A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Summary
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 information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1189.
Tags
pennsylvania
allegheny county
pittsburgh
safety film negatives
lot 1895
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
welder george woolslayer
white hot glare
twenty five ton
alloy materials
heat treatment
sergeant vineyard
chief evans
allegheny ludlum steel
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
industrial history
shipyard
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Location
allegheny county
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain