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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welded shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

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Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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virginia norfolk safety film negatives meadowbrook navy yard norfolk navy yard hundreds workers shop jointures advantages fittings welders quantities work uncle sam uncle sam battle fleet shipbuilding industry navy yard 1940 s 40 s us navy united states history industrial history library of congress
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01/01/1941
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Meadowbrook ,  36.91348, -76.30355
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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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This maze of rolling cranes, at a large Eastern shipyard is a typical scene in many large shipyards at work on ships for Uncle Sam's Navy and merchant fleet. Stocks of material are piled up for the cranes to take to vessels under construction so there is no delay in production while waiting for sections or materials. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. The SS Booker T Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro slides down the ways at the Wilmington yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation at its launching on September 29, 1942

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

Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These workers are punching stainless steel for use in galleys and mess rooms in naval craft under construction at Norfolk

Welders work with sheet metal used as blast deflectors at a test cell, part of the modifications being made to prepare for the arrival of new F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during the Commando Falcon project

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Exterior of a building near a mortuary warehouse where hundreds of human skeletal remains are housed. (Substandard image)

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs ships to carry its guns and tanks and planes to the battlefronts of the world. A few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards, workmen were busy laying the keel for a new ship in America's growing Victory Fleet

A view showing the damage to the riverboat casino Valance, in Biloxi, Mississippi (MS), results of Hurricane Katrina. The category-4 hurricane battered the Gulf Coast with wind gusts in excess of 140 miles per hour, leaving millions of people without power, and hundreds of thousands homeless

Sgt. Joseph Monroe, from Woodruff, S.C. (left), Chief

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virginia norfolk safety film negatives meadowbrook navy yard norfolk navy yard hundreds workers shop jointures advantages fittings welders quantities work uncle sam uncle sam battle fleet shipbuilding industry navy yard 1940 s 40 s us navy united states history industrial history library of congress