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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). The push for the navy is supplied by huge propellers such as these. This four-bladed monster, cast in one place, is being inspected before it is installed on a warship
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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge cranes used to transport heavy parts and sections from one part of the yard to another. Cranes such as these take sections from the various structural shops to the buildings ways
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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy. Heavy anchor chains are among the parts produced here, and powerful presses are used in the various machining operations
Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk
Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum department, where this vital defense metal is cut and stamped for use aboard naval warcraft.
Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk
Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is the sheet aluminum department, where this vital defense metal is cut and stamped for use aboard naval warcraft
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Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
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 30, frame 854.
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virginia
norfolk
safety film negatives
lot 2068
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
norfolk navy yard
navy
one place
office of war information
farm security administration
us navy
united states history
wings
flight
library of congress
Date
01/01/1941
Location
norfolk
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain