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Production. War housing trailers. Lining panels of 1/8 inch fir plywood go into place on a war housing trailer under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Mahogany, formerly used in most house trailer lining jobs, is now on the shortage list

Volunteer build activities [for World Habitat Day: 27th Annual Carter Work Project, with former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter joined in Washington, D.C. by Secretary Shaun Donovan, Habitat for Humanity International Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Reckford, Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C. President Kent Adcock, and more than 200 volunteers, including HUD staff members, working on renovating and building homes in D.C.'s Ivy City neighborhood]

Volunteer build activities [for World Habitat Day: 27th Annual Carter Work Project, with former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter joined in Washington, D.C. by Secretary Shaun Donovan, Habitat for Humanity International Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Reckford, Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C. President Kent Adcock, and more than 200 volunteers, including HUD staff members, working on renovating and building homes in D.C.'s Ivy City neighborhood]

One and a quarter drop pipe ready to be inserted in casing. Safe well demonstration near La Plata, Maryland, Charles County

Bosnian Muslim men offload lumber and other construction supplies from a cargo truck during their village rebuilding efforts in Celic, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Rowlett, Texas, April 5, 2011 -- Volunteers from the Rowlett Community Emergency Response Team and Explorer Post One remove tornado debris. Explorer Post One is a youth program chartered through Boy Scouts of America's Learning for Life Programs that receives disaster response training

Repairing Orange and Alexandria Railroad near Catlett's Station, after its destruction by the Confederates, October 1863

Hyttebygging ved Savalen., North Østerdalen, Norway

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Production. War housing trailers. Lining panels of 1/8 inch fir plywood go into place on a war housing trailer under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Mahogany, formerly used in most house trailer lining jobs, is now on the shortage list

Production. War housing trailers. The side of a war housing trailer nears completion on a table-top jig at Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Exceptional strength is secured through built-up construction of Masonite over plywood with a casein bond. The side is secured to spacers with drive screws

Production. War housing trailers. The side of a war housing trailer nears completion on a table-top jig at Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Exceptional strength is secured through built-up construction of Masonite over plywood with a casein bond. The side is secured to spacers with drive screws

Production. War housing trailers. War housing trailers under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. The cabinet work of this trailer is nearly completed. Drawers, locker doors, sink top and other prefinished parts will be installed after the trailer has gone through the final painting and bake oven processes

Production. War housing trailers. Completely painted and baked hard in an oven, a war housing trailer rolls onto the final assembly finishing line of Western Trailer Company at Los Angeles. High-grade inlaid linoleum floor covering, lacking only the familier burlap backing of pre-war linoleum, is applied

Production. War housing trailers. Stepped-up production of war housing trailers caused an assembly line to overflow into a plant yard at both ends. View of the spill-over assembly line of Western Trailer Company at Los Angeles. Chassis seen here have been much simplified over former types, using a minimum of steel. Wood stringers replace metal formerly employed. The trailer in the background has sides in place and is now ready to hit the inside assembly line

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer takes shape at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Frame members have already been installed at the rear of this trailer, and the top is set in place. A new chassis is already in place at the right, ready to receive stringers

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer takes shape at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Frame members have already been installed at the rear of this trailer, and the top is set in place. A new chassis is already in place at the right, ready to receive stringers

Production. War housing trailers. War housing trailers under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. The cabinet work of this trailer is nearly completed. Drawers, locker doors, sink top and other prefinished parts will be installed after the trailer has gone through the final painting and bake oven processes

Production. War housing trailers. Lining panels of 18 inch fir plywood go into place on a war housing trailer under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Mahogany, formerly used in most house trailer lining jobs, is now on the shortage list

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 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 31, frame 471.

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california los angeles county los angeles safety film negatives lot 1912 david bransby united states office for emergency management photo trailers western trailer company war house trailer inch fir plywood los angeles plant office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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label_outline Explore House Trailer, Los Angeles Plant, Lot 1912

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Leaving for Owens Valley

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

U.S. Air Force Maj. Pamela Curry, left, a registered

Newport News, Virginia. Electro-welder working on a hatch combing

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

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Fort Benning. Tommy gunners, armored forces. The tank soldier finds many chores for the Thompson sub-machine gun, familiarly known as the Tommy gun

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A skilled jig builder lines up a metal plate prior to cutting it to the correct contour. Employed at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big auotmoobile plant is entirely changed over to mass production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Mitchell Field. The eagle puts foot to earth. An air-crew officer dressed in full combat gear inspects a bomber landing wheel. Part of the retracting mechanism is shown

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california los angeles county los angeles safety film negatives lot 1912 david bransby united states office for emergency management photo trailers western trailer company war house trailer inch fir plywood los angeles plant office of war information farm security administration united states history library of congress