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Steel production. Iron production scene. The blast furnaces are going as never before as a giant industry bends every energy to give greater volume for victory. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron for America's war industries. Trains of cinder ladles that serve the brick furnaces are kept busy in these days of all-out war production. Republic, Youngstonw

Steel production. Iron in production. There's plenty of activity at the blast furnace and stoves and on the cinder ladle train. Republic, Youngstown

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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 2528.

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ohio mahoning county youngstown safety film negatives lot 1861 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo steel production cinder ladle train production there plenty blast furnace office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history library of congress
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01/01/1941
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mahoning county
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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

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 Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Army trucks and other vehicles at Fort Knox, Kentucky, are checked thoroughly, and at regular intervals. Wherever possible, motorized military equipment is maintained in constant tip top shape, instantly ready for strenuous action

258 Federal Plaza West (Commercial Building), Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

Youngstown City Water Works, Filtration House, 160 North West Avenue, Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH

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

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

Steel production. More iron for steel production. Hot molten metal flows from the tap hole into a trough at a big Eastern blast furnace is cast. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the log cofferdam of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

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ohio mahoning county youngstown safety film negatives lot 1861 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo steel production cinder ladle train production there plenty blast furnace office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history library of congress