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Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Welder

Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Welder

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Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Welder

Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Welder

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Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welder and assistant

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

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake Helen, Florida, worked in the county courthouse before Pearl Harbor with a wife and baby to support. Now he's deep in the war effort, welding aircraft. He is shown going through the De Land Vocational School. Opposite him is Mrs. Mary Owens, housewife and mother of three children, who developed into a first class aircraft welder in the school

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of Lake He...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welder's helper shading his eyes from the welder's light

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welder's helper shadin...

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A poster comes to life. Like liquid fire, molten steel is poured from an electric furnace into a ladle. When drawn, forged, treated and cast, this red river will be a tank, a ship's hull, or a hundred guns for men like Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans to use against the enemy. George Woolslayer, welder at Allegheny-Ludlum, explains this process in steel-making to the servicemen during their visit to the mill

A poster comes to life. Like liquid fire, molten steel is poured from ...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder and helper

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." Jesse Kermit Lucas, experienced Negro welder at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards, is shown instructing his white welder apprentice, Rodney Gail Chesney, as the two work on the "Booker T. Washington," first liberty ship named for a Negro

Construction of the liberty ship "Booker T. Washington." Jesse Kermit ...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A girl arc welder

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A girl arc welder

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Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Welder

Ledkote, Vernon Blvd., Astoria, Long Island. Welder

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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattano...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place. Prefabrication of sections such as this in a nearby plant formerly making freight cars saves weeks in the building of ships for Uncle Sam's new merchant fleet. This piece is being hoisted into place, and soon the welder will begin his vital work. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. All assembled and ready to go in place....

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Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten years; cutting tool joints off a drill pipe in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten...

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

A poster comes to life. "I know now where we get the stuff for battleships and guns--and even radio parts. And with men like you producing this stuff we need and backing us up, we can't lose this war." Chief Evans speaks to the steelworkers on his visit to an Allegheny-Ludlum mill. Touring the plant, Evans got his initiation into a new battlefront where weapons for the Army and Navy are forged. Welder Woolslayer (standing left) and Sergeant Vineyard stand by after the assistant plant superintendent (seated) introduced Evans to the audience. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. "I know now where we get the stuff for battles...

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder

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

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Welder

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Welder

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.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman arc welder

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman arc welder

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New Britain, Connecticut. Welder at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant, working on an anti-aircraft gun mount

New Britain, Connecticut. Welder at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant

New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary, and Clark pl...

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California shipyard workers. Attired in a welder's outfit this worker is one of California's many women shipyard workers employed at the Richmond Shipbuilding Company

California shipyard workers. Attired in a welder's outfit this worker ...

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

Beaumont, Texas. Woman welder at the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Woman welder at the Pennsylvania shipyards

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.

New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant

New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary, and Clark pl...

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Welder at work on Douglas Dam, Tenn. (TVA)

Welder at work on Douglas Dam, Tenn. (TVA)

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Ratchets, turnbuckles and "dogs" hold these deck units of a new Liberty ship in place as a welder in a large Eastern shipyard uses the torch to fuse them

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Ratchets, turnbuckles and "dogs" hold t...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture of forty-millimeter Bofors gun mounts and carriages. This arc welder wearing a protective mask is completing a skilled operation on part of a gun mount in a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. He has a vital job in the manufacture ...

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.

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Ed Johnson, twenty years old, and a certified welder. The perspiration comes from working on a July day between the layers of the ship's doublebottom where there is barely room for a man to squeeze in

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Ed Johnson, twenty yea...

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Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The flame of the welder's torch is today's flame of freedom! At this WPA vocational training school in Washington, D.C., welding trainees keep their torches blazing day and night, preparing for jobs in war industries

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The fl...

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

A woman welder at North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for one of the huge tanks that go into the B-25 bombers

A woman welder at North American Aviation works on a sub-assembly for ...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welder. The leather-asbestos suits are a protection for a worker in the hot, cramped double-bottoms

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Welder. The leather-as...

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A poster comes to life. Welder George Woolslayer meets Sergeant Vineyard's pals at his army post after Vineyard and Aviation-radio Chief John Evans had visited Woolslayer at the steel mill where he is employed. Thus did the three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster meet one another and recognize the value of united effort, soldier, sailor and worker, "one for all and all for one" to blast the Axis off the map. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Welder George Woolslayer meets Sergeant Vineya...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An electric welder employed on the erection of stacks and breechings at TVA's Watts Bar steam plant. This plant will supplement the big hydroelectric installation at Watts Bar Dam, which has an authorized output of 90,000 kilowatts, and a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. Each of the four big turbo-generators in the steam plant is rated at 60,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An elec...

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Welder and assistant at the Higgins shipyards. New Orleans, Louisiana

Welder and assistant at the Higgins shipyards. New Orleans, Louisiana

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welder during the lunch hour

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welder during the ...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman arc welder

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman arc welder

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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattano...

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The United Producers and Consumers Cooperative maintains an automobile repair shop. In this picture, a worker is repairing a farmer's truck with an electric welder. Phoenix, Arizona

The United Producers and Consumers Cooperative maintains an automobile...

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Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten years; cutting tool joints off a drill pipe in Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas worked in oil fields about ten...

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Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas, worked in oil fields about ten years cutting tool joints off a drill pipe. In Goodrich field of Continental oil company. Valley Center oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Floyd Swick, welder from Newton, Kansas, worked in oil fields about te...

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Electric welder in structural shop of Keystone Drilling Company. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Electric welder in structural shop of Keystone Drilling Company. Beave...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negro who is receiving training in machine shop practice shown in his welder's outfit

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. A...

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

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder at work on the deck of one of the barges

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder at work on th...

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.

Chicago, Illinois. Welder who was employed in the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Welder who was employed in the roundhouse at a Chic...

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Chicago, Illinois. A welder employed at the repair tracks at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad

Chicago, Illinois. A welder employed at the repair tracks at a yard of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A woman welder working on the sub-assembly of shell frames

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A woman welder wor...

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.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workman, using an American welder which was supplied under lend-lease, welds an armor plate on a nearly completed combat car

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workman...

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Beaumont, Texas. Welder on the hull of a cargo vessel at the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Welder on the hull of a cargo vessel at the Pennsylva...

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Topeka, Kansas. Welder working on a fire box of an engine in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops

Topeka, Kansas. Welder working on a fire box of an engine in the Atchi...

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Welder. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Welder. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

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

A poster comes to life. Blown up almost to life-size, photographs of the soldier, welder and sailor are pasted on cardboard. The poster of "Men Working Together" which actually brought these three men typical of their specific groups together thus begins to take shape. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Blown up almost to life-size, photographs of t...

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Knocking tool joints off a drill pipe, after welder has cut it. In Goodrich field of Continental oil field near Wichita, Kansas

Knocking tool joints off a drill pipe, after welder has cut it. In Goo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, 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 workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, 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. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

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

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

Production. Aircraft. An engineer in the laboratory of a large Western aircraft plant tests a standard Army weld sample. At irregular intervals every welder working on Army contract material must make the "tee" weld shown here. This sample has failed, as part of the break has occurred in the weld rather than in the parent material. The welder must now produce a satisfactory weld sample before he can again work on Army aircraft material

Production. Aircraft. An engineer in the laboratory of a large Western...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Worker operating the progressive welder is fabricating bomb shackle frames. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

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.

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Production. Submarine chasers. An answer to the U-boats: more subchasers. A husky arc welder has just finished a job on one of the chocks of a chaser at an Eastern boatyard. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. An answer to the U-boats: more subchase...

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

Chicago, Illinois. A welder's helper in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad repair shop

Chicago, Illinois. A welder's helper in the Chicago and Northwestern R...

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Manpower. Boatyard workers. This arc welder, an American of Chinese origin, is one of many efficient workers making steel ramp boats at a large Southern boatyard. Some of these ramp boats may be used in the invasion of areas where our sailors and Marines will fight shoulder to shoulder with Chinese fighters. Higgins Industries

Manpower. Boatyard workers. This arc welder, an American of Chinese or...

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.

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. A spot welder

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...

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

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on the bulkhead of a barge under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on th...

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A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-years-old, is an experienced welder at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's steel mills. His uniform is a pair of overalls and a welder's mask. Not reveille but a battered alarm clock awakens him six days a week at 6 A.M. There are no service stripes on those welder's sleeves he wears, but his part in the winning of this war is as important as any front-line soldier's. George Woolslayer is out to win the battle of the home front, the battle to keep America's soldiers on the fighting front supplied with the weapons of war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production. George...

