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Soldiers from the 214th Aviation Regiment conduct an

Working on the "Florida" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Bevington Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Warren Street, Bevington, Madison County, IA

Working on the "Florida" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

View from bridge of U.S. Battleship Iowa

Statue of Faith, for Plymouth Monument.

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This speaker is installed in the steel framework of the ways on which the huge new battleship U.S.S. Alabama is being rushed to completion at a cost of more than 70 million dollars. This super dreadnought will be launched in February, 1942

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These men are putting in some of the hundreds of thousands of rivets on the huge 70 milion dollar battleship U.S.S. Alabama, under construction at the Norfolk Yard. The ship is scheduled for launching in February 1942

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These men are putting in some of the hundreds of thousands of rivets on the huge 70 milion dollar battleship U.S.S. Alabama, under construction at the Norfolk Yard. The ship is scheduled for launching in February 1942

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This group of four of the 3,000 workers are engaged in building the huge 70 milllion dollar battleship Alabama, is working on the superstructure of the vessel, which will make a huge addition to the U.S. two-ocean Navy when it is launched in February 1942

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This group of four of the 3,000 workers are engaged in building the huge 70 milllion dollar battleship Alabama, is working on the superstructure of the vessel, which will make a huge addition to the U.S. two-ocean Navy when it is launched in February 1942

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind the scaffolding is one of the most powerful ships ever built, the U.S.S. Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1941. This 70 milllion dollar super dreadnought is one of several powerful additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly growing fleet under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one one-thousandth of the manpower engaged in the construction of Uncle Sam's new 70,000,000 battleship the USS Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. Approximately 3000 men are working to complete this mighty mistress of the seas. The men above are skilled shipfitters

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one one-thousandth of the manpower engaged in the construction of Uncle Sam's new 70,000,000 battleship the USS Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1942. Approximately 3000 men are working to complete this mighty mistress of the seas. The men above are skilled shipfitters

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind the scaffolding is one of the most powerful ships ever built, the U.S.S. Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1941. This 70 milllion dollar super dreadnought is one of several powerful additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly growing fleet under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This speaker is installed in the steel framework of the ways on which the huge new battleship U.S.S. Alabama is being rushed to completion at a cost of more than 70 million dollars. This super dreadnought will be launched in February, 1942

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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 30, frame 912.

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

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

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

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

A black and white photo of a ferris wheel, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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

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

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Display in front of blacksmith's shop, Abbeville, Louisiana

Sailors maintain order as a crowd waits to welcome crew members from ships in the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) battle group. The vessels are returning to Norfolk after being deployed in the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Storm

Production. Marine boilers. Grinding of welded seams inside the drum of a large marine boiler at a Midwest plant which has converted its facilities to war production

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