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Nashville, Tennessee. Working on the tail sections of bombers. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. Working on the tail sections of bombers. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Twin sisters Winnie and Jimmie. Spinners in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Said thirteen years old, but see photo and label 2102. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

Mariborska tiskarna - rotacija - tiskanje časopisa 1960

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is much more than just a job to Peter Dykzeul. Born in Holland, this employee of a Midwest tank plant knows the brutality and horror Nazi agression can bring to a freedom-loving people. And he's just one among America's many loyal, foreign-born workers who are pitching in with every ounce of strength to keep the nation free, and to lift the yoke from their native lands. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Each shell must have proper identification as it travels along the production line. This operation imposes no undue burden on the trained workers of a converted automobile plant where the shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Each shell must have proper identification as it travels along the production line. This operation imposes no undue burden on the trained workers of a converted automobile plant where the shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

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 Army. Experienced auto plant workers do this work as efficiently as they did parts for the family car. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A black and white photo of men working on a vehicle. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Auto plant to 75- and 155-mm shell production. The work of pointing shells must be conducted with care. Shells must be perfect to insure accurate performance. But high standards of accuracy are nothing new to the former automobile plant where these shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Conversion. Auto plant to 75- and 155-mm shell production. The work of pointing shells must be conducted with care. Shells must be perfect to insure accurate performance. But high standards of accuracy are nothing new to the former automobile plant where these shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

The big forge plant in which they work used to hammer out auto parts. Now that same plant is working its fine equipment and its trained men to full capacity on the production of shells for the Army. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

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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 30, frame 2150.

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michigan ingham county lansing safety film negatives lot 2031 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo accurate workmanship uniform shells office of war information farm security administration united states history factory library of congress
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01/01/1942
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ingham county
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Lot 2031, Lansing, Ingham County

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Attaching the sling for suspending flasks of blood plasma

Seaman Chiara Niedermayer, a member of Coast Guard

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Production. Marine boilers. Grinding of welded seams inside the drum of a large marine boiler at a Midwest plant which has converted its facilities to war production

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

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

Unloading cans of milk and cream from truck to belt conveyer at Dariymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho

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

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michigan ingham county lansing safety film negatives lot 2031 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo accurate workmanship uniform shells office of war information farm security administration united states history factory library of congress