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Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

STEVEN SPRAYBERRY, ALICE DANIEL, CHRISTY BASHMAN, ALLEN SHELTON, BEVERELY COURREGE, MATHEW EXELL, JIM EMMENEGGER, IN VARIOUS SETUPS AT WEST TEST AREA CONTROL ROOM-B. 1400179

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A13854

8X6 FOOT WIND TUNNEL AND 10X10 FOOT WIND TUNNEL OPERATING AREAS

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Civilian protection. Section of the report center in New York City. Large signs readily identify the operators in constant touch with the telephone, electric, gas and water services. Others are connected to emergency food and housing units and the police and fire alarm systems

Civilian protection. Here is the way the report center is set up in New York City. The liaison officer keeps in touch with emergency forces which are indicated by the sings

Civilian protection. Here is the way the report center is set up in New York City. The liaison officer keeps in touch with emergency forces which are indicated by the sings

Civilian defense. Communications vital to civilian defense. The New York City Emergency Services truck displayed at the ivilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York, in October, is equipped with a dispatcher's desk and telephone facilities for workers sent out from the truck. It is also equipped for two-way communication with a central office

Civilian defense. Communications vital to civilian defense. The New York City Emergency Services truck displayed at the ivilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York, in October, is equipped with a dispatcher's desk and telephone facilities for workers sent out from the truck. It is also equipped for two-way communication with a central office

The air raid protective services. Auxiliary police number among their most important duties the guarding of various points where saboteurs might hope to operate. Gas tanks, power houses, telephone exchanges and water works are attractive places for anyone bent on sabotage.

Civilian defense. Who goes where and when is decided by the controller of the plotting board, who assigns radio equipped units to the trouble areas. Here he is receiving information from a telephone operator. This is a vital part of civilian defense work. The demonstration was at the October 1941 civilian defense show in Madison Square Garden, New York

Civilian defense. Communications are as important in civilian defense as to an army in the field. Here a New York City defense worker is sending a message over the portable transmitter, which is powered by a dry cell

Civilian defense. War Emergency Radio Service. These three War Emergency Radio Service transmitter-receivers tuned to different wave lengths keep this Civilian Defense control center in touch with three different channels of communication. The set being operated maintains contact with state and city police and fire departments. The other two are used for communicating with sub-control centers, hospitals, and mobile field units

Civilian protection. Section of the report center in New York City. Large signs readily identify the operators in constant touch with the telephone, electric, gas and water services. Others are connected to emergency food and housing units and the police and fire alarm systems

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

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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 640.

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases, to show various stages of tuberculosis. Timer for x-ray apparatus

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

A group of people sitting around a fire. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Wings for "Valiant" basic trainers 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

Civilian defense in the United States

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

The captain of the Charles T. Campbell, a coal-burning towboat on its way down the Ohio River near Gallipolis, Ohio

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Working on a forepeak at night

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

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

Bankers Trust Co., W. 51st St., New York City. Detail I

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