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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Rotary dump which empties coal cars into a chute which conveys the coal to railroad cars beneath

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

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

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations. At Wake and Midway Halls, she was greeted by Samuel Plato, building contractor, who had just turned the buildings over to the government. Mr. Plato is shown with Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss W. Gertrude Brown, resident manager of Wake Hall. The two buildings, opened last month for more than 800 Negro women war workers, were formally dedicated by Mrs. Roosevelt

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

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

Finishing torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard arsenal putting the finishing touches on a torpedo tube mount. This arsenal is one of eleven working at top speed for the expanded war program of the Navy

Finishing torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard ...

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

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

A senior class in bacteriology in the dairy building at Iowa State College. Students are counting the bacteria in milk before and after pasteurization. Ames, Iowa

A senior class in bacteriology in the dairy building at Iowa State Col...

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

Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. A Texas farmer who got a job working with the pipe gang

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

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Hemming a pilot parachute on a double needle sewing machine at the Pacific Parachute Company. San Diego, California

Hemming a pilot parachute on a double needle sewing machine at the Pac...

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.

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. To ensure maximum efficiency, every 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel made in this former automobile plant is checked and double checked. Here an inspector is examining the size of the bore in an army barrel. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. To ensure maximu...

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

A woman employee assembles a B-25 tank on a jig at North American Aviation

A woman employee assembles a B-25 tank on a jig at North American Avia...

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

Production. Naval gun mounts. Final finishing of a large naval gun mount is well under way as workmen of a Midwest machine shop do a careful job of scraping surfaces. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. Final finishing of a large naval gun mou...

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

Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of retirement to operate a lathe to make parts for sweepers in an Eastern shipyard. He returned his last social security check, declaring that the money he made helping win the war was enough for him. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of ...

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. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Tubing used in aircraft production at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Tubing used in aircraft...

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

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War I...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven seats(twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching new bit to the drill pipe

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching new bit to the drill pipe

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

Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. How mileage rationing can save lives on the battlefronts was pointed up dramatically by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who with six members of his crew were rescued after three weeks adrift on life rafts in the Pacific. "One tire that is not wasted on pleasure driving may save the lives of seven men as ours was saved," Rickenbacker said. One old rubber tire is sufficient to make a three-man raft of the type that saved the party in the Pacific

Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. How mileage rationing can save li...

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. Airplane manufacture, general. Dolores Cook of North American's welfare department at Inglewood, California, makes an appointment for an employee to have his driver's license revised. She wears the uniform of the company's Red Cross unit. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Dolores Cook of North Ameri...

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

Boys from nearby Army camp play baseball at the field day at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Yuma, Arizona

Boys from nearby Army camp play baseball at the field day at the FSA (...

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

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirteen years, C.R. Summers now is a sheet metal worker in a Southern Navy yard. Following a short training course in this work, he became adept at the job shown here, brazing on the sleeves that join lengths of copper tubing for Navy vessels

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. A grocery store manager for thirt...

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 group of people in a classroom. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of people in a classroom. Great Dep...

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

San Benito County, California. Japanese-American working in spinach field as he waits for orders to leave for reception center

San Benito County, California. Japanese-American working in spinach fi...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer, built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven fixed seats (twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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

Ensenada, Puerto Rico. One of the mills in the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company's plant

Ensenada, Puerto Rico. One of the mills in the South Puerto Rico Sugar...

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

Safe clothes for women war workers

Safe clothes for women war workers

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. An Eastern manufacturer uses this 5B spinning machine of the older type in manufacturing warp threads for weaving into parachute cloth

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. An Eastern manufacturer uses ...

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

Nashville, Tennessee. Riveting section of a tail assembly at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. Riveting section of a tail assembly at the Vulte...

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.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. While a plant officer looks on, machinist Arthur Greaces operates a Bickford vertical boring machine formerly used in the production of merry-go-rounds, now used for war work. He is machining a sheaf ordered as part of a sub-contract on maritime work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

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

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. One of 2,000 women currently employed in a Midwest war plant, this young Negro worker has proven a competent and earnest machine operator. She processes gun parts in this plant which has been converted from the production of spark plugs to machine guns. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. One of 2,000 women cur...

