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LANGLEY FIELD, Virginia CURTIS JN4D PLANE, WITH USUAL PROPELLER AND ACKERMAN WHEELS

LANGLEY FIELD, Virginia CURTIS JN4D PLANE, WITH USUAL PROPELLER AND AC...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Display of automobile tires and wheels, Deming, New Mexico

Display of automobile tires and wheels, Deming, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro farmer and blacksmith shop workman look over much-repaired wagon wheels to see if they can be made usable again. Depew, Oklahoma

Negro farmer and blacksmith shop workman look over much-repaired wagon...

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.

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. General view of part of the plant where scrap iron and steel are converted into many grades of steel alloys. In the foreground are carloads of finished products, while in the middle foreground can be seen piles and cars of scrap coming in to feed the huge furnaces. In the background is the power house which supplies electricity and steam to turn the wheels of this important defense industry, set in the Pennsylvania hills about thirty miles north of Pittsburgh, one of America's most important steel producing centers

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide temporary housing for defense workers in Wilmington, North Carolina, stops for the night at the Hain's Post Trailer Camp, Washington, D.C.

Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide tem...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Wagon wheels. Finished wagon wheel hub assemblies piled in the plant of a Southern wagon builder who is receiving a great demand for his products on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Finished wagon wheel hub assemblies piled in...

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

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing railroad wheels in a machine shop of the Frisco railroad yards

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing railroad wheels in a machine shop of the Fr...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the orthropedics ward of an Army hospital

Nurse Frances Bullock wheels a wounded soldier back to his bed in the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Topeka, Kansas. Preparing driver wheels for re-tiring at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad wheel shop

Topeka, Kansas. Preparing driver wheels for re-tiring at the Atchison,...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be g...

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

Ferris wheels, giant vertical revolving wheels with passenger cars suspended on their framework, at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines

Ferris wheels, giant vertical revolving wheels with passenger cars sus...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbi... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

[Table and wheels] - Architectural drawing, public domain image

[Table and wheels] - Architectural drawing, public domain image

In album: "Principles of Perspective". Album not signed; attribution based on inscription inside cover "Indentified as belonging to Charles Bulfinch, & in his handwriting. Ellen L. Bulfinch, Nov. 13, 1894." Fro... More

Irrigation wheel at U.S. Telegraph Station - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Irrigation wheel at U.S. Telegraph Station - Frank G. Carpenter collec...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Erivan -- Taking home spinning wheels & cotton

Erivan -- Taking home spinning wheels & cotton

Photo shows Armenian women and boys outside of building, Yerevan, Armenia. (Source: similar Bain negative: LC-B2-4491-2)

The mass of burned timbers and ruined metal, showing broken paddle wheels s[h]a[f]t. General Slocum Disaster, New York Harbor, June 15, 1904

The mass of burned timbers and ruined metal, showing broken paddle whe...

Stereograph shows the burnt out wreckage and debris of the steamboat SS General Slocum at the New York Harbor. H49054 U.S. Copyright Office No. 8400. Copyright by H.C. White Co. Copyright entry: Aug. 12, 1904, ... More

School on wheels interior view - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

School on wheels interior view - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) experimental trailer-house is backed up onto its foundation in the mountains of North Carolina. The section is equipped with wheels on the underside, the foundation is equipped with tracks. The wheels are placed on the tracks and half a house rolls into

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's...

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

The tracks for Army halftrac cars run over bogie wheels which distribute the load and absorb shock through the springs on which they are mounted. The steel bases for these bogie wheels undergo inspection at a Midwest tire plant engaged in halftrac production. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

The tracks for Army halftrac cars run over bogie wheels which distribu...

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

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England whose normal product is electric dry shavers is now turning out parts for machine tools which will find their place in the war production effort. This bank of Norton grinders which formerly ground motor shafts are now grinding small parts for tools. Tolerances on the war work are only .002 inches whereas the former work demanded much closer tolerances up to .0002 inches. The conversion was accomplished by putting on new grinding wheels, by minor changes in the head and by increasing the feed of the cutting solution. Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This New England whose normal produ...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. This operator of a Southern wagon plant is fitting spokes to the hub assembly with the aid of this machine

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. This operator of...

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

Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line and onto the flight ramp. When the ships are ready for flight, rubber wheels are attached, and the wood goes back to the assembly line

Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line...

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

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wheels at the roundhouse at the Frisco railroad

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wheels at the roundhouse at the Frisco railroad

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

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels and axles for the railroads. The company never employed women until recently

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car W...

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.

Ash Fork, Arizona. A diesel freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona going down the mountain stops at a siding to cool its wheels

Ash Fork, Arizona. A diesel freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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

Traveling Tibetan tribe, grandmothers spinning prayer wheels

Traveling Tibetan tribe, grandmothers spinning prayer wheels

Photograph shows Tibetan refugees? men, women and children under shelter. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 1... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

A.Q. Scammon's The real Widow Brown

A.Q. Scammon's The real Widow Brown

37104 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: The Lonelyville accomodation. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3908. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collec... More

LANGLEY FIELD, Virginia CURTIS JN4D PLANE, WITH OLMSTEAD PROPELLER AND ACKERMAN WHEELS

LANGLEY FIELD, Virginia CURTIS JN4D PLANE, WITH OLMSTEAD PROPELLER AND...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Petah-Tikvah. The "Marzefin" Co. Marble works. Cutting of marble by emery wheels

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge Army trucks piled up as they arrive at the plant before the assembling process starts

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge A...

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

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a Midwestern company. The machine which formerly made spur gears, worm wheels and commentator rings has been converted to war use by being tooled with an eccentric spindle and thread rolling attachment for the production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a ...

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

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys at Bataan? These employees of a Midwest heater company take time out for lunch and the news before resuming work on installing assembly apparatus for M-4 tank bogie wheels in a company warehouse

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys a...

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

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of the temporary wooden wheels placed on a P-51 fighter on the North American flight training at the Inglewood, California, plant. Regular rubber tires are installed when the planes are ready for flight tests. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of t...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Mine car wheels

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman eating her lunch brought from home in the shop at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. This woman is a combination hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) and grinder

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman eating her lunch brought fro...

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

San Bernardino, California. A completely overhauled engine being run on the slip track at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad shops. This is done to break the engine in. Note that due to the greased track, the engine is standing still while the wheels are spinning

San Bernardino, California. A completely overhauled engine being run o...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Spraying paint on bus wheels at the maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Spraying paint on bus wheels at the maintenance 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.

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels and axles for the railroads. The company never employed women until recently

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car W...

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

San Bernardino, California. Rolling the driver wheels of an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad engine into place. It has been raised in the air for wheeling

San Bernardino, California. Rolling the driver wheels of an Atchison, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Axle and Wheel of Old Chuck Wagon

Axle and Wheel of Old Chuck Wagon

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

A pontoon boat on wheels - A black and white photo of a horse pulling a wagon

A pontoon boat on wheels - A black and white photo of a horse pulling ...

Stereograph showing an African American boy sitting on the ground between two pontoon boats resting on wheeled carts. The boats will be moved to a location and used in the construction of a pontoon bridge. No.... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Fish wheels Yukon River, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Fish wheels Yukon River, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

When an owner drives - Drawing. Public domain image.

When an owner drives - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly (Jan. 20, 1906), pp. 16-17.

To harvest the crops of California thousands of families live literally on wheels, San Joaquin Valley

To harvest the crops of California thousands of families live literall...

Photograph shows children sitting on top of family belongings piled up on the back of a flatbed truck; two men are standing by the sides of the truck.

Homemade wagon with wheels of black gum on the Will Turgin farm in northwest Georgia, near Clarksville

Homemade wagon with wheels of black gum on the Will Turgin farm in nor...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheels, tires, and general junk at junkyard, at Abbeville, Louisiana

Wheels, tires, and general junk at junkyard, at Abbeville, Louisiana

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.

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.

G.O.C. visits overturned locomotive on the Jerusalem Lydda Railroad Line. Crane about to lift the hundred ton locomotive to set it on its wheels, group of officers in background

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

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

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric melting furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Huge wooden wheels found in abandoned gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Huge wooden wheels found in abandoned gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The throbbing heart of this plant where scrap iron and steel are convert into alloy steels for the national defense production program. Heavy wires carry current to the huge electric melting furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, steady stream from the production lines of our arsenal of democracy. These bogie wheels being assembled in an Eastern plant give some idea of the massive construction of our new land battleships

Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, stead...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Spoke and hub assemblies are stocked at a Southern wagon plant for the next operation, the fitting of the felly, or wooden rim

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Spoke and hub as...

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

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yard employee inspecting the wheels of an oil tank car

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yard employee inspecting the wheels of an oil tank ca...

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

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane takes form on the production line. The wings and the Allison engines are already in place, and the ship now stands on its own wheels. It still requires many detail jobs before completion, but they are done rapidly under a well-ordered plan, and the plane will soon be rolled out for the fitting of propellers

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ...

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

Light, shadows, and old wagon wheels against a shed in Buffalo Gap Historic Village, museum of fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th century located in the small town of Buffalo Gap south of Abilene, Texas

Light, shadows, and old wagon wheels against a shed in Buffalo Gap His...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Fast trotting to fast wheels - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Fast trotting to fast wheels - Public domain graphic arts, Library of ...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2073

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O Canal South of U.S. 11, Williamsport, Washington County, MD

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Looking through the "big wheel" of Paris, Paris Exposition of 1900

Looking through the "big wheel" of Paris, Paris Exposition of 1900

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, also known as the Paris World Fair of 1900, was a w... More

Finishing (sand-papering) automobile wheels, Detroit, Mich.

Finishing (sand-papering) automobile wheels, Detroit, Mich.

Men working in plant. J224177 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 22148. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ind. Auto.; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

Post office on wheels decorated with Shrine colors. Postmaster William M. Mooney is standing before the office

Post office on wheels decorated with Shrine colors. Postmaster William...

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A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

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Binder loaded on a truck, preparatory to moving it. The rear wheels of the truck were lowered by digging pits to facilitate loading the binder. Raymond Zink, tenant farmer, is moving from one farm to another twenty-four miles away. Near Templeton, Indiana

Binder loaded on a truck, preparatory to moving it. The rear wheels of...

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Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rubber for the landing wheels and bullet-proof fuel tanks. The flyers and ground crews can do none of the important work entrusted to them unless we keep their planes supplied with the prodigious amounts of rubber they require

Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rub...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Wheels and belts for turning metal strip cutter. Gichner Iron Works, Washington, D.C.

Wheels and belts for turning metal strip cutter. Gichner Iron Works, W...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a S...

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Chicago, Illinois. Wheels and axles outside the locomotive shops at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Wheels and axles outside the locomotive shops at an...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing wheels of an oil tank car

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing wheels of an oil tank car

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Gears to grind the Axis. Giant gears to guide America's fleets around the sees to victory. A workman, dwarfed by the towering wheels, directs the moving of a high speed gear blank to a hooking machine. The surge of the mightiest surf won't faze these titans, whose job it is to speed the day when the Axis will be blasted to the bottom of the ocean

Gears to grind the Axis. Giant gears to guide America's fleets around ...

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Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park City, Summit County, UT

Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...

Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More

Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. - railway car builders, car wheels and general railway, work / sketched & on stone by Parsons & Atwater.

Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. - railway c...

Print showing bird's-eye view of the Wason railroad car manufacturing company facilities at Springfield, Massachusetts, with the Connecticut River in the background. Caption continues: Works at Brightwood five... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...

Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More

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