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Young boy packing shingles at small mill near Jefferson, Texas

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A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man in a warehouse FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

Filling shell with nitro-glycerine, preparatory to shooting the well-- oil field in Penn'a, U.S.A

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Checking a prefabricated section for a wooden torpedo boat at a Southern shipyard. Many fast seventy-eight-foot motor driven boats of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated frame sections of a new seventy-eight-foot wooden torpedo boat are joined to the keel at a Southern shipyard. Many speedy motor-driven fighters of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A carpenter at a Southern shipyard checks the framing of a new seventy-eight-foot motor boat. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

A black and white photo of a man with a pipe in his mouth. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A carpenter at a Southern shipyard checks the framing of a new seventy-eight-foot motor boat. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Applying planking to a new seventy-eight-foot torpedo boat in a large Southern shipyard. The hulls of these speedy wooden boats are built indoors of prefabricated parts and sections, and are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy wooden vessels are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hull is ready for launching and fitting it is removed from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy wooden vessels are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hull is ready for launching and fitting it is removed from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Checking a prefabricated section for a wooden torpedo boat at a Southern shipyard. Many fast seventy-eight-foot motor driven boats of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

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safety film negatives production motor boats section southern shipyard southern shipyard many class indoors hulls water higgins industries torpedo boats united states history industrial history workers worker library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Library of Congress
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label_outline Explore Hulls, Southern Shipyard, Torpedo Boats

Canning plant employees grading beans. Dania, Florida. Many of these workers are migrants

Production. Small ramp boats. Fitting and painting small wooden ramp boats at a Southern shipyard. These thirty-six-foot carriers, built of prefabricated sections, are used for making beach landings of men and equipment. The completed boats are launched by crane and delivered in tows of six to eight. Higgins Industries

Södra varvet - Corp de logis. Sverige. Public domain image.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Motor for 25,000 kw frequency changer at Benning plant

Denver, Colorado. The interior of a shipbuilding plant, showing a workman who previously worked on incubator parts and amusement park devices, now working on parts of hulls and decks of escort vessels. He and his co-workers will be invited to Mare Island, 1,300 miles away, to help launch the ships they are building

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

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg at work in the Johansson Gage Division of the Ford Motor Company where he is foreman of the rough stock department at the Gage plant

Sweeper and Doffer Boys, Lancaster Mills (Cotton). S.C. Many more as small. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Special Krystal Tucker, 1430th Engineer Company, Michigan

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

A rank ordering of Soviet industries by Military Industrial Commission requirements fulfilled, hardware received and rubles saved, between 1976 and 1980

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safety film negatives production motor boats section southern shipyard southern shipyard many class indoors hulls water higgins industries torpedo boats united states history industrial history workers worker library of congress