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.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Young sugar worker in a field

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Young sugar worker in a field

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.

Newport, New Jersey (vicinity). John Hanby enlarging his chicken coop

Newport, New Jersey (vicinity). John Hanby enlarging his chicken coop

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.

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Shavings and scrap are remelted here and cast into pigs

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Shavings and scrap are re...

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

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Hundreds of deft operations are required to assemble and finish the long lines of Dodge Army truck bodies that move daily to final production lines

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Sunday morning at Saint Edmunds Episcopal church

Chicago, Illinois. Sunday morning at Saint Edmunds Episcopal church

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

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans weeding beans

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Workman

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Workman

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. The camp doctor has a large practice in Bridgeton, but also gives his time to the migrant camp, where he works to curb venereal disease, malnutrition, and general rundown conditions of health

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Saturday night dance in the auditorium of the community house

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Deep in the heart of Texas, young National Youth Administration (NYA) trainees for war jobs, watch the Navy planes they are learning to service. Wearing their regulation work clothes, these civil service apprentices of the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, are in the vanguard of a large army of youths being trained as maintenance and repair workers at the military air station

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Deep in the heart of Texas, you...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Workers

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Workers

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

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

Brownsville, Texas (vicinity). Bean harvesters on large farm

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

Fuel oil conservation. Insulation packed snugly between the beams in the attic floor can reduce loss of heat up to forty or even fifty per cent. The householder can do this himself with an unfloored attic and by doing so save fifteen percent on fuel

Fuel oil conservation. Insulation packed snugly between the beams in t...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Cook tent

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Miners getting their head and safety lamps

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

Public domain photograph of worker, people working, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Little girl in the children's ward at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory farm workers camp

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Little girl in the children's ward at the...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Lunch time in the cafeteria

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Lunch time in the cafeteria

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

Production. Aircraft. With the aid of a powerful light, a Lockheed inspector checks rivets in all but the inaccessible wing section of a YP-38 plane wing

Production. Aircraft. With the aid of a powerful light, a Lockheed ins...

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

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker soldering contact point on end of wire

De Soto bomber plant, Detroit, Michigan. Woman worker soldering contac...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Touching up with an air buffer the inside of a self-sealing fuel tank, working on the fitting for pipes, one of which carries the fuel to the motor and the other of which is the tank motors. These tanks are an important safety development for military development. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Touching up with an air buffer the inside of ...

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.

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not ...

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.

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what he can to shoot up the Axis - not with a gun but with the radial drill on which he makes parts for medium tanks. One of many hundreds of loyal, foreign-born Americans who work in this large Midwest tank plant, Sackwar is proud of his role in the war. "Maybe I'm too old to fight," he says, "but I'm giving our soldiers something to fight with." Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what...

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

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Father and son working together for victory. Clyde Bryant and son William worked on a farm before the war. Now they fit copper tubing for Navy vessels at a Southern shipyard

Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Father and son working together f...

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

Industrial safety. Accident prevention. A safe grinding job. Both operator and helper are protected by proper goggles and the exhaust hood over the grinding wheel carrying away the greater part of the ground-off particles. Each man is very careful to sterilize goggles that have been worn by other workers

Industrial safety. Accident prevention. A safe grinding job. Both oper...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Beaverhead County, Montana. Cowhand on the Spokane Ranch

Beaverhead County, Montana. Cowhand on the Spokane Ranch

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

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Drilling in the ore body of a copper mine

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Drilling in the ore bo...

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

A senior class in bacteriology in the dairy building at Iowa State College. Students are counting the bacteria in milk before and after pasteurization. Ames, Iowa

A senior class in bacteriology in the dairy building at Iowa State Col...