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Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack Hayes, journeyman welder, graduated from the Richmond welding school before beginning work for Kaiser eight months ago

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled w...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant working on a gun mounty

New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary, and Clark pl...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welder during lunch hour

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Welder during lunc...

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Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman arc welder

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman arc welder

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.

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who has been welding the ejection chutes of fifty callibre machine guns

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who h...

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

A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard

A welder who works in the round-house at the Chicago and Northwestern ...

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Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the body of a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the b...

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

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the De Land, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs the De Land pool is doing

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc we...

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

Production. Locomotives. Crouched in a turbine intake casing, a welder does his bit in the production of essential war equipment. The plant in which he works produces tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Locomotives. Crouched in a turbine intake casing, a welder...

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Welder working on an engine at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad locomotive shops

Chicago, Illinois. Welder working on an engine at the Chicago and Nort...

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

A poster comes to life. The middle man in the poster looks at his image mounted on a wall at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation, wonders what the other two fellows are like, and where they are these days. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-year-old welder, was chosen as a model for this poster when an Office of War Information photographer visited the plant in the fall of 1941. His interest in the soldier and sailor prompted him to write OWI (Office of War Information) asking for information on the servicemen. Result: furloughs wer obtained for the two, who came to the steel mill and saw that "Men Working Together" is the formula by which American soldiers, sailors and workers will win this war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. The middle man in the poster looks at his imag...

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Chicago, Illinois. A welder at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad repair shops

Chicago, Illinois. A welder at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on the bulkhead of a barge under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on th...

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Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Welder

Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Welder

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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...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman welder attaching pipe angles

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Woman welder attac...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary and Clark plant

New Britain, Connecticut. A welder at the Landers, Frary and Clark pla...

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Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man in a factory working on a piece of metal, Arizona. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man in a factory working on a piece of metal, Arizona. Farm Security...

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A poster comes to life. Searching for just the right faces to use for a war poster, an Office of War Information (OWI) artist selects three photographs, one of a soldier, a sailor and a welder, and gets to work on the first rough layout of "Men Working Together." Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Searching for just the right faces to use for ...

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

Welder at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Welder at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the body of a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the b...

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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...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Clyde Williams, instructor in the Daytona Beach, Florida Vocational School, guides the hands of Marie Myers in the first steps of becoming an aircraft welder. Marie was a high school student taking a business course, when she gave it up for defense training entitling her to a high school diploma. She has two brothers in the Army

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

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De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pretty hard struggle making ends meet these past few years until he went through the defense trade school at Ocala, Florida. Now he is a qualified machinist and welder and can handle most any job in the Carr plant, a key-subcontractor in the DeLand, Florida pool

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. C.L. Purcell and his wife had a pre...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder who is training for war work at Stair Vocational High School

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Welder who is...

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A poster comes to life. The very life of each of these men depends upon the other. Soldier, steel worker, sailor, their destinies are interdependent in America's all-out war against the Axis. Sergeant French L. Vineyard, welder George Woolslayer and Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans stand against the smoking chimneys of a steel mill, watching an electro-magnetic crane loading steel scrap into waiting cars

A poster comes to life. The very life of each of these men depends upo...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. A welder's helper

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Chicago, Illinois. A welder's helper at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad repair shop

Chicago, Illinois. A welder's helper at a Chicago and Northwestern Rai...

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Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on electric refrigerator condensors, is here shown at his old job. He is now using his skill in the assembling of high-powered, anti-aircraft searchlights

Ice cubes to searchlights. Edward O'Rourke, formerly a line welder on ...

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Production. Magnesium. A rigger and a welder at the new Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert look out across the growing impressiveness of the plant they are helping to build

Production. Magnesium. A rigger and a welder at the new Basic Magnesiu...

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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattano...

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Production. 155mm shells. Welding base cover plates of 155mm shells on a Thomson-Gibb welder in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Welding base cover plates of 155mm shells on...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An electric welder employed on the erection of stacks and breechings at TVA's Watts Bar steam plant. This plant will supplement the big hydroelectric installation at Watts Bar Dam, which has an authorized output of 90,000 kilowatts, and a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. Each of the four big turbo-generators in the steam plant is rated at 60,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An elec...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Welder

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on the bulkhead of a barge under construction

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. A welder working on th...

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Chicago, Illinois. A welder at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad repair shops

Chicago, Illinois. A welder at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad r...

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