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A machine that is sitting on top of a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few weeks! That's the story of Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor company's many women employees who are now operating machines recently converted to production of war essentials. Gillette

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. Final inspection of V-blocks made by converted machines of a New England safety razor company. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor factory's many women workers, checks completed V-blocks with blueprint specification. Because of their previous training, reading blueprints is no novelty to women employed in this plant which is now producing tool posts under subcontract. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Rita Allen sands V-blocks to remove marks made by milling machines. This razor factory has converted many of its machines to the production of tool posts which are essential to war production. Gillette

A woman working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Because of their dexterity and precision in the operation of light-duty machines, women are appearing in ever-increasing numbers on America's production lines. Here Estelle Wilson resharpens grinding wheel with a diamond point, first step toward converting one of a razor company's machines to war production work. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from production of safety razors to tool-posts. Only conversion necessary in this instance is of the tool holding the V-block, which is held in place by the magnetic chuck. Gillette

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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
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Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist and Nobel Laureate, taken April 11, 1941. Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project [Photographer: Donald Cooksey]

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Front Office Block, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

Coffee Grinder on Side of Chuck Wagon

Sgt. Juan Serrano with Bravo Company, 703rd Brigade

184-inch cyclotron, calutron conversion, steel plates in foreground. Photo taken 9/01/1945. Confidential, declassified 4/30/1959. Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Torturing pole plates for 184-inch cyclotron magnet. Photo taken 2/12/1946. 184"-155 Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Normally used in manufacture of floor waxers, as shown here, this five-spindle drill press is now used full-time on defense orders for which this small Eastern plant is under subcontract. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

[Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?]

Dunlap Ranch, Gillette, Campbell County, WY

Tool House, Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Barber Louis McDowell demonstrates stropping his razor.

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massachusetts suffolk county boston nitrate negatives conversion safety razor plant safety razor plant closeup grinder production safety razors tool posts instance tool v block place chuck gillette farm security administration united states history library of congress