bag weighed 24 pounds, and he weighed only 55 pounds. He carried this bag for several blocks to the car. Said he was taking them home. Sacramento, California / Lewis W. Hine.

Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening ...

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John Morrissey: born February 5th 1831. height 6 feet. weight 170 lbs.

John Morrissey: born February 5th 1831. height 6 feet. weight 170 lbs.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3537

[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows appearance of bridge, after 168,000 lbs., in addition to the weight of the bridge, had stood on it for nine hours]

[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows appearance of br...

No. 38 (handwritten) and 2539 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

[Father reduces his weight, no. 9]

[Father reduces his weight, no. 9]

An overweight man does floor exercises, lying on his back and raising his legs, as a elderly woman with glasses looks critically in the room as she opens the door. Ninth in a sequence of ten cartoons. No copyri... More

[Father reduces his weight, no. 8]

[Father reduces his weight, no. 8]

An overweight man does bending exercises, as a woman watches horrified, from the doorway of the room. Eighth in a sequence of ten cartoons. No copyright information found with item. Sketch on verso. Title devis... More

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The world's smallest "doughboy", Nicholas Casele, of Newark, N.J., began to picket the U.S. Capitol today and announced he would continue until congress grants him a medal as compensation for his allged illegal draft into the army. Casele served more than a year overseas, fighting in seven major battles. He contends the draft law provided for a minimum height 5 feet 3 inches and 110 pounds of weight while scaled only 4 feet 10 inches and weighed only 104 pounds, 5/26/37

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The ...

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Although weight of spinach can usually be determined by heft, scales are also sometimes used to check on weight, La Pryor, Texas

Although weight of spinach can usually be determined by heft, scales a...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances of the century in shipbuilding, saving time, steel and weight. This welder is working on the inside of a fuel tank in a ship of Uncle Sam's new "Liberty Fleet." All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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State inspector determining weight per bushel of wheat. Walla [Walla], Washington

State inspector determining weight per bushel of wheat. Walla [Walla],...

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Recording weight, etc. of samples of cream and milk at Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

Recording weight, etc. of samples of cream and milk at Dairymen's Coop...

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

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

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

When the weight of a rationed product does not come out to even pounds, the point fraction table at the bottom of the official consumer table show point values for ounces. If the odd weight comes out to a fraction of a point, a retailer can collect an extra point if it is a half point or more. But if it is less, the customer does not need to give up an additional point

When the weight of a rationed product does not come out to even pounds...

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Tea and tomato juice cause marketing headache, consumers expert tells committee. Washington, D.C., May 11. Dr. Ruth W. Ayers, New York economist and formerly on the staff of the Consumers' Advisory Board of the defunct NRA, brought in three packages of tea and 21 cans of tomato juice to show the temporary economic committee today, and told members that deceptive sizes of cans and packages and lack of quality gradings cause housewives a good deal of shopping headache. She said that she bought all the food at retail stores yesterday, found 11 different brands and 17 sizes of tomato juice cans, with no way to determine quality except to try them all. Asking for 1 quarter lb. tea packages, she was given packages containing 1-2 oz. less than she had asked for. Even though the package was marked as to net weight. She pointed this out as being 'misleading,' even though the price may be adjusted to fit the eight

Tea and tomato juice cause marketing headache, consumers expert tells ...

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Tony, a small Shetland pony, better known as the battler, is the light weight champion before the exclusive remount stable in Wash. Photo. shows Tony giving a few lessons in the art of fisticuffs to Albert Walker of the Veterinary Dept. U.S. Quartermaster Corps. The pony is owned by Edna Van Duyne, 9 yr. old daughter of Col. Frederick W. Van Duyne U.S. Navy

Tony, a small Shetland pony, better known as the battler, is the light...

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Bringing sack of rice to hundred-pound weight. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana

Bringing sack of rice to hundred-pound weight. State rice mill, Crowle...

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enos Royer and the poultry buyer figuring the cost of chickens by weight. The chickens brought 14 1/2 cents per pound

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enos Royer and the poultry buyer figur...

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Recording the weight of milk at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery in East Berkshire, Vermont

Recording the weight of milk at the United Farmers' Co-op Creamery in ...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old guayule plants. At two years, the guayule contains about nine percent rubber of dry weight. To supply the emergency needs for rubber, these shrubs would have to be planted closer together if a two year harvest cycle were planned. Rubber yield per acre would then closely approximate the yield from mature shrubs

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old g...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Inspecting cores for armor-piercing bullets in a converted Eastern plant that formerly made animal traps. Every bullet must pass several tests for weight, profile, etc.. Small and very accurate guages are used by young women who have been trained as expert inspectors

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Inspecting co...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Weighing engine to check total weight

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...

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Group outside Pittman Handle Factory. A fifteen year old boy operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off. To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a day. This factory has a number of unprotected belts and dangerous machines. One other boy, about the age of this one, was doing all kind[s] of work, taking away the handles from a huge rip saw, etc., and constantly exposed to danger. Pittman Handle Factory, Denison, Tex. Location: Denison, Texas.

Group outside Pittman Handle Factory. A fifteen year old boy operating...

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

The girl berry carriers on Newton's Farm at Cannon, Del. Ann Parion, 13 years of age, working her 5th season carries 60 lbs. of berries from the fields to the sheds. Andenito Carro, 14 years of age working her 2d season is seen carrying a 25 lb. load of berries. Besides the great physical strain in the carrying such weight, these girls also pick berries. When Andenito was asked her age she responded 12, at which her mother interrupted to say she was past 14. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Cannon, Del., May 28th, 1910. Location: Cannon, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

The girl berry carriers on Newton's Farm at Cannon, Del. Ann Parion, 1...

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

Talent, weight. Palestine under British mandate. 1930s.

Talent, weight. Palestine under British mandate. 1930s.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, Yakima Valley. "Fruit tramp." Note design of pear strap, to balance weight of the pears. Contrast with another fruit sack shown by negative 20874-E

Washington, Yakima Valley. "Fruit tramp." Note design of pear strap, t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Feeding cord to the fabric machine. Cords feed down through the floor to the calendaring machine two stories below. As may be seen from this picture, the cords are gathered in four banks at this point, but join together in a solid mass by the time they reach the rubber-impregnating calendaring machine. Another set of four banks of cords also issue from the creel room carrying heavier weight cord stock for truck tire use. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Feeding cord to the fabric machine. Cords feed down through the floor ...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. This worker is welding top plates to angle frames for a merchant ship under construction at a large Eastern yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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

Test to determine weight per bushel of wheat. Walla Walla, Washington

Test to determine weight per bushel of wheat. Walla Walla, Washington

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Marking point for the valve stem. These tires are so perfectly balanced that the weight of the valve stem is allowed and provided for. This woman attaches a label to the tire at the point where the valve stem should be placed. Balancing a tire was once considered unneccessary, until it was demonstrated that out-of-balance tires cause wheel shimmy, excessive wear and many other tire evils. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Marking point for the valve stem. These tires are so perfectly balance...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying defense plants. It's the new, oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premiere on April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons and was designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

V-mail. Finished V-mail letters are sorted and prepared for forwarding to addressees at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes

V-mail. Finished V-mail letters are sorted and prepared for forwarding...

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

Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, all were taken in a simultaneous operation as AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers on Kauai, Hawaii, first island to begin induction into the new combat unit, underwent physical examination prior to induction of 150 men

Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, a...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American Museum, New York 1849, weight 576 pounds

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...

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Colossal iron statue of Vulcan, 56 ft. high, weight 100,000 lbs., in Mines Bldg., World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A.

Colossal iron statue of Vulcan, 56 ft. high, weight 100,000 lbs., in M...

H55147 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John C. Heenan, champion of America born in West Troy, New York, May 2, 1835, height 6 ft. 1 1/2 inch, fighting weight from 180 to 185 lbs / / from photograph in attitude taken by Gillis & Johnson, 156 Broadway, New York ; lith. by Cameron & Walsh, 32 & 34 John St., N.Y.

John C. Heenan, champion of America born in West Troy, New York, May 2...

Print shows a full-length portrait of John Carmel Heenan, in boxing stance. 774 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Wm. Carland, in the Clerk's Office of the Distri... More

[Charles Ledoux, French bantam weight boxer]

[Charles Ledoux, French bantam weight boxer]

Ready for the gun. Washington, D.C. April 2. Clear weather and a fast track prevailed today as the first annual waitresses derby got under way in the capital. There was no age or weight limit for the starters who carried cocktail setups instead of the usual heavy dinner ware.

Ready for the gun. Washington, D.C. April 2. Clear weather and a fast ...

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At the sugar beet unloading station a sample of each farmer's load is taken to determine the tare or quantity of soil adhering to the beets. This is deducted from the weight on which payment is based. Adams County, Colorado

At the sugar beet unloading station a sample of each farmer's load is ...

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.

Biography of a Liberty Ship. Birth of a ship. Less than five months from keel laying to launching ceremony was the record set by the Patrick Henry. This time is being reduced to 60 days in the construction of her sister ships of the "Liberty Ship" design. This standard design was selected by the Martime Commission to meet the need for ships that can be built in existing yards in minimum time with the additional purpose of conserving materials vitally needed for the war production effort. Prefabrication of sections in special plants, replacing of riveting wherever possible by welding and other new departures all contribute to the speed of construction and saving of material and dead weight in these ships which are already proving their worth in the war on the Axis

Biography of a Liberty Ship. Birth of a ship. Less than five months fr...

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Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big problem in trailer manufacture. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles has been able to replace metal fenders (wheel wells) successfully with plastic material made by a new process. Paper of forty pounds weight runs from rolls to a tent containing a glue-like solution. After it absorbs this solution, the operator breaks its stiffness by wadding and squeezing

Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big p...

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.

Point values on butter, lard, margarine, and other edible fats and oils are set by kind and weight. Points on rationed cheese are set the same way. Points on canned meat and canned fish are also set by kind and weight

Point values on butter, lard, margarine, and other edible fats and oil...

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V-mail. Letters to members of the armed forces overseas are photographed on V-mail microfilm at the Pentagon building, Washington, D.C. V-mail is available to and from the armed forces stationed outside the United States. It is only 1/65th the weight of ordinary mail and saves ninety-eight percent of the cargo space required for ordinary letters. 1,600 letters can be placed on a roll of film little larger than a pack of cigarettes

V-mail. Letters to members of the armed forces overseas are photograph...

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

A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md., Private Jackson O. Broshears [i.e. Brashears], Co. D, Indiana Mounted Infantry. Age 20 years; height 6 feet 1 inch; weight when captured, 185 lbs.; was in rebel hands three and one-quarter months, 2 months of which were passed on Belle Isle. Under treatment in U.S. Hospital 8 weeks - constantly improving - now, May 19th, 1864, weighs 108-1/2 lbs.

A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md.,...

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. Wallace, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms ... More

Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was said to be 5 or 6 years old. Nearby, I found Jack who said he was 8 years old, and who was carrying a bag full of Saturday Evening Posts, which weighed nearly 1/2 of his own weight. The bag weighed 24 pounds, and he weighed only 55 pounds. He carried this bag for several blocks to the car. Said he was taking them home. Sacramento, California / Lewis W. Hine.

Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening ...

A little girl standing on a sidewalk holding a bag. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Lick telescope, length 57 feet, diameter of object glass 36 inches, total weight 40 tons / W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith. Cleveland, O.

The Lick telescope, length 57 feet, diameter of object glass 36 inches...

Print shows an interior view of the Lick Observatory with the Lick telescope mounted on a large stand and being manipulated by a man standing on the top level, with a man sitting on a small moveable platform be... More

Picador: weight 1950 lbs. - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Picador: weight 1950 lbs. - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

Artist: Harry Lyman (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5175

[Father reduces his weight, no. 10]

[Father reduces his weight, no. 10]

An overweight man, apparently annoyed with constant interference, closes the door to the room. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: A.B. Frost. Tenth in a sequence of ten cartoons. Tit... More

[Father reduces his weight, no. 3]

[Father reduces his weight, no. 3]

An overweight man exercises, stretching his arms out to his sides and bending one leg forward, and grimaces as his wife watches with a surprised expression from the doorway of the room. No copyright information... More

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