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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

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Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches).

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 34, frame 273.

Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge in 1900, Dodge was originally a supplier of parts and assemblies for Detroit-based automakers and began building complete automobiles in 1915, predating the founding of Chrysler Corporation.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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arizona greenlee county morenci nitrate negatives fritz henle united states office of war information copper great quantities war effort ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress vendors farmers agriculture wwii photographs
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01/01/1942
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Dodge Cars

Dodge Motor Co Cars

Armies in World War 2

Photograhs of the largest military conflict in history
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Location

arizona
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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Public Domain

label_outline Explore Morenci, Greenlee County, Fritz Henle

Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Mr. Sauer, farmer. Cavalier County, North Dakota

In time of war there is no excuse for carelessness, and it is carelessness that is responsible for the loss of most tire mileage. Running into a curb can mean a break in the tire wall, or at least a weakening. Blowouts are more apt to occur when these sidewalls are in bad condition

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Building a ship's model

A black and white photo of a man in a military uniform. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

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

Production. Copper. A thickener at a large copper concentrator of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

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

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

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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arizona greenlee county morenci nitrate negatives fritz henle united states office of war information copper great quantities war effort ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration united states history home front wwii world war 2 library of congress vendors farmers agriculture wwii photographs