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

Transportation. Car pooling at Glenn Martin. Workers at Glenn Martin aircraft plant enter the auto of a fellow worker who brings them to and from work. The company sponsored a successful car pooling plan which many employees joined

Transportation. Car pooling at Glenn Martin. Workers at Glenn Martin a...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Packing string beans for quick freezing

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Packing string beans for quick f...

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

Victory food from American waters. Immediately after being caught rosefish are shoveled into the hold for packing the ice. Once called "goldfish" because of their brilliant color, the fish are finding a ready market because of their manifold uses--as food for humans, as fish meal and fish oil

Victory food from American waters. Immediately after being caught rose...

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

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

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

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

A poster comes to life. He doesn't wear a sergeant's stripes or a captain's bars, but he's an essential soldier of the home front, just as vital to the winning of this war as the men in uniform on America's myriad battlefields. A steelworker, whose job includes shoveling limestone into an electric furnace, is helping to produce the weapons to smash the Axis

A poster comes to life. He doesn't wear a sergeant's stripes or a capt...

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. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities

Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount c...

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.

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Home economics teacher demonstrating to schoolgirls the proper methods of preparing various foods

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm w...

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

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Sunday school

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle complete assembly and fitting operations on the interior of a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. About half of the workers at the Boeing plant are women. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers...

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.

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Camp council meeting

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

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

Farm workers who live at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community mobile unit. Friendly Corners, Arizona

Farm workers who live at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm w...

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

Salinas Valley, California. Guayule rubber being processed

Salinas Valley, California. Guayule rubber being processed

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

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The art of metal drawing is employed to turn brass discs punched from rolled sheets into long tubular cartridge case to carry the powder charges that send explosive shells up to meet enemy aircraft. The first operation is performed by a press which forms the flat disc into cups

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. The art of metal drawing is employed ...

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

Weslaco, Texas. Carrots in the packing shed

Weslaco, Texas. Carrots in the packing shed

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

Childersburg, Alabama. Cousa Court defense housing project. Well-planned houses, lawns and shade trees make a pleasant home for Dupont powder plant workers

Childersburg, Alabama. Cousa Court defense housing project. Well-plann...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sorting rivets may seem a lowly task in the making of war planes. But it plays an essential part in the mass production of aircraft and in the conservation of vital materials. These workers at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company help to keep many others working. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sorting rivets may seem a l...

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

War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. The War Production Board (WPB) produced these stickers for distribution in war plants. They were designed for pasting on workers' machines to stimulate output of vital war materials. Sheets of assorted stickers may be obtained by writing Distribution Section, War Production Drive Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. T...

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

Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Dumping grain into a bin which is below the open grills. The grain will then go into an elevator for storage

Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Dumping grain into a bin which is...

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

Tulare County, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' camp. Girl Scouts learning to sew

Tulare County, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm wor...

Public domain photograph of girl scouts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tool maker precision grinding bullet drawing punch

Tool maker precision grinding bullet drawing punch

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a lobster. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a lobster. Office of War Info...

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

Exteriör av fabriken i Trollhättan (troligen Trollhättans carbid-fabrik). Trollhätte kanal med flera arbetare.

Exteriör av fabriken i Trollhättan (troligen Trollhättans carbid-fabri...

Exteriör av fabriken i Trollhättan (troligen Trollhättans carbid-fabrik). Trollhätte kanal med flera arbetare.

Conversion. Auto body plant. Wing parts of airplanes for Uncle Sam's airmen hang where automobile parts were pinned a few weeks ago. They're being sprayed here

Conversion. Auto body plant. Wing parts of airplanes for Uncle Sam's a...

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

Arbeidskarer på Tjern gård, Ringsaker. Fra venstre er Oskar Johnsen, ukjent, Sverre Syversen, Einar Johansen, Mauritz Bekken, Kåre Syversen, Olaf Sjørengen.

Arbeidskarer på Tjern gård, Ringsaker. Fra venstre er Oskar Johnsen, u...

Collection archive for Ringsaker municipality. Most of the archive are reproductions made after borrowed originals. There are also some photographs that have come in the form of gifts or purchases. The subjects... More

Women aircraft workers. An attractive brunette performs a job vital to Uncle Sam's victory push. She's one of the hundreds of women employed by a West Coast aircraft plant, pictured at work on a complex electrical assembly. Vega

Women aircraft workers. An attractive brunette performs a job vital to...

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

Zebulon, (vicinity), North Carolina. Milking a cow on the Feggen Jones' farm

Zebulon, (vicinity), North Carolina. Milking a cow on the Feggen Jones...

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

Salinas, California. The treated and centrifuged guayule seed is placed in drawers for drying

Salinas, California. The treated and centrifuged guayule seed is place...

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Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. A hard-boiled "tanker" looks things over from one of the hatches of an M-4 tank. This man, with thousands of others, is brushing up on the latest tank-fighting technique at Fort Knox

Fort Knox. M-4 tanks and crews. A hard-boiled "tanker" looks things ov...

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Apprentice training. Apprentice training for the war program. Here is a student ordinance worker at an eastern arsenal

Apprentice training. Apprentice training for the war program. Here is ...

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Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to fight, ours to keep him supplied with the weapons

Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to fight, ours to keep him supp...

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.

"Lilla Lasse" var en av de kvinnor som 1942 genomgick en beredskapskurs i finmekanik för kvinnoarbete inom den tunga industrien.

"Lilla Lasse" var en av de kvinnor som 1942 genomgick en beredskapskur...

"Lilla Lasse" var en av de kvinnor som 1942 genomgick en beredskapskurs i finmekanik för kvinnoarbete inom den tunga industrien.

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Four major welding operations are essential to the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying. In the first, the circumferential straps are securely welded to the cylindrical portion to prevent tearing of the metal. The process is shown above, taken in the metal division of a large Eastern rubber factory. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Four maj...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the many old-timers speeding ship production in an Eastern navy yard. He operates a pneumatic chipper on the giant propellers which send American ships to all ports of the world

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Benjamin Stephens is one of the man...

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

Turlock, California. Inspecting dehydrated cabbage

Turlock, California. Inspecting dehydrated cabbage

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

Women workers at quartermaster depot. "Making sergeants." This woman worker at a quartermaster corps depot is turning out chevrons for promoted enlisted men. Philadelphia Quartermaster Corps

Women workers at quartermaster depot. "Making sergeants." This woman w...

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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...

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Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Son of Swedish farmer

Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Son of Swedish farmer

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Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces on turret gun mount housings for M-3 tanks are rough planed and finished planed on a fifty inch by fifty inch four-head planer. The job is being done in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out naval sights and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces ...

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Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence Avenue and 14th and 16th Streets, S.W. The man in the foreground is shoveling concrete into a low spot

Washington, D.C. Construction of a bridge and road near Independence A...

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Production. Tin smelting. Workers at a Southern tin smelter removing ore from the leaching and bleaching processes and loading it in cars for the furnace. The raw ore comes to the plant in bags, direct from the South American mines and passes through a series of processes that result in the extraction of pure tin which serves countless war puposes of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Workers at a Southern tin smelter removing o...

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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mrs. Dante punching holes in electrical terminals with a power press. Workers are not surprised at anything Mrs. Dante does---they say she is as good as any of them on any of the machines

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mrs. Dante punching holes...

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Detroit, Michigan. Results of constructive suggestions placed by workers in a box for this purpose in the Cadillac motor car division of General Motors Corporation (?). A jig to prevent mistakes in boring holes in a complicated part

Detroit, Michigan. Results of constructive suggestions placed by worke...

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Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene torches of steel workers in eight Denver fabricating plants are flying thick and fast that the U.S. Navy may carry the battle to the enemy in all parts of the world. Here in secluded Denver, the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway, this war production worker, who has never seen a battleship or an ocean, fashions the steel hull parts which are being assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard--1,200 miles from where he and his fellow wokers are on the job to help "keep 'em sailling."

Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene to...

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Tulare County, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' camp. Son of an agricultural worker making a model plane in the workshop

Tulare County, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm wor...

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

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