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[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]

[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]

Title from reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Bureau Printing & Engraving. Manufactureing macerated money pulp . board, 1914, Washington, D.C

Bureau Printing & Engraving. Manufactureing macerated money pulp . boa...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. LC-F82-410. Copy neg.? Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the N... More

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Great Depressio...

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

A black and white photo of men on a boat. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of men on a boat. Great Depression FFSA / OWI ...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / O...

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

Sawmill workers. Longview, Washington

Sawmill workers. Longview, Washington

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

A black and white photo of a man drawing on a chalkboard, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man drawing on a chalkboard, New Jersey. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Zinc smelter worker. Picher, Oklahoma

Zinc smelter worker. Picher, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man working on a sewing machine in a factory, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man working on a sewing machine in a factory, New Jersey. Farm Secur...

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

Scene in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida

Scene in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida

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

Empty cans are filled with peas and lids placed on them. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Empty cans are filled with peas and lids placed on them. Canning facto...

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

A migrant packinghouse worker shaving. Deerfield Florida

A migrant packinghouse worker shaving. Deerfield Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Chopping beans in the canning plant at Dania, Florida. Youthful workers are allowed to use dangerous machinery without safeguards

Chopping beans in the canning plant at Dania, Florida. Youthful worker...

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

Steel worker. Midland, Pennsylvania

Steel worker. Midland, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Removing bales of cotton from gin press, Lehi, Arkansas

Removing bales of cotton from gin press, Lehi, Arkansas

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

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. G...

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

[Car in front of Shulman's Market on N at Union St. S.W., Washington, D.C.

[Car in front of Shulman's Market on N at Union St. S.W., Washington, ...

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...

Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman field worker with topped sugar beets. Adams County, Colorado

Woman field worker with topped sugar beets. Adams County, Colorado

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

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tanks for the U.S. Army Air Corps., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army

War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The Palestine Electric Cable Works. Winding of rubber insulated wire

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

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

Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.

Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn.

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

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane

Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman...

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

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, Conn.

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, C...

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

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in th...

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

Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Duke is a civil service worker in the A[ssembly] and R[epair] dept. at the Navy Air Base (shot - reconditioning spark plugs)

Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, ...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, with his work burros in front of his barn, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, with his work burros in front of his barn...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif.

Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beac...

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

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas]

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[s...

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

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas. Cabbie Coleman, former housewife, works at western aircraft plant. Installing of oxygen racks above the flight deck

Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft ...

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

Yardmaster in railroad yards, Amarillo Texas

Yardmaster in railroad yards, Amarillo Texas

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

A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Prov...

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.

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill.

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter ha...

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

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...

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

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

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

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago...

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

The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & N...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R.R., Blue Island, Ill.

Thomas Madrigal greasing a locomotive in the roundhouse, Rock Island R...

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.

Negro worker pounding down sack so that stored sacks of feed will pack more evenly. Cottonseed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas

Negro worker pounding down sack so that stored sacks of feed will pack...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas

Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the f...

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

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant "H' class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the gia...

Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right.

Jack Whinery, homesteader, repairing fence which he built with slabs, Pie Town, New Mexico

Jack Whinery, homesteader, repairing fence which he built with slabs, ...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm owned by James Pompey, who 20 years ago came from Italy on the advice of a brother, Southington, Connecticut. People of Finnish, Slav, German, and Polish extraction help him to farm it

Farm owned by James Pompey, who 20 years ago came from Italy on the ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexican carrot worker. Edinburg, Texas

Mexican carrot worker. Edinburg, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Copper. Rubber lining for large capacity centrifugal pumps are necessary for the pumping of copper sludge and concentrates at the mills of the Utah Copper Company at Magna and Arthur in Utah

Production. Copper. Rubber lining for large capacity centrifugal pumps...

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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Shine your sheets, mister! This machine is used to polish the surface of stainless, to make it smooth and bright and clean. This is just one of the many units of special equipment required for the production of high quality steel for our defense needs

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Shine your sheets, mister! This m...

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

The freedom loving peoples of the Netherlands East Indies have long had their own armament program underway. They have been preparing to defend their islands ever since the Nipponese embarked upon their program to "unify" the Pacific area. This younger worker is mixing explosives for shells at an island munitions plant

The freedom loving peoples of the Netherlands East Indies have long ha...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

A black and white photo of three men working in the dirt. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of three men working in the dirt. Great Depres...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of two men working on a machine, Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of two men working on a machine, Harris and Ew...

A black and white photo of two men working on a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in W... More

A woman working on a machine in a factory, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A woman working on a machine in a factory, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / O...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Miners loading drilling equipment onto hoist to take. Mogollon, New Mexico

Miners loading drilling equipment onto hoist to take. Mogollon, New Me...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Great Depressio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A black and white photo of two men working on a building. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two men working on a building. Great Depres...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Great Depressio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Shenandoah Valley. Worker in Spitzer's Garage, Grottoes, one of the flourishing shops in the valley

Shenandoah Valley. Worker in Spitzer's Garage, Grottoes, one of the fl...

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.

Indian troops in East Africa. These photos show the large-scale production of Indian iron and steel by the well-known Indian firm of Tatas at work in the sheet mill. Like Tuaregs, the veiled men of the Sahara, they muffle their faces as much as they can and for the same reason the Tuaregs did, to shield their faces from the fierce heat of the desert sand blazing in the sunshine and the men of the sheet mill to protect themselves from the savage heat given off by the sheets of red hot metal which litter the floor of the mill

Indian troops in East Africa. These photos show the large-scale produc...

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

Machine shop. Keystone Drilling Company. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Machine shop. Keystone Drilling Company. Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

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

Farmer worker cutting weeds at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

Farmer worker cutting weeds at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Machine shop. Keystone Drilling Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

Machine shop. Keystone Drilling Company, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

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

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. A former farm worker, now a construction worker

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. A former farm worker, now ...

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 engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the expert hands of Dorothy Miller and Sylvia Dreiser during their eight-hour working day in a large Midwest aircraft plant. Inspection of these vital cogs in America's war machine is a delicate task and one which requires infinite patience and precision. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the exper...

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

An old black and white photo of a woman working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a woman working in a factory. Office o...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Two Negro welders, representative of the workers of many racial groups which helped construct the first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, prepare to cut the steel plates which released the SS Booker T. Washington down the ways at its launching on September 29, 1942, at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Two Negro welder...

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

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by el...

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

Proud of his job. Smiling worker in an eastern arsenal hand finishes the interior surface of a cradle for an 8-inch gun, railway carriage

Proud of his job. Smiling worker in an eastern arsenal hand finishes t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Checking a prefabricated section for a wooden torpedo boat at a Southern shipyard. Many fast seventy-eight-foot motor driven boats of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Checking a prefabricated sec...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Andrews County, Texas. Bit at end of drill pipe. In going through hard structures these bits sometimes wear out in three or four hours

Andrews County, Texas. Bit at end of drill pipe. In going through hard...

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

Sunray, Texas. Worker at carbon black plant

Sunray, Texas. Worker at carbon black plant

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.

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Taking a sample of gasoline from a loaded tank car

Phillips gasoline plant. Borger, Texas. Taking a sample of gasoline fr...

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

Transformer manufacture. Forming the heart of the giant transformers which manufacture power for America's war production plants, these spools of copper wire are lifted by a crane, guided into place by a worker. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Forming the heart of the giant transformers w...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour Number Four mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Miners in the room where lamps are kept

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour Number Four mine of the P...

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

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

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

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.

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Carver Cotton Gin Company, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

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

A poster comes to life. Sergeant Vineyard knows a lot about howitzers and anti-aircraft guns but he'd never seen a machine like this giant trip-hammer until he visited an Allegheny-Ludlum steel mill. A skilled worker at the mill explains the shaping of steel for armaments to the Sergeant, whose appreciation for the fine art of steelmaking grows by the minute. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Sergeant Vineyard knows a lot about howitzers ...

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.

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American farm worker

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanes...

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a chair. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a chair. Office of War Inf...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing fixtures were formerly processed, hot billets, soon to become shells, are rolled from a butane gas furnace by a water cooled hook. The red-hot billets will next be transferred to hydraulic presses for further processing (Manitowac Shipyards)

Production. 105 millimeter shells. In a Midwest foundry where plumbing...

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

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. Trainees cleaning out boilers aboard the training ship New York

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Railroad worker whose job is to inspect journal boxes, brake shoes, etc. and make minor repairs at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Railroad worker whose job is to inspect journal box...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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

A number of forging operations are required to produce a shell for the Army. Experienced auto plant workers do this work as efficiently as they did parts for the family car. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A number of forging operations are required to produce a shell for the...

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

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Experienced workman watches the color of roasting manganese ore through oven door

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Experienced...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Pho...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. This worker is ladling white-hot molten glass from a furnace in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. When viscosity of the molten glass is at the point required by rigid quality control specifications, it will be used to form glass marbles from which glass yarns are drawn in another operation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. This worker is la...

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. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America's salvage campaign extends even into her shipyards. A workman is shown salvaging grease from the skids at the Wilmington yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation a few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named after a Negro, was launched on September 29, 1942

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America's salvag...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Laboratory worker conducting a test with pitch obtained from pulpwood

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Laboratory worker conducting a te...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Caruso brand products. Worker hanging out spaghetti to dry

Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Carus...

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.

Topeka, Kansas. Workmen manipulating a hot forging which is being hammered under a steam hammer in the blacksmith shop of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. Workmen manipulating a hot forging which is being hamm...

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

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Italian-American worker

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Worker carrying a rubber hose

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Worker carrying a ...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A shipyard worker

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A shipyard worker

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

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. Office of War Inf...

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

Mary Tomlin working at "tube winding" on first floor.

Mary Tomlin working at "tube winding" on first floor.

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Worker holds garment pieces. Paterson New Jersey

Worker holds garment pieces. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images taken on September 14, 1994, documenting scenes VBF Trim Company, a garment-making shop located at 404 Grand Street, Paterson, New Jersey.

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