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Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Shinkichi Kyono, 56, carpenter-evacuee from Longvi . . . - NARA - 538224

Food storage - Crimping metal roofs. SE Missouri Farms

A black and white photo of a construction worker. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Nicholas Prunty, a Defense

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

Builder Constructionman John E. Harris, from Port Huron,

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

Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA)

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12002-36.

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

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British women carpenters near the front

NPS Individuals, Virgil Berry, Carpenter, Sign Maker.

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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Making forms of the generating plant at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Working with a small steam drop hammer at the blacksmith shop in the Santa Fe R.R. shops, Topeka, Kansas

Excavating within the log cofferdam during an early stage of construction, Douglas Dam, Tenn.

Working with the electric wiring at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An ironworker climbs a 16-foot by 60-foot stack at TVA's Watts Bar steam plant. This plant will supplement the big hydroelectric installations at Watts Bar Dam, which has an authorized output of 90,000 kilowatts, and a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. Each of the four big turbo-generators in the steam plant is rated at 60,000 kilowatts

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Night class in Llanfyllin

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Negro drill machine operator at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Houses in Saint Croix island, city of Christiansted, Virgin Islands. Catholic i.e. Anglican church in the background

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