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Production. Marine boilers. On the welding floor of a big Midwest boiler factory, heavy production of Army and Navy essentials is the order of the day

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

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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 31, frame 82.

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kentucky jefferson county louisville safety film negatives lot 2048 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo production midwest boiler factory marine boilers navy essentials office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history industrial history factory industrial facilities library of congress
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01/01/1942
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label_outline Explore Lot 2048, Marine Boilers, Louisville

Marc Blieu, Rock Island Arsenal-Joint Manufacturing

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

Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These are mold loft workers laying out patterns for various parts of naval vessels under construction. These patterns are subsequently transferred to steel

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops and streets maintain unceasing vigilance for fallen incendiary bombs. They immediately seek to control them with equipment stored nearby

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rear view of some of the structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant, showing part of the completed buildings already being used for the production of the lightest of all metals for use in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing. Two workmen are walking in the foreground

Rocky Flats Plant, Plutonium Fabrication, Central section of Plant, Golden, Jefferson County, CO

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

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Thomas By-Product Coke Works, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomas, Jefferson County, AL

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kentucky jefferson county louisville safety film negatives lot 2048 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo production midwest boiler factory marine boilers navy essentials office of war information farm security administration navy us navy united states history industrial history factory industrial facilities library of congress