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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Typing address labels at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers. Typing on a flat bed typewriter

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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

Temp. note: owibatch3

Film copy on SIS roll 7, frame 1522.

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pennsylvania philadelphia county philadelphia safety film negatives lot 298 arthur s siegel photo atlee burpee company address labels office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1943
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Lot 298, Atlee Burpee Company, Arthur S Siegel

Megan Ward, a purchasing agent in Defense Logistics

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.

Detroit, Michigan. Superintendent of the new Chrysler plant in Chicago

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

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Teenage

Civilian defense in the United States

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Counting empty gelatin capsules

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

Professor William W. Keen's Clinic, Jefferson Medical College Hospital, December 10th, 1902 (S)

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

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pennsylvania philadelphia county philadelphia safety film negatives lot 298 arthur s siegel photo atlee burpee company address labels office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress