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

Working on the intricate job of fitting the engine to the fuselage of a plane at The Vought Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Stratford, Connecticut

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Two-way spider forgings for Hamilton airplane propellers in the rough store department of a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. After precision machining these spiders will hold a two-blade propeller assembly in the hydromatic mechanism that controls the blade pitch during flight

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Frank Geary uses an electro-limit gauge at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant to make final inspections of a three-way hydromatic spider that form part of the mechanism which varies the pitch of airplane propeller blades while planes are in action. At this plant propellers are made with combinations of two, three and four blades

Production. Airplane propellers. Final assembly of blades into a two-way controllable Hamilton propeller for one of America's warships of the air. Leo Diana and George O'Meara are among the speedy, expert workers of the Hartford, Connecticut, plant, which is producing these propellers in great numbers

Production. Airplane propellers. Ed Dimlow, makes a final inspection of a two-blade airplane propeller in the vertical position. The Hartford, Connecticut, plant that produces these blades supplies them to our air forces in combinations with two, three or four blades, and with hydromatic mechanisms that permit adjusting blade pitch while planes are in action

A bunch of pipes sitting on top of a table. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Airplane propellers. Three-way spider forgings for the hydraulic mechanism that adjust propeller blade pitch await precision machining at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. This plant produces great numbers of variable pitch propellers with two-, three- and four-blade propellers

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

Production. Airplane propellers. Hamilton propeller blades for our warships of the air are placed into a Barnes multiple drill by Frank Krupczak at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. This machine performs the precise boring operations required before fitting to spiders in sets of two or three

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01/01/1942
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Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer
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A special drill press cuts a great number of holes simultaneously in casings for engines at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. East Hartford, Connecticut

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

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

Congestion outside Pratt and Whitney United aircraft plant at afternoon change of shift. East Hartford, Connecticut

A group of men walking down a sidewalk, possibly related to: Workers entering plant at afternoon change of shift. Pratt and Whitney plant, United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut

[Assignment: 48-DPA-11-14-08_SOI_K_Universal] Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] on visit to Los Angeles, California, touring Universal Studios [offices, sets, lots in Hollywood] [48-DPA-11-14-08_SOI_K_Universal_DOI_3784.JPG]

Kevin Burr heats a piece of metal in his gas-powered

J-75 TURBINE WHEEL BUILDUP COATED BLADES

New Britain, Connecticut A core blowing machine. Sand is blown into the core box as it travels away from the machine on a conveyor

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Production. Airplane propellers. New Hamilton propeller blades are inspected after face and camber profiling operations in a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. R. Ten Eyck checks the records and F. Breen, with a hammer and stamping die, puts the mark of approval on the butt of the blades

A black and white photo of two men working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

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connecticut hartford county east hartford nitrate negatives production airplane propellers airplane propellers hamilton blades hamilton propeller blades warships air barnes drill frank krupczak frank krupczak hartford plant machine operations spiders sets farm security administration oregon united states history workers industrial history worker library of congress