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An award gets engraved at Minot Air Force Base, N.D.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are used to extend short lengths of pipe for many miles. Steel piping is used to convey solutions and gases in numerous plants engaged in defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are used to extend short lengths of pipe for many miles. Steel piping is used to convey solutions and gases in numerous plants engaged in defense production

A black and white photo of a factory with airplanes. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

Krantendrukkerijen voorbereiding en rotatiepersen

Courier Corporation, 165 Jackson St., Lowell, Massachusetts; Ymittos Candle Company, 279 Dutton St., Lowell, Massachusetts

MOD-0A CLAYTON NEW MEXICO WIND TURBINE BLADES AND REPAIR PATCHES

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A bunch of metal pipes stacked on top of each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Here is a freight car load of copper and brass on its way to our industries, where it will be manufactured into parts for airplanes, tanks, guns and ships. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Coils of brass and copper metal are loaded into a freight car and shipped to factories where it is fabricated into thousands of metal parts needed for our war program, or to our airplane submarine, or ship-building industries to become parts of their production. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

A black and white photo of a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Gaging drawn brass bar. Brass or copper supplied in bars finds many uses in the Navy. Most frequently it is cut to short lengths and machined to form parts of machinery, guns, and other implements of war. While dimensions are apt to vary, even slightly, close tolerances as to width and thickness must be observed. Here an inspector is checking dimensions with a micrometer. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

A large warehouse filled with lots of metal pipes. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This man is the operator of a towmotor--the jitney of the brass mill. His electric motor tows trucks of brass and copper, in between operations from one machine to another, and then pull cars of finished products to the loading platforms, where they are loaded into motor freight trucks or railroad freight cars for shipping. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Bundles of various sizes brass, copper, and bronze rod in the shipping room of a brass and copper mill. These will be manufactured into shafting for boats, or sawed into short lengths and machined to make fuse components or any of hundreds of solid brass parts for guns, ammunition, instrument vehicles or vessels. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
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Silva House, 1333 Euclid Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Building, 1365 Ontario Street, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Society National Bank Building, 127-145 Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Bundles of produce and supplies to resupply Deep Freeze personnel on Antarctica, with parachutes attached sit inside the main hangar used by Det. 2, 619th Military Airlift Support Squadron (MASS), at the Christchurch International Airport.Exact Date Shot Unknown

Good men, good machines, good materials mean good gears for the rear axles of halftrac scout cars now being produced for our Army in an Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Halftrac scout cars. When the American assembly line gets down to business, things gets done and done well. The assembling of engines for the Army's new halftrac scout cars is a job well done and understood by the trained men of a large Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Central Furnaces, 2650 Broadway, east bank of Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

A small airplane flying low to the ground. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

Chagrin Valley Hunt Club (Doorway), Mayfield & River Roads, Gates Mills, Cuyahoga County, OH

Photograph of Long Lengths of Veneer

A bomb builder pulls the fuse of a Mark 84 bomb

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ohio cuyahoga county euclid nitrate negatives conversion copper brass bundles sizes sizes brass bronze rod bronze rod room mill copper mill boats lengths fuse components fuse components hundreds parts brass parts guns ammunition instrument vehicles instrument vehicles vessels chase chase copper company brass company farm security administration oregon united states history shipyard library of congress industrial history