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Wooden peg used in corn shucking. Fred Wilkins farm. Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina

Salmon butcher. Columbia River Packing Association, Astoria, Oregon. During the peak of the run there were 150 butchers working in this plant. Townspeople, CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys, and furloughed soldiers helped out

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Chopping ice before shaving it to be used in icing shrimp boat, Morgan City, Louisiana

Aufbereiten der Barten 1800 01

Operations Specialist Seaman Daniel Sherwood, assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68), paints a doghouse during a community service project at SOS Animal Mallorca.

Sorteren van de geplukte tabaksbladeren., Java Indonesia

Work on Pit River bridge. Shasta County, California

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Kennon

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The rim of an army helmet is formed on a press from steel rod. Finished rims are shown on the hook below the operator's right hand. The helmets are made in an Eastern plant converted by retooling from the production of automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. An army helmet is formed from a flat piece of sheet steel in one operation at a drawing press in a converted Eastern factory. A short time ago this same press and operator were stamping out parts for automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. An army helmet is formed from a flat piece of sheet steel in one operation at a drawing press in a converted Eastern factory. A short time ago this same press and operator were stamping out parts for automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The front visor of a steel army helmet is "spanked," or formed into shape. The helmet had an oval shape before this operation, which is performed on one of the many presses of an Eastern plant that formerly made automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The front visor of a steel army helmet is "spanked," or formed into shape. The helmet had an oval shape before this operation, which is performed on one of the many presses of an Eastern plant that formerly made automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Joining a steel reinforcing rim on an army helmet. The stamping press that performs this operation is one of many that formerly turned out auto radiator parts for an Eastern manufacturer. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Electro-welding a steel rim on an army helmet. The man at the machine is an employee of an Eastern manufacturer whose regular production is radiators for automobiles. He formerly soldered radiator cores. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Before a large Eastern manufacturer of automobile radiators converted to war production, this workman's job was soldering radiator cores. His job now is welding rims on army helmets. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Before a large Eastern manufacturer of automobile radiators converted to war production, this workman's job was soldering radiator cores. His job now is welding rims on army helmets. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. The rim of an army helmet is formed on a press from steel rod. Finished rims are shown on the hook below the operator's right hand. The helmets are made in an Eastern plant converted by retooling from the production of automobile radiators. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

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

Annotation on negative.

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 770.

Nothing Found.

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives lot 2042 baune united states office of war information photo army helmets mccool radiator company rim auto radiators automobile radiators office of war information farm security administration united states history workers detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
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01/01/1942
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A black and white photo of two women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

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

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Bulldozer grading the grounds of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Young and old, everybody is Victory Gardening this spring, and there'll soon be hardly a backyard that's not under cultivation. Prior to planting, this gardener is raking the soil to pulverize and prepare it for seed

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Machining the rotating band on the shell

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Checking threads with an amplifier

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A skilled jig builder lines up a metal plate prior to cutting it to the correct contour. Employed at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. 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

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

map from "[The Discovery and Conquests of the Northwest. Including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, etc. [With plates and maps.] (Washington's Journal of a Tour to the Ohio, in 1753. With notes by John G. Shea.)]"

[Charlie Bennett, Detroit Wolverines, baseball card portrait]

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Joe Wheeler Miller of De Land, Florida is doing his part in making machinery that will keep American fighting planes in the air. He was named after a southern general, Joe Wheeler, by a father who thought the General was "the fightinest man he knew" and wanted his son to be likewise. He ran a fishing tackle business that went out with priorities. Although he never had an arc welding holder in his hands before entering the De Land vocational school, he and another similarly trained man have acquired speed that has doubled the Babcock production

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Dorothy Conger, whose husband is in the Army, inspecting 105 mm. howitzers in the Chain Belt Company plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives lot 2042 baune united states office of war information photo army helmets mccool radiator company rim auto radiators automobile radiators office of war information farm security administration united states history workers detